In Brief: Round 2 of the biggest hackathon in blockchain is nearing it’s apex. On the 22nd of December a winner will be announced. Today the man behind the hack.ether.camp virtual accelerator, Roman Mandeleil looks back over the last two months of competition and explains how the platform operates. Then we hear from some of the leading contestants:

artchain

The art industry is rife with undetected fraud. Currently, the art market suffers from incompleteness of information due a lack of trust among its participants.

Establishing the authenticity of art assets is expensive and often disputed which leads to artificially raised costs of conveyancing in an attempt to protect ‒ imperfectly ‒ against fraud.

Once artchain has been established, the art market can be securitized, which has heretofore been an impossibility. This is the Blockchain Revolution. Together, with the new consensus artchain can provide, we can build a coalition of art industry professionals and participants facing the future of mutual self-regulation of transactions and provenance.

Project Oaken

Project Oaken — Smart Cities/IIot Gateway Prototype by Ethembedded.com

Oaken is a secure, autonomous, machine to machine platform built to provide the underlying infrastructure(hardware & software) needed to power smart cities. This infrastructure is made up of a suite of projects, individually called ACORNS.

The Decentralized Court

The decentralized court would act as an opt-in legal crypto-institution.

Parties would select the court to arbitrate their contracts in case of disputes.

Dispute will be first handled by arbitrators, but parties will have the possibility to appeal to a jury system. Both arbitrators and jury members will have game theoretical incentive to arbitrate disputes in an honest manner.

Content: Roman Mandeleil, Worthy Contestants, Arthur Falls

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