Last weekend, the Catalan Ministry for Digital Policy and Public Administration and the Waste Agency of Catalonia hosted a
‘Blockchain Challenge’ for developing new solutions based on distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Eurecat,
Blockchain Catalunya,
i2Cat and
Vottun partnered with the Blockchain Challenge to mentor the teams.
A total of 30 experts in blockchain, UX/UI developers and programmers spread across nine teams participated in the 24-hour hackathon. The teams Blockchain en CAT and Aquarelle emerged winners.
The winning team bagged a prize of €4,000 for presenting a solution to track, monitor and encourage selective waste collection (recycling). The runner-up team won €2,000 for its proposal to explore blockchain to generate a future emissions rights market concerning municipal waste.
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