Penn Blockchain Conference 2023 Hackathon Win: Proof of Discovery for Research Papers
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Over the weekend of February 9-12, team lead Zile Cao from Weavechain, along with four other UPenn students (Intel Chen, Eric Chen, Spencer Solit, and Brandon Kong) competed and won first place in the Penn Blockchain Hackathon at the Penn Museum. The theme this year was Real World Utility, and Inked built a product using Weavechain to enable Proof of Discovery for research papers, ensuring immutability & token-gating on Solana for academic communities. Check out their product demo and final pitch below!
=== GeneWeavers Project Description ===
The biggest fear in the academic research community, from Newton inventing calculus to 2023, is getting "scooped" by someone else after spending years on a research goal. Introducing Inked and Proof of Discovery. Our novel technology combines the best from Solana Blockchain and Weavechain decentralized private storage. It helps the scientific community worldwide to lock in their idea in a decentralized, secure manner to prove their discovery at a later date. Researchers who "ink" their sensitive research work will maintain the integrity and privacy of their work and share it with select readers using NFT token gating. Later, upon official publication, researchers can easily publish their inked papers to the world, with proof of integrity of their original files. Our solution is uniquely differentiated from the typical IPFS approach to on-chain data storage -- in 20 years, when the latest quantum computers defeat all the "encrypted" data, files secured by Inked through Weavechain will remain secure. In the future, our on-chain academic research infrastructure can be vital for on-chain academic credential proof, professional social networks, decentralized R&D fundraising, and more.
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