Verifiable Credentials will play a key role in trust creation for generations to come. We invite developers across the world to come and build applications that generate secure, portable and privacy-preserving credentials enabling trust across entities.

What are we looking for? 

Your submission should be a Proof of Concept (PoC) application demonstrating a Verifiable Credential based use case that uses Affinidi's APIs and/or SDK.

The solution could be composed of portals or apps for issuer, verifier, and/or holder corresponding to your business use case.

Here are a few examples of Verifiable Credentials use cases:

  1. Driver's License as a Verifiable Credential used to rent a car across geographies

  2. Covid19 test results as Verifiable Credentials (QR code) to fly an airline

  3. KYC data issued as a Verifiable Credential interoperable and accepted across different banks

Long list of verifiable credentials use cases: 25+ Use Cases of Verifiable Credentials

 

Categories

 

Developers have the possibility to submit solutions under the following categories

  1. Healthcare 
  2. Fintech
  3. Open (other industries such as Education, Real estate, Travel, Retail, Insurance, International trade, etc.)

 

FAQs:

 
What are Verifiable Credentials (VCs)?

Verifiable Credentials are portable digital credentials that are cryptographically encrypted, interoperable and can be verified digitally on the internet. More here

 

What is an issuer, holder, and verifier?

  1. Issuer: An entity that issues a credential. Eg: a test management facility like a hospital that issues a patient record like “Covid -ve“. Issuer has the right to revoke a credential

  2. Holder: An entity that has lifecycle control over the issued credentials like sharing, deleting. Eg: A patient that holds a credential issued by an issuer on their wallet (a wallet could be an app that stores users credential data locally or a custodial wallet managed on behalf of a holder)

  3. Verifier: An entity that verifies if the credential shared by a holder is valid (i.e. if the credential comes from a trusted issuer, not revoked by the issuer). Eg: An access management system installed at a facility like airport that allows / denies access based on if the holder is covid -ve/+ve. Verification could be a combination business logic like “is the credential is issued in the last 14 days” and “is it issued by an issuer that is recognized“

Note: One entity can play multiple roles. Eg: A hospital can play the role of a verifier and an issuer

Issuer, Holder, and Verifier

 
What are the benefits offered by Verifiable Credentials?
 
Verifiable Credentials are:
  • Tamper proof: Verifiable credentials cannot be tampered with 
  • Portable: Easy to share with the click of a button or a few click(s)
  • Verifiable: The verifier is able to verify the following aspects including
    • The issuer of the credential
    • Originality/authenticity of the credential
    • Validity of the credential
 
What does Affinidi offer developers?

Affinidi provides a set of APIs and an SDK that enable decentralised identity creation, verifiable credential issuance, cloud wallet storage, and verification.We have also created a postman collection with all our APIs for your convenience.

 

Affinidi’s stack contains:

  1. Issuer utilities
  2. Custodial wallet solution
  3. Encrypted Data vault
  4. API solutions for Issuers, Verifiers and Holders
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About Affinidi

Affinidi empowers individuals and organisations with control of their verifiable data, to unlock value across platforms and geographies. Leveraging Affinidi's solutions, trusted institutions and entities can issue verifiable data to customers, which can in turn be shared with other service providers to access products and services in an open and interoperable manner.

 

Finally - Hackathons are meant to be an exploration of ideas, but also for everyone to have fun! Remember the hacker spirit - collaborate with your teammates, encourage the other teams, be open with your ideas, and have fun.

 

So, let's start building a PoC. Get started now!

Requirements

To be considered for judging, the following criteria must be met by the submissions

  • Submission is an original work, and is not in breach of any intellectual rights of any other party.
  • One or more of the Affinidi's APIs must be used for developing the solution
  • Submit links to the Github repositories of the project 
  • Submit links to any working prototype/demo that could enable judges to visualise the work
  • Teams must be willing to present their solution to the judges in one of the pitching slots or submit a video of their pitch
  • Exact time and dates of the remote pitch sessions will be announced two weeks prior to the deadline 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$15,000 in prizes

1st place Open Category

$2,500 USD worth ETH for the 1st best project in Open Category taking into account all the judging criteria.

Advisory meeting with the leadership of Affinidi to take the idea forward

2nd place Open Category

$1,500 USD worth ETH for the 2nd best project in Open Category taking into account all the judging criteria.

Advisory meeting with the leadership of Affinidi to take the idea forward

1st place Healthcare Category

$2,000 USD worth ETH for the 1st best project in Healthcare category taking into account all the judging criteria.

Advisory meeting with the leadership of Affinidi to take the idea forward

2nd place Healthcare Category

$1,000 USD worth ETH for the 2nd best project in Healthcare category taking into account all the judging criteria.

1st place Fintech Category

$2,000 USD worth ETH for the best project in Fintech category taking into account all the judging criteria.

Advisory meeting with the leadership of Affinidi to take the idea forward

2nd place Fintech Category

$1,000 USD worth ETH for the best project in Fintech category taking into account all the judging criteria.

3rd place Open Category

$1,000 USD worth ETH for the best project in Open Category taking into account all the judging criteria.

Best technical implementation

$1,000 USD worth ETH for the best technical implementation of Affinidi's APIs

Best Social Impact

$1,000 USD worth ETH for the best Social Impact taking into account all the judging criteria.

Huawei Cloud Bounty

$2,000 USD worth ETH for the application that hosts on Huawei Cloud and best utilizes the features of the cloud platform.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Kaliya Young

Kaliya Young
Identity Woman

Rebecca Xing

Rebecca Xing
General Manager & Head of Product at Trustana

Pradyumna Agrawal

Pradyumna Agrawal
Managing Director at Temasek

Todd Gehrke

Todd Gehrke
Chief Architect at ID2020

Kishore Bhatia

Kishore Bhatia
CTO at Affinidi

Glenn Gore

Glenn Gore
CEO at Affinidi

Sang Shin

Sang Shin
Director of Digital Innovation at Temasek

Kamal Laungani

Kamal Laungani
Global Developer Ecosystem Lead at Affinidi

Judging Criteria

  • Use Case
    Does it solve an existing real-life problem? Is the problem clearly defined? Will the proposed solution make life better for its target audience? How easy is it for users to adopt and use it?
  • Technology
    Does the PoC leverage Affinidi APIs and its open source stack? Are VC Schemas designed to be interoperable? Are consent and privacy built into the user journeys? (Bonus) Does the PoC leverage other non-Affinidi open-source SSI/VC components
?
  • User Experience
    Is the userflow practical/realistic? Is the userflow designed to consider multiple scenarios? How well designed is the UI?
  • Completion
    Is the Proof of Concept functional and fully working? Are different parties like issuer, holder, verifier able to interact with each other?

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