Team of Five Students From NITK Surathkal Are Among The Top 12 Winners at Asia’s Biggest Ethereum Hackathon

Team of Five Students From NITK Surathkal Are Among The Top 12 Winners at Asia’s Biggest Ethereum Hackathon

A team of five students from NITK Surathkal emerged among the top 12 winners, at Asia’s biggest Ethereum hackathon, held in Bengaluru from December 2 to 4. The team comprising Ashish Bharath, Asim Jawahir, Abhiraj Mengade, and Parth Mittal also won the award for the ‘Best New Module,’ using the Biconomy SDK and one of Polygon’s best public goods. They will be awarded a total prize of $6,500. Additionally, they were approached by multiple organisations to carry forward their idea.

These students were selected to attend ETHIndia’22, among 2,000 selected hackers, among more than 20,000 from 69 countries, in Bengaluru. Speakers and sponsors from all over the world come to promote and celebrate the blockchain ecosystem.

The team built ChargeSwap, a first-of-its-kind EV battery-swapping technology powered by the blockchain and IoT. ChargeSwap aims to decentralise the battery-swapping ecosystem, to offer immutability of data, enable the programmable transfer of funds, and remove the possibility of misrepresentation, to increase the price or lower the usage cost.