Blockchain-tech on urban farming, secure police plaints by SRM team wins US hackathon

Chennai: A blockchain technology based urban farming platform and a secure platform to ensure the follow-up of complaints such as police complaints, developed by SRM university students, have won prizes at an international US Blockchain Technology Hackathon ETHDenver.

A team of computer engineering students of SRM university, Andhra Pradesh won the Community Prize as one of the top five projects at the hackathon and bagged a USD 3,000 award for UrbanBowl. The platform is designed to make cities self-sustainable by enabling unused spaces owned by individuals to be rented out for urban farming.