Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese teams earned three out of the 11 prizes offered at the recently concluded 2021 International Blockchain Olympiad, announced the Ministry of Science and Technology on October 12.
ViFaChain group bagged the Bronze Medal Award for a project to apply blockchain in origin tracing of agricultural supply chain with the third Highest Overall Score, winning 5,000 USD.
KidKat team won a 2,500-USD prize in E-governance theme, for its project to build child trafficking prevention system.
For its part, LifeLink received a prize in HealthTech theme worth 2,500 USD. The team’s project aims to integrate blockchain with federated learning to support artificial intelligence technology in medical research.
The competition this year was held in virtual form hosted by Bangladesh, drawing 600 teams from 59 countries and territories./.