Toyota to explore blockchain use cases via DAO hackathon
Automotive large Toyota is delving deeper into blockchain use instances by means of its involvement with a Web3 hackathon for decentralized autonomous group (DAO) builders.
On Feb. 1, multichain good contract and decentralized utility (DApp) community Astar announced its inaugural Web3 hackathon. The information of notice, nevertheless, was that it’s being supported by the Toyota Motor Company.
Astar Community founder Sota Watanabe commented on the importance of Toyota’s involvement within the initiative:
“In the course of the occasion, we intention to develop the primary PoC (Proof of Idea) DAO software for Toyota’s workers. If a superb software is produced, Toyota workers will work together each day with merchandise on Astar Community.”
It’s Toyota’s first Web3 occasion because the multinational automobile firm seems to rising know-how to “assist its imaginative and prescient of bettering the corporate’s operations,” the announcement famous.
The Astar Basis is pledging $100,000 in funding for the occasion, which is able to go towards rewards for successful initiatives chosen by Toyota.
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Occasion individuals will develop all of their merchandise on the Astar Community, a Japan-based layer-1 blockchain. The hackathon will likely be hosted in Astar’s Polkadot-based metaverse, COZMISE.
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It isn’t the primary time Toyota has dabbled in crypto and the blockchain. In 2020, the IT division of the automotive large teamed up with Japanese crypto alternate DeCurret to develop a Toyota-branded digital token.
Toyota established a blockchain lab in 2020 to discover the way forward for distributed ledger know-how and its position within the automotive trade.
Astar (ASTR) costs surged 10.5% on the information to commerce at $0.06 at time of writing. The token has gained 53% over the previous month however stays down 86% from its all-time excessive.
