Announcing the judging phase of the Blockchain Legal Institute Legal Tech Hackathon—where 320 hackers from around the globe submitted 91 groundbreaking projects!
Special thanks to our Bounty partners Constellation Network, DFINITY Foundation, Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), and Story teams, and their visionary founders, for supporting innovation and excellence.
Constellation Network supported the 2025 BLI Legal Tech Hackathon as a featured protocol partner, providing participants with access to their advanced blockchain infrastructure and compliance-focused platform. They offered expert mentorship, technical resources, and a prize pool to empower hackers to build trustworthy legal technology solutions emphasizing transparency and data integrity. Their support enabled wide participation and innovation in legal blockchain applications.
Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) contributed by offering their scalable, secure public blockchain environment for developers to build next-gen decentralized apps. ICP’s backing included technical workshops, developer resources, and community engagement to foster solutions addressing legal and business challenges in blockchain ecosystems.
Story Protocol brought its expertise in decentralized data storage and token economy frameworks, supporting hackathon projects that required scalable content and community management tools. Their participation included mentorship and platform support to enable builders to deploy blockchain-backed ownership and reward mechanisms effectively.
Together, Constellation, ICP, and Story Protocol played a crucial role in mentoring, providing infrastructure, and enabling hackathon participants to create impactful, scalable, and legally compliant blockchain innovations.
On November 15th, we just completed an extraordinary virtual judging pitch day, with 13 projects delivering additional recorded pitches on our BLI virtual main stage.
Save the date for the hybrid award ceremony on December 12 at Capitol Technology University in Maryland, where we’ll honor the best in legal tech from 320 participants and 91 projects!
Looking ahead to 2026, we invite partners and talent to join us as we expand the BLI ecosystem where we will be hosting 2 hackathons (The Maryland Blockchain Association Youth Hackathon & the BLI Legal Tech Hackathon—driving career development, mentorship, and robust support across the blockchain and legal tech!
Our stellar judges will be spending the next month reviewing projects as they bring their unique expertise:
Nadja Bester – Co-Founder of AdLunam Inc., award-winning Web3 innovator, and international speaker
Lawrence Hutson – Co-founder and CTO, fintech and blockchain leadership
Tanner Hedger – 3rd Year Law Student & BLI Legal Researcher
Siddharth Khare – Blockchain entrepreneur & technologist
Ibrahim Shittu – Senior Software Engineer specializing in legal tech, AI automation, and blockchain integration, with experience leading platform innovation globally
Clara Le – Blockchain legal/compliance advisor with international experience
Allison Maffitt – Cogent Law Partner, tech policy expert and privacy advocate
Bourn Collier – Corporate Counsel and consultant in digital assets
Capitol Technology University Team – Professors and students in engineering and cybersecurity
Dylan Unruh – Co-President Dartmouth Blockchain Student Society
Larry Cameron BCEC, CCI, CTCE, DEI, MDI, TINV, TG2 – Renowned security expert, digital forensics and blockchain investigator
Radhakrishnan Mahalingam BPM® – BPM®-certified blockchain and business process leader
Dagnum PI (Constellation Network),
Dave Berg – Chief Product Officer / Constellation Network – (Bounty Decision Maker)
Alex Brandes – Chief Technology Officer / Constellation Network (Technical Judge)
Ryan Solomon – CEO Genfinity & Altif Brown – Chief Community Architect / Constellation Network
Kyle Langham (Dfinity)
Marco from the ICP team
& Others….
Special Thanks to RYO Digital for continuing support of these and other BLI projects.
