Flare and Google Cloud Hackathon Advances Blockchain and AI Integration
The Flare x Google Cloud Hackathon, held from March 7-9, teamed up with Blockchain at Berkeley. It aimed to explore how blockchain can support AI applications while ensuring security and trust.
Students and researchers from UC Berkeley, the University of waterloo, and ETH Zurich participated. They used Google Cloud’s Confidential Space to run AI computations securely. confidential Space is a computing habitat that prevents outside interference. It generates cryptographic attestations, confirming correct AI execution. These can be verified on the Flare (FLR) blockchain.
Over 460 participants competed in four tracks. Projects included AI-driven finance apps and consensus learning solutions.All used Confidential Space on AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization platform, protecting computations from tampering.
one standout project was 2DeFi, created by two University of Waterloo students. It won first place in the AI x defi track and second in the RAG Knowledge track. 2DeFi helps traditional finance users enter decentralized finance on Flare.Users upload Robinhood portfolio screenshots, which Google’s Gemini AI analyzes to assess risk tolerance. The AI suggests DeFi strategies like staking or liquidity provision. 2DeFi integrates Google login-based wallets, simplifying onboarding.
The hackathon also launched the Flare AI Kit, an open-source SDK for building AI-powered blockchain apps. It ensures verifiability and security. The SDK will evolve and be available on the Google Cloud Marketplace as a production-ready solution. This initiative aims to make AI computations on blockchain more transparent and secure for developers and enterprises.
