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## Flare and Google Cloud Unite for Blockchain AI Hackathon
Flare and Google Cloud collaborated to organize a hackathon from March 7-9 in partnership with Berkeley Blockchain. The function attracted students and researchers to examine how blockchain can assist AI-driven applications while ensuring safety and faith.
According to a word shared by Crypto News, Confidential Spaces, a safe computing environment, prevents outside disturbance while generating cryptographic proofs. These proofs confirm that AI computations have been executed properly and can be confirmed on the Flare (FLR) blockchain.
The hackathon attracted over 460 participants who competed in four paths. Projects ranged from AI-driven financial applications to consensus learning solutions. All projects used Confidential Space instances running on the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization platform, which protects computations from meddling.
This setup enables AI models to process data without exposing it to third parties, while ensuring the outcomes remain reliable.
Participants from UC Berkeley, the University of Waterloo, and ETH Zurich used Google Cloud’s Confidential Spaces to run AI computations in a verifiable way.
## 2DeFi: AI-Powered DeFi Onboarding
One of the pinnacle projects was 2DeFi, created by two students from the University of Waterloo. It took first place in the AI x DeFi path and second place in the RAG Knowledge path. The project aims to assist traditional finance users get into decentralized finance on Flare.
2DeFi permits users to upload screenshots of their Robinhood portfolios, which are then analyzed by Google’s Gemini AI to assess risk tolerance. The AI-generated profile is used to recommend DeFi strategies, such as staking or liquidity providing.
To simplify onboarding, 2DeFi integrates a Google login-based wallet, allowing users to interact with Flare without managing private keys.
## Flare AI Instrument Set
This hackathon also indicates the community launch of the Flare AI Instrument Set, an unrestricted SDK created for constructing AI-driven blockchain apps. The SDK empowers programmers to effortlessly incorporate AI patterns with Flare, guaranteeing both protection and confirmability.
The Flare AI Instrument Set is determined to advance constantly, with strategies to present it to the Google Cloud Marketplace as a production-prepared answer.
The purpose is to render AI calculation on the blockchain more obvious and protected for enterprises and programmers the same.
