Sam Schmitt

Description: Introducing ETHWaldo, a revolutionary platform designed to foster a direct connection between creators and sponsors within the Ethereum ecosystem. The platform leverages Ethereum wallet addresses to streamline the discovery, negotiation, and acceptance of sponsorship opportunities. On ETHWaldo, sponsorship agreements are articulated clearly and explicitly, outlining the performance metrics a sponsor expects a video to achieve before a payment is released. This gives sponsors granular control over the terms of their investment, from the option to pay upon content publication, to the opportunity to disburse funds according to various milestones, such as view counts, likes, or link clicks.

Description: Future You is a project developed during a hackathon co-hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology’s entrepreneurship program Launchpad@Stevens and TIAA. The challenge was to use design thinking to develop innovative solutions to increase participant engagement with the TIAA dashboard so that they could get behind their retirement plan earlier on than most do now.

Description: TapMe.Contacts aimed to reduce the friction of sending crypto, trading NFTs, and signing things with your wallet. The project brings two things everyone is familiar with, NFC tap-to-pay and contact lists to Web3. The team created a react-native mobile app that guides new users through a simple onboarding (with web3auth) and lets existing users add their wallets (with walletConnect). With the mobile app, users can facilitate payments from phone to phone using NFC, claim airdrops from NFC tags, and save contacts of people they know by either tapping phones or sending a link. They also created a next.js web app to bring contacts to the browser. This lets users pay or trade NFTs with friends in a few clicks and without ever thinking about addresses. Web integrations also give other developers the possibility to easily request access to a user's contact list. This makes finding friends on Web3 sites quick and easy.

Description: Work It Out is a free, easy-to-use full-stack web application that helps experienced individuals track their workout routines and share them with others. The application uses dynamic editing of workout routines that can be shared, used by others, and even built upon. With Work It Out, users can easily track their weight, sets, and reps, and share their routine with friends in just a few clicks.