BlockHack had a successful first year, with a blockchain hackathon at UD’s Trabant University Center over Cinco de Mayo weekend that ended with three impressive projects in the winner’s circle, each taking home part of the $5,000 in prizes.

BlockHack was started by Jonathan Wood, Jesse Xiong, Noah Mogil and Trey Brunson, who noticed a shortage of blockchain developers in Delaware. With blockchain — the open-ledger technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that has the potential to be an everyday tool for titles, deeds, medical records and more — blowing up, they wanted local developers to get on the train, through workshops that culminated into the two-day hackathon.

Enough background — here are the winning projects:

Vatican by David Chen, Derrick Wilson-Duncan and Mr-Wonbot 

• Blockchain tech will likely revolutionize the way the medical industry does records, as Vatican demonstrates. The project is designed to document and analyze vaccination records, but what’s really innovative is how it combines blockchain with a deep-learning engine that can recommend future vaccinations based on patient demographics.

SecurEv by Aashaka Desai

• Crime TV shows love to show how forensic science has gone high tech, but one of the less glamorous facets of forensics is keeping the evidence secure. Inspired by the Netflix series Making a Murderer, SecurEv stores crime-scene data on the blockchain to prevent tampering.

Paradise Artist Blockchain by George Moore, Brahma Sen and Mariano Di Gabriele

• With so little of the music industry’s profits going to the artists themselves, this technology allows artists to cut out the middleman and sell their music and music licenses on the blockchain using cryptocurrency so they get paid faster, without large chunks of profit eaten up by a record label. (Sounds somewhat similar to a project we’ve covered in Brooklyn, Ujo Music.)

For more about Delaware’s first BlockHack, check out the founders’ post on Medium.

The team has plans to hold another BlockHack hackathon next year. In the meantime, you can learn some blockchain developer skills via their free BlockHack video workshops.