Healthcare tech wins hackathon focused on solutions where AI, blockchain build trust together

A nearly month-long hackathon wrapped Saturday, challenging builders within the competition to move past disposable apps and ship solutions that pair the power of AI with the data ownership, transparency, and cryptographic trust of blockchain.

Organized by MOMENT, the AI Blockchain Trade Council, in partnership with Stand With Crypto Missouri, Kansas City’s Frontier Technology Hackathon competition was structured around four industry tracks: industrial provenance, intellectual property, healthcare assets, and transportation.

The event’s big winner — Aegis, a patient-controlled trust layer for clinical AI — came from the healthcare track.

Submitted by Pranav Barot, Aegis places patient consent under cryptographic control, requiring two independent local AI models to agree before a tamper-proof, on-chain proof-of-inference receipt is minted.

It earned the $1,000 top prize with judges citing Aegis’ airtight technical proof, end-to-end working demonstration, and immediate compliance utility for regional health networks.

“AI alone is not enough,” said Ryan Wright, president of Stand With Crypto Missouri and a MOMENT organizer. “Missouri doesn’t need more apps thrown together over a single weekend — it needs robust, real-world systems where people own their data and the trust is cryptographic, not assumed. Every project we recognized was judged on working code, not slideware.”

Britt Huffman and Connor Borrego, playhaus, center, are awarded second place in Kansas City’s Frontier Technology Hackathon by competition judge Tom Flynn, core Contributor at Apex Fusion and Coherence, and COO of HAL8; and Ryan Wright, president of Stand With Crypto Missouri and a MOMENT organizer; courtesy photo

Submissions were evaluated against a weighted rubric covering AI-and-blockchain integration, functional proof, problem clarity, track fit, strategic alignment with Missouri’s emerging digital asset policy environment, presentation, and next-step readiness.

growbot harness — in the intellectual property track — earned second place at the hackathon with a concept submitted by Britt Huffman of the playhaus team led by CEO Connor Borrego.

A verification pipeline that audits AI-generated advertising claims, growbot harness converts verified data into tamper-evident, licensable intellectual property. Judges highlighted its deterministic data versioning and its performance under extensive adversarial testing, awarding the project a $500 prize.

TransitPass — a transit-access utility submitted by David Steele Overholt — earned an honorable mention recognition by using digital assets and offline map fallbacks to keep riders from being stranded in cellular dead zones. Judges praised its clear problem framing and a concrete pilot roadmap including KC Streetcar integration.