Paris Blockchain Week, jointly with Partisia Blockchain, today announces a Paris Blockchain Week first: Paris Blockchain Week Awards - inaugural edition.  The Awards will recognise the most notable individuals, projects, and organisations across this innovative sector at Europe’s largest gathering of thought leaders, innovators, and experts from around the world convening to discuss and advance the state of blockchain and web3 technologies.

The awards recognizing the efforts of the blockchain community members are in perfect alignment with Paris Blockchain Week’s vision that emphasises the development of the ecosystem through education, flagship projects and community collaboration to build tomorrow’s digital economy. The award ceremony scheduled on 23rd of March 2023 will celebrate those who have significantly contributed to the transition to the digital assets industry at large. 

Voting for these outstanding contributors will fittingly take a future-forward perspective using Parti.com, a blockchain-powered social network and voting platform allowing people to vote easily, anonymously, and securely “on-chain” using blockchain voting ballots available to anyone who wants to take part. Each vote is recorded transparently and openly on the Partisia Blockchain for public audit.

The Paris Blockchain Week awards are designed to celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals, organisations, and projects, specifically in these eight award categories:

The Web3 Personality of the Year Award will recognise overall outstanding achievements in the past months, towards the whole blockchain ecosystem, while the People’s Choice Award will go to the best conference speech, panel discussion, or workshop. The Best Impact Blockchain Project Award will recognise the ‘blockchain for good’ project delivering significant social impact and the Web3 Brand Initiative of the Year Award will honour a project that innovatively uses web3 to interact with their audience. Relatedly, the Enterprise Blockchain Project of the Year Award will highlight the best corporate blockchain project not only from a technological standpoint, but in terms of value creation and industrial impact for the company.

The Awards will also centre on education, undoubtedly the most crucial building block in blockchain today. The Best Web3 Educational Platform and Best Web3 Content Creator will recognise an outstanding organisation and an individual working to educate the wider community about Web3 and blockchain technology to address the knowledge and skills gap and gender imbalance. Finally, the Prix du Jury, which will be selected by the organisers and main sponsors of Paris Blockchain Week, to highlight an outstanding individual or organisational achievement.

On top of being recognised and celebrated by industry leaders and peers, winners will also be able to widen their reach by appearing on mainstream TV media and receiving press coverage. The winners will serve as an inspiration for others to continue pushing the boundaries of what is possible with this transformative technology.

Emmanuel Fenet, CEO at Paris Blockchain Week said, “These awards are designed to honour and recognise some of the amazing people and projects that are moving the industry forward.  And also to inspire our youth to join this fast-paced industry and help build the future.  There is so much innovation in blockchain and web3; we need to recognise the work of those who achieve greatness through their leadership in helping promote blockchain which holds so much potential in so many domains.  The Paris Blockchain Awards is the platform that allows these individuals and teams to lead by example and inspire others to follow in their footsteps.” 

Brian Gallagher, Co-Founder of Partisia Blockchain added, “We are immensely proud to play an essential role in not only the voting infrastructure for the Awards, but even more to concretely illustrate an amazing use case of blockchain which is privacy-preserving, on-chain voting.  We have built a one-of-a-kind, best-in-class platform - to bring the Paris Blockchain Week Awards to life.  These tools will accelerate the transition to meet some of society’s most pressing needs, which include democratic and secure elections where people can vote without needing to get to a ballot box.  Thanks to this strategic collaboration with Paris Blockchain Week, Partisia Blockchain is once again positioned at the forefront of blockchain endeavours that are helping society progress toward a more fair, transparent and inclusive digital future.”

Jennifer de Broglie, host of the i24 News show D’Crypt and Director of Thought Leadership at Partisia Blockchain, will present the Awards ceremony.  Jennifer commented, “I’m really excited about this first edition of Paris Blockchain Week Awards!  We want this to be the most coveted awards event in blockchain, recognising the industry's very best!  Nominees will be drawn from all genders and all geographies, representing the diversity and global reach of blockchain and web3.  Voting in each of the categories will be based on a variety of factors, including technology, business model, adoption, impact, innovation, leadership, community involvement and inclusiveness.  The Paris Blockchain Week Awards symbolise the inclusive nature of the industry and, with the new blockchain voting platform, everybody can try first-hand a major use-case of blockchain technology: fully transparent and anonymous fraud-free voting from the convenience of your phone!”