Why are you participating for Based SEA?

I am partipating in Based SEA to first improve my web3 development skills so I can give back to the community. As someone who has lived in South East Asia (Malaysia) for over 4 years now, I believe that there are several issues that blockchain technologies can help tackle. This include providing easier access to education, information, assistance. Also, since blockchain offers transparency, which can help the corruption issues faced in this region.

What challenges are you focusing on?

MediFund addresses the gaps in healthcare funding by creating a secure and efficient platform for medical donations, particularly useful in regions like Southeast Asia, where access to healthcare and funding is often limited.

How does your submission address this challenge?

MediFund is a decentralized crowdfunding platform built to provide secure, transparent, and accessible financial assistance for medical treatments. By leveraging the power of blockchain technology, MediFund connects patients in need with donors globally, ensuring that every donation is traceable and directly transferred to healthcare providers.

Features:

1. Decentralized and Transparent: All transactions are recorded on the blockchain, providing transparency for donors and recipients.
2. Secure: Smart contracts ensure that funds are released only to approved hospitals upon campaign completion.
3. Global Donations: Donors from around the world can contribute to life-saving medical campaigns.
4. Integration with MetaMask: Easy wallet connection using MetaMask for seamless transactions.
5. Real-Time Updates: Live tracking of donation progress for each campaign.

Key Benefits:

• Transparency in donations.
• Bridging the gap in healthcare funding for underprivileged communities.
• Safe, secure, and global accessibility to raise funds.

How it works?

1. Create a Campaign: Patients or hospitals can create campaigns, detailing the medical need, cost, and goal.
2. Approve Campaigns: Hospitals verify and approve campaigns related to their care.
3. Donate: Donors can contribute using cryptocurrency (e.g., ETH) via MetaMask or WalletConnect.
4. Funds Released: Once the campaign reaches its goal, funds are released to the hospital for the patient’s treatment.

Challenges I ran into

As a beginner to web and blockchain development, the main challenges I faced were:

1. Challenge: Difficulty to create a web interface and link it to the backend contract.
   How I overcame it: Although react.js and node.js would have been ideal, however, as I am more familiar with Python. I decided to implement using HTML, CSS and Flask.

2. Challenge: Difficulty to deploy on a web hosting platform which is free or affordable.
   How I overcame it: After several trial and error on platforms such as AWS and Azure, for this hackathon, I used PythonAnywhere. Eventually, I hope to move it to a more permanent hosting.

Additional Features

N/A, this project was started during the buildathon