🌀 Parametric Hurricane Insurance Contracts 🌀

HurricaneGuard is the first blockchain powered insurance contract available to people and businesses for weather risk coverage. The purpose of HurricaneGuard is to protect people and businesses from hurricane losses such as property damage, business losses, and loss of income using smart contracts on the blockchain and NOAA-validated weather parameters for immediate payout within days of a catastrophic disaster. A web user interface can be found here.

Features

• Available for property damage to homes, business losses, and loss of income
• Built using Ethereum smart contracts
• Measures hurricane force using NOAA-approved models
• Policy contract terms are public
• Coverage is fully licensed
• Cryptocurrency payment options
• Optional email notifications when an hurricane event is close to your location

Development

• Install Truffle Framework
• Run Ganache
• Use Oraclize Ethereum Bridge for testing contracts with Oraclize integration ethereum-bridge -H localhost:7545 --dev -a 9
• Update HurricaneGuardUnderwrite.sol#L45 and HurricaneGuardPayout.sol#L47 to include the address provided by ethereum bridge
• Copy .env-sample into .env and set values
• To run tests npm install then npm test

Contributors

• Joel Martínez @j0x0j