Issue dossier

NUS Greyhats' official announcement says participants could take home electronic badges, and the maker says the Hackbadge was intended for Greycademy participants. Neither source publishes a recipient list, ticket/registration mapping, quantity, pickup record, allocation rule, official credential role, access-control function, or delivery ledger for this specific badge.

A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.

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participant allocation and credential boundary · official organizer announcement and maker record · electronic-badge takeaway documented; individual allocation unverified

The catalogue documents a real event-specific electronic artifact without presenting it as a universal attendee entitlement, admission credential, official hardware release, or completed allocation account.

Badge
Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge
Category
participant allocation and credential boundary
Severity
note
Confidence
official organizer announcement and maker record
Status
electronic-badge takeaway documented; individual allocation unverified
Timeframe
January-February 2026 source pass
Source note
NUS Greyhats A.YCEP × Greycademy 2026 announcement and Terence Chan Zun Mun's public maker record.

Evidence

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first-person maker record

Terence Chan Zun Mun public maker record

Public first-person account naming the intended Greycademy participant distribution, CH32V003 and coin-cell basis, maker artwork, Howard Ong PCB design, and reprogramming of more than 200 prepared badges after a power-reliability problem. It is not a source-code or image-reuse grant.

Badge: Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge

official event announcement

NUS Greyhats Greycademy 2026 announcement

Official NUS Greyhats announcement for A.YCEP × Greycademy 2026. It schedules January 24-25 workshops, January 26-30 practice, and January 31 / February 7 qualification and finals, and says participants can take home electronic badges among free goodies.

Badge: Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge

official event recap

NUS Greyhats Greycademy 2026 recap

Post-event NUS Greyhats account of the completed program, collaboration with CSA's A.YCEP, two days of training, CTF work, 78 challenges, 60 finalists, and 3,526 captured flags. It does not document a specific badge unit or distribution ledger.

Badge: Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge

Source trail

Evidence Sources

Hackin7 · retrieved 2026-05-15

Hackbadge

Primary maker project page, dated January 24, 2026, that identifies the deployed electronic PCB badge as created for Greycademy 2026.

Badge: Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge

NUS Greyhats · retrieved 2026-05-15

Greycademy 2026 recap

Primary organizer post-event source establishing that the A.YCEP × Greycademy 2026 program was completed, ran with CSA support, and included training plus qualifier/final CTF work.

Badge: Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge

NUS Greyhats Official Announcements · retrieved 2026-05-15

A.YCEP × Greycademy 2026

Primary organizer announcement for the 2026 Singapore tertiary-student cybersecurity program, schedule, workshop/CTF format, and participant electronic-badge take-home wording. It does not prove an individual recipient, hardware specification, or completed distribution.

Badge: Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge

Terence Chan Zun Mun / Hackin7 · retrieved 2026-05-15

Hackbadge first-person maker account

Primary maker account identifying the CH32V003, coin-cell basis, intended participant distribution, artwork and PCB-design attribution, brownout problem, and reprogramming of more than 200 already prepared badges. No firmware archive, exact change, final release, or image-reuse licence is published there.

Badge: Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge