Awards and Recognition
The first prize goes to Sollinked, a dApp that gives users a way to set up pay-to-reach services for content creators, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
Additional Prizes
- Second: Kizzy, a dApp where users play games by predicting viewership of influencer content.
- Third: Cliq, a trustless, anonymous social dApp for professionals.
- Fourth: BindApp, a dApp that turns shopping into an interactive fashion, merging gamification with personalized style.
- Fifth: 3TV, a dApp where groups chat via text, video, and audio, enabling creators to stream, monetize with tips, mint NFTs post-stream, and communities to create token-gated chat rooms.
Honorable Mentions
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following:
- epPlex, a protocol for minting ephemeral, epNFTs, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
- Ping, a smart NFT wallet on Solana that offers features like e-commerce and social linking, along with tracking gain user insights.
- SolKeeper, a program that enables users to verify the security of deployed programs on Solana by tracking code versions and audits.
- Firethree, a tool that offers integrated storage with a Firebase-like experience.
- DeAuth, an oAuth provider, streamlines web3 authentication with multi-tenancy, diverse identity linkages, and comprehensive user management.
Second Batch of Honorable Mentions
The first prize goes to Wysdom, a platform that provides interactive notebooks that facilitate smart contract creation, dApp prototyping, and collective knowledge building, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
Additional Prizes
- Second: Aperture, a transaction explainer that decodes Solana transaction signatures.
- Third: ByteIn, a mobile city-building game that incentivizes healthier eating habits.
- Fourth: FRIDAY, a dApp that gives users access to content and offers from their favorite creators by leveraging their own data.
- Fifth: Guardian AI, a network that safeguards DAOs and multisigs with decentralized AI agents.
Third Batch of Honorable Mentions
The first prize goes to Solciv, a strategy game with a permissionless marketplace for third-party creators, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
Additional Prizes
- Second: Sync Studios, a solution that turns web2 player mobile player accounts in games into tradable assets.
- Third: Hyperdrive Havoc, a game where players battle enemies, unlock upgrades, and earn cNFTs.
- Fourth: Geoverse, a top-down role-player game built fully onchain.
- Fifth: Football Club Owners, a game where participants manage football clubs to generate tangible value.
Fourth Batch of Honorable Mentions
The first prize goes to Alexandria, a trade router that consolidates order books into an ‘order library,’ with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
Additional Prizes
- Second: Luxhaus, a platform offering affordable tickets to win luxury assets.
- Third: Surfer Finance, a DeFi protocol that provides yield trading and fixed-rate options for various Solana-based assets.
- Fourth: Juicer, a hub for maximizing yield and managing risk across multiple DEFI apps.
- Fifth: Seagull One, a Solana native debit card.
Fifth Batch of Honorable Mentions
The first prize goes to Shaga, a tool that allows PC lending and monetization for server-side gaming on Solana, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
Additional Prizes
- Second: Dain, a decentralized AI network with synergistic nodes and services for optimal information delivery and functionality.
- Third: Albedo, a network that uses iot sensors to manage insurance payouts.
- Fourth: Vaxchain, a DePIN protocol that verifies vaccine authenticity and safety.
- Fifth: Clusttr, a marketplace for real estate investment through fractional ownership.
Additional Honorable Mentions
- Pubkey Link, a customizable, secure open-source Discord verification bot, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
- Tatami, a tool that streamlines Solana token launches.
- Hub3, a social-fi platform that empowers creators to monetize their content through advanced token-gated access.
- DAOCre-8, a platform that combines traditional crowdfunding with decentralized governance.
- Onda, decentralized, community-moderated forums built on Solana Account Compression.
Awards
- University Award: Space Fight, a multiplayer spaceship game with NFT-based ships, power-ups, and multiple modes, receiving a $20,000 USDC prize for the project.
- Public Goods Award: Radiants, a protocol for ecosystem-wide NFT deflation and merging of projects utilizing a suite of tools, receiving a $20,000 USDC prize.
- Climate Award: CarbonPay, an eco-friendly Solana wallet, receiving a USDC prize of $5,000.
Conclusion
The Solana hackathon has recognized outstanding projects that have made significant contributions to the Solana ecosystem. These projects showcase innovative ideas, creative solutions, and technical expertise, demonstrating the potential of Solana to shape the future of web3 development.
FAQs
Q: What is the Solana hackathon?
A: The Solana hackathon is an event that brings together developers, designers, and entrepreneurs to build innovative projects on the Solana platform.
Q: What are the categories for the hackathon?
A: The hackathon categories include dApps, games, tools, and more.
Q: What are the prizes for the hackathon?
A: The prizes for the hackathon include awards for the winners, as well as recognition for honorable mentions.
Q: Who are the judges for the hackathon?
A: The judges for the hackathon are industry experts and thought leaders in the Solana ecosystem.
Q: How can I participate in the hackathon?
A: To participate in the hackathon, you can register for the event and submit your project for judging.
