The Solana Foundation is thrilled to announce the results of the Solana Grizzlython Online Hackathon, a global competition focused on bringing the next wave of high-impact projects into the Solana ecosystem. Grizzlython is the seventh Solana hackathon, bringing together founders and developers from around the world to launch products spanning Infrastructure, Payments, DeFi, Mobile, Gaming, DAOs and Network States, Web3 Consumer and everything in-between.
Grizzlython saw over 10,000 participants submit 813 final projects to the judges, the largest Solana hackathon to date. Stripe, Amazon Web Services, Monaco Protocol, SolanaFM, Brave, Solana Mobile, Superteam, EasyA, and Hello Moon joined the Solana Foundation as category sponsors for the hackathon, offering a platform for Solana ecosystem teams to jumpstart their crypto journey.
“I’m excited to see all the projects that have launched during Grizzlython,” said Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs. “From payments to governance, games to finance to mobile, the builders in the Solana ecosystem are paving the way for mass adoption of blockchain technology.”
Browse through all the project submissions in the Grizzlython public directory.
Without further ado, here are your winners:
Grand Champion
Underdog API, a platform that allows anyone to seamlessly integrate dynamic NFTs into products and turn the blockchain into a shared data layer, received the Grand Champion prize of $50,000 in USDC along with passes to attend Breakpoint, the annual Solana conference in Amsterdam Oct. 30- Nov. 3, 2023.
Mobile Track
For the Mobile track, first prize goes to Tap, a cash app that makes sending, spending, and earning cash easy, powered by Solana and USDC, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
Additional prizes went to:
- Second: AquaID, a self custody human identity protocol built on Solana.
- Third: dReader, an on-chain comic book store.
- Fourth: Proto, an API for spatial data and proof-of-location on Solana.
- Fifth: SAGAnize, a mobile tool suite consisting of Products/SDKs/Libraries to onboard developers to build Solana Native Mobile dApps.
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following honorable mentions:
Infrastructure & Tools Track
For the Infrastructure track, first prize goes to Bunkr, a permissionless asset protection tool powered by code-based 2FA in your authenticator app of choice, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
Additional prizes went to:
- Second: Xray, a human-readable Solana explorer.
- Third: Extrnode, a fault-tolerant, disaster-resistant, decentralized RPC service for web3 products, aimed to eliminate the problem of a single point of failure and speed up RPC 100x.
- Fourth: TinyDancer, a light client for the Solana blockchain.
- Fifth: Shadow Portal, infrastructure that allows developers to summon off-chain data onto Solana.
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following honorable mentions:
Gaming Track
For the Gaming track, first prize goes to Michi, a casual roguelike dungeon crawling game powering an ecosystem of games/products, with an award of $30,000 USDC.
- Second: Kyogen Clash, a fully on-chain RTS game built using the Dominari Game Engine.
- Third: RPS, an on-chain wager-based gaming studio for Solana.
- Fourth: Sporting Labs, an on-chain F1 Fantasy League on xNFT Backpack.
- Fifth: 3ntertain, an end-to-end event-oriented solution, dedicated to entertain and monetize communities while fairly rewarding game developers.
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following honorable mentions:
DeFi Track
For the DeFi track, first prize goes to DBL DEX, an on-chain periodic double auction DEX and DeFi primitive, with an award of $30,000 USDC.
- Second: Sujiko, a derivatives stack enabling NFT perp markets.
- Third: Arbon, a project to improve global carbon market with a computer vision-assisted oracle network providing trustless measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and a "last mile" network of stewards to coordinate local forest protection via an incentivization system built around land parcel NFTs in the Amazon.
- Fourth: Slide Labs, a social trading platform that bridges between the best traders and people who do not have investing expertise.
- Fifth: defiOS, a scaling layer for open-source collaboration.
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following honorable mentions:
Web3 Consumer Track
In the Web3 Consumer track, first prize was awarded to Lancer, a marketplace for hiring developers on a per-task basis, with an award of $30,000 USDC
- Second: Floop, a mobile-first NFT entertainment platform with creator experience on the go.
- Third: Crossbow Analytics, an analytics platform for web3.
- Fourth: w3bber, a decentralized ratings platform for the internet.
- Fifth: Triggr, a Zapier for power users on Solana.
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following honorable mentions:
DAOs and Network States Track
For the DAOs and Network States Track, first prize goes to Trove, a treasury management solution for Solana NFT project founders, with an award of $30,000 in USDC.
- Second: Agora Courts, an on-chain arbitration platform focused on allowing other protocols to integrate fully customizable disputes between any number of users.
- Third: Re:naissance, a seamless royalty solution for NFT Communities built as xNFT on Backpack.
- Fourth: Align, a tool bringing transparency and aligned incentives to how NFT-based DAO funds are spent on Solana by allowing both members and the managing team to put forward proposals for tasks that would benefit the project and get funded from a pooled treasury.
- Fifth: Cubik, a decentralized funding platform for public goods.
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following honorable mentions:
Payments Track
For the Payments track, first prize goes to Tamperproof, a new protocol to encrypt, embed and seal a secret into a Solana NFT, opening up on-chain distribution of coupons, gift cards and tickets, with an award of $30,000 USDC.
- Second: SplitWave, a dApp that enables users to seamlessly split transactions and manage their finances using Solana Pay, providing a faster, more efficient and secure alternative to traditional payment methods.
- Third: Payleaf, a payment solution to help the cannabis industry send and accept digital payments on Solana.
- Fourth: West 57th, a payments platform that allows users to use Solana at any merchant that accepts MasterCard.
- Fifth: Heliport, which enables anyone to pay and transact on Solana through the Helium Network.
Although they did not win any prizes, the judges would also like to recognize, in no particular order, the work of the following honorable mentions:
University Award
The University Award, which recognizes excellence from a project led by university students, goes to Digi Divers, a gamified peer-to-peer data annotation platform working to scale ethical and reliable data labeling practices to advance the AI industry, receiving a $20,000 USDC prize for the project.
Climate Award
The Climate Award, recognizing projects that are built with climate change and sustainability in mind, goes to Sunrise Stake, a regenerative finance staking protocol, receiving a $5,000 USDC prize for the project.
Thank you to all who participated, submitted a project, and judged. Grizzlython was the largest Solana hackathon to date, and it could not have been done without your support.
Check out all the submissions. Congratulations, everyone!
SOLANA Foundation Hackathon Official Rules
The Solana Grizzlython Hackathon is a competition where projects will be evaluated by judges on their technological merits without consideration of legal viability. Participants in the Hackathon will create software solely for purposes of evaluation by judges as part of a competition and not for commercial deployment or release as part of the Hackathon. All participants must comply with applicable laws and regulations when releasing any software that they develop as part of the Hackathon.
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