Announcing the Hedera21 - Hello Tokenization - Hackathon Winners
Mar 02, 2021
by Cooper Kunz
Developer Evangelist

Congratulations to the Hedera21 - Hello Tokenization Hackathon Winners

After 4 weeks of hacking, the Hedera21 - Hello Tokenization hackathon has come to an end. With over 600 participants and 54 projects submitted, we couldn’t have been more thrilled with the diversity and quality of projects that teams build utilizing the new Hedera Token Service.

Let’s take a look at the winning projects.

Armanino, Wrapped Token & Interoperability Challenge

Challenge description - Wrapping creates value across networks! To share in $3,000 worth of prizes, demonstrate how a wrapped token protocol on the Hedera Token Service/Main Net can be used to “port” assets from other public chains across Hedera, unlocking the capability for Hedera users to transact in leading stablecoins or proxy assets such as (wETH).

Winner -

Hedera Wallet Browser Extension and Companion Web App

Prize -

$3,000 USD in gift cards and other prizes

BitGo, Open Source Challenge

Challenge description - BitGo will be awarding the top 3 teams that have either: the best usage of BitGo’s open-source account library, projects that are able to extend BitGo’s open-source account library to support HTS tokens and transactions using HCS (Hedera Consensus Service), and or the best contributions to BitGo’s open-source account library documentation on GitHub.

Winners -

1st place - Hedera Wallet Browser Extension and Companion Web App

2nd place - MyHabitsWallet

Prizes -

1st place - $2500 USD, BitGo swag, and a virtual lunch with Mike Belshe (BitGo's Co-founder and CEO) and Chen Fang (BitGo's Chief Product Officer)

2nd place - $500 USD, BitGo swag, and a virtual lunch Mike Belshe and Chen Fang

Chopra Foundation, Social Good Challenge

Challenge description - The Chopra Foundation is looking for the best project demonstrating a practical implementation of a token for social good.

Winner -

GoMint

Prizes -

  • 5,000 USD
  • Private Q&A session with Deepak Chopra
  • Support and endorsement of your application by The Chopra Foundation

DLA Piper and BCW Group, Enhancing Tokenization Functionality Challenge

Challenge description - Real-world assets are now being tokenized on distributed networks across countless industry use-cases. DLA Piper and BCW Group are looking for innovative teams that can digitize real-world assets by leveraging HTS to unlock the creative features that allow enterprise companies to tokenized their clients' future businesses.

Winners -

1st place winner - Asseto

2nd place winner - Unibar

Prizes -

1st place - $5,000 USD worth of HBAR + An opportunity to join an enterprise team building on HTS

2nd place - $2,000 USD worth of HBAR + An opportunity to join an enterprise team building on HTS

Eftpos Australia, Browser Extension Challenge

Challenge description - eftpos is looking for the best HTS supported browser extension.

Winner -

1st place winner - IV

2nd place winner - Hedera Wallet Browser Extension and Companion App

3rd place winner - HashMask

Prizes -

1st place 5,000 USD & business and technical mentorship by members of the eftpos team

2nd place - business and technical mentorship by members of the eftpos team

3rd place - business and technical mentorship by members of the eftpos team

Google, Financial Services Reimagined Challenge

Challenge description - Google Cloud is looking for the best project demonstrating a financial services scenario leveraging the HTS (Hedera Token Service) and a broad range of existing Google Cloud products and/or solutions.

Winners -

1st place winner - All Over Chain 2.0

2nd place winner - EstateUp

3rd place winner - Gossip Squirrel

Prizes -

1st place - $5,000 USD & $5,000 in Google Cloud Platform Credits

2nd place - $2,000 USD & $3,000 in Google Cloud Platform Credits

3rd place - $1,000 USD & $1,500 in Google Cloud Platform Credits

University College of London, Tokenization Protocol Challenge

Challenge description - Real-world assets are now being tokenized on distributed networks across countless industry use-cases. DLA Piper and BCW Group are looking for innovative teams that can digitize real-world assets by leveraging HTS to unlock the creative features that allow enterprise companies to tokenized their clients' future businesses.

Winner -

Asseto

Prizes -

  • 5,000 USD

  • Lifetime membership to the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies Industry program

  • Support and help for further development of the application

  • The chance to present their idea at premier blockchain conferences

  • Introduction to VC's to fund their venture via UCL capital partners

  • 3 Vouchers to attend the UCL CBT Executive Programmes

  • 3 Vouchers to attend the P2P Financial Systems International Workshop

  • UCL swag

Community Vote -

Challenge description - The project with the most community votes submitted on DevPost.

Winner -

TokaBank

Prize -

$2,000 USD

Overall Hackathon Challenge -

Challenge description - For the overall hackathon, we are looking for applications or developer tools that use the Hedera Token Service (HTS) and promote active Hedera account creation and tokenization of digital or physical assets.

Winners -

3rd place - Hashgraph Exchange for Chrome Browser

2nd place - EstateUp

1st place - Gossip Squirrel

Prizes -

1st place - $20,000 USD

2nd place - $10,000 USD

3rd place - $5,000 USD

What’s next?

So many exciting and innovative projects were built throughout this event, so be sure to check out all 50+ them on Devpost.

You can expect to hear more from the hackathon winners, and various other teams that participated, including on our Gossip about Gossip Podcast, Virtual Meetups, the Hedera Blog, and numerous other engagements in the community. Please join us on Discord if you have any questions.