The Hedera20 Virtual Hackathon is officially over. There were over 800 registrants and over 40 projects submitted at the end of the event. For those that missed the livestream event with Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Leemon Baird, SVP of Communications Zenobia Gosdchalk, and myself, here is a recap of the hackathon winners.
The winning project - Hashgraph API Portal - is a web-based user interface for securely interacting with the Hedera Hashgraph network, open to everyone.
This project demonstrated the best usage of signing transactions or arbitrary data with a Hedera Account’s private keys, enabling the signature to be presented to accounting or auditing firms! The Hashgraph API Portal also demonstrates how to use almost the entirety of the Hedera API (HAPI) while using Jason’s custom made .NET SDK.
Prize - 1 pair of Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones per team member
The winning project - HumanKind - turns acts of kindness into currency for you and the causes you care about.
This project was able to implement the best use of historical and real-time data from the DragonGlass Mirror Node and network explorer. By creating HCS subscription events for all of the acts of “human kindness” they are able to build a transparent history of giving, demonstrating a great use case for historical data with DragonGlass.
Prize - $5,000 USD & 2 months of support from the DragonGlass team
These projects showcased the best usage of building decentralized applications with Hashing Systems’ hash-SDK npm package, and/or the Composer browser extension.
1st place - Hashgraph World - A drag-and-drop “low code” dashboard for connecting the Hedera Consensus Service with popular tools like Apache Kafka directly from a browser.
1st place prize - $1,250 in HBAR
2nd place - NonSelective Reporting - A platform for creating surveys with storage of evidence and acceptance of an answer on Hedera, providing full report transparency.
2nd place prize - $750 in HBAR
3rd place - FinalPay.io - A payment stack for e-merchants and innovators who seek to create novel payment and interactive experiences for end-users.
3rd place prize - $750 in HBAR
4th place - CoFund - A new simple crowdfunding decentralized application operated on Hedera Hashgraph Blockchain with higher reliability and performance.
4th place prize - $250 in HBAR
The winning team - Oxiles - built an event listener that bridges Hedera with other blockchains and backend microservices, including Apache Kafka.
Exiles is a unique infrastructure project that makes it incredibly easy to bridge Hedera to other popular ecosystems, including Apache Kafka, or the Ethereum Blockchain. Through the usage of familiar components like Docker Containers, anyone can bridge their data to the Hedera Consensus Service.
Prize - Support from the Mousebelt Accelerator Program
This project was able to implement the best use of historical and real-time data from the DragonGlass Mirror Node and network explorer. By creating HCS subscription events for all of the acts of “human kindness” they are able to build a transparent history of giving. By leveraging the MoonPay fiat to HBAR widget, they can easily enable anyone to access the fast, and low fee cryptocurrency that powers the Hedera network.
Prize - $2,500 in HBAR, and free access to the MoonPay fiat to HBAR payment widget
The winning project - Ocean Plastics Collecting and Recycling - Brings corporations, governments, and citizens together to promote ocean plastic collection and recycling and save the depleting marine life.
This project demonstrated a wide range of functionality - creating a multi-sided, crypto-incentivized ecosystem, to tackle one of the most important projects in the world. How can we reduce our plastic waste and encourage recycling? It’s clear that ambitious projects utilizing new technology are going to be required for the drastic changes needed in to overcome such large challenges, and this project showcased a number of new ideas.
Prize - A 3D printer per team member
The winning project - 3IEIO - helps employees & employers create verified career identities from meaningful recognitions and engagements using the Hedera DID SDK.
This team showed that they have the ability to create new methods of HR engagement, enabling employee reputation, and grant management to be carried across employers. By using verifiable credentials, 3IEIO creates an immutable trail of recognition, that can be cryptographically proven at any point in the future.
Prize - $5,000 in HBAR
The second place overall project - Public Pest Network - built a secure, decentralized network that makes it possible for researchers, farmers, and the public to submit, view, and analyze pest data.
Distributed public ledgers can be thought of as a public good, and there’s immense value in sharing public data sets utilizing their transparency. The Public Pest Network demonstrates this wonderfully by creating data standards for researchers and universities to host, store, and maintain their own datasets, allowing them to utilize whatever existing toolkits for analytics or other tools that may be required in their day-to-day lives.
Prize - $10,000 in HBAR
The winning project for the Hedera20 Hackathon was - Oxiles - who built an event listener that bridges Hedera with other blockchains and backend microservices.
This solution is unique, enabling Hedera Mirror Nodes to receive, and emit, event history between other centralized and decentralized infrastructure. Interoperability between not only existing, traditional infrastructure such as Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar, but also between other distributed ledgers like Ethereum, is a large problem to solve. But the Oxiles team showcased a great solution, skillset, and ambition to tackle this challenge, and built a great project throughout this six-week event.
Prize - $20,000 in HBAR
Now with the Hedera20 Hackathon having concluded, a lot of the community may be wondering, “what’s next?”
For starters, we’re encouraging all teams that participated to apply for our Hedera Boost Startup Program, where we offer hands-on marketing and technical support to get your ideas from a hackathon project, into a production-ready application. From there, we also provide up to $3,000 worth of HBAR to offset your transaction fees and help you along the way.
You can also expect to see promotional materials from the hackathon winners, and various other teams that participated, including our Gossip about Gossip Podcast, Virtual Meetups, the Hedera Blog, and numerous other engagements. We also plan on hosting various other hackathons in the future - some with specific industry verticals, and some more generally building on Hedera.
Thank you to all of the teams that participated, and congratulations again to the winners!