The Hello Future Hackathon 2024 has come to an exciting close! Running from July 22 to August 20, 2024, the event brought together hackers from around the world to build on Hedera. The goals of the hackathon were to enable hackers to:

• Experience developing something awesome on Hedera
• Build out their portfolios of projects
• Grow their professional networks
• Have a space for exploration, creativity, and innovation using blockchain with technologies like AI and tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA)

With over $350,000 USD in prizes for winning teams, participants competed across several tracks, including AI, DeFi, RWA Tokenization, Hashgraph Explorers (Beginner), and Hashgraph Trailblazers (Advanced). Throughout the hackathon, teams received support from mentors, attended workshops and Q&A sessions, and collaborated via Discord.

Results and Winners

🏆 Overall Winners

🥇1st Place: Savera

Savera is a blockchain wallet and platform that empowers underserved communities through saving.

• Prize: $45,000 USD + $5,000 in Google Credits
• Team Members: Luis Eduardo Arevalo Oliver, Alejandro Sanchez Gutierrez, Victor Alonso Altamirano Izquierdo

🥈2nd Place: Nomid

Nomid is a peer-to-peer payment solution leveraging Hedera to provide instant, low-cost, and secure transactions without intermediaries.

• Prize: $25,000 USD + $3,000 in Google Credits
• Team Members: Milan Wiercx van Rhijn, John Kroening, PMB

🥉3rd Place: Credore

Credore revolutionizes trade documentation with secure and compliant digital solutions, focusing on MLETR-compliant electronic bills of lading and tokenization.

• Prize: $15,000 USD + $2,000 in Google Credits
• Team Member: Lingraj Mahanand

🛤️ Track Winners

🧠 AI

1. 🥇OsmiumLabs: Hedera Chat is an AI-driven interface that makes interacting with Hedera as easy as having a conversation. It allows users to perform complex actions through natural language, streamlining Web3 adoption and reducing barriers to entry.
2. 🥈Kanban 3.0: Kanban 3.0 is an end-to-end project management tool that speeds up the time from project ideation to payment delivery. It leverages AI to generate deliverables, uses Hedera Consensus Service for immutable tracking, and automates payments with Hedera Token Service.
3. 🥉BitFlipper: A quiz platform that combines AI and blockchain to deliver a secure, transparent quizzing experience. AI generates tailored questions, while blockchain ensures all data is securely stored and tamper-proof.
4. 🎖️ACOER Team: HealthGuard AI integrates AI with blockchain to deliver transparent, trustworthy health predictions. It creates an immutable audit trail for every prediction using Hedera's technology, enhancing trust in healthcare decisions.
5. 🎖️VerifAI: VerifAI digitally signs prompts and LLM activity on the Hedera Consensus Service to authenticate access and provide a bullet-proof audit trail for distributed, highly regulated applications.

🏢 RWA Tokenization

1. 🥇XenHash: XenHash bridges digital assets and daily microtransactions on the Hedera network. It empowers users to convert cryptocurrency (HBAR) into XenHash IDR (HIDR), a stablecoin backed by the Indonesian Rupiah, enabling seamless payments through the QRIS standard.
2. 🥈Credore: (Also the 3rd Place Overall Winner)
3. 🥉Hewego: Hewego is a blockchain lending application using Hedera technology. It allows borrowers and lenders to buy and sell bond tokens on the Hedera network, addressing transparency, liquidity, and access issues in traditional markets.
4. 🎖️OsmiumLabs: (Also an AI Track Winner)
5. 🎖️LittleTarzan: HTS1400 is a Hedera implementation of the Ethereum ERC1400 security token. It's used to tokenize real-world assets and financial securities in a simple, regulatory-compliant, and user-friendly smart contract.

🌐 DeFi

1. 🥇Nomid: (Also the 2nd Place Overall Winner)
2. 🥈Savera: (Also the 1st Place Overall Winner)
3. 🥉HashPress Pioneers: Integrated Hedera transactions into WordPress, enabling seamless payments and a decentralized, transparent product evaluation system to reduce misleading marketing and environmental impact.
4. 🎖️XenHash: (Also an RWA Tokenization Winner)
5. 🎖️Kommoditi: A supply chain protocol where adaptive pricing engines, seamless commodity sourcing, and automatic client acquisition reduce costs and increase efficiency through the power of Hedera.

🧑🏻‍💻 Hashgraph Trailblazers (Advanced)

1. 🥇Nomid: (Also the 2nd Place Overall Winner)
2. 🥈Gemio: Enhancing information exchange in the industrial machinery sector, Gemio creates digital twins using DLT technology to securely store and share data, improving maintenance processes and product enhancements.
3. 🥉Hgraph: Hgraph's Hedera Revenue Dashboard offers real-time transparency into the network's revenue generated by transaction fees, addressing the need for accessible and understandable revenue data.
4. 🎖️HashAuth: HashAuth is a single sign-on and know-your-customer provider for Hedera. It implements secure OpenID Connect and OAuth2 specifications, allowing users to authenticate effortlessly and share information with dApps.
5. 🎖️Rod da Silva: HederaP2P provides a glimpse into what's possible when the Hedera Consensus Service is integrated within a planetary-scale peer-to-peer network, showcasing a fully decentralized and self-organizing future.

🧗‍♀️ Hashgraph Explorers (Beginner)

🎖️Rec 081: Agora connects artists with talent hunters, facilitating secure meetings, project creation, and fundraising using Hedera Hashgraph technology.

🎖️SoloExplorer: A job marketplace built on Hedera's fast, reliable, and cost-effective distributed ledger for seamless, secure transactions.

🎖️Launchez: A community-driven platform for fair launches of Hedera Token Service fungible tokens.

🎖️VidChat: A decentralized video-sharing platform for secure, censorship-resistant content, using Hedera’s technology.

🎖️Stray: A Hedera-powered platform for crowdfunding pet adoption and care, combining secure fundraising with interactive campaigns.

🎖️Project Alpha: Hashly enables exclusive content sharing via NFTs, with analytics powered by Hedera Hashgraph.

🎖️Dreamers: Streamverse, built on Hedera, lets creators fully own and monetize their content, cutting out intermediaries.

🎖️Verify: A blockchain platform for secure, decentralized certification, storage, and verification of documents.

🎖️ticketByte: A secure event ticketing system using NFTs for authenticity, built with Hedera’s blockchain integration.

🎖️Solo: Tokenizing government bonds, enabling their issuance on private blockchains and sale on public ones via Hedera Consensus Service.

What’s Next? Continue Building the Unimaginable on Hedera

The #HelloFuture #Hackathon highlighted how the unique capabilities Hedera offers empower devs to solve real-world challenges. From tokenized assets to enhanced AI integrations and innovative payment systems, hackers built solutions that push the boundaries of what’s possible. Now, the next step is to take these innovations further, applying them to real-world use cases and continuing to shape the future of decentralized technology.Whether you're an experienced innovator or just starting your journey, there's never been a better time to build with Web3 on Hedera. The possibilities are endless, and your next idea could shape the future in ways we can’t imagine.

Closing Celebration on September 30th 🎉

Join us for our virtual Closing Celebration on September 30th! Hear insights and learnings from the winning teams, get updates on post-hackathon support, and catch exciting announcements about upcoming hackathons like #HelloFuture2.0.

Thank You to All Participants! 🙏🏻

Whether you won or not, you're now part of the amazing Hedera community. We hope you continue to build on the experience, connections, and knowledge gained during the hackathon. Let’s keep innovating, exploring, and building together! 🛠️