The Hello Future Apex Hackathon has come to a close! Over five weeks, builders from around the world joined the final chapter of the Hello Future Trilogy to ship on Hedera. With mentorship from Hedera and its ecosystem partners, developer tools, and an active global community, hackers had what they needed to turn ideas into working solutions and compete for $250,000 in prizes.
Builders shipped production-ready projects across five main tracks: AI & Agents, DeFi & Tokenization, Sustainability, Open Track, and Legacy Builders. The Legacy Builders track gave returning participants a chance to refine and scale solutions from previous Hedera hackathons. Of the $250,000 prize pool, $50,000 went to partner bounties and side quests, supported by the broader Hedera ecosystem.
From first-time hackers to returning builders, every participant shipped something worth showing. The result is a final chapter worthy of the trilogy: competitive, diverse, and full of projects ready to tackle real-world problems.
Below are the winners of the five main tracks, who took home a combined prize pool worth $250,000 USD. Bounty and side quest winners will be notified directly via email.
AI & Agents
1st Place – Space Lord
Prize: $18,500
Space Lord makes the Hedera Agent Kit living. It’s an open-source CLI that combines exchange, wallet, and portfolio tracker into one local app, driven by an OpenClaw agent through natural language. The agent makes direct SaucerSwap V2 contract calls, with no APIs or wallet UIs in between. Deterministic safety limits let the agent read but never write. Live on Hedera mainnet.
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2nd Place – Dossier
Prize: $13,500
Trust in news has collapsed to 28% (Gallup 2025), yet 1.67M people turned to Grok for fact-checking on X in just 7 months, and it’s wrong 45% of the time. Community Notes averages 15 hours per verdict. Nobody is solving this well.
Dossier runs three AI agents around the clock that scan sources, cross-reference claims, score confidence, and attest every step on HCS across three dedicated topics. Users contribute evidence to developing stories, and the system compounds intelligence over time. Registered in the HOL Registry via HCS-10, Dossier lets other agents discover and query verified intelligence with protocol-level payments. Thousands of attestations are live on HashScan.
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3rd Place – Aivy
Prize: $8,000
Aivy is a no-code platform for deploying autonomous AI agents on Hedera. Each agent owns a Hedera account, holds HBAR, and executes on-chain operations (transfers, NFTs, DeFi swaps) through natural language.
Ed25519 signing keys are protected by AWS KMS envelope encryption, never stored in plaintext, and wiped from memory in under 50ms. Agents collaborate via ERC-8183 on-chain escrow. AivyVault enforces per-agent spending caps. DeFi plugins: SaucerSwap, Bonzo, Chainlink, Pyth, CoinCap, Memejob.
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DeFi & Tokenization
1st Place – Ketch
Prize: $18,500
Ketch is a peer-to-peer marketplace for NOAA Individual Fishing Quota shares (the legal right to harvest a portion of a fishery). Today, quota trades through opaque broker networks that charge 3-8% per deal with weeks of paper-based processing. Ketch tokenizes quota shares as HTS NFTs on Hedera, so permit holders can buy, sell, and seasonally lease quota directly via smart contract. No broker, instant settlement, and transparent on-chain pricing.
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2nd Place – Herald
Prize: $13,500
Herald is an atomic decentralized leverage platform built on Hedera. Users can open, manage, and close leveraged positions. It integrates lending liquidity from Bonzo and swap execution from SaucerSwap, so traders can access DEX leverage. Tech Stack: FE: ReactJS with Vite. BE: Golang, Go-Ethereum SDK, Gin-gonic, Gorm. Smart contracts: HTS interaction, Solidity with UUPS and UpgradeableBeacon deployment. Hardhat test suite.
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3rd Place – Lamina
Prize: $8,000
Lamina is an autonomous AI agent that manages the full lifecycle of tokenized real-world assets on Hedera. One natural language command tokenizes a bond, and the agent then handles compliance (KYC/OFAC screening), coupon distribution, NAV updates, regulatory reporting, and maturity settlement autonomously.
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Sustainability
1st Place – Hedera Green Bonds
Prize: $18,500
Coppice is the first on-chain green bond plus sustainability-linked bond hybrid. Green bond compliance and issuance is managed by Asset Tokenization Studio. Greenwashing concerns are mitigated through a Verifiable Credential audit chain using Guardian, with a coupon penalty when the issuer misses its targets. Combining the two creates a compliant RWA product with on-chain transparency and real teeth, so the issuer’s financial incentives align with the environmental impact investors want.
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2nd Place – Eggologic
Prize: $13,500
Eggologic is a real circular economy hub in Uruguay that transforms restaurant organic waste into eggs, protein, compost, and verified environmental assets, all on Hedera. Waste is bioconverted via BSF larvae; each delivery becomes a Verifiable Credential through Guardian MGS (EWD-RB v0.3 policy), validated by an independent VVB, and tokenized into EGGOCOIN and CIN NFTs. Five roles, eight schemas, and a dashboard that talks directly to Guardian API and Mirror Node via Cloudflare CORS proxy. CPR: ~$0.001. Total monthly blockchain cost: $0.20. Tech Stack: Hedera Guardian (MGS), Hedera Token Service (HTS), Hedera Consensus Service (HCS), Mirror Node, Vanilla JS + Tailwind CSS (Vercel), IPFS. Setup notes: no local setup required.
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3rd Place – Miny Labs
Prize: $8,000
Hestia is a fire ledger that records wildfire mitigation activities as Verifiable Credentials on Hedera and mints Wildfire Resilience Credits (WRC) that insurers accept for premium discounts. Communities register treatment sites, plan prescribed burns, report fuel reduction outcomes, and get independently verified by satellite imagery. A six-component risk score is computed on-chain, and every treated acre mints one WRC token. Modeled on Tahoe Donner HOA, which secured 39% lower premiums through proven forest management. Setup: live at www.hestia.bond. No local setup required. Guardian UI at http://165.22.212.120:3000 (login: akash / Akash@17327). Source code at github.com/akash-mondal/hestia.
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Open Track
1st Place – Kalam Network
Prize: $18,500
Kalam Network is a blockchain-native social and communication platform built on Hedera, where your wallet is your identity. Every user receives a Hedera account and soulbound DID NFT as their permanent, verifiable digital identity. Messages are E2E encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and consensus-timestamped via HCS. Payments use TMUSD, a stablecoin issued by our Tamam Consortium on HTS, signed through MPC custody. The platform includes KYC/AML screening, organization management with RBAC, broadcast channels, and real-time notifications. Built with production infrastructure partners (Tamam MPC Custody, Mirsad AI), not hackathon mocks. Fully developed, not a prototype. Tech Stack listed in the readme file. Character limitation prevented us from sharing here.
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2nd Place – Attestify
Prize: $13,500
Attestify is a schema-based attestation protocol built natively on Hedera for issuing, managing, and verifying on-chain claims. Instead of writing custom smart contracts, developers define schemas and Attestify handles the blockchain complexity. It uses 7 Hedera services, including HSCS, HCS, HTS, Scheduled Transactions, Threshold Keys, and File Service. The platform includes 7 deployed contracts, a TypeScript SDK (50+ methods), a CLI (40+ commands with AI mode), a frontend with 25 interactive sandbox tools, a Mirror Node indexer, and a LangChain AI agent with 17 tools supporting HCS-10, Google A2A, MCP, and XMTP protocols, registered in the HOL Registry. Use cases include KYC verification, developer reputation, asset certification, DAO governance, event attendance, and more.
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3rd Place – Merxet
Prize: $8,000
Merxet is an end-to-end encrypted retail protocol on Hedera that enables QR-based checkout without POS hardware, apps, or merchant accounts. Sellers publish catalogs and generate QR codes, while buyers scan, shop, and pay in crypto. Orders, payments, and messaging are handled through Hedera services, with no centralized storage for sensitive order data and full end-to-end encryption between buyer and seller. The result is a simple, private, and hardware-free checkout experience built for real-world retail.
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Legacy Builders
1st Place – Medq
Prize: $18,500
Medq Quest gamifies Hedera DeFi by turning swaps, stakes, and lends into verifiable quests. Users complete actions on SaucerSwap/Bonzo; the system auto-verifies via Mirror Node, and QuestManager mints MEDQ + BadgeNFTs with no manual proof submission. Apex additions: Partner Studio, new UI/UX, Escrow Campaign Contract (USDC), and auto-verify. Hedera’s low fees and ERC-8004 enable micro-rewards and agent orchestration.
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2nd Place – Golden Needle
Prize: $13,500
Golden Needle is a building safety and compliance platform for the UK’s Building Safety Act 2022 “Golden Thread” requirements. It provides a tamper-proof system of record for building safety documents, decisions, and approvals across a building’s lifecycle. AI agents (Client, Professional, Resident, BSR) powered by GPT-4o and LangChain deliver persona-specific assistance, while Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) and Token Service (HTS) provide immutable audit trails. Professional agents are registered on Hedera Open Ledger (HOL) with on-chain verifiable agent cards, and communicate via A2A JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol. Tech: React 19, TanStack Router/Query, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn/ui, Fastify 5, MongoDB, FastAPI, LangChain, GPT-4o, Hedera SDK, Magic SDK, Cloudflare R2, Qdrant, Docker.
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3rd Place – ChargeFrog
Prize: $8,000
ChargeFrog is a community-led, agentic-driven, carbon-negative EV charging network on Hedera. Stations are fractionalized into ERC-1400+ERC-3643 dual-standard Reg-CF securities for regulated micro-investment and dividend distribution to the public, supported by our CRATE engine built with the Asset Tokenization SDK. Charging at our custom-engineered stations is paid for with closed-loop tokens, and carbon offsets are tracked through a Guardian-powered MRV system. Our HOL-registered A2A multi-agent architecture handles complex tasks and improves on-chain UX with specialised ERC-8004 agents that perform Guardian-related ops, run ATS workflows, and research scouted locations. All packed into a single AI chatbot embedded in our ChargeFrog Super App. Tech Stack: Hedera Guardian, Hedera Asset Tokenization SDK (ERC-1400, ERC-3643, ERC-20, ERC-1594, ERC-1410, ERC-1643, and ERC-1644), HOL Registry Broker, HOL Standards SDK, A2A, HCS-10.
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The Trilogy Concludes
Congratulations to every winner, finalist, and participant. Apex closes the Hello Future Trilogy, a three-part journey across Origins, Ascension, and Apex that brought together thousands of builders, mentors, and partners around one shared mission: building on Hedera.
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