The Hello Future Hackathon 2.0 has come to a close! Between November 11th and December 18th, 2024, hackers from all around the world participated in this event to build incredible projects on Hedera in the areas of AI & Data-Driven Insights, Tokenized Assets, DeFi, Sustainability, Decentralized Identify, and more. Here are the results and the winning teams taking home a prize pool with a total value of $300,000 USD!

🏆 Overall Winners

🥇1st Place: Ecosphere Prime

Creating a decentralized hyperlocal climate intelligence oracle using Web3 technology that will improve the accuracy and accessibility of climate data. IoT sensors form climate nodes, collecting data that is validated and stored on Hedera.

• Prize: $35,000 USD

🥈2nd Place: Hashgraph Online

A new open source standard with a LaunchPage builder and smart contracts to help define a new kind of asset class and capabilities for NFTs that are entirely unique to Hedera.

• Prize: $25,000 USD

🥉3rd Place: HealthToken.AI

A comprehensive platform for managing consent, data capture, and incentivization in healthcare. At its heart, we have built a tokenization engine to abstract and ease creation and usage of Hedera based tokenization for multiple use cases in healthcare.

• Prize: $15,000 USD

🛤️ Track Winners

🧠 AI-Driven Insights and Data Integrity

1. 🥇ACOER Team: BioPharma Tracker is a cutting-edge solution designed to enhance traceability, security, and efficiency within the biopharmaceutical supply chain.
2. 🥈OsmiumLabs: HiD (Hedera Identity) is a decentralized identity platform leveraging Hedera’s eco-friendly DLT to deliver secure, verifiable, and privacy-preserving digital credentials.
3. 🥉HBANK: Hbank is a comprehensive platform designed to empower investors by simplifying the management of Hedera Native Assets.

🏢 Tokenized Assets and Digital Securities

1. 🥇Hedera for Robotics: The first B2B Middleware-as-a-Service, helping industries to design and build custom hubs that connect their Web2-based industrial robotic automation to Hedera and interact with on-chain components seamlessly.
2. 🥈HealthToken.AI: (Also the 3rd Place Overall Winner)
3. 🥉Haras Project: Simplifies equine management, creating secure, transparent records for horse lineage, medical history, and ownership. It reduces fraud, improves trust, and streamlines processes for owners, vets, and auction houses.

🌐 DeFi & AMMs

1. 🥇Hashgraph Online: (Also the 2nd Place Overall Winner)
2. 🥈EtaBridge: Liquidity bridge based on LayerZero protocol.
3. 🥉Arze: An innovative payroll automation platform leveraging Hedera DLT to streamline salary processing for companies of all sizes. Our primary purpose is to tokenize and deliver fast, secure, and transparent salary payments directly to employees' wallets.

🔎 Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials

1. 🥇Decentralized Minds: Medera is an innovative healthcare platform built on Hedera to streamline clinic, pharmacy, and patient interactions. Our primary goal is to enhance trust, efficiency, and security in healthcare services through decentralized identity (SSI) and Hedera.
2. 🥈The Mouth: An advanced decentralized marketing tool that allows projects and brands to reward their community for interacting with their content. This creates an opportunity for community members to monetize their attention and engagement.
3. 🥉BitFlippers: The Decentralised Attendance System aims to revolutionize classroom management by utilizing Hedera's technology for secure, transparent attendance tracking.

🌲Sustainable and Green Finance

1. 🥇Ecosphere Prime: (Also the 1st Place Overall Winner)
2. 🥈GreenDAO: An innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to empower communities with trust through the utilization of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) framework.
3. 🥉Digitized VM0048 REDD Methodology: Improves upon a digitized version of VM0048 REDD methodology by leveraging Hedera's Guardian Service, which enables quantification and monitoring of emissions reductions from Verra REDD projects.

🧑🏻‍💻 Hashgraph Trailblazers (Advanced)

1. 🥇Hashgraph Online: (Also the 2nd Place Overall Winner)
2. 🥈Hedera for Robotics: (Also the 1st Place Winner for Tokenized Assets and Digital Securities)
3. 🥉The Mouth: (Also the 2nd Place Winner for Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials)

🦸🏽 Hashgraph Legends (Returning)

1. 🥇HashPress Pioneers: Making blockchain more accessible to everyday users by building two WordPress plugins.
2. 🥈Savera: A complete platform for payments, savings, and cards, designed for the Hedera ecosystem, to offer a complete and simple experience to users. Now with a Venmo-like on-chain chat.
3. 🥉HederaP2P 2.0: Welcomes you to a preview of Internet 2.0 and the “Power of the Cloud Without Servers”.

🧗‍♀️ Hashgraph Explorers (Beginner)

🎖️ The Terrific Tokenizer

🎖️DeVault

🎖️Fusion Innovators

🎖️The Digivators

🎖️Noobsoft Gamers

🎖️Team Hedemy

🎖️LEE YEN FEI

🎖️FlexD

🎖️HashLand

🎖️GeoHashGraph

Closing Celebration on February 14th 🎉

Congratulations to all the winners and participants! Your hard work, innovation, and dedication have made this hackathon truly special. 

Join us for our virtual Closing Celebration on February 14th! Hear insights and learnings from the overall winning teams, get updates on post-hackathon support, and catch exciting announcements about upcoming events and hackathons like HederaCon, ETH Denver, and more.