Recently, the TRON team and community representatives jointly announced the results of the highly anticipated TRON Hackathon Season 4. It is reported that this competition attracted 625 contestants, who submitted a total of 172 projects, covering six major tracks: DeFi, Web3, NFT, GameFi, and the newly established Builder and Eco-Friendly. The top-ranked projects will share a total prize pool of up to 500,000 USDD, and the qualified projects selected by the judges will be eligible to apply for investment from TRON DAO Ventures and Huobi Ventures.
Once the list of winners was released, it attracted the attention of authoritative overseas media, including Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, MarketWatch, Decrypt, The Block and other international mainstream financial media and blockchain media, all of which reported on the relevant news. The report said that this season's hackathon competition was full of talents, and the contestants continued to innovate, fully demonstrating the thriving development of the TRON community.
By hosting the hackathon, TRON provides developers with an effective innovation platform, encouraging them to continuously explore and try new technologies, while also providing investors and technology enthusiasts with an opportunity to understand, communicate and invest in excellent blockchain projects. This hackathon has become a powerful channel for TRON to promote its own blockchain technology and projects, laying a solid foundation for the improvement of its brand value and market share.
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The TRON DAO team and community representatives of the TRON blockchain jointly announced the results of the highly anticipated TRON Hackathon Season 4. The top projects will share a total prize pool of up to 500,000 USDD, a decentralized super-collateralized stablecoin issued by TRON and currently circulating on multiple chains. The qualified projects selected by the judges will be eligible to apply for investment from TRON DAO Ventures and Huobi Ventures.
The competition attracted 625 contestants, who submitted a total of 172 projects, covering six major tracks: DeFi, Web3, NFT, GameFi, and the newly established Builder and Eco-Friendly.
“This season’s hackathon was filled with talented participants, and the participants were constantly innovating, fully demonstrating the thriving development of the TRON community,” said Ejaz Merchant, head of development at TRON DAO. “Thank you to the participants for submitting such wonderful projects, and thank you to all our partners and community members for your strong support, which together contributed to the success of this season’s competition. I believe that working together with you, TRON will surely expand the boundaries of blockchain technology and build an ecosystem that focuses on cooperation and continuous iteration and upgrading.”
Award-winning projects selected by the judges
The first place project in each track evaluated by the judges will receive 20,000 USDD, the second place will receive 15,000 USDD, the third place will receive 10,000 USDD, and the fourth and fifth place will receive 8,000 USDD and 6,000 USDD respectively.
The newly opened Builder track is intended to reward teams that have participated in the previous hackathon and are now returning to this season's competition with major project upgrades. The first place in this season's Builder track is the "Farming-as-a-Service" project of the Elk Finance team. After this project upgrade, Elk Finance is committed to "making the most advanced DeFi mining contracts available to everyone."
The projects that won the second to fifth place in the Builder track are as follows:
Galaxy Throne（Team: Galaxy Throne）
JustMoney Spot (Recommended by the participating team: JustMoney)
TronNRG (Team: TronNinjas)
TronQL（Team: TronQL）
The projects in the Eco-Friendly track responded to the call of the TRON Climate Initiative and focused on sustainable development and environmental protection issues. The team that won the first place in this track is Ecomarket. As an open market platform for purchasing waste and recycled plastics, EcoMarket was originally established to encourage plastic recycling and clean storage of waste plastics, while providing companies with a transparent and reliable source of recycled plastics.
The projects that won the second to fifth place in the Eco-Friendly track are as follows:
MusiCoinCity（Team: ElfWeb）
CarboEx（Team: CarboEx）
ForGreen（Team: ForGreen）
BlockForest（Team: BlockForest）
The project that won the first place in the DeFi track is Ergon. The project improves the ease of operation of TRON Staking 2.0, helping users enjoy lower transaction fees by renting energy and earning income by staking TRX.
The projects that won the second to fifth place in the DeFi track are as follows:
Cloak（Team: Cloak）
MyFend（Team: Fend Group）
Sorrel Banq (Team: Paracosm Labs)
Swirl Ads（Team Sudo）
In the NFT track, the first place selected by the judges is the decentralized application BobbyBot.Trade. In this application, users and players can use the TRON version of TRX, USDT and USDD to trade virtual assets (NFT) in Steam games, including Team Fortress and Counter-Strike.
The projects that won the second to fifth place in the NFT track are as follows:
Evoie（Team: Evoie）
Samhita DAO（Team: HeritageSpeak）
SealKey（Team: TRONNuggetz）
Wine Vault（Team: Wine Vault）
The Duelers project of the TRONJoy team took the lead in the GameFi track. Players can choose the "Duel" or "Championship" mode in the game to interact with the TRON community or compete!
The projects that won the second to fifth place in the GameFi track are as follows:
RevoluTRON（Team: Irruption Lab）
theRevolt（Team: Spirit-Tower）
Cukies: Rush & Run (Team: Cukies World)
METASENS（Team: METASENS）
The TrustSight project of The TRONacles team won the first place in the Web3 track. The project is essentially a crowdsourcing reputation platform built for on-chain users. Its goal is to improve the decentralized trust level of the TRON blockchain through user reviews, so that TRON users can use the entire ecosystem more safely and with confidence.
The projects that won the second to fifth place in the Web3 track are as follows:
Daren Market（Team: Daren Market）
TronSave（Team: TRONSAVE）
ProvyLens（Team: LensCrafters）
Yinbox（Team: Jeffrey Lewis）
The top five projects in each track have been selected by the judges and received 30% of their respective prizes on May 15, 2023. To receive the remaining prize money, each team must deploy a functioning decentralized application on the TRON or BitTorrent mainnet before June 1, 2023.
Feroz Lakhani, Corporate Director of TRON DAO, said: "This season's TRON Hackathon is the best one since it started! I am really looking forward to building in-depth connections with projects that focus on environmental sustainability, which is in line with TRON's strong advocacy of ecological protection. In addition, I can't wait to do some small "quality testing" on all GameFi projects in the next few weekends. After all, who doesn't like to play games!"
Community-selected award-winning projects
The TRON Hackathon Community Forum also voted for their favorite projects.
According to the voting results, the winning projects in each track are as follows:
Web3
CryptoDo（Team: CryptoDo）
ProvyLens（Team: LensCrafters）
ZkTickets（Team: ZKP Tech Solutions）
BlockMenu（Team: BlockMenu）
Yinbox（Team: Jeffrey Lewis）
DeFi
Ergon（Team: USTX）
Swirl Ads（Team Sudo）
Sorrel Banq (Team: Paracosm Labs)
UpDawg（Team: uDawgDAO）
Cloak（Team: Cloak）
GameFi
Cukies: Rush & Run (Team: Cukies World)
Duelers（Team: Tronjoy）
RevoluTRON（Team: Irruption Lab）
Worlds Hardest Maze (Team: WHM)
theRevolt（Team: Spirit-Tower）
NFT
TNS Domains（Team: SolidityGods）
TNFT Maker (Team: Cubie)
Wine Vault（Team: Wine Vault）
TronGallery (Team: TronGallery)
EnergyNFTs（Team: TRONArmy）
Builder
JustMoney Spot (Team: JustMoney)
TuruVerse（Team: TuruGlobal）
TronNRG (Team: TronNinjas)
Deba's Wulf Pack (Team: The Pack)
Cukies World Metaverse (Team: Cukies World)
Eco-friendly
TronPower（Team: Lomotey Josephine）
AurorAqua（Team: Aurora）
MusiCoinCity（Team: ElfWeb）
CarboEx（Team: CarboEx）
EcoDAO（Team: EcoDAO）
In addition, three special awards are set up this season: the Most Active Project Award, the Most Determined Award and the Community Contributor Award. The Most Active Project Award and the Most Determined Award will be announced on June 1, 2023. The winners of the Community Contribution Award include Akainuu, antonio, fabsltsa, Gordian, HODL, manfred_jr, Nana66419, nweke-nature1, Prince-Onscolo and Youngyuppie, who will all receive 500 USDD.
By participating in the hackathon, developers can build the future with TRON. Visit TRONDAO.org to learn more about the TRON ecosystem.
TRON DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governed by the community. TRON was founded by Justin Sun in September 2017. According to TRONSCAN data, as of May 2023, the total number of TRON public chain users exceeded 160 million, the number of transactions exceeded 5.58 billion, and the total locked value (TVL) exceeded US$12.2 billion.