Winners Announced for the Solana Radar Hackathon

  • November 12, 2024

Colosseum is excited to reveal the winners of the Solana Radar Hackathon, a global competition that brought together developers and founders from over 120 countries to create the next wave of transformative projects for the Solana ecosystem. Radar, the second hackathon hosted by Colosseum and the 10th organized by the Solana Foundation overall, invited participants to build solutions across diverse categories, including Infrastructure, Gaming, DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks), DAOs, DeFi, Payments, and a range of Consumer Applications.

With more than 10,000 participants submitting 1,359 final projects, Radar has set a record as the largest crypto hackathon to date. Sponsored by prominent organizations including Sphere, Solana Mobile, Drift, MetaDAO, Portal, Dialect, MagicBlock, and Wormhole, the hackathon provided a launchpad for many innovative blockchain-based solutions.

“Solana hackathons demonstrate the remarkable growth of talent and innovation within the ecosystem,” said Dan Albert, Executive Director of the Solana Foundation. “The projects and founders emerging from Radar are creating real momentum for the ecosystem, and their ideas are poised to further strengthen Solana’s development.”

And now, without further ado, here are the standout projects from the hackathon:

🏆 Grand Champion

  • Reflect: This decentralized currency exchange, designed around hedge-backed stablecoins, received the Grand Prize of $50,000 USDC, along with passes to attend Breakpoint 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Track Winners

Consumer Apps Track

  1. Pregame (1st Place – $30,000 USDC): A peer-to-peer sports betting platform.
  2. Trenches.top (2nd Place): A platform for tokenizing the reputations of memecoin alpha callers.
  3. Genesis (3rd Place): A platform enabling fractional and tokenized IP investing.
  4. Fanplay (4th Place): A unique market for live hamster racing bets and mini-games.
  5. Wink (5th Place): A transaction marketplace for customizable “blink” templates.

Honorable Mentions:

  • Blinkord
  • Hype3
  • Alora

Crypto Infrastructure Track

  1. Txtx (1st Place – $30,000 USDC): A developer platform for enhancing engineering workflows with runbooks.
  2. Tokamai (2nd Place): A real-time error monitoring developer tool.
  3. Chakra Drive (3rd Place): A fully decentralized end-to-end file storage network.
  4. Verve (4th Place): Open-source infrastructure for embedded smart wallets.
  5. Dashy (5th Place): A cluster management solution for Solana wallets.

Honorable Mentions:

  • Solpipe
  • Unruggable
  • LOOK

Gaming Track

  1. Supersize (1st Place – $30,000 USDC): A fully on-chain, high-stakes multiplayer gaming experience.
  2. The Arena (2nd Place): A social trading game featuring PvP elements.
  3. Windfall (3rd Place): A game leveraging liquid staking tokens (LSTs).
  4. Barnfight (4th Place): A platform for token-incentivized community-driven games.
  5. Quantro (5th Place): A PvP ETF trading game.

Honorable Mentions:

  • Degen Markets
  • TrenchTown

DeFi Track

  1. Squeeze (1st Place – $30,000 USDC): A platform for efficiently long and shorting tokens.
  2. Blackpool (2nd Place): A ZKP-enabled dark pool trading platform.
  3. Pye (3rd Place): A marketplace allowing stakers to forward-sell their staking yield.
  4. Neutral Trade (4th Place): An investment platform for on-chain multi-strategy hedge funds.
  5. Watt (5th Place): A protocol for volatility farming through natural market arbitrage.

Honorable Mentions:

  • Repo.trade
  • Bestlend
  • Solana Gives
  • Oro
  • Kiwi

DePIN Track

  1. SvachSakthi (1st Place – $30,000 USDC): An off-grid renewable energy cooperative network.
  2. AdX (2nd Place): A decentralized network for advertising.
  3. Cura (3rd Place): A specialized DePIN device designed for pet lovers, promoting dog-walking communities.
  4. Netsepio (4th Place): A decentralized VPN and WiFi hotspot service.
  5. Kiko Network (5th Place): A distributed network of user-owned weather stations.

Honorable Mentions:

  • Unkomon
  • Pont Network

Payments Track

  1. FXSwap (1st Place – $30,000 USDC): A protocol facilitating efficient stablecoin-to-forex swaps.
  2. Hylo (2nd Place): A dual-token stablecoin system backed by liquid staking tokens.
  3. Split Finance (3rd Place): An innovative “buy now, pay never” payment solution.
  4. Ribh Finance (4th Place): A payments and inventory restocking solution for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs).
  5. Quartz (5th Place): A tax-efficient offramp for crypto without selling tokens.

Honorable Mentions:

  • POW Cards
  • Bando
  • Zerocut
  • LocalSolana

DAOs & Network States Track

  1. AlphaFC (1st Place – $30,000 USDC): A platform empowering communities to run fan-operated sports teams.
  2. Marshmallow (2nd Place): An educational app introducing kids to blockchain-based financial literacy.
  3. Bizzed (3rd Place): A platform that evaluates and facilitates collective investments in small businesses.
  4. LivingIP (4th Place): A collaborative platform designed for knowledge sharing and storytelling.
  5. Blonk (5th Place): A Telegram-based solution enabling DAO multisigs for collaborative actions.

Special Awards

  • University Award: Lexicon received the $10,000 USDC award for the best university-led project.
  • Public Goods Award: Attest Protocol won the $10,000 USDC award for benefiting developers across the Solana ecosystem with its open-source project.
  • Climate Award: Endcoin secured the $5,000 USDC grant for addressing climate change with sustainability-focused innovation.

Radar Hackathon has once again proven the incredible potential of Solana’s ecosystem by nurturing talented developers and groundbreaking ideas. As the winners move forward, their solutions showcase the transformative power of blockchain technology in areas ranging from infrastructure and gaming to climate change and financial systems. Congratulations to all the winners and participants for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on Solana!