A Look at the Solana IGNITION Hackathon Winners

Solana Ventures is pleased to announce the results of IGNITION , a global hackathon focused on Web3, DeFi, gaming, and digital art/collectible NFTs today. IGNITION is Solana's fourth Hackathon, and the third and final one this year. From August 31st to October 15th, the hackathon brought together cryptocurrency pioneers and developers from around the world to develop projects on the Solana blockchain for what came to be known as "Solana Summer". Project building blocks.

IGNITION's global team culminated in nearly 6,000 participants submitting 568 projects to the judges. Microsoft, Jump Crypto, Standard Chartered Bank, Forte and Metaplex, as the track sponsors of this global hackathon, and Solana Ventures jointly provide participants with a global prize pool and seed round funding of up to US$5 million.

"The Solana ecosystem has experienced incredible growth in the past year, and the IGNITION Hackathon has undoubtedly provided an excellent stage for outstanding teams in the blockchain industry." Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO of Solana Labs, said, "We are very excited to see Looking forward to seeing these super good projects coming out of Solana and looking forward to their development."

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Take a look at the winning projects:

champion

Katana , an asset management protocol focused on developing investment products across the risk spectrum. Katana received a $75,000 overall prize and tickets to Breakpoint, the first annual Solana conference, where they will be presenting their projects.

DeFi track

The first place on the DeFi track is Atrix , an AMM that supports the seamless creation of liquidity pools and mining in Serum, with a prize of $ 65,000 .

Other winning projects from this track include:

Second place: Superposition , a decentralized fixed income protocol.

3rd place: Aver , a decentralized and trust-minimized betting market.

Fourth place: 01 Protocol , a decentralized derivatives protocol that provides perpetual options on the Solana blockchain.

5th place: Fluidity , a system that allows users to use their cryptocurrencies to earn income through Fluid assets.

Web3 track

The first on the Web3 track is Project Citadel , a desktop client for the Solana protocol, which received a $45,000 prize.

Other winning projects from this track include:

Second place: Bulldozer, a low code platform that makes (based on the Anchor development framework) Solana program development easier and simpler.

Third place: Alon , an IDE based on the WebAssembly port of the Solana compiler suite.

Fourth place: Chaincrunch,an analysis platform on the chain.

Fifth place: Dialect , an on-chain messaging protocol and mobile app that supports app-user and user-user communication.

game track

First place on the Gaming track is RushdownRevol , a collectible and metaverse frame, with a $45,000 prize.

Other winning projects from this track include:

Second place : Portals, Solana-based Web Metaverse platform.

Third Place: Eizper Chain, a multiplayer action role-playing game that combines adventure and arena combat.

4th Place: StepN , a move-2-earn mobile game that connects millions of non-crypto runners to crypto.

Fifth place:Titan Analytics,a business analytics platform built for Metaverse.

Digital Art and Collectibles Track

The first place in the digital art and collectibles track was Neftify , an NFT lending platform for play - to-earn, which took home $45,000.

Other winning projects from this track include:

Second place: SolanaFloor , NFT data analysis platform.

Third place: Cofre , a peer-to-peer NFT custody exchange platform.

Fourth place: Sonanalysis NFT Flex , NFT display and valuation product.

Fifth place: Banksea : A loan product based on NFT mortgaged by a liquidity pool.

community award

The Community Prize winner is DarleyGo , a blockchain horse racing game incorporating NFT, for $10,000.

Several of Solana's ecosystem projects also sponsored Best Integration Awards. Here are the respective winners:

l Serum Prize: Friktion

l Solend Prize: Superposition

l Pyth Prize: HydraSwap

l Raydium Prize: Superposition

l Chainlink Prize: Hedge Finance

l Wormhole Prize: Swim Protocol

l COPE Prize: QuasarProtocol

l Marinade Prize: Superposition

l Stardust Prize : Genopets

l Mango Prize: mango-v3-service

l PsyOptions Prize: Friktion

honor award

Although the following projects did not make the list, the judges gave them very high marks. Congratulations!

l Springboard

l Point Network

l Chess Mafia

l TIEXO

l Viking Finance

l Sophon

l Fantasy Kombat

l Valhalla

l MeanFi

l Autonomy Network

l ATIV

l Exotic

l Eno.xyz

lSolCypher

l Hawk Protocol

l Credix

l Vybe

l JOSH

l Streamflow

l Sosol

l Solcery

l Jungle

l Dflow

Compared with Solana's first hackathon Wormhole , IGNITION's entries increased by 760%. Wormhole was held in November 2020 when only 66 projects were submitted. The performance of the hackathon represents the tremendous growth that the Solana ecosystem has experienced in less than a year.

Sincere thanks to all entries, judges and speakers. IGNITION can achieve such a huge success, all participants have contributed a lot.

You can view all submitted projects on the contest website Devpost . Congratulations to all the above winning projects!

disclaimer

The Solana IGNITION Hackathon is a competition in which judges evaluate projects on their technical merits, without regard to legal feasibility. Participants in the Hackathon develop software for competition purposes only, for evaluation by the judges, and not for commercial deployment or release. All participants must comply with applicable laws and regulations when posting any entries during the Contest.

Hackathon ideas and developer resources provided by the Solana Foundation ("SF") are for educational and motivational purposes only. SF does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment, integration or use of any such applications (including the code that makes up the Solana blockchain protocol) in violation of applicable laws or regulations, and hereby prohibits any such deployment, integration or use. This includes Reader's use of any such application (a) in violation of the export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, (b) if Reader is located or ordinarily resides in a Comprehensive sanctions, (c) if the reader is or is working on behalf of a Specially Designated National (SDN) or person subject to a similar block or denied party ban, or (d) in violation of commodity and exchange laws.

Readers should be aware that US export control and sanctions laws prohibit US persons (and others subject to such laws) from transacting with certain countries or persons on the SDN List. As projects based primarily on open-source software, it is still possible for such Sanctioned Persons to circumvent the prohibition by obtaining and deploying, integrating, or otherwise using code comprising the Solana blockchain protocol (or other project code or applications). Therefore, for individuals, other persons using the Solana blockchain protocol may be sanctioned, and transactions with such persons would violate U.S. export control and sanctions laws. This risk applies to individuals, organizations and other ecological participants (such as node operators) who directly deploy, integrate or use the Solana blockchain protocol code, as well as those who conduct transactions on the Solana blockchain through light clients and third-party interfaces Personal and/or wallet software. See Terms of Participation for details.