A quick overview of the winning projects in the seven tracks of the Solana Radar Hackathon

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Author: CryptoLeo (@LeoAndCrypto)

After 5 weeks, the Solana Radar Hackathon officially ended. The event included project founders from more than 120 countries, over 10,000 participants, 1,359 project submissions, and finally selected 35 noteworthy projects in seven tracks. According to a CoinGecko survey, Solana is still the most popular blockchain among investors so far in 2024, with a popularity of 38.79%. Solana's ecological indicators also rank among the top among all chains.

Solana chain is currently in a period of strong momentum. Among the seven tracks, the overall quality of the winning projects in DeFi, games, and payment tracks is good, and many projects have proposed new concepts and mechanisms. Consumer applications, DAOs, infrastructure, and Depin tracks have also produced many projects worthy of attention and research. Many of these projects are in the early stages and are worth users' participation and profit.

The following is a brief introduction to the winning projects in the seven tracks of this hackathon:

Consumer Application Track

First Prize: Pregame

Pregame is a P2P sports entertainment platform that currently offers betting on sports events such as the NFL and MLB. It will soon launch predictions for events such as football, NBA, NHL, tennis, and golf. Currently, the minimum bet per game is $50.

Second Prize: trenches.top

trenches.top is a platform that tokenizes the reputation of Memecoin Alpha traders’ “calls”. Callers synchronize their records on its TG, and the platform ranks them according to their token profitability. Traders can make profits by speculating on the Caller rankings, or follow the top-ranked Memecoin Callers to make copy trades for profits.

Third Prize: Genesis

Genesis is a tokenized intellectual property investment platform that allows users to produce custom content and rewards them for their participation.

Fourth Prize: FANPLAY

FANPLAY is a gambling game platform with the theme of "Hamster Racing". Currently on Arbitrum, users bet ETH or USDC to support their favorite hamsters, and it will soon be open to the Solana network.

Fifth Prize: Wink

Wink is a template trading market for creating Blink (Odaily Planet Daily Note: Blink is a specific component on Solana that can be integrated into applications for fast and seamless interaction). Users can use these ready-made templates to generate Blink for different transactions or on-chain operations. Blink is a shareable link that allows users to perform transactions or create dApps on the Solana chain. Blink is built with the blinks & action technology created by Dialect. It was originally a simple link, but it will transform into a functional interface when expanded on supported platforms.

DeFi Track

First Prize: SQUEEZE

SQUEEZE is a token issuance platform that supports leveraged long/short trading when tokens are issued. Squeeze will not destroy LP during token issuance, but will lock and manage LP by splitting them into multiple centralized liquidity positions on Raydium. Traders can borrow from these positions without incurring bad debt risks, unfair liquidations, or high fee fluctuations, providing users with a reliable way to go long/short tokens. Currently, it plans to support the issuance of Memecoin, and plans to support more tokens in the future, but it cannot support leverage for low-market-cap, high-volatility tokens.

Second Prize: Darklake (formerly Blackpool)

Darklake is a trading platform that supports ZK proofs. It is the first DEX on Solana to provide real-time, MEV-resistant order execution, providing higher efficiency for DeFi through fast and private transactions. Currently on the Solana development network, its roadmap and token-related information have not been announced, and users can receive test coins for experience.

Third Prize: Pye

Pye is a yield market that allows stakers to tokenize their staking yield and resell it to the market platform at a discount, unlocking a $500 billion (and growing) PoS market, and a $40 billion+ staking yield market to be unlocked in the next year. The product team has founded and launched projects such as Maker DAO, Covalent, Badger DAO, Rated Network, Psy Options, and Armadafi.

Fourth Prize: Neutral Trade

Neutral Trade is an on-chain multi-strategy hedge fund created by experienced quantitative analysts and traders from Goldman Sachs, Barclays and the world's three largest hedge funds, as well as experienced Web3 developers. It seeks stable high returns through Delta neutral trading strategies. Its first product, JLP Delta Neutral Vault, runs on the Drift contract market with an APY of 79.18%.

Fifth Prize: Watt

Watt is a volatility mining protocol that allows users to unilaterally stake any token on Solana. This includes Wrap tokens and is applicable to Solana Memecoin. It is currently in the waitlist application stage.

Game Track

First Prize: Supersize

Supersize is a real-time, fully on-chain, high-stakes multiplayer game powered by Magicblock. Supersize is a "Battle of Balls" style game: players appear as blobs and must eat or be eaten to become the largest player on the map. Big players move slower than smaller players, but can consume tokens to advance and eat them. Supersize can be played with any token on Solana. Players can buy in to join the game and can exit at any time to receive points in the form of tokens.

Second Prize: The Arena

The Arena is a PvP social trading game where users can deposit USDC to trade with opponents and become the best trader to earn rewards. It is currently in the waitlist application stage.

Third Prize: Windfall

Windfall is the first game-based Liquid Staking Token (LST) project. Its core concept is to gamify DeFi. Windfall cooperates with Solana NFT, Meme (such as Bonk) and other IPs to provide a variety of casual and interesting luck games. Its prize pool comes from chance. The SOL deposited by users is converted to windSOL through Sanctum and re-staking through Fragmetric to generate double income. Similarly, the game also supports users to deposit stablecoins, ETH and BTC, and the income obtained through the staking agreement is deposited into the prize pool. In addition to simply utilizing IP, the project has also designed games that utilize community collaboration, with more than 20,000 users on the Waitlist.

Fourth Prize: Barnfight

Barnfight is a platform for creating and participating in games using Memecoin. Users can choose 2 to 6 tokens and create and start their own games, set rules, and any token issued on Solana can be included. All participants are ranked from high to low based on the number of bets purchased. Game creators can decide which projects participate, which ranking wins, and how to distribute prizes to users.

Fifth Prize: Quantro

Quantro is a PvP ETF trading game that allows users to build an ETF with 1,000,000 virtual dollars and compete in a PvP style for a 2x, 10x, or 100x return with minimal investment.

Crypto Infrastructure Track

First Prize: txtx

txtx is a developer platform for engineering teams to leverage runbooks, transforming smart contract infrastructure management into a secure, repeatable, and proficient developer experience. Runbooks set a new standard for Web3 infrastructure, allowing users to seamlessly deploy contracts on Eclipse and Solana through txtx.

Second Prize: Tokamai

Tokamai is a developer tool used to discover Solana chain program errors and perform real-time monitoring. It can discover Solana chain program errors before users, and provide real-time chain program monitoring and alerts. It has a fast detection, analysis, and repair speed.

Third Prize: Chakra Labs

Chakra Labs is an end-to-end decentralized file storage network, a free-to-use end-to-end encrypted file storage powered by Solana, Irys, and Lit.

Fourth Prize: Verve

Verve is an open source embedded smart wallet infrastructure. Verve aims to create an open source embedded smart wallet infrastructure using account abstraction and ZK compression. Instead of being managed by multi-party keys, the wallet uses a guardian model - allowing users to assign any number of guardians to their smart accounts and give them different roles and permission levels. Thanks to Light Protocol's ZK compression, creating a smart account with Verve only costs transaction fees. This allows applications of any size to provide embedded wallets to new users at almost no cost. And because Verve's smart accounts are entirely on the Solana chain, there is no risk of external service providers canceling their services.

Fifth Prize: Dashy

Dashy is a wallet cluster management tool that allows users to manage investment portfolios across multiple wallets while isolating them in clusters according to their purpose, ensuring that fund portfolios are not mixed with each other.

DePIN Track

First Prize: Svachsakthi

Svachsakthi is an off-grid renewable energy project built on the Solana network, focusing on solar energy.

Second Prize: AdX.so

AdX.so is a decentralized advertising exchange built on the use case-optimized SVM (Solana VM), leveraging blockchain technology to improve digital advertising transparency, efficiency, and privacy. The platform supports real-time (crypto blind) bidding to deliver targeted digital ads to audiences on websites or applications, and the process can be traced back to the Solana network for verification and settlement between advertisers and publishers. Advertisers design ads, manage creatives, and take advantage of real-time, targeted ad placements. Publishers can easily manage and integrate assets (websites, blogs, apps) and generate embed codes to start monetizing content.

Third Prize: CURA

CURA is a DePIN pet collar for pet lovers. It has launched the first DePIN+Edge AI smart pet collar and will soon launch a mobile pet service app.

Fourth Prize: NetSepio

NetSepio is a decentralized VPN and WiFi hotspot provider that uses Social DePIN to improve global network security and allow users to contribute to decentralized networks, transforming individuals into authorized nodes to promote security, privacy, and universal access, thereby democratizing network security access. AI technology actively monitors and mitigates network threats in real time; uses ZK and advanced encryption technology to ensure user privacy, security, and data integrity; users are able to contribute to and manage the network, ensuring transparency and obtaining node incentives.

Fifth Prize: Kiko Network

Kiko Network Kiko is a user-centric Depin network for climate monitoring. Built on Solana, the network is designed to track real-time weather and air quality data from decentralized nodes around the world, and users can actively contribute environmental data as "weather stations."

DAO & Network National Track

First Prize: AlphaFC

AlphaFC is a fan-run community platform that gives football fans real decision-making power and financial stake through club shares, a token that allows fans to vote on key decisions such as scouting, trades and team management. Features include a MyTeam page for managing player rosters, trading shares and voting on proposals. AlphaFC is acquiring a 6th tier English football club and expanding through a SaaS model to take on more teams and expand into other sports.

Second Prize: Marshmallow

Marshmallow is an app that teaches children financial knowledge through Solana on-chain tools, focusing on saving, earning, and setting goals. Children learn financial management by completing tasks, setting financial goals, and receiving savings rewards set by their parents. Marshmallow reimagines the piggy bank as a family DAO, without KYC barriers, and can be used globally.

Third Prize: Bizzed

Bizzed is a community platform for evaluating and collectively investing in small and medium-sized enterprises. It uses AI to complete corporate market analysis, financial forecasts, due diligence, etc. to decide whether to invest.

Fourth Prize: LivingIP

LivingIP is a platform for collaborative storytelling on-chain, enabling DAOs and cyber-nations to develop their narratives through community contributions and voting, and to create cNFTs to prove their on-chain contributions.

Fifth Prize: Blonk

Blonk is a Telegram bot that allows users to create groups using Squads multisig and support collective action through Solana Blink.

Payment track

First Prize: International Stable Currency (ISC)

ISC's product FXSwap is a DEX focused on non-US dollar stablecoins, aiming to enhance the liquidity of all non-US dollar stablecoins and RWA. It puts foreign exchange transactions on the chain, enables effective exchange between foreign exchange and stablecoins, and enables stablecoins to meet the liquidity needs of cross-DeFi protocol integration. Currently, it has reached cooperation with Etherfuse, VNX, BRLA and Ripe.

Second Prize: Hylo

Hylo is a stablecoin protocol backed by Solana LST. It has launched two core tokens: hyUSD stablecoin and xSOL leveraged token, both of which are backed by different SOL LST collateral. xSOL and hyUSD have a symbiotic relationship, and xSOL uses SOL price fluctuations to enable hyUSD to maintain a 1:1 peg with the US dollar in the event of market fluctuations. At the same time, the income generated by the protocol's LST reserves is distributed to xSOL holders.

Third Prize: Split Finance

Split Finance is a classic Payfi solution, “Buy Now Pay Never”, whose yield derivatives market splits yield assets into principal and yield tokens, and users pay fees through the yield obtained from staking assets.

Fourth Prize: Ribh

Ribh is a payment solution for small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets. Users can apply for a physical or virtual Dollar consumer card and use the USDC they hold to quickly pay business partners in more than 40 countries/regions, with real-time settlement and low fees.

Fifth Prize: Quartz

Quartz is a cryptocurrency consumption solution on Solana, where users can consume the value of cryptocurrency through bank transfers or self-hosted debit cards without having to sell cryptocurrency. Quartz uses smart contracts on Solana to coordinate user funds, and funds deposited in Quartz are automatically transferred to the protocol with the highest yield and lowest interest rate at the time. Quartz regularly checks the available interest rates on integrated platforms. When withdrawing funds (Off-ramp), Quartz will borrow USDC loans from these platforms and withdraw them, so users do not need to sell their cryptocurrencies. In addition, Quartz can only transfer funds between platforms. It cannot withdraw deposits from the platform without user authorization. Only the wallet where the funds are deposited can withdraw funds.