Geneva, Switzerland, November 19, 2024 – TRON DAO, in collaboration with co-hosts HTX DAO, BTTC, and JustLend DAO, proudly announced the qualifiers and winners of HackaTRON Season 7, a dynamic hackathon that united global innovators and showcased exceptional talent within the TRON ecosystem. TRON was honored to have Google Cloud as a Diamond Sponsor of HackaTRON S7. Google Cloud delivers an optimized, fully integrated AI stack, complete with planet-scale infrastructure, customer-built chips, and a powerful development platform, designed to accelerate transformative solutions. The competition attracted over 1,300 participants who developed cutting-edge blockchain projects. This season, participants transformed the digital landscape across five specialized tracks: Web3, DeFi, Artistry, Builder, and Integration, each with projects that propelled blockchain innovation forward.
This season of HackaTRON spurred productive competition, leading to a series of winners chosen by both expert judges and the TRON community, as listed below.
Note: All prizes were issued in TRX or TRON network Energy, not USD, subject to specific restrictions. The official contest rules are available here: https://hackatron7.devpost.com/
Judge-Selected Qualifiers
The top participants in each category were awarded as follows: the champion received $25,000; the runner-up, $15,000; the third-place finisher, $10,000; and those in fourth and fifth places received $8,000 and $6,000, respectively.
Web3 Track:
The Web3 category recognized teams advancing the transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 by creating innovative DAO tools, SocialFi platforms, blockchain/web infrastructure, SDKs, and various dApps. The winners are:
- 1st: TronSocket by BeycanPress
- 2nd: Chums Messenger by Cedro 3.0
- 3rd: Match Systems by Senior HTML Developers
- 4th: Caloriecoin Gym by CalorieCoin
- 5th: NiTron Energy by TronNinjas
DeFi Track:
This track honored projects transforming finance through decentralization, offering transparent, accessible, and inclusive protocols for asset management. The winners are:
- 1st: TRX Links by Tron Builders
- 2nd: Orbit by Astra
- 3rd: JustInsure by The Aresians
- 4th: LuckyDapp by LuckyDappTeam
- 5th: MaLink by The Malinks
Artistry Track:
The Artistry category spotlighted creative projects in GameFi, NFTs, digital assets, and metaverse ventures. The winners are:
- 1st: Tronscore by TMMS
- 2nd: TronXplore by TronEducators
- 3rd: Gathbook by Morgan
- 4th: Vibe by 3Devs
- 5th: Artiverse by ArtiTeam
Integration Track:
This category encouraged participants to integrate advanced protocols into the TRON ecosystem by incorporating existing protocols, dApps, or services on TRON/BTTC. The winners are:
- 1st: SCAN.MEME by Coconut Chicken
- 2nd: RentHub BTFS by Schrodingers
- 3rd: Sunshare by mehdidotcafe
- 4th: MintDeals by Paracosm Labs
- 5th: Pumpfolio by The Degeneres Crew
Builder Track:
Acknowledging teams that participated in previous TRON hackathons, this category supported projects enhancing or updating working applications. The winners are:
- 1st: JustMoney Explorer by JustMoney
- 2nd: ChickenWars by Coconut Chicken
- 3rd: Vault by Vault
- 4th: HandShake by HandShakers
- 5th: OnChainVision by Web3Vision
Community Forum Selected Winners
For winners selected by the TRON community forum, the prize distribution was as follows: the first-place winner received $7,000; the second-place winner, $6,000; the third-place, $5,000; and the fourth and fifth places were awarded $4,000 and $3,000, respectively.
Web3 Track:
- 1st: Tronnect by Uchenna
- 2nd: TronBuddy by Tron Buddy
- 3rd: SaveWallet Extension by Tronsave
- 4th: CalorieCoin Gym by CalorieCoin
- 5th: NiTron Energy by TronNinjas
DeFi Track:
- 1st: LuckyDapp by LuckyDappTeam
- 2nd: TriggerX by KPRX Team
- 3rd: PumpDomains by JustBuilders
- 4th: JustInsure by The Aresians
- 5th: Trade Signal by Signalers
Artistry Track:
- 1st: TronStory by TronStory
- 2nd: TronXplore by TronEducators
- 3rd: TronPixels by TronPixels
- 4th: Artiverse by ArtiTeam
- 5th: IdleTron by IdleTron
Builder Track:
- 1st: JustMoney Explorer by JustMoney
- 2nd: TroniQue by DataVoyagers
- 3rd: Pravahini (प्रवाहिनी) by Pravahini (प्रवाहिनी)
- 4th: uDawgBot by uDawgDAO
- 5th: HandShake by HandShakers
Integration Track:
- 1st: RentHub BTFS by Schrodingers
- 2nd: btSQL by btSQL
- 3rd: SunSniper Telegram Bot by SunSnipers
- 4th: SCAN.MEME by Coconut Chicken
- 5th: Pumpfolio by The Degeneres Crew
Spotlight on Community Champions
The heart of HackaTRON’s success lies in its dedicated ‘Top 10 Community Contributors’—a group of active members offering testing and feedback. Each of these individuals received a reward of $500:
- Prince-Onscolo
- youngyuppie
- hodl
- maaz
- fabsltsa
- gordian
- Nweke-nature1
- leohymon
- Chukseucharia
- Ines_valerie
Prize Distribution and What’s Next
Community-selected winners in the top five of their respective tracks will receive 100% of their prize amounts immediately. For judge-selected qualifiers, 30% of the prize amounts will be distributed upfront, with the remaining 70% awarded upon the launch of their projects on the TRON mainnet. The deadline for meeting this requirement is December 3rd.
As Season 7 concludes, TRON DAO is already gearing up for HackaTRON Season 8, promising to deliver even more engaging opportunities for developers and creators to push the boundaries of blockchain innovation.
About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017 by Justin Sun, the TRON network has continued to deliver impressive achievements since MainNet launch in May 2018. July 2018 also marked the integration of BitTorrent, a pioneer in decentralized Web3 services, boasting over 100 million monthly active users. The TRON network has gained incredible traction in recent years. As of November 2024, it has over 271 million total user accounts on the blockchain, more than 8.9 billion total transactions, and over $18 billion in total value locked (TVL), as reported on TRONSCAN.
In addition, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin across the globe, overtaking USDT on Ethereum since April 2021. The TRON network completed full decentralization in December 2021 and is now a community-governed DAO. Most recently in October 2022, TRON was designated as the national blockchain for the Commonwealth of Dominica, which marks the first time a major public blockchain partnered with a sovereign nation to develop its national blockchain infrastructure. On top of the government’s endorsement to issue Dominica Coin (“DMC”), a blockchain-based fan token to help promote Dominica’s global fanfare, seven existing TRON-based tokens – TRX, BTT, NFT, JST, USDD, USDT, TUSD, have been granted statutory status as authorized digital currency and medium of exchange in the country.
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