Avalanche just completed its largest hackathon to date, with a total of $500,000 awarded in prizes.
Moralis and Avalanche joined forces to host the three-month battle, which supercharged the development of dApps, Web3 apps, and DeFi projects built on Avalanche. Avalanche says thanks to Moralis, valued partners, and VC investors, the Moralis Avalanche Hackathon has been a huge success!
All Grand Prize finalists were invited to showcase their project during a public Demo Day (watch the recap here!) in front of a prominent panel of judges:
- Ivan on Tech: CEO & Founder at Moralis
- Kevin Sekniqi: Chief Operating Officer at Ava Labs
- Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo: Head of DeFi at Ava Labs
- Julien Bouteloup: Founder at Stake DAO and Core Team at Curve Finance
- JD Gagnon: Co-Founder of BENQI
- Justin Trollip: CEO at Pangolin
- Cryptofish: Co-Founder at Trader Joe
- Nicola Santoni: Principal at Lemniscap
Grand Prizes Winners
The top three contestants won a total of $175K which will be distributed amongst them. To qualify for the top three prizes, participants had to build on both Moralis and Avalanche.
1. Musing (1st prize: $100,000)Musing is a decentralized Q&A protocol where you can mine tokens by creating great questions and answers. We give users ownership over the content they create.
Team:Jonathan ChingMhykl NievesMervin Villaceran
2. Snowflakes.network (2nd prize: $50,000)"Web3 push notifications you control."Team: Charif Mews
3. Astrocave Academy (3rd prize: $25,000)A Gamified Education Platform and portfolio tracker that follows your Decentralized Finance learning journey, tracks your progress, and provides guidance along the process.Team:Kilian Henner (Degen of Growth)Carlos Perezpriego (Dev Lead)Alan (Design Lead)Joon Kiim (Partnerships & Media team)Kumakun (Creative director)Quinn Eschenbach (Dev)Dieter Menzel (BD)Luis Homann (Managing wizard)Nerzhioua (Tokenomics help)Joaquin A.Morales (Designer)Nils Wippermann (Content Lead)
Bounty Winners
- Snowball bounty winners
Best Implementation of Opt-in Notification Systems for dApps ($30,000 total split $15,000 each)
1. CryptoNotifyPersonalized, proactive alerts for the Web3 world.Team: Brad Sileo
2. Snowflakes.network"Web3 push notifications you control."Team: Charif Mews
- Yield Yak bounty winners
Best Yield Yak Front-End Integration ($20,000)
Yak Spirit
Yak Spirit is built on top of Yield Yak to give users a better UX of token swap on Avalanche.Team:Maksim ShcherbakNastya GlukhikhImran Ibragimov
- Best Use of Yield Yak’s Interest-Bearing Assets ($20,000)
Motoverse
Team:Dominik RegecPavel SchofferVaclav Placek
- IPFS bounty winners
Best Use of IPFS or NFT.Storage for Content-Addressed Data ($30,000 total split $10,000 each)
1. Cratch
Team:Rais YoussefJulia MendeleveDaniel PalacioNikita Chernushov
2. Your Meta World
Your Meta World is a brand new Metaverse created as an entry into the Moralis Avalanche 2022 Hackathon. YourMeta.World is a proof of concept for what is possible when the Metaverse is truly decentralized.
Team: Naail El-Sawah
3. AvaDoma
Team: Artur
- Covalent Bounty winners
Best Use of the Covalent API ($20,000 total split $2,000 each)
1. Physical Web3
Team: Giancarlo Sanchez
2. Whoosh Finance
Team: Devin Kopp, Ben Fernandez, Suraj Shah, Shubham Gupta
3. Trader Joe API
A brand new Trader Joe API that leverages Covalent APIs.
Team:leo.polymath#5103thepalmtrees#3090
4. xDAO
Team:Vlad, EgorZurab, Anna
5. PRISMA Finance
Team:Florian WinterThorolf WinterTimo Schuck
6. Rugzy
Simplified data visualization ecosystem that highlights relevant smart wallet activity.
Team:Dragos StanBogdan CuldaRobert MititeluEmily Li
7. DeFi Dash
Team:Nazim ZeeshanJazeel Ferry
8. SuperFun.Social
Team:Karan PujaraJaydip PatelRahul Singh
9. pyMoralis
Moralis, Covalent & IPFS wrapped SDK for Python dApp Development.
Team: Issa KalonjiLinks: Github
10. GiftCards NFT
Team: Alb Car
- Chainlink
1. Crypto Adventure
“Create your own adventure” platform.
Team: Karl TurnerLinks: Github
2. Factor XUSD
Team:0xKirkjufell
0xAnnapurna0xEverest
3. TubeCasts
Team: Ian GriggsLink: Github
4. Chainlink Price Feed Easy Integration
The project makes it easy to implement Chainlink price feeds through a decentralized application powered by Moralis.
Team: Gilberts AhumadaLinks: Github
5. COCODA Finance
Team:Niel MalanBalu YadavaliLinks: Website
6. AvaDoma
Domain name registration for IPFS decentralized applications on AvalancheTeam: Artur
7. EverRise: EverStats
Team: Ben, Jason
8. World of Hackathon Wingbirds
Team:CromewarTippi Fifestarr
9. META DAO Agents
META DAO Agents aims to create the very first smart DAO where community members are able to gain insights in the crypto market through utilising in-house data driven AI models and robo agents.
Link: Website
10. YouWho
Crypto-based on-demand services ecosystem.Team: Seree (Ted) Thongkamtan, Brian Frost
- Colony
1. Vista Protocol
Team: Ishaan Hiranandani, George Fane, Sai Yerra
2. Pocket Index
Avalanche crypto index with the aim of normalizing the use of crypto.Team: Mir Imad Ahmed
3. DefiReturn
DefiReturn is building software to help DeFi investors calculate their on-chain profit and loss. This feature unlocks two use cases: portfolio and tax returns.Team: Alon Bochman
- Avalaunch
1. Hourglass
The Hourglass NFT not only provides a way to transact and trade vested tokens but also to earn interest with them. And even more if you keep them in the NFT once unlocked.Team: Henning MEHNERT, Nadhir ABDELLATIFLink: github
2 FutureValue
FutureValue aims to create a secondary market for vested tokens on the Avalaunch IDO platform.Team: Julius JeffreysLink: Github
3. NFTmall
Team:Rakib AhamedEduardo MoreiraArsani BoshraUtkarsh BaviskarTony IgnatiousLink: Website
For those who wanted to participate or follow along, there will be many more Avalanche hackathons to come. Keep up with Avalanche on the Discord server and across other community channels to learn more and stay in the loop!
Avalanche wants to say thank you to all of the valuable partners and VC partners who made this event possible:
Avalaunch, Covalent, BenQi, Trader Joe, Yield Yak, Snowball, Pangolin, Penguin Finance, RugDoc.io/Paladin, Chainlink, Crabada, Colony, Alpha Finance, and Filecoin. These partners are joined by leading venture capital firms like Three Arrows Capital, Republic Crypto, AP Capital, Galaxy Digital, GBV Capital, Gerstenbrot Capital, Alameda Ventures, GSR, Hypersphere, Mechanism, Woodstock Capital, Lemniscap, and AVentures DAO.
About Avalanche
Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol. Avalanche is blazingly fast, low cost, and green. Any smart contract-enabled application can outperform its competition by deploying on Avalanche.
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About Moralis
Moralis is the definitive Web3 development platform. Specifically, Moralis gives developers access to a fully managed, infinitely scalable blockchain backend infrastructure. As such, developers can prototype, develop and deploy Web3 apps, dApps, and DeFi projects in hours and days rather than weeks and months!
Moralis’ plug-and-play functionality is built to be cross-chain compatible from the ground up. As such, Moralis features support for Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, and, of course, Avalanche. Consequently, Moralis allows you to do everything from NFT game development to creating an NFT marketplace. Moralis’ full Avalanche support allows you to connect to Avalanche nodes, build Avalanche dApps, and much more!