TRON DAO Unveils HackaTRON Season 7 Qualifiers and Winners, Backed by Google Cloud as Diamond Sponsor

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:

DeFi Track:

This track honored projects transforming finance through decentralization, offering transparent, accessible, and inclusive protocols for asset management. The winners are:

Artistry Track:

The Artistry category spotlighted creative projects in GameFi, NFTs, digital assets, and metaverse ventures. The winners are:

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:

Builder Track:

Acknowledging teams that participated in previous TRON hackathons, this category supported projects enhancing or updating working applications. The winners are:

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:

DeFi Track:

Artistry Track:

Builder Track:

Integration Track:

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.