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:

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.