TRON DAO Announces HackaTRON Season 7 Winners and Qualifiers, with Google Cloud as Diamond Sponsor

Geneva, Switzerland, November 19, 2024 – TRON DAO, in collaboration with HTX DAO, BTTC, and JustLend DAO, has officially unveiled the winners and qualifiers of HackaTRON Season 7, marking another milestone in the TRON ecosystem’s ongoing push for blockchain innovation. The hackathon, which attracted over 1,300 developers from around the world, showcased a diverse range of groundbreaking blockchain solutions. As a highlight, Google Cloud served as the prestigious Diamond Sponsor for this season, lending its advanced AI stack, planet-scale infrastructure, and development platform to support the event’s transformative initiatives.

HackaTRON Season 7 provided an exciting platform for global innovators to push the boundaries of decentralized technology. With five specialized tracks – Web3, DeFi, Artistry, Builder, and Integration – the event encouraged participants to explore and elevate blockchain technology across multiple domains. The winners, selected by expert judges and the TRON community, delivered exceptional projects that promise to reshape the digital landscape.

The Tracks and Winners

The HackaTRON competition featured a variety of unique categories, each rewarding the best blockchain projects in their respective fields. Here are the winners in each category, along with prize details (awarded in TRX or TRON network Energy, not USD):

Web3 Track Focused on advancing the transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, this track celebrated projects that created innovative tools for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), SocialFi platforms, dApps, and other blockchain infrastructure solutions.

• 1st Place: TronSocket by BeycanPress
• 2nd Place: Chums Messenger by Cedro 3.0
• 3rd Place: Match Systems by Senior HTML Developers
• 4th Place: Caloriecoin Gym by CalorieCoin
• 5th Place: NiTron Energy by TronNinjas

DeFi Track This track recognized projects revolutionizing the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) by making financial systems more transparent, accessible, and inclusive through innovative protocols for asset management.

• 1st Place: TRX Links by Tron Builders
• 2nd Place: Orbit by Astra
• 3rd Place: JustInsure by The Aresians
• 4th Place: LuckyDapp by LuckyDappTeam
• 5th Place: MaLink by The Malinks

Artistry Track Dedicated to creative blockchain projects, this track celebrated innovations in GameFi, NFTs, digital assets, and metaverse initiatives, showcasing the artistic potential of blockchain technology.

• 1st Place: Tronscore by TMMS
• 2nd Place: TronXplore by TronEducators
• 3rd Place: Gathbook by Morgan
• 4th Place: Vibe by 3Devs
• 5th Place: Artiverse by ArtiTeam

Integration Track This category was all about enhancing the TRON ecosystem by integrating existing blockchain protocols, dApps, or services into TRON/BTTC networks, driving adoption and expanding

interoperability.

• 1st Place: SCAN.MEME by Coconut Chicken
• 2nd Place: RentHub BTFS by Schrodingers
• 3rd Place: Sunshare by mehdidotcafe
• 4th Place: MintDeals by Paracosm Labs
• 5th Place: Pumpfolio by The Degeneres Crew

Builder Track Focusing on the evolution of existing applications, this track acknowledged teams that contributed to enhancing or updating previously launched projects within the TRON ecosystem.

• 1st Place: JustMoney Explorer by JustMoney
• 2nd Place: ChickenWars by Coconut Chicken
• 3rd Place: Vault by Vault
• 4th Place: HandShake by HandShakers
• 5th Place: OnChainVision by Web3Vision

Community-Selected Winners The TRON community had the opportunity to vote for their favorite projects in each track. These winners, based on community votes, received the following rewards:

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 HackaTRON’s success is also attributed to the dedication of its top community members who provided invaluable feedback and testing. The top 10 community contributors were each rewarded with $500, recognizing their vital role in supporting the event. These contributors were:

• Prince-Onscolo
• youngyuppie
• hodl
• maaz
• fabsltsa
• gordian
• Nweke-nature1
• leohymon
• Chukseucharia
• Ines_valerie

Prize Distribution & Next Steps For community-selected winners, prizes were awarded immediately after the event, with first-place winners receiving $7,000, second-place winners $6,000, and third-place winners $5,000. The fourth and fifth-place winners received $4,000 and $3,000, respectively.

For judge-selected qualifiers, prizes were distributed in two parts: 30% of the prize amount was awarded upfront, and the remaining 70% will be given once the projects are launched on the TRON mainnet, with a deadline of December 3rd, 2024, to meet this requirement.

What’s Next for HackaTRON? As HackaTRON Season 7 wraps up, TRON DAO is already gearing up for Season 8, promising even greater opportunities for developers, creators, and blockchain innovators. With each season, HackaTRON continues to play a pivotal role in advancing the TRON ecosystem and supporting the next wave of blockchain technology.

About TRON DAO TRON DAO is a community-governed decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps). Launched in September 2017 by Justin Sun, the TRON network has achieved remarkable growth, surpassing 271 million total user accounts, more than 8.9 billion transactions, and over $18 billion in total value locked (TVL) as of November 2024.

In addition, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USDT globally and completed its full decentralization in December 2021. In October 2022, TRON was named the national blockchain of the Commonwealth of Dominica, marking the first time a public blockchain was officially partnered with a sovereign nation to develop its blockchain infrastructure.

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