The first Sui Global Hacker Marathon successfully concluded

In the eight-week Sui Overflow Hackathon, 32 winners emerged from 352 outstanding projects. The winners received first, second, and third prizes in eight tracks, with two third prizes in each track.

This hackathon offers developers the opportunity to showcase innovative ideas and Move programming skills, with projects covering a variety of types from developer tools to games. Eight specific tracks are divided into two main categories: technology and product. The competition lasts from April 21 to June 21, with participants presenting their projects to 47 judges during the Demo Day on the weekend of June 15. The judging panel includes field experts, investors, and well-known developers.

In addition to the awards selected by the review committee, the Sui community also voted online to select the 10 most popular projects. Furthermore, 10 student teams received awards, along with special awards granted to some ecological projects.

The competition projects come from 79 countries, with the highest participation from India, China, Nigeria, Vietnam, and the United States. Participants range from students to experienced blockchain developers, many of whom have development experience on other public chains. The judges selected 65 projects to advance to the finals and ultimately chose the winners in each category.

Hackerthon Award Winners

Consumers and mobile terminals

These projects leverage the features of Sui to simplify the use of blockchain in consumer and mobile applications.

First Prize: Pandora Finance

Pandora Finance, as a decentralized prediction market, encourages users to vote on the outcomes of future events. The team plans to launch new games and experiences on the platform.

Second Prize: stream.gift

stream.gift focuses on streaming hosts and uses Sui as a payment mechanism, allowing viewers to donate to their favorite streamers and reducing intermediary fees.

Third Prize: AdToken

AdToken provides advertisers and partners with a transparent decentralized advertising solution, utilizing Sui's object model for real-time rapid confirmation of transactions and campaign management.

Third Prize: Wave Wallet

Wave is a Sui encrypted wallet based on Telegram, combining wallet functions and investment tools, focusing on convenience, security, and user experience.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Such applications leverage Sui's network architecture and native features to promote the development of DeFi.

First Prize: Hop Aggregator

Hop Aggregator, as an exchange platform, emphasizes performance, providing better trading paths and faster speeds.

Second Prize: Aeon

Aeon starts with custody as its foundation, aiming to become the preferred platform for digital asset services by integrating trade execution and advanced asset management solutions into the front end.

Third Prize: Shio

This auction platform focuses on maximizing extractable value and provides a transaction block sorting mechanism for the Sui community.

Third Prize: Hakifi

Hakifi is a decentralized hedging protocol that leverages blockchain technology to mitigate financial risks, providing asset selection and insurance advice as an insurance partner.

Game

This track includes games and related tools that showcase the potential of Sui.

First Prize: AresRPG

This 3D open-world MMORPG uses Sui as the sole database, providing an experience comparable to top Web2 games while integrating Web3 technology.

Second Prize: Wagmi Kitchen

Wagmi Kitchen is an on-chain cooking-themed board game where players collect ingredients and supply meals, and can place bets.

Third Prize: Infinite Seas

Infinite Seas is an MMO game where players engage in trade, combat, and diplomacy on the platform, facilitating microtransactions and player-to-player trading.

Third Prize: Shall We Move

Shall We Move brings the classic poker game to Sui. All game functions are executed on-chain, ensuring fairness and transparency.

Infrastructure and Tools

These tools and applications provide support for developers, optimizing the development experience on Sui.

First Prize: Kraken

Kraken provides a multifunctional application ecosystem, centered around a local and smart contract multi-signature mechanism, customized for teams and individuals on Sui.

Second Prize: SuiGPT

SuiGPT uses large language models to decompile and improve Sui contracts. Users can get answers through chatbots and community forums.

Third Prize: BitsLab IDE

BitsLab is an out-of-the-box online development environment that supports end-to-end development of Move smart contracts, featuring powerful functionality and user-friendly design.

Third Prize: SuiPass

The SuiPass protocol combines Web3 ecosystem credentials and security services to standardize on-chain passport data, enabling universal interoperability access.

Advanced Move feature

These projects demonstrate expertise in using Move on Sui, contributing to the developer experience.

First Prize: Promise

Promise is a testing platform that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs to create engaging experiences through meaningful advertising interactions.

Second Prize: Su Protocol

Su Protocol is a capital-efficient DeFi protocol that does not rely on over-collateralization to ensure system solvency, but instead shifts volatility from risk-averse individuals to risk-seeking individuals.

Third Prize: Sui Simulator

Sui Simulator allows developers to easily read and call Sui smart contracts without a CLI, improving development efficiency.

Third Prize: Sui Metadata

Sui Metadata is a Move library that provides tools to store, retrieve, and manage any type of raw data, stored in vector blocks without the need to rely on a defined structure.

Multi-chain

These projects focus on the Wormhole protocol, unleashing the potential of blockchain interoperability.

First Prize: Sui NTT

Sui NTT is the Sui implementation of the Wormhole Native Token Transfer (NTT) protocol, providing the functionality to transfer fungible and non-fungible tokens across chains that support Wormhole.

Second Prize: Wormhole Kit

Wormhole-kit is a React library that allows applications to easily connect to the Wormhole bridge, providing a simple cross-chain asset bridging path.

Third Prize: SuiWalletBot

SuiWalletBot is a Telegram bot that allows users to manage Sui wallets for multi-chain token transfers and DeFi operations using the Wormhole SDK through Telegram.

Third Prize: Multichain Meme Creator

Multichain Meme Creator platform allows users without development experience to create and exchange memes across multiple networks.

randomness

The winners of the randomness track demonstrated how randomness and cryptographic primitives on Sui contribute to security and applications.

First Prize: Sui dApp Starter

Sui dApp Starter is a full-stack project scaffold that simplifies the process of launching projects on Sui using randomness, providing network management and transaction monitoring tools.

Second Prize: BioWallet

BioWallet uses biometric login to create a secure hardware wallet, eliminating the need for traditional mnemonic phrase management, and adding multi-signature and WebAuthn features.

Third Prize: SuiAutochess

SuiAutochess is an on-chain automatic battle chess game that leverages Sui's native randomness to create a fair, transparent, and secure gaming experience.

Third Prize: HexCapsule

HexCapsule introduces time-lock encryption technology to Sui, using Drand for data encryption and Move code to generate private keys, suitable for applications that require time-based constraints.

zkLogin

These applications leverage zkLogin to unlock a seamless user experience.

First Prize: PinataBot

Pinata Bot utilizes zkLogin in Telegram bots to provide a user-friendly way to trade assets on Sui.

Second Prize: LiquidLink

LiquidLink aims to become the universal social profile for Sui, promoting community growth and interaction through leaderboard scores and a referral program.

Third Prize: Webauth on Sui

Webauth on Sui pairs WebAuthn technology with zkLogin to enhance the security of temporary key pairs, aiming to integrate for a better zkLogin experience.

Third Prize: Aalps Protocol

Aalps is "real-time commodity Reddit," connecting global industry workers and traders to share commodity market data, utilizing mechanisms inspired by zkLogin and friend.tech for vendor verification and data access control.

Community Favorite Award

The Sui community selected 10 of the most popular projects from 65 shortlisted projects through on-chain application voting, totaling 29,545 votes. The winning projects span multiple areas, from DeFi applications to development tools.

The award-winning projects include: AdToken, FoMoney, Hakifi, Mrc20protocol, Mystic Tarot, Orbital, Promise, Sui Simulator, SuiSec Toolkit, and WeCastle.

Student Award

The student award focuses on student teams participating in hackathons, representing a unique perspective of the new generation of builders.

Award-winning projects include: Aalps Protocol, Fren Suipport, LiquidLink, Multichain Meme Creator, Orbital, stream.gift, Sui Simulator, SuiGPT, The Wanderer, and WeCastle.

Ecosystem Award

The Eco Award is granted to specific projects within the Sui ecosystem, aimed at nurturing new developers and enhancing the Sui ecosystem. The awarded projects cover multiple fields, showcasing the diversity and innovative potential of the Sui ecosystem.

This hackathon not only showcased the innovative abilities of developers but also highlighted the immense potential of Sui technology. As project development and launches progress, Sui itself is continuously improving, becoming more efficient and offering exciting new features. This is just the beginning; in the future, Sui will have even more groundbreaking developments.