A look at the 18 winning projects of the BNB Chain Zero2Hero Hackathon

Original compilation: Peng SUN, Foresight News

On June 5, 2023, the four-week BNB Chain Zero2Hero Hackathon will come to an end, and the winners of this round will receive a total of $200,000 in bonuses. More than 2,600 developers, product managers, UI/UX designers and others gathered here to compete in the seven fields of Greenfield, NFT, Gamify & Metaverse, SocialFi, Infra, DeFi, Innovation and cross-chain. In the end, 18 projects stood out, and the first winner of each track will automatically enter the next stage of the incubator. This article will briefly introduce the 18 award-winning projects.

Greenfield

First place: Origami

Origami is a comprehensive platform for 3D enthusiasts, providing secure Capsule storage for 3D objects, using blockchain to provide asset protection. Creators can share and collaborate through Capsule, stimulating inspiration and creativity. In addition, Origami has good market depth and liquidity, allowing creators and collectors to buy and sell digital assets.

Second place: LOYO

LOYO is a loyalty program infrastructure that helps businesses reduce costs in building loyalty program infrastructure and using decentralized open data on Greenfield. Compared with traditional loyalty programs, LOYO does not require users to provide personal data to obtain rewards, which can effectively protect personal privacy.

Third place: Relation Graph

Relation-Graph is a decentralized social graph deployed on BNB Chain, which inherits Relation Protocol. It creates a blockchain-native data layer through SBT and standard data formats, allowing developers to build decentralized social graphs on the blockchain. Any developer can create functions and data types in their social layer, while allowing users to preserve their social connections and content on the social network, regardless of application layer changes.

DeFi

First place: Metavisor

Metavisor is a liquidity optimization and automation platform for full-chain liquidity provision and management. The platform helps to automate and optimize liquidity, automatically keep it within a certain range for corresponding returns, and when necessary, realize liquidity self-balancing, improve capital efficiency and high rate of return.

Second place: Derivable

Derivable proposes a perpetual contract AMM derived from a new type of derivative pricing curve, allowing anyone to create a perpetual fund pool for any asset without liquidation risk or undercollateralization risk. Anyone can participate as a liquidity provider or as a long-short trader. Similar to Uniswap, Sushiswap or PancakeSwap, Derivable can run on any Layer;1 mainnet like Ethereum, fully automated, decentralized and permissionless.

3rd Place: Rivera Money

Rivera Money is a license-free protocol capable of building structured products on top of Uniswap V3, allowing users to personalize the risk associated with adding liquidity to centralized liquidity pools, and liquidity providers with different risk profiles can easily participate in liquidity supply .

infrastructure

First place: BNB Point

BNB Point is a mobile-first wallet and withdrawal solution. It combines TradFi with Web3 via Rapyd to make finance more inclusive in Mexico and Latin America. Through Rapyd API, BNB Point can manage KYC of users, checkout, exchange and application. The exchange feature allows users to coordinate fiat and cryptocurrency services, exchanging cryptocurrencies for U.S. dollars.

2nd Place: Hashleap

Hashleap is a Web3 payment and financial management DApp. During the hackathon, the team built on BNB Chain and added some improvements, including an upgradeable payment transfer smart contract (which can store important information about transactions on the chain), a subscription smart contract and a smart contract that can use Axelar A contract for cross-chain transfers.

Third place: Defi Terminal

Defi Terminal aims to democratize institutional risk management. It has three ways to manage DeFi portfolio risk: monitoring contracts and user interface to ensure no smart contract risk, monitoring transactions of capital pool or DApp, monitoring flow and price. Its goal is to become a customized DefiLlama.

SocialFi

1st Place: Cratch

Cratch is a decentralized live broadcast and video streaming platform that allows users to create or watch live streams on mobile, web and in the Metaverse world, and rewards them for the time they watch. The team is addressing issues related to video sharing and live streaming, such as censorship, data collection and targeted advertising.

2nd Place: CollabY

CollabY is a decentralized influencer DApp that connects brands and influencers to collaborate on social platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter. The DApp simplifies the complex collaboration process between influencers and brands, removes uncertainty about influencer quality, audience relevance and smooth collaboration, and ensures influencers are paid fairly.

Third place: DeCheck

DeCheck is building a decentralized community and DAO for auditing and reviewing crypto projects. DeCheck tries to promote a more transparent and healthy development of cryptocurrencies by combining token contract code audits and human reviews.

NFT、Gamify & Metaverse

1st Place: Plearnyx

Plearnyx aims to gamify the learning experience, incentivizing active participation in order to earn SBT based reputation and cryptocurrency rewards. As a browser game of coding competitions, its task is to attract, evaluate and introduce new software developers to BNB or other partner ecosystems. Plearnyx will also introduce early education through quizzes and rewards.

2nd Place: The Project Napoléon

The Project Napoléon uses ERC-2535 Diamond to develop an enhanced version of ERC-3525 SFT, allowing users to inspect SFT, participate in various activities such as merging and splitting SFT, DeFi staking, and use BNB Greenfield to ensure token storage related to JSON and image files In different spaces in Greenfield. The models it creates should be used in the bond market to incorporate attributes related to splitting bonds, to solve some bond problems, etc.

Third place: NFKey

The NFKey team is developing a cutting-edge security lock system by integrating smart locks and Web3 technology, initially with Nuki smart locks. In the future, the team plans to expand its integration to support a wider range of smart locks, giving users even more options.

Innovation

1st Place: Termix

TermiX is an AI-based one-stop Web3 interactive terminal, dedicated to making users' on-chain operations easier, more efficient and safer. Termix has specially designed a large language model for Web3, and also has an open plug-in market similar to OpenAI, allowing any protocol and application to be quickly integrated into the ecosystem.

2nd Place: Crypto Mayhem

Crypto Mayhem aims to combine Multiverse to solve the problem that different types of players cannot coexist in the same ecosystem. In the initial stages, Crypto Mayhem hopes to combine the two game types of Grand Strategy and Top-Down Shooter. In the future, it plans to produce more games while developing existing ones.

Cross-chain

1st place: Defi Terminal

This project is the same project as the third in the infrastructure track.

2nd place: B4B

B4B is an on-chain marketplace that connects advertisers with Web3 KOLs for paid promotion globally. B;4;B has a dual-token reputation system that incentivizes KOL activity and its long-term engagement. KOLs get additional rewards based on their reputation on the B4B platform and can use USDC to withdraw earnings. During the hackathon, the project supported cross-chain via Axelar.