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/

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.

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:

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

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

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:

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

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.

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:

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.

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.