1/ We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Solana X Serum DeFi Hackathon! solana.com/news/winners-o…
2/ This two-week hackathon saw 3,000 registrations and over 100 project submissions from around the world. Projects were reviewed by a world-class team of judges. The top 9 teams now have the opportunity to compete for an additional $200k prize in seed funding.
3/ First Place Winners:
- @mangomarkets a decentralized, cross-margin trading platform with up to 5x leverage and integrated limit orders on Serum DEX’s on-chain order book
- @PsyOptions an implementation of American style options on Solana, with SOL and SPL token support.
4/ Second Place Winners:
- Parrot, a synthetic debt protocol that bridges existing yield-bearing tokens on eth into Solana’s DeFi ecosystem.
- @synthetify protocol for synthetic assets, built on Solana.
5/ Second Place Winners, continued:
- @SolriseFinance a decentralized, p2p asset management and trading protocol that allows fund managers to create investment funds, deposit tokens, and choose assets to trade.
6/ Third Place Winners:
- Serum Tax Time, a tool to automatically sift through a user’s Serum DEX trades and create clear data analytics to determine tax payments.
- DTF Protocol enables users to implement an asset management strategy in which others can invest.
7/ Third Place Winners, continued:
- Sushi Warrior, a multiplayer tournament-style battle game bringing composable DeFi to the world of gaming.
- @tenderize_me a liquid staking solution with a value accruing staking derivative token
8/ Community Choice Prize
- COPE by @cyrii_MM, a token project that enables traders to rank their performance and view other traders’ performance in an index based on their Cope score.
9/ A huge thank you to every builder and supporter that made this Hackathon possible! You can check out the full project submission list here airtable.com/shrQvOZRiXN0Yf…
10/ The Solana x @ProjectSerum DeFi Hackathon was also made possible with support from amazing innovative protocols, funds, ecosystem companies across the blockchain space.
11/ If you're inspired by these teams, please remember the Solana Foundation is always accepting project applications at solana.com/grants
We can't wait to see what you build next!
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3/ The key goal here is for a network to be decentralized enough to be censorship resistant. However it’s difficult to quantify at what point that happens.