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Solana Ventures Announces Winners of Fifth Annual "Riptide" Global Hackathon

Solana Ventures is pleased to announce the results of Riptide, a global hackathon focused on bringing impactful projects into the Solana ecosystem. Riptide is the fifth hackathon held by Solana, and it is also the first event that brings together global builders in an offline "Hacker House". The hackathon brings together cryptocurrency pioneers and developers from around the world to freely develop various projects covering payment, DeFi, games, DAO and other types on the Solana blockchain.

Riptide was open to teams around the world, with nearly 7000 participants submitting a total of more than 550 projects. Google, Visa, Jump Crypto, Samsung NEXT, MonkeDAO and Mango, as the track sponsors of this hackathon, jointly with Solana Ventures, provided participants with a global bonus of up to US$5 million and seed funding.

“I’m excited to see what’s being built in Solana during the Riptide competition,” said Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, “From payments to governance, from From games to DeFi to Web3, the builders of the Solana ecosystem are paving the way for mass adoption of blockchain technology.”

You can click https://solana.com/riptide/voting/ Browse all of Riptide's entries.

Without further ado, let's reveal the winners of the Riptide Hackathon.

Overall Champion

Cronos, it is an on-chain task scheduler that supports users to arrange instructions, the reward is the overall championship prize of 65,000 USDC, and participation in November 4, 2022 tickets to the annual Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1st to 7th, where they will be presenting their projects.

View the Cronos project introduction: https://www.loom.com/share/6d0529c2a083418db98241d39e9de8db?t=8

Pay track

The track's first place went to payment solution mtnPay, which includes an iOS point-of-sale app with a prize of $50,000 USDC.

Other award-winning projects of this track include:

· Second place: Tiplink, single link payment solution.

· 3rd place: Commerce DAO, fully integrated payment stack for web3 commerce.

Fourth place: NiftyPay, which allows creators to add tools related to NFTs to access real-life events.

Fifth place: Elfo Protocol, a subscription payment protocol.

Although the following projects were not on the list, the judges gave them very high evaluation (in no particular order):

· DockIt

· Dona

· Elusiv

· Hukka

· Phoria

· Radiant

· Pay

· YamiPay

DeFi track

Otter Cash, the Solana privacy layer protocol, took first place in the track with a reward of $50,000 USDC.

Other award-winning projects of this track include:

· Second place: Advent, a fixed-rate lending agreement with centralized liquidity.

Third place: Million Finance, an automatic rebalancing and non-custodial index fund that generates income.

· 4th place: OptiFi, a derivatives DEX with a portfolio-based margin approach and a partial liquidation engine.

Fifth place: zkSwap, zero-knowledge AMM.

Although the following projects were not on the list, the judges gave them very high evaluation (in no particular order):

· Accrue

· Finance

· Akura

· Bucket

· Coherence

·Cellfi

·Dcaf

· Drip

· Protocol

· Ottr.Finance

· Neptune

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Web3 track

The first place on the Web3 track is the decentralized publishing stack Wordcel, which supports creators to publish, distribute and monetize their artwork on the chain, The reward is 50,000 USDC.

Other award-winning projects of this track include:

Second Place: Crossmint, an SDK that allows NFT creators to accept credit card payments.

· Third place: Tensor, providing reliable NFT pricing data.

· 4th place: RealityCoin, a protocol that encourages people to create real-world maps for virtual worlds.

· Fifth place: DeGit, decentralized Git repository.

Although the following projects were not on the list, the judges gave them very high evaluation (in no particular order):

· Cambrian

· Cardinal

· FrodoBots

· SolanaFM

· Explorer

· Subber

· Trdelnk

· Windex

Game track

The first place in the game track is Strangemood, a decentralized game platform and market, which supports users to build their own storefront, and the reward is USD 50,000 USDC .

Other award-winning projects of this track include:

· 2nd Place: Rogue Star, a futuristic MMORPG inspired by space shooters.

· Third place: SolRace, a car racing game that makes money by driving.

Fourth place: LadderCaster, an NFT strategy game based on DAO.

· Fifth place: Badbeat Poker, an NFT-driven poker community.

Although the following projects were not on the list, the judges gave them very high evaluation (in no particular order):

· Bondsai

· City of Legends

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· Race Poker

· Solantasy

DAO track

The first place on the DAO track is Strata Launchpad, a protocol that supports users to easily launch their own Token, with a reward of 50,000 USDC.

Other award-winning projects of this track include:

· 2nd place: Slide, fee management tool for DAOs.

· Third place: Gilder, which allows users to interact with DAOs through mobile applications.

· 4th place: Tokr, an open-source protocol for financing real-world assets.

Fifth place: ded.social, a decentralized social media platform.

Although the following projects were not on the list, the judges gave them very high evaluation (in no particular order):

·Notifi

·RoundTable

Community Awards

The winner of the community vote award is ReadON, which uses the GameFi structure to incentivize the reading lifestyle, with a reward of 10,000 USDC.

Some of Solana's ecological projects also sponsor their own "Project Awards", awarded to the most deeply integrated projects. The following winning projects are awarded USD 30,000 USDC unless otherwise stated:

· Allbridge Prize: Check Protocol

· Chainlink Prize: Coherence Finance

·Drift Prize: Abas

·Faraway Prize: Solantasy

· Friktion Prize: ZettaTrade

· Jet Protocol Prize: Cronos

· Jupiter Aggregator Prize: Coherence Finance [USD 15,000], mtnPay [USD 15,000]

· Mango Prize: Cellfi [ $50,000], Abas [$30,000], Mangolorians [$25,000], Trade: Mango [$15,000], DeCommas [$10,000]

· Marinade Prize: Trdelnk

Orca Prize: Pixelnaut Pet Shop

Portals Prize : Forgebots [$15,000], Cardinal [$15,000]

Pyth Prize: Neptune

· Serum Prize: DeCommas

· Slope Prize: RealityCoin

Solend Prize: Struct Capital

Stardust Prize: Dragverse

Wormhole Prize : DeltaFi

· Zeta Markets Prize: Cellfi

· 01 Prize: Zod

· Grape Prize: Gilder

· Switchboard Prize: Neptune [First Prize, 15,000 $], Shachess [Second Prize, $10,000], Tensor [Third Prize, $5,000]

· Tulip Prize: Calcifer

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· Web3Auth Prize: LadderCaster [First Best Integration, $10,000], RealityCoin [Second Best Integration, $7,000], FrodoBots [Third Best Integration, $4,000], Sign in with Solana ;[Use Case Prize, $3,000], SolAfrique [Use Case Prize, $3,000], Kaff [Use Case Prize, $3,000]

· Burnt Finance Prize: Dragverse

Project Hubble Prize: Crema [$15,000], Neptune [$15,000]

· Aldrin Prize: Tiplink

· Bering Waters Prize: Invariant

Thanks to all entries, judges and speakers. The Riptide Hackathon has been such a huge success thanks to everyone involved.

You can enter the contest website https://solana.com/riptide/voting to view all submitted projects. Congratulations to all the above winning projects!