Thanks everybody!
Over the past ~1,5 months we had in total ~150 participants in the Æternity Universe Two Hæckathon. I wanna thank everybody for participating and I hope you had a lot of fun! 
Project Gallery
In total we got 34 submissions from which I had to filter out 22 projects. Please check out all the submissions in the project gallery.
These 12 projects are valid submissions and will be judged by @YaniUnchained, @benhus1337, @ae-omar & myself during the week and the winners will be announced next Monday, 26.09.2022!
The winners receive following prizes (payed in Æ):
- 1st place: $15,000
- 2nd place: $8,000
- 3rd place: $5,000
Community Choice Award (Chance to win 5000 Æ!)
In addition to the official judgement there will be a community award of $2,500 (payed in Æ). We welcome the community to vote on their favorite projects to determine a winner 
The vote will be conducted with the Governance æpp which we have already used for important votes in the past.
The Community Choice Award Vote is available here:
In order to place a vote you need to connect your wallet (e.g. Superhero Wallet) and be connected to the mainnet.
Special Rules for Community Choice Award Vote
Each vote equals 1 point and for a vote to count, the voter has to own an account on the official æternity Forum (https://forum.aeternity.com) since July 2022 and paste their æternity address used for voting under the voting thread that the Sponsor will create and communicate across different channels (Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Forum). The sponsor will only count votes that meet this criteria and raffle 5000 AE among all community members that participate in the voting. The Submission that receives most votes according to this criteria will be the winner of the Community Choice Award.
Key points:
- 5000 Æ (~$380) will be raffled among all voters
- Each vote counts 1
- we ignore voting weight
- the result shown in the governance aepp can differ from the “real result”
- We count only votes of Forum Members that have registered in before August 2022
- Each voter needs to confirm their vote here in this thread by providing their AE address (otherwise the vote does not count)
The vote ends ~ 25.09.2022, 11 PM (CEST)!
Note:
- If you face any problem with the Governance æpp please let us know here. It hasn’t been updated for a long time and we plan to refurbish and use it more often again now
Outlook
This is definitely not the last Hackathon. Watch out for further news, we aim to run more Hackathons in the future and grow our developer community!
We’d be happy if you continue building your projects or even other projects on æternity. As @YaniUnchained keeps repeating:
æternity is still waiting for the killer æpplication!
Here some ideas to develop:
- Oracle Price Feed
- we have some “basic” example solution which is currently also a bit inconvenient to use, see GitHub - aeternity/ae-oracle-pricefeed
- the solution has to serve and secure the DeFi ecosystem on æternity and therefore we need a robust and future proof solution that reduces risk of manipulation to the maximum
- State Channel applications
- DeFi
- Crowdfunding
- Trading
- Lending / Borrowing
- Staking
- Insurance
- Prediction Markets
- Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps
- Oracles
- Random Number Generator (RNG)
- Crowd based oracle for decision making
- Generalized Accounts
- DAOs
There is definitely a huge opportunity for everybody out there to build the killer æpplication on æternity!
API for minting NFT’s on your own website
