Hey @kjminer, thanks for the questions and your interest in those projects. Actually @FerumFlex continued working on NuclearSwap (Aerenity) for quite some time end moved quite far with his project, see the discussion here: https://forum.aeternity.com/t/aerenity-bring-usdt-and-other-stablecoins-to-ae
In general we encourage every hackathon participant to continue working on their projects and we always aim to answer questions as meaningful and helpful as possible.
Unfortunately I cannot speak for the projects that you mentioned above, so it’s better to ask @FerumFlex, @Hexdee or the creators of AEUSD. Of course I would love to see all of them to continue building! 
When it comes to support / funding there are different possiblities:
- Token Sales
- Grants from the æternity crypto foundation (will be explained in one of the Checkpoint Events during this hackathon)
- …
In the end it depends on the participants if they want to go the next step and find support from the community and potentially also investors.
Note:
→ EVERYBODY is encouraged to apply for grants and build cool tooling, frameworks & applications on top of æternity. This is not limited to hackathons only!