Blockchain security solutions, games and storytelling dominated the winning projects at the ETHDenver 2024 BUIDLathon, the largest and oldest hackathon for Ethereum developers, which ended on Sunday evening.
At the close of the 9-day hackathon, BUIDLathon judges selected five winners from over 200 competing projects at the seventh annual hackathon that distributed about $1,000,000 in sponsor bounties and prizes.
HoneyPause, an onchain security project; Egg Wars, a chicken-and-egg NFT game; Odin, a dapp security feature; BeFit, a competitive fitness social media game; and Sekai, an AI-interactive story-building platform, were crowned the winners and awarded $1,000 in prize money in addition to incremental prizes and awards throughout the competition. There were five tracks the projects competed in: Infrastructure + Scalability, Identity + Privacy + Security, DeFi + NFTs + Gaming, DAOs + Communities, and Impact + Public Goods. Each track had three finalists who earned $5,000 in cash plus additional prizes such as free tickets to next year’s ETHDenver valued at up to $12,500.
ETHDenver 2024, as an organizer of the BUIDLathon, put forward $142,500 as rewards for the top projects in each track, and the remaining prize pool came from the 50 additional partners that sponsored the hackathon, including Arbitrum, Solana, Wormhole, RISC Zero, Base, Linea, Chainlink, Hedera, Polkadot, Near and Lukso.
Blockchain security solutions, games and storytelling dominated the winning projects at the ETHDenver 2024 BUIDLathon, the largest and oldest hackathon for Ethereum developers, which ended on Sunday evening.
At the close of the 9-day hackathon, BUIDLathon judges selected five winners from over 200 competing projects at the seventh annual hackathon that distributed about $1,000,000 in sponsor bounties and prizes.
HoneyPause, an onchain security project; Egg Wars, a chicken-and-egg NFT game; Odin, a dapp security feature; BeFit, a competitive fitness social media game; and Sekai, an AI-interactive story-building platform, were crowned the winners and awarded $1,000 in prize money in addition to incremental prizes and awards throughout the competition. There were five tracks the projects competed in: Infrastructure + Scalability, Identity + Privacy + Security, DeFi + NFTs + Gaming, DAOs + Communities, and Impact + Public Goods. Each track had three finalists who earned $5,000 in cash plus additional prizes such as free tickets to next year’s ETHDenver valued at up to $12,500.
ETHDenver 2024, as an organizer of the BUIDLathon, put forward $142,500 as rewards for the top projects in each track, and the remaining prize pool came from the 50 additional partners that sponsored the hackathon, including Arbitrum, Solana, Wormhole, RISC Zero, Base, Linea, Chainlink, Hedera, Polkadot, Near and Lukso.
The winners were selected by five hackathon judges, who themselves were chosen by developers and other experts in the Ethereum ecosystem from 2,900 applications. Judges were nominated based on how much they embodied the ethos of ETHDenver, “#BUIDL,” which is a concept combining the elements of education and community. The judges, Nader Dabit, Casey Gardiner, Austin Griffith, Solange Gueiros and Min Kim, each selected a winner.
