The Ethereum HackMoney hackathon, which started on May 6, ended on May 27. A total of 1,205 developers participated, 214 new projects were launched, and more than 300,000 US dollars in bonuses were awarded, the largest ever hackathon activities. Let's take a look at the ten projects that won this hackathon Grant.
Whip is a financial risk analysis dashboard and DAO risk strategy backtesting product. It will build a risk model for the protocol and the DAO treasury through a real-time data feed. In essence, Whip is a DAO tool that can help many DAO treasuries to control risks and conduct financial behaviors with lower risks. Its biggest feature is that it is user-friendly .
Team Twitter: https://twitter.com/VaughnMcK
Wido Router is a cross-chain bank that supports users with one-click deposit and withdrawal. It is built based on LayerZero and Stargate Finance. Its main purpose is to make up for the shortcomings of cross-chain protocols such as Stargate in terms of deposit and withdrawal, liquidity mining, etc., because at present, the work done by Stargate is often only for cross-chain and unified flow. sexual capital pool. According to its introduction on the official website, on the basis of Wido Router, it can do a lot of things, such as DeFi stable currency income board, pre-investment profit and loss calculator, Ethereum Gas relief, etc.
Official website: https://www.joinwido.com/
OK Vault is a reverse bid auction (RBA) generator . RBA itself is a relatively new form of auction, which is friendly to retail investors and unfriendly to giant whales. The basic flow is that users participate in an auction, and the lowest and only bidder wins the auction. In this regard, the jury said that the "unique auction system" and "Polygon mobile dAPP compatible with Coinbase Wallet and EPNS" of the project are impressive.
Official website: https://ok.gold/
BTFDCA can help users purchase encrypted assets in a smarter way . It provides investors with a service - investors allocate a specified amount of stablecoins to BTFDCA, and through smart contracts, BTFDCA will help investors purchase corresponding assets at an average dollar cost. We can understand it as an automatic scheduled investment service steward.
Team Twitter: https://twitter.com/omnifient
EVIX is a protocol for trading ETH volatility futures and perpetual contracts using AMM pools as a trading mechanism . In essence, EVIX is the liquidity of financial derivatives on the chain, which has the shadow of traditional finance. According to the evaluation of the jury: EVIX solves complex problems with a set of exquisite solutions, and promotes the DeFi space to mature, which is comparable to the traditional market.
Team Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmount_
Yield Index is a complex index platform . To put it simply, Yield Index allows users to write an index, and other users can participate in the corresponding financial management strategy through the diversified treasury provided by the index without participating in a specific DeFi protocol. In the demonstration, Yield Index even supports users to participate in financial management strategies in multiple chains.
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/IndexClub1
Hash Space is a DeFi product exploration game, the purpose is to help players learn and test new DeFi products, solutions and protocols in an interesting form , because it is difficult for many new players to know which DeFi protocols are suitable for them. At the same time, Hash Space can also help some new DeFi protocols acquire customers.
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/HashSpaceQuest
Polypus is a brand new NFT lending protocol. It supports users to use their own NFT as collateral to obtain loans in a permissionless way. The main pain point here is the issue of NFT pricing. Polypus does not use oracles. In order to provide a better LTV (loan-to-collateral value ratio), Polypus adopts a unilateral market that allows suppliers to compete in a free market for specific NFT projects to improve the capital efficiency of NFT mortgagers.
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/polypusprotocol
Jpex is an on-chain NFT options trading platform that aims to help users participate in the hype of blue-chip NFTs at a cheaper price . Instead of buying and selling blue-chip NFTs, Jpex has created an NFT derivatives marketplace where users can trade call and put options. In fact, it can also be used to hedge our own NFT investment. For example, after purchasing a blue-chip NFT, we can purchase a put option on the blue-chip NFT through Jpex.
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpexfinance
TEX is an anti-MEV (Maximum Extractable Value) decentralized exchange designed to provide traders with a fair and efficient trading environment . Some scientists will profit from arbitrage/sandwich attacks through public transaction data, and Ethereum miners can also profit from traders' transactions, which will cause traders to suffer economic losses (stealth slippage). The purpose of TEX launch is to help traders avoid such economic losses.
Team Twitter: https://twitter.com/RadiusXyz
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