TRON DAO Announces HackaTRON Season 6 Qualifiers

Geneva, Switzerland, June 112024 – With HackaTRON Season 6 coming to an end, the TRON DAO team, together DAO Cooperative, BitTorrent Chain (BTTC), and JustLend DAO hosted a series of innovations that have taken the blockchain landscape by storm. This season, participants redefined the digital landscape on multiple themes. The Web3, DeFi, Artistry, Builder, and Integration tracks produced unique projects that helped push the blockchain space forward.

HackaTRON Season 6 attracted more than 1,100 participants, each of whom developed their own project on the TRON interface. The prize pool included up to $650,000*, including $500,000 in TRX, the native utility token of the TRON network, and $150,000 in energy, which can be used to subsidize smart contract transactions and interactions on the TRON network.

In addition to hundreds of new contestants, Season 6 featured a list of prestigious sponsors. The sponsors were made up of GPTString, Solidus ai technologyand Inc. as diamond sponsors, with Assessment Finance as a platinum sponsor, GT Protocol as a gold sponsor, and Router Protocol as silver sponsor. We would like to thank our sponsors for maintaining a safe and productive environment for TRONics to grow.

This HackaTRON inspired productive competition and led to the selection of winners by both the judges and the community, as detailed below.

*All prizes are issued in TRX or TRON Network Energy, not USD, restrictions apply. All contest rules can be consulted here: https://trons6.devpost.com/rules

Winners selected by judges

The best contenders in each category evaluated by the judges will receive the following prizes: the champion will receive $25,000; the second, $15,000; third place, $10,000; and those in fourth and fifth place will take home $8,000 and $6,000, respectively.

Web3 Track:

The Web3 category aims to honor teams ushering in the transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 by introducing next-generation DAO tools, SocialFi, blockchain/web infrastructure, SDKs, and other Dapps. The winners of the Web3 track are the following:

DeFi Hint:

Showcasing projects that transform finance through decentralization, empowering people with transparent, accessible and inclusive protocols for asset management. The DeFi track winners are as follows:

Artistic clue:

Where entertainment meets blockchain technology. The artistic track highlights creative prowess in visual projects spanning GameFi, nfts, assets, and companies related to the Metaverse. The Artistry track winners are as follows:

Builder's hint:

Recognize teams that have previously participated in TRON hackathons and have a running project that they would like to improve and update with new features. The Builder track winners are as follows:

Integration track:

The integration track, previously called the ai ​​track, encourages participants to integrate advanced protocols into the TRON ecosystem, encouraging them to incorporate existing TRON/BTTC protocols, Dapps or services into their applications. Participants create impactful features/tools to improve applications within the TRON/BTTC ecosystems. The winners of the Integration track are the following:

Selected Community Forum Winners

For the winners chosen by the vibrant TRON community forum, the prize distribution is equally exciting: the first place winner will take home $7,000; the second place winner will receive $6,000; third place will receive $5,000; and fourth and fifth place winners will be rewarded with $4,000 and $3,000, respectively.

Web3 Track:

DeFi Hint:

Artistic clue:

Builder's hint:

Integration track:

Focus on community champions

At the heart of HackaTRON's success are the commendable efforts of the “Top 10 Community Contributors”, a testament to the power of active participation. These individuals are recognized for their unwavering commitment and each deserve a $500 reward:

Key dates to remember

Upon being recognized in the top five of their respective tracks, qualifiers selected by the community will be distributed 100% of the prize amount, while qualifiers selected by the judges will initially be allocated 30% of the prize amount . Once their respective projects are launched on the TRON mainnet, the other 70% will be rewarded. The deadline to complete this requirement is June 28.

As HackaTRON Season 6 concludes, excitement for Season 7 is already building. Stay tuned for more updates on the HackaTRON competition and other initiatives within the TRON ecosystem.

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About TRON DAO

TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the Internet through blockchain technology and dApps.

Founded in September 2017 by HE Justin Sun, the TRON network has continued to make impressive achievements since the launch of MainNet in May 2018. July 2018 also marked the integration of the BitTorrent ecosystem, a pioneer in decentralized Web3 services that boasts more of 100 million monthly active users. The TRON network has gained incredible traction in recent years. As of June 2024, it has over 233.71 million total user accounts on the blockchain, over 7.75 billion total transactions, and over $21.82 billion in total value locked (TVL), as reported in TRONSCAN.

Additionally, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin worldwide, surpassing USDT on ethereum as of April 2021. The TRON network completed its full decentralization in December 2021 and is now a DAO governed by the community. Most recently, in October 2022, TRON was designated as the national blockchain of the Commonwealth of Dominica, marking the first time that a major public blockchain has partnered with a sovereign nation to develop its national blockchain infrastructure. blocks. In addition to government support to issue Dominica Coin (“DMC”), a blockchain-based fan token to help promote Dominica's global fanfare, seven existing TRON-based tokens: TRX, BTT, nft, JST, USDD , USDT, TUSD, have been granted legal status as an authorized digital currency and medium of exchange in the country.

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