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Which teams won awards at the official 2022 hackathon Riptide by Solana for the upcoming STEPN?

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Which teams won awards at the official 2022 hackathon Riptide by Solana for the upcoming STEPN?

Solana Ventures announced the results of the Riptide global hackathon, which ended in March, with nearly 7,000 participants and 550 teams entering the final selection process, with a total prize pool of up to $5 million. Following the success of the Solana official global hackathon IGNITION at the end of 2021, which produced the popular chain game STEPN, the winners of Riptide in 2022 are also drawing significant attention.

Below is the list of winners and their profiles:

Champion - Cronos

Cronos is an on-chain task scheduler for Solana, where users can schedule instructions to be signed and verified according to a predetermined timetable. It is currently building a plugin that allows verification nodes and RPC nodes to join the network, enabling on-chain programs to directly schedule backend tasks through the Solana verification node network, eliminating the need for dapps to rely on poor-quality, expensive centralized nodes using crank functions.

Payment Group - mtnPay

mtnPay is a Solana-centric payment solution based on Solana Pay. It is an iOS-based POS (point-of-sale) information system that allows Square merchants to easily transition into accepting cryptocurrency.

Other winners include: Tiplink, Commerce DAO, NiftyPay, Elfo Protocol

DeFi Group - Otter Cash

Otter Cash is Solana's privacy layer that provides anonymous SOL transactions and will be the first zero-knowledge proof application on the Solana mainnet.

Other winners include:

  • Advent, a liquidity concentrated fixed-rate lending protocol
  • Million Finance, an auto-balancing, non-custodial index fund that generates yields
  • OptiFi, an investment portfolio margin derivative DEX with delta hedging AMM treasury
  • zkSwap, a zero-knowledge proof AMM

Web3 Group - Wordcel

Wordcel is a decentralized content platform where creators can freely publish, distribute, and own content on-chain, enabling them to monetize their work.

Other winners include:

  • Crossmint, an SDK allowing NFT creators to accept credit card payments
  • Tensor, providing reliable NFT pricing data
  • RealityCoin, a protocol encouraging the creation of real-world maps for virtual worlds
  • DeGit, a decentralized Git repository

Game Group - Strangemood

Strangemood is dubbed as the decentralized version of Steam, where users can create game stores, list games, and engage in buying and selling.

Other winners include:

DAO Group - Strata Launchpad

Strata Launchpad is a fast token issuance platform using a dynamic pricing LBC (Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool) model similar to Ethereum's LBP model.

Other winners include:

  • Slide, a fee management tool for DAOs
  • Gilder, allowing user interaction with DAOs through a mobile app
  • Tokr, an open-source protocol for tokenizing and financing real-world assets
  • ded.social, a decentralized social media platform

Community Voted Award - ReadON

ReadON, a Read-Fi product, offers content reading including news, articles, novels, videos, e-books, combining GameFi elements for audience enjoyment.