Solana Hackathon Grand Prize Projects Overview: 1,576 Projects Compete, Hardware Wallet Unruggable Wins Overall Championship

Author: Azuma

From December 11 to December 13, the Fifth Breakpoint Conference was successfully held in Abu Dhabi. As the largest and most influential ecosystem conference in the Solana ecosystem, Breakpoint often carries the industry’s expectations for value assessment, future direction, and wealth secrets through information exchange.

During the Breakpoint cycle, the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon, hosted by the Solana Foundation and organized by Colosseum, gained considerable exposure and attention. This hackathon gathered entrepreneurs and developers from over 150 countries, with more than 9,000 participants forming teams to submit 1,576 projects. Covering infrastructure, consumer applications, DeFi, stablecoins, RWA, and various undefined tracks of innovative products, this event has become the largest crypto-themed hackathon to date.

Below is a detailed review of the award-winning projects from this hackathon, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily. In the current market downturn and narrative exhaustion, these new projects not only present certain investment opportunities but are also likely to serve as seeds igniting the next cycle, pushing the industry toward a new burst of growth.

Grand Champion: Unruggable

X Link: https://x.com/unruggable_io

Introduction: Unruggable is the first hardware wallet and accompanying application designed specifically for Solana, aiming to create a simple, fast, user-friendly, and fully optimized self-custody solution for Solana. Existing hardware wallets are mostly multi-chain designed, supporting various blockchains but lacking deep optimization for any particular chain, and often providing secondary support for Solana—for example, Ledger will support SLP tokens only by 2025.

With Unruggable hardware wallet and app, users can directly perform exchanges, staking, lending, earning yields, transfers, and asset management. Unruggable deeply integrates Jito for transaction optimization and includes native features such as multisig with Quads, Jupiter lending and exchanges, Titan aggregation trading, Anza privacy transfers, SNS, DeFi Carrot, Privacy Cash, etc.

Unruggable aims to provide Solana with the speed and convenience of a hot wallet while achieving cold wallet-level security, with users able to complete security setup in less than 30 seconds. Its accompanying application is cross-platform compatible, fully open-source, and all developed in Rust.

Sub-division: Consumer Applications

1st Place: Capitola

X Link: https://x.com/ryanchern

Introduction: Capitola is a native prediction market aggregator that allows users to bet on all events across platforms at the best prices.

2nd Place: Superfan

X Link: https://x.com/superfan_one

Introduction: Superfan is a metaverse record label built on Solana and MetaDAO infrastructure, aiming to convert fans’ beliefs into artists’ credit through prediction market mechanisms. Fans can hold tokens representing shares in the label, vote to fund certain artists, and benefit from repayments.

3rd Place: Fora

X Link: https://x.com/ForaMarkets

Introduction: Fora is a social trading platform supporting group chats and a prediction market protocol.

4th Place: Toaster.trade

X Link: https://x.com/ToasterDotTrade

Introduction: Toaster.trade is a lightweight trading platform driven by Hyperliquid on Solana.

5th Place: Nomu

X Link: https://x.com/EatwithNomu

Introduction: Nomu is a marketplace platform that allows users to purchase products in advance and earn rewards when the products are sold. Nomu aims to build a two-way feedback business ecosystem, rather than a unidirectional consumer chain. When consumers support a product, their purchasing behavior not only funds the product but also injects transparency into the reward pool. As the community buys, trades, and promotes, the reward pool grows, and participants driving the product’s successful launch share in the profits. Through Nomu, consumption can be converted into liquid capital, not sunk costs.

Other Noteworthy Projects (Unawarded)

Here.: Seeker mobile-exclusive social service. Users can take timestamped photos, optionally add GPS proof, and earn revenue through posts’ interactions or transactions.

Pyro: Sponsored trading platform where sponsors can buy and burn creator tokens to gain banner ads during live streams.

Dolero: Decentralized 1v1 card game inspired by blackjack mechanics.

TBD: Collects, predicts, and presents human emotions to assist prediction markets.

Feels: Anti Rug DEX.

Ralli: Fantasy-style sports game app, playable against friends.

Seeker OS: An operating system designed for agents, not mobile apps.

Sub-division: DeFi

1st Place: Yumi Finance

X Link: https://x.com/YumiFinance

Introduction: Yumi Finance aims to build a fully on-chain “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) solution covering credit assessment, fund allocation, loan initiation, and bad debt management.

2nd Place: Kormos

X Link: https://x.com/Kormos_Finance

Introduction: Kormos seeks to create a high-yield, leverage-free solution for Solana via fractional reserve mechanisms. Kormos Vaults intelligently allocate user funds within the Solana DeFi ecosystem, with depositors divided into two roles:

• Liquidity depositors—enjoy higher yields (compared to other liquidity DeFi yields), but must wait in an FIFO queue for redemption in case of a “run” (normal redemption is immediate);
• Lock-in depositors—enjoy higher yields (compared to similar-term assets), can choose redemption cycles, with longer periods offering higher yields.

Kormos has a deposit protection mechanism, where lock-in depositors serve as a buffer for liquidity depositors and will bear losses first if the underlying protocol suffers losses.

3rd Place: Rekt

X Link: https://x.com/GetRektApp

Introduction: Rekt is a mobile trading app designed to make trading accessible to ordinary users through a simple, gamified experience. With Rekt, users need no large capital or deep financial knowledge, just $1 to start making directional predictions on BTC, ETH, or SOL.

4th Place: Archer

X Link: https://x.com/ArcherExchange_

Introduction: Archer is a MEV-resistant trading protocol that protects market makers from reverse selection and latency competition, providing the most competitive prices.

Archer’s innovative matching engine allows market makers to compete solely by offering the best prices and depth, minimizing multiple MEV attacks on market makers and order takers.

5th Place: Hobba

X Link: https://x.com/hobba_io

Introduction: Hobba aims to build safer, more efficient, and worry-free lending services. Hobba automatically allocates liquidity across Solana to obtain the best rates, generating yields from idle funds and using these yields to continuously repay user loans.

When collateral assets appreciate, Hobba accelerates repayments; when values fall, an off-chain risk engine automatically rebalances to ensure user safety.

Other Noteworthy Projects (Unawarded)

Blueprint: AI automated investment tools.

Condor: Mobile liquidity management app.

Lomen: AI trading assistant that enables one-click multi-step position operations across apps, assets, and protocols.

RevTec: Liquidity staking product that captures priority fees and tips from trades in addition to staking income.

Ktulu: Centralized liquidity management tool supporting auto-compounding, rebalancing, and cashing out.

OPSONCHAIN: Automated trading engine.

Lifted: Interest-bearing stablecoin protocol.

Alyra: Modular execution layer. Alyra abstracts the fragmented multi-chain infrastructure (bridges, DEXes, aggregators, relayers) and provides a unified API and SDK for seamless cross-network execution.

Sub-division: Infrastructure

1st Place: Seer

X Link: None

Introduction: Seer is a groundbreaking tool for transaction debugging on Solana. Similar to Tenderly on EVM, it fully displays function-level and line-by-line tracing of transaction execution, including source code mapping, standard Solana logs and error messages, and local variable data snapshots at specific locations.

2nd Place: Corbits

X Link: https://x.com/corbits_dev

Introduction: Corbits enables AI agents to pay API fees instantly via the x402 protocol—no accounts, no keys, pay-as-you-go. For merchants, adding new payment methods takes only hours; endpoint proxy configuration only minutes, with real-time transaction processing.

3rd Place: Ionic

X Link: None

Introduction: Ionic has built the missing data aggregation layer for Solana. Its 0.4-second block time and over 800 transactions per second generate massive data, making traditional tools nearly incapable of handling complex real-time analytics. Ionic’s pre-processed analytical services return results in milliseconds, whereas traditional tools like Dune or BitQuery take minutes.

Ionic’s target users include projects migrating to Solana and platforms requiring complex real-time data.

4th Place: Pine Analytics

X Link: https://x.com/PineAnalytics

Introduction: Pine Analytics is developing a full-stack blockchain analytics platform that captures, aggregates, and interprets on-chain data in real time, transforming it into clear visual charts and AI-readable data layers.

5th Place: Hyperstack

X Link: https://x.com/hyperonsol

Introduction: Hyperstack is a codified data infrastructure built for Solana. Users only need to define the data architecture connecting on-chain accounts; Hyperstack will handle the backend infrastructure.

Hyperstack aims to offer developers a familiar development experience while eliminating the need to manage the complex underlying Solana infrastructure, enabling faster product delivery on Solana.

Other Noteworthy Projects (Unawarded)

CatScope: Ultra-low latency MEV toolkit for Solana.

Arrow API: Trading data builder API for SOL/SPL.

subZero: The “last mile” for blockchain apps and end-users, ensuring uninterrupted low-latency private connections.

Solder: Backend framework for Solana DApps, akin to Next.js + Vercel for off-chain infrastructure.

ChainDex: Real-time blockchain indexer built on ReifyDB.

Excalead: Automated smart contract auditing service.

Solforge: Next-generation Solana development environment combining ultra-fast local network performance with integrated AI-assisted features.

Shiroi: Modular block builder and validator client system for Solana.

Fystack: Enterprise digital asset custody solution.

Sub-division: RWA

1st Place: Autonom

X Link: https://x.com/AutonomRWA

Introduction: Autonom is a oracle designed for real-world assets, capable of dynamically pricing on-chain based on company behaviors, addressing the current off-chain asset pricing issues in on-chain markets.

Currently, real-world assets (especially stocks) have not truly entered the perpetual contract space, at least not in the Solana ecosystem. The key reason is that stocks undergo corporate actions (stock splits, dividends, mergers), which influence prices, but existing oracle systems do not account for these factors.

2nd Place: Bore.fi

X Link: None

Introduction: Bore.fi aims to bring dull but cash-flow-stable enterprises onto the blockchain.

“Builders, laundromats, logistics companies… The world is full of boring, cash-flow-stable, profitable businesses. They don’t chase hot trends but continuously generate cash. Bore.fi plans to acquire these uninteresting businesses and tokenize them, transforming steady but unremarkable cash flows into on-chain revenue-generating machines, creating the world’s first tokenized SME private equity protocol. Real-world income does not come from leverage or meme coins but from—these businesses we are bringing into Solana.”

3rd Place: Legasi

X Link: https://x.com/legasi_xyz

Introduction: Legasi applies encrypted asset-backed Lombard loans to bring institutional-grade long-term lending into the digital age. As a compliant on-chain credit layer, Legasi allows anyone to borrow fiat instantly against their digital assets.

4th Place: Pencil Finance

X Link: https://x.com/pencilfinance_

Introduction: Pencil Finance is the first DeFi protocol to bring real-world student loans on-chain, creating a new income-generating asset class backed by education.

Partnering with emerging market certified student loan originators, Pencil tokenizes loan portfolios and structures them into risk-tiered tranches. Global investors can participate via fixed-yield senior tokens or high-yield subordinate NFTs, with transparent repayment and default processes on-chain.

5th Place: Watchtower

X Link: https://x.com/watchtower150

Introduction: Watchtower aims to provide on-chain collateralized financing for space infrastructure projects.

Other Noteworthy Projects (Unawarded)

VitalFi: A Solana-based DeFi protocol aiming to tokenize Brazil’s medical receivables. Users can deposit USDT into transparent on-chain vaults, providing funds to healthcare providers and generating sustainable yields.

Cream: A decentralized energy grid on Solana that aims to convert community rooftops into tokenized assets, transforming energy into stable income.

Sub-division: Stablecoins

1st Place: MCPay

X Link: https://x.com/mcpaytech

Introduction: MCPay is an open payment infrastructure connecting MCP and x402, enabling commercialization of MCP tools, data sources, and smart agent capabilities via the x402 protocol.

2nd Place: Credible Finance

X Link: https://x.com/crediblefin

Introduction: Credible Finance aims to create the first USD-INR remittance channel driven by stablecoins. Designed for banks, fintechs, and enterprises, it offers FX rates that are 2% better than platforms like Wise, XE, or Remitly.

3rd Place: Cloak

X Link: https://x.com/cloaklabz

Introduction: Cloak aims to enable privacy payments on Solana. It will build a privacy fund, where miners within the ecosystem can submit valid proof-of-work and generate transaction traffic to maintain network privacy, ensuring activity isn’t solely dependent on user traffic. On-chain, only the “funds pool→recipient” path is visible, not “sender→recipient.” Each deposit and mined withdrawal continuously enlarges the anonymous set.

4th Place: Mercantill

X Link: https://x.com/0xTemporal

Introduction: Mercantill, built on Squads Grid, is a enterprise-grade banking infrastructure for AI agents. It will provide essential audit, team control, and expenditure guardrails for deploying paying agents.

5th Place: SP3ND

X Link: https://x.com/SP3NDdotshop

Introduction: SP3ND is a platform supporting stablecoin-based purchases of Amazon online products.

Other Noteworthy Projects (Unawarded)

Janus: Native credit protocol on Solana.

Xeno: The first payment network on Solana parallel to Visa and Mastercard.

Cashmere: Zero-slippage one-click cross-chain transfer middleware infrastructure.

Sub-division: Undefined Track

1st Place: attn.markets

X Link: https://x.com/twentyOne2x

Introduction: attn.markets aims to tokenize nearly $2 billion of total revenue in the Solana ecosystem to unlock more DeFi possibilities. Currently, the annual revenue of Solana ecosystem applications is estimated at $1.72 billion, for example, Pump.fun’s creator rewards annualized income alone reaches $300 million. Such massive funds are still completely outside the DeFi ecosystem.

2nd Place: Echo

X Link: https://x.com/endrohq

Introduction: Echo seeks to build an automated expert network that precisely matches scientists with funders, greatly reducing the time cost to verify research impact.

3rd Place: PlaiPin

X Link: https://x.com/plaipinHQ

Introduction: PlaiPin is a wearable plush robot companion and interaction protocol that, combined with decentralized digital identities (DID), enables embodied social interactions and supports proximity-based agent trading.

When two PlaiPin robots approach, the PlaiPin Companion Protocol (PICP) can, upon authorization, enable device discovery, mutual authentication, and message exchange, facilitating a new form of information discovery and exchange beyond traditional themes.

4th Place: Solana ATM

X Link: https://x.com/solanaATMstable

Introduction: Solana ATM is a physical device functioning as a P2P cash/stablecoin liquidity pool.

5th Place: Humanship ID

X Link: https://x.com/humanship_id

Introduction: Humanship ID is a privacy-focused human identity verification layer that allows anyone to prove human identity without providing personal data, eliminating worries about data leaks or sharing sensitive information.

Other Noteworthy Projects (Unawarded)

Lockbox: Password manager that cannot be lost; passwords are encrypted and stored on Solana.

legends.fun: Enhances developer exposure and influence using the LST token LegendsSOL, attracting investments—users can support endorsed products with LST and increase their own gains within the Solana ecosystem.

Scanna: Market research infrastructure on Solana. Provides real-time, verified behavioral analysis data for AI and prediction markets through convenient tokenized incentives.

Other Awards

University Award: Pythia

This award recognizes outstanding projects led by university students across various fields. It is awarded to Pythia, a prediction market built specifically for the International Collegiate Mathematics Modeling Competition (ICM).

Public Interest Award: Samui Wallet

This award honors open-source projects beneficial to Solana developers, awarded to Samui Wallet. Samui Wallet is an open-source wallet and toolkit for Solana developers, not a typical consumer wallet, but a developer-centric tool.