Announcing winners of the Solana India #BuildingOutLoud Hackathon

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Sep 13, 2021

To accelerate the growth of the Indian crypto ecosystem, the Solana Foundation teamed up with Superpumped and Devfolio — along with leading tech companies, global crypto investors and creators to host a first of its kind online hackathon specifically focussed on India.

#BuildingOutLoud hackathon brought together crypto pioneers and developers from around India for three weeks of hacking on Solana. We hosted over 3100 participants & received 100+ project submissions from builders in India. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response and quality of these submissions to say the least.

A big thanks to all our judges, Ryan Shea and the Lazy Eight team who helped us launch the website, Tyera and Bartosz from the Solana team who worked tirelessly across timezones to review the code submitted by the teams, Denver and Aniket from the Devfolio team who kept the community engaged and updated round the clock, Magellan for running on-ground ops, Sudarshan, Adhikaar and Siddhartha for the social media support and finally, all the talented participants who put in the hours to submit world-class projects before the deadline.

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Our judges evaluated the final submissions based on the following four criteria:

Quality: How creative and original was your submission?
Implementation: How well did you execute the idea?
UI/UX: How well designed and user-friendly is the product?
Future Potential: Does your project have a future as a fundable product within the Solana ecosystem?
Miscellaneous: Special Prizes had their own additional criteria depending on the needs of the project

A total of 14 standout projects were selected to receive prizes. We’ve decided to award surprise prizes to an additional 5 projects — so make sure to read till the end.

Without further ado, here are the winners of the BuildingOutLoud hackathon…

General Track

#1 Winner

Dassi Finance

First Zero Interest Micro-lending Blockchain Platform

Prize: $10,000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/dassi-finance-804f

#2 Runner-up

Solvent Protocol

Bringing liquidity to your NFTs on Solana

Prize: $7000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/solvent-protocol-ab67

#3 Runner-up

SolCodes | Programmable NFT Marketplace

Elevating Digital Art with Programmable NFTs - SolCodes unlocks a myriad of possibilities for artists to create the next generation of digital art

Prize: $5000

See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/solcodescom-or-programmable-nft-marketplace-9048

Special Prizes

Many of our partners sponsored special prizes the description of which can be found here. Here are the winners in each category.

Serum Dex Special Prize

Solvent Protocol

Bringing liquidity to your NFTs on Solana

Prize: $10,000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/solvent-protocol-ab67

Lightspeed India Partners Special Prize

Solvest.in

The best streaming investments platform on Solana.

Prize: $10,000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/solvestin-0140

Superpumped Special Prize

Solmate [50b2]

Blockchain is truly forever.

Prize: $5001
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/solmate-50b2

Balaji Srinivasan Special Prize

Tipsy

Solana-powered squadratic crowdfunding on BitClout.

Prize: $5000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/bitstarter-fe66

Kunal Kapoor Special Prize

Project Centauri

A take on the future of entertainment.

Prize: $5000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/project-centauri-d299

Raj Gokal Special Prize

Share Ride

A decentralized and fully transparent ride-sharing dapp

Prize: $5000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/share-ride-aa7b

Republic Special Prize

Solana Roads

Solana roads is revolutionizing the creator economy by supercharging creator communities by providing incentivized DeFi instruments for both the fans and the creators.

Prize: $5000
See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/solana-roads-cebd

CRED Special Prize

Cred Jack

Cred coins lying around? Come play Cred Jack and win SOL tokens while having fun.

Prize: $5000

See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/cred-jack-8762

Community Choice Award

Shortly after all of the projects were submitted, the Solana India community voted for their favorite projects. Over 6,000 votes were counted, and top 3 community picks will share the prize pool of $10,000 in equal parts.

Dynamic NFTs

Chain Reality empowers users to seamlessly create and sell Dynamic NFTs. By expanding the scope of NFT applications we aim to aid the Decentral Revolution.

See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/chain-realities-bringing-nfts-to-life-7a55

Future Health

Removing siloization of Electronic Health Records by providing anytime-anywhere selective access of health records to doctors after authentication in a privacy-preserving manner across hospitals.

See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/distributed-health-record-management-cb66

PatentNFT

Helping researchers take ownership of their ideas without making it public using Solana and NFTs.

See more here: https://devfolio.co/submissions/patentnft-c5c4

Solana India Ecosystem Rising Stars

We added an additional category of prizes to acknowledge each of the below listed teams who impressed us with their effort and creativity. The following 5 teams will share the prize pool of $5000 in equal parts.

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Disclaimer

The Building Out Loud is a competition where projects will be evaluated by judges on their technological merits without consideration of legal viability. Participants in the Hackathon will create software solely for purposes of evaluation by judges as part of a competition and not for commercial deployment or release as part of the Hackathon. All participants must comply with applicable laws and regulations when releasing any software that they develop as part of the Hackathon.

The Hackathon ideas and developer resources that Solana Foundation (“SF”) provides are for educational and inspirational purposes only. SF does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment of any such applications in violation of applicable laws or regulations. SF does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment, integration or use of any such applications (including the code comprising the Solana blockchain protocol) in violation of applicable laws or regulations and hereby prohibits any such deployment, integration or use. This includes use of any such applications by the reader (a) in violation of export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, (b) if the reader is located in or ordinarily resident in a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), (c) if the reader is or is working on behalf of a Specially Designated National (SDN) or a person subject to similar blocking or denied party prohibitions, or (d) in violation of the Commodities and Exchange Act.

The reader should be aware that U.S. export control and sanctions laws prohibit U.S. persons (and other persons that are subject to such laws) from transacting with persons in certain countries and territories or that are on the SDN list. As a project based primarily on open-source software, it is possible that such sanctioned persons may nevertheless bypass prohibitions, obtain the code comprising the Solana blockchain protocol (or other project code or applications) and deploy, integrate, or otherwise use it. Accordingly, there is a risk to individuals that other persons using the Solana blockchain protocol may be sanctioned persons and that transactions with such persons would be a violation of U.S. export controls and sanctions law. This risk applies to individuals, organizations, and other ecosystem participants that deploy, integrate, or use the Solana blockchain protocol code directly (e.g., as a node operator), and individuals that transact on the Solana blockchain through light clients, third party interfaces, and/or wallet software. Hackathon Participation Terms

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