Reviewing the Top 15 Projects from the ETHDenver Hackathon

The annual ETHDenver conference is a grand event in the Ethereum ecosystem. ETHDenver 2024 took place from February 23rd to March 3rd in Denver, USA, attracting tens of thousands of Web3 enthusiasts and developers.

Discussions at the event were particularly lively around topics such as “liquidity restaking,” “Bitcoin Layer 2,” “tokens,” “Crypto+AI,” “DePIN,” and “modularity.”

As the event concluded, the ETHDenver website also announced the Top 15 projects from the BUIDLATHON hackathon, covering various areas such as “infrastructure and scalability,” “DeFi, NFTs, and gaming,” “DAOs and communities,” “public goods,” “identity, privacy, and security,” among others. These projects will share a total of $947,580 in prizes provided by dozens of projects including Metis, 0x, ZetaChain, and others.

Infrastructure and Scalability

VeriFido

VeriFido is positioned as a verifiable Ethereum data indexing service.

Due to the inconvenience of directly accessing application states from on-chain raw data, current projects commonly rely on indexer services to retrieve crucial data needed for applications. However, the indexer services available on the market currently do not reach the same level of decentralization and security as other components in the Web3 stack. In this scenario, data failures could lead to severe disruptive consequences, especially for DeFi projects involving real assets.

To address this issue, VeriFido proposes integrating a fully verifiable indexing service into the aforementioned workflow. Through the VeriFido solution, applications can continue to enjoy the convenience of centralized indexing services while not compromising decentralization and security. Additionally, VeriFido will integrate some on-chain dispute resolution mechanisms to ensure that smaller data indexing providers can withstand malicious attacks from larger entities.

In summary, VeriFido aims to improve the transparency and fairness of indexing services, thereby providing a more robust Web3 development environment.

PAT.IO Station

PAT.IO Station aims to utilize the most decentralized, secure, and available Ethereum mainnet nodes as streaming infrastructure to ensure the security of video and communication transmissions.

As there are various clients on the current Ethereum mainnet, PAT.IO Station has conducted extensive research on node architecture to understand how different clients collaborate as a whole and what the communication “rules” between them are. PAT.IO Station has searched through numerous almost non-existent documents and conducted extensive testing using various RPC and Mempool APIs.

PAT.IO Station hopes to provide a truly usable solution to the global issue of “communication censorship.”

Storylus

Currently, there is no native way on Ethereum to access the entire historical state of the blockchain without the need for trust. Ethereum has written over 19 million blocks, but smart contracts can only access the most recent 256 blocks, which is approximately only 50 minutes of data.

Storylus is an open protocol available on the Sepolia testnet, which allows smart contracts to access all historical Ethereum data and provide storage proofs by verifying the Ethereum blockchain on Stylus.

DeFi, NFTs, Gaming

Egg Wars

Egg Wars is a strategy-based competitive game built on Base, distinguishing itself from incentive-driven short-term games. Egg Wars aims to design a balanced underlying mechanism to allow the game to “go on forever” and provide continuous enjoyment for players.

Bubblewars.io

Bubblewars.io is a fully on-chain large-scale multiplayer online game (MMO), where all actions within the game are powered by ETH. Players need to grow their bubbles (accumulate ETH) by absorbing others' bubbles (capturing ETH) on an endless field and move their bubbles by consuming ETH.

Michi Protocol

Michi Protocol is a trustless points trading market that uses ERC-6551 to create an address associated with an NFT, allowing these addresses to accumulate points through activities in any existing protocol.

DAOs and Communities

A Bank for DAOs

A Bank for DAOs aims to support small and medium-sized enterprises such as restaurants, development studios, and barber shops, which are essential components of the real economy but cannot access venture capital support, token financing, or afford loans with excessive collateral.

Sekai

Sekai aims to revolutionize content creation methods in traditional media models, allowing more people to participate in content creation.

Tribuni

Tribuni aims to optimize the current decentralized governance landscape in the form of a Telegram mini-program.

Public Goods

BeFit

BeFit is a fitness collaboration tool with social attributes, aiming to improve the industry's physical condition by providing users with a more interactive and collaborative fitness experience.

EBF Network of Trust

EBF Network of Trust provides a standardized ecosystem benefits discovery and verification mechanism.

Unbound Science

Unbound Science aims to provide a novel research funding mechanism.

Identity, Privacy, and Security

ODIN

ODIN is a Web3 guardian solution.

Oops!

Oops! is a simple tool that allows users to swiftly, thoroughly, and efficiently transfer all ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens from one wallet address to another while maintaining their on-chain identity through on-chain proof of transfer.

HoneyPause

HoneyPause is a secure bounty protocol with an intelligent contract circuit breaker (used to pause contracts in emergencies).