Announcing the results of the first-ever Hack-a-TON! ✨
We received 2,463 team registrations and over 80 submissions. You all did a fascinating job. The TON Foundation team had the pleasure of reviewing them during the week. The ideas are so cool that we decided to double the prize pool. This means that both first-place teams will receive 20,000 TON each; second-place teams will receive 10,000 TON each; and third-place teams will receive 5,000 TON each.
1st place - 20,000 TON each:
🥇OnlyTONs
🥇OnlyGrams
These two projects showed us how TON Payments could revolutionize social media. Imagine a new social network where a user makes a deposit of some TONs and then views photos, posts, and any other content. When a user opens a photo, likes it, or even just looks at one in their feed, a micro reward is sent in the background from the user to the author of that content. Amid decentralization and with no fees, the deposit is completely under the user’s control.
Two teams made quite similar MVPs. OnlyTONs worked more carefully on the design (a good-looking MVP, clear presentation, and video), while OnlyGrams paid more attention to the idea (pay-per-view, pay-per-reaction in MVP) and technical implementation (they adapted the payment channels code to another library, supported TON chrome extension).
2nd place - 10,000 TON each:
🥈TON API by botaem-js-48-chasov
🥈TON API by Tetrapak
Here TON Payments was applied in the infrastructure sphere. API (services that programmers use in their work) developers can get a micropayment for each request to their service. The number of requests can be in the billions, and the service’s clients will pay for as many requests as they make.
Two teams have also implemented similar solutions in this area. Despite the fact that this is a product for programmers, we wish that a little more attention was paid to the presentation.
3rd place - 5,000 TON each:
🥉Diamonds
🥉TON rock-paper-scissors
Diamonds suggested using TON Payments to pay for video streaming, specifically for learning platforms. Users pay what they spend on the stream.
TON rock-paper-scissors, using the simple rock-paper-scissors game as an example, showed how TON Payments could be applied to any PvP game. In this project, two participants enter the game and make bets. The winner takes the reward. Thanks to payment channels, participants can play all day long without network fees.
1,000 TON goes to each of the following ideas:
🎖TON Ads
🎖TON Calls
🎖Pixel TON
🎖DO-L
🎖The Open Wallet
13 teams will get bonus reward 500 TON each:
🎖 https://github.com/MaximHoroneko/react-native-ton-autopay
🎖 https://github.com/Dimitreee/ton_games/
🎖 https://github.com/devils2ndself/kherson-underground/
🎖 https://github.com/caracal7/profiTON/
🎖 https://github.com/Deltax2016/tonGame/
🎖 https://github.com/1IxI1/HAT-Auction-LN/
🎖 https://github.com/rutkovskii/OpenStream/
🎖 https://github.com/artywhite/hack-a-ton-2022/
🎖 https://github.com/Ismaxis/T0N/
🎖 https://github.com/angryforest/ton-stream-bot/
🎖 https://github.com/tontube
🎖 https://github.com/ChristopheKar/hackaton
🎖 https://github.com/otopba/pont
We will contact the captains of the teams soonish. All the ideas with video presentation are published on https://ton.org/hack-a-ton-1, so you can enjoy it just as we are.
Thanks, everyone, for participating! We hope you enjoyed the Hack-a-TON. Stay tuned and see you at our future events ✌️
We received 2,463 team registrations and over 80 submissions. You all did a fascinating job. The TON Foundation team had the pleasure of reviewing them during the week. The ideas are so cool that we decided to double the prize pool. This means that both first-place teams will receive 20,000 TON each; second-place teams will receive 10,000 TON each; and third-place teams will receive 5,000 TON each.
1st place - 20,000 TON each:
🥇OnlyTONs
🥇OnlyGrams
These two projects showed us how TON Payments could revolutionize social media. Imagine a new social network where a user makes a deposit of some TONs and then views photos, posts, and any other content. When a user opens a photo, likes it, or even just looks at one in their feed, a micro reward is sent in the background from the user to the author of that content. Amid decentralization and with no fees, the deposit is completely under the user’s control.
Two teams made quite similar MVPs. OnlyTONs worked more carefully on the design (a good-looking MVP, clear presentation, and video), while OnlyGrams paid more attention to the idea (pay-per-view, pay-per-reaction in MVP) and technical implementation (they adapted the payment channels code to another library, supported TON chrome extension).
2nd place - 10,000 TON each:
🥈TON API by botaem-js-48-chasov
🥈TON API by Tetrapak
Here TON Payments was applied in the infrastructure sphere. API (services that programmers use in their work) developers can get a micropayment for each request to their service. The number of requests can be in the billions, and the service’s clients will pay for as many requests as they make.
Two teams have also implemented similar solutions in this area. Despite the fact that this is a product for programmers, we wish that a little more attention was paid to the presentation.
3rd place - 5,000 TON each:
🥉Diamonds
🥉TON rock-paper-scissors
Diamonds suggested using TON Payments to pay for video streaming, specifically for learning platforms. Users pay what they spend on the stream.
TON rock-paper-scissors, using the simple rock-paper-scissors game as an example, showed how TON Payments could be applied to any PvP game. In this project, two participants enter the game and make bets. The winner takes the reward. Thanks to payment channels, participants can play all day long without network fees.
1,000 TON goes to each of the following ideas:
🎖TON Ads
🎖TON Calls
🎖Pixel TON
🎖DO-L
🎖The Open Wallet
13 teams will get bonus reward 500 TON each:
🎖 https://github.com/MaximHoroneko/react-native-ton-autopay
🎖 https://github.com/Dimitreee/ton_games/
🎖 https://github.com/devils2ndself/kherson-underground/
🎖 https://github.com/caracal7/profiTON/
🎖 https://github.com/Deltax2016/tonGame/
🎖 https://github.com/1IxI1/HAT-Auction-LN/
🎖 https://github.com/rutkovskii/OpenStream/
🎖 https://github.com/artywhite/hack-a-ton-2022/
🎖 https://github.com/Ismaxis/T0N/
🎖 https://github.com/angryforest/ton-stream-bot/
🎖 https://github.com/tontube
🎖 https://github.com/ChristopheKar/hackaton
🎖 https://github.com/otopba/pont
We will contact the captains of the teams soonish. All the ideas with video presentation are published on https://ton.org/hack-a-ton-1, so you can enjoy it just as we are.
Thanks, everyone, for participating! We hope you enjoyed the Hack-a-TON. Stay tuned and see you at our future events ✌️