This year’s BuildUP #2 hackathon has wrapped UP! Our community has gone above and beyond our expectations, demonstrating yet again that bear markets are prime times for building. Held over four action-packed weeks from October 30th to November 27th, this virtual hackathon was special for a reason — it coincided with the launch of Universal Profiles on LUKSO Mainnet. 🆙🤝⛓
BuildUP #2 offered more than €250k in prizes across 4 open challenges: Infrastructure & Tools, Social & Community, Culture & Entertainment, and Blue Sky. We can’t wait to see all of these amazing projects that were built during BuildUP #2 come to life on LUKSO Mainnet and continue to build beyond the hackathon! 🚀
We had over 400 sign-ups, leading to 70 innovative project submissions! Below is the recap of the winning projects announced in the BuildUP #2 Hackathon Awards Ceremony, which took place live on LUKSO’s new Common Ground server December 14th at 5pm CET. If you missed the Awards Ceremony, don’t forget to join us for the Community Afterparty today on Spaces where we will dive into the winning projects and speak with participants about their experiences building on LUKSO.
Introducing the Winners 🏆
Bounty 1: Infrastructure & Tools 🛠️
The infrastructure and tools bounty challenged builders to shape the foundational layers of LUKSO by creating essential infrastructure, integrations, and tooling on the network. Below are the winning projects:
🥇 1st Place: UniversalScanner
Description: “Blockchain explorer for Universal Profiles.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/universal-5ja
🥇 1st Place: DeFolio
Description: “Universal Profile management web-app, where users can easily manage every aspect of their Universal Profile.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/defolio
🥈 2nd Place: Loopso
Description: “Cross-chain, bi-directional bridge for swift, token-agnostic transactions — confirmed in just 30 seconds! This project built: SDK, Bridge Messaging Relayer, Smart Contracts (on LUKSO, Mainnet & Polygon), Transaction Relay Service, and a Frontend Demo.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/loopso
🥈 2nd Place: LearnLUKSO
Description: “LearnLukso.xyz curates AI resources, aiming to develop a Custom GPT Chatbot aligned with OpenAI’s standards. It features multilingual documentation, a REST API for querying LUKSO Profiles, and a strategic landing page.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/learn-luk
🥈 2nd Place: LUKSO Scaffold
Description: “A full-stack starter for LUKSO with high fidelity examples for devs to get started and launch quickly. Learn, fiddle, prototype and launch full-stack dApps with smooth #devex, from localhost, testnet to mainnet in the same stack.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/lukso-bri
🥉 3rd Place: ChainTrails
Description: “Chain Trails is the analytical engine for the Web3 ecosystem, offering real-time insights for developers, and enthusiasts. Our platform transforms complex blockchain data into actionable intelligence, providing a clear view to improve the ecosystem.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/chain-tra
🥉 3rd Place: BananaVRF
Description: “Banana-VRF is VRF oracles project which provides randomness on-chain. Thanks to that, any smart contract can use random values in a way where values are truly random. Oracles are putting random values every circa about 4 blocks — so there is no need for consumer contract to pay any fees.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/bananavrf
🥉 3rd Place: DECENTRALISED RELAYER
Description: “LSP7 token-gated decentralized consensus for the ecosystem. Transation_count model.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/decentral
🥉 3rd Place: SigmaSwap
Description: “The SigmaSwap Bridge converts native LYX coins into wrapped LYX tokens (wLYX) on Ethereum, enabling cross-chain transfers and DeFi participation via the Universal Profile extension by LUKSO!”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/sigmaswap
Bounty 2: Social & Community ⭐️
The Social & Community bounty challenged builders to explore LUKSO’s innovative smart contract standards by building the next generation of social dApps — revolutionising human interaction on blockchain and enabling decentralised communities to flourish. Below are the winning projects:
🥇 1st Place: Drops
Description: “Drops is a decentralized social platform and messaging protocol build on top of Universal Profiles.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/drops
🥇 1st Place: UPMessage
Description: “P2P chat application for Universal Profiles with full end-to-end encryption.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/upmessage
🥈 2nd Place: You LUKSO popular
Description: “Vote, rank, and stake your creations’ popularity!”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/you-lukso
🥈 2nd Place: Bitivia
Description: “We developed Bitvia, a decentralized social media application powered by the LUKSO blockchain to build and grow powerful Web3 communities. We want to connect creators and fans while giving the user complete creative control.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/social-me
🥉 3rd Place: EarthSandwich
Description: “EarthSandwich: A unique social platform on the Lukso blockchain where users globally connect to create virtual sandwiches, minting shared experiences as NFTs. Explore, connect, and collect in this innovative digital adventure.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/earthsand
🥉 3rd Place: dLinkedin
Description: “Earn reputation in a decentralized social network for professionals”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/dlinkedin
🥉 3rd Place: POP Protocol
Description: “Proof of Participation Protocol (POP Protocol) is designed to enhance participation at events by providing attendees a record of participation and interconnecting the new creative economy.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/pop-proto
🥉 3rd Place: luxo
Description: “Luxo is a decentralized profile viewer on the L2. It allows you to edit and showcase your LUKSO Universal Profile. You can also share it with others through your bio link on social media.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/luxo
Bounty 3: Culture & Entertainment 🎨
The third bounty challenged builders to elevate the digital creative space by developing cutting-edge dApps for artists, gamers and creators in Culture & Entertainment. Below are the winning projects:
🥇 1st Place: Phygital
Description: “Connecting the physical with the digital world through Phygitals powered by the LUKSO blockchain.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/phygital
🥇 1st Place: museboard
Description: “museboard is place for creators and explorers. Inspired by pinterest, museboard tries to give you the same search engine like experience for content on web3. The idea of museboard is to be a universal tool around the entire web3 ecosystem.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/museboard-oh7
🥈 2nd Place: WorkFolio
Description: “A decentralised approach to portfolio using proof of work profiles. Users can apply to bounties using their POW profile. Build their profile by winning bounties and things like Github, twitter and PFP to there universal profile.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/workfolio
🥉 3rd Place: Haute Veritas
Description: “B2B platform designed to authenticate and verify the ownership of limited-edition apparel and accessories. Offers a decentralized solution that allows licensed resellers and inspectors to issue blockchain-based certificates for fashion items.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/haute-ver
🥉 3rd Place: N3 Snap
Description: “N3 Snap is a web3 social application built on the LUKSO Blockchain. It aims to bridge Web2 users to Web3 by offering a user-friendly UI/UX. Users can monetize their content, participate in real-world actions, and showcase their achievements.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/n3-snap
🥉 3rd Place: UPdev
Description: “UPdev dApp idea is to connect external accounts and opt-in select information required to meet requirements to mint soulbound (cross-chain nfts 2.0s) as badges/achievements and display those wherever possible (dapp + UP).”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/updev
🥉 3rd Place: Atletz
Description: “A company that will combine Blockchain technology, AI, and Sports by allowing fans of a particular discipline to have access and opportunity to invest in athletes recommended by an AI system based on people’s preferences.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/atletz
🥉 3rd Place: StreamGate
Description: “A system that records stats from DSPs and links them to the ownership of music NFTs that have been minted on LUKSO through the platform, in order to create parameters for dynamic metadata changes that unlock rewards. A product of Yellow Jacket Group.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/streamgat
Bounty 4: Blue Sky 🌃
Bounty 4 encouraged builders to discover building on Universal Profiles without limits — welcoming innovative projects that don’t quite fit into our existing bounty categories. Below are the winning projects:
🥇 1st Place: The Universal GRAVE
Description: “A unique digital asset management tool for filtering, storing, and auctioning unwanted NFTs and tokens. Leveraging the LSP0, LSP1, LSP3, LSP6, LSP7, LSP8 and LSP9 LUKSO standards, it provides a user-friendly way to manage spam in the LUKSO ecosystem.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/the-unive
🥇 1st Place: Luksta
Description: “Luksta serves as the foundational hub for all decentralized applications on LUKSO, whether they involve gaming, social platforms, or decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It marks the inception of your project’s journey.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/luksta
🥈 2nd Place: LUKSO Auctions
Description: “LUKSO Auctions is a Auction page which leverages and showcases the power of universal profiles to offer users web3 power and web2 familiar and simple UX.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/lukso-auc
🥈 2nd Place: CrowdUP
Description: “A unique crowdfunding platform tailored to the new creative economy. Our platform is specifically designed to leverage the reversible ICO (rICO) model and integrate with Universal Profiles (UPs) for a more secure, user-centric + secure experience.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/buildup
🥈 2nd Place: LUKSOSwap
Description: “LUKSOSwap explores the possibilities opened by Universal Profiles to swap NFTs between users on the LUKSO blockchain in a seamless experience.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/skunkcorp
🥉 3rd Place: LLP (LUKSO Lending Protocol)
Description: “A lending dapp built on LUKSO.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/llp
🥉 3rd Place: Culture Vault
Description: “Culture Vault is an emerging multi-chain curated NFT marketplace.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/build-nft
🥉 3rd Place: Ignite
Description: “The place to ignite your idea on the LUKSO blockchain. A crowdfunding platform based on smart contracts.”
Project details: https://app.buidlbox.io/projects/luksoigni
Congratulations Buidlers!
We extend a huge congratulations once more to all winning projects and participants! We appreciate all of the hard work and creativity put into this hackathon and were so impressed with the creativity and innovative dApps built on Universal Profiles. We hope you feel inspired to continue building in the LUKSO ecosystem — welcome to the #LUKSOfam. 👏👏👏
Thank you to all participants, community members, and judges who contributed to making BuildUP #2 a memorable success! And a special thank you to the buidlbox team for their support and collaboration in this hackathon.
For detailed insights into BuildUP #2 check out the hackathon landing page on buidlbox, exhibiting all submitted projects and join us for the Community Afterparty today on Spaces at 5pm CET to discuss your favourite projects, speak with participants and hear from our team!
Thank you for taking part in our journey to build out the New Creative Economies on LUKSO!
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