216 projects signed up, and finally a total of 22 teams presented their results to the public on Apollo Day.
Organized by: Moonshot Commons
On January 14th, Moonshot Workshop 2022/2023 Web3 Winter Hackathon Apollo Day was successfully held, and a total of 22 projects stood out to enter Moonshot Apollo Day. The Hackathon was jointly organized by HKUST Crypto Fintech Lab, Blockchain Academy, Aspecta, RSS3, KCC, Zettablock, IOSG, etc. It received a total of 216 project registrations from around the world, of which 50 teams were selected to enter the Hackathon Workshops, and finally a total of 22 teams The team enters the final lunar landing, Apollo Day, to present their work to the public. In this issue of Apollo Day, KK, the founder of Hash Global, and Dr. Lucas, the founder of Bytrade, delivered keynote speeches.
Some of the guests and mentors invited by the moon landing workshop include: Suji Yan, founder of Mask Network, Professor Chen Kayou, director of the Blockchain Center of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Evan Shapiro, CEO of MINA Protocol, Liu Xing, partner of Sequoia China, Signum Capital Partner YY Lai, Oasis Labs CEO and founder Professor Dawn Song, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Vice President Professor Wang Yang, Galxe founder Charles, Hash Global founding partner KK, IOSG founding partner Jocy, Mirror World CPO Jialin, HashKey partner DC, Dr. Raullen Chai, Founder of IoTeX, Tina, Investment Director of ZhenFund and Coder, Vice President, Dr. Lucas, Founder of Bytetrade, Tang Yi, Executive Director of Qiming Venture Capital, Penny, Co-Founder of Shixiang Technology, Zeng Yinglong, Partner of Zhichun Capital, RSS3 Founder Joshua, ChainIDE founder Wu Xiao and dozens of professors, founders and partners from universities, public chains, venture capital funds, and Web3 companies.
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List of projects:
Project name: Chataverse
One sentence introduction: an NFT-gated "community" chat software
Founding Team: Chataverse team members graduated from UCSD, USC and UW. He has worked for Apple, Tesla, JPMorgan and ByteDance.
Chataverse is an NFT-Gated social chat software. The Web 3.0 community needs a tailor-made NFT gated social chat application so that users can socialize and co-govern in a transparent and secure manner. Users can build their own communities, chat, and publish posts in Chataverse, and through NFT holding verification, NFT Holders and the community are more closely linked.
This is the second time that the Chataverse team has participated in the moon landing hackathon, and the team has recently received YC America's Pre-seed investment.
Project name: ST World
One sentence introduction: a UGC platform for spatial computing, using blockchain technology to build a creative economy.
Founding team: The founding team includes Bell Chen (CEO) who published research on generative AI in IEEE at the age of 18, Elijah Mansur (CTO), a fast learner who built all backends and contracts with only 16 months of programming experience , and Yuan Hong (Product Lead), an avid gamer and game developer.
System Terminal is a user-generated content platform that combines 3D and AI, allowing users to easily create, share and monetize virtual environments and AR decorations. Our goal is to significantly reduce the cost of 3D content by leveraging creative data to train a powerful large-scale 3D generative model. We also designed a new contract, the Non-Fungible Copyright Token (NFCT), to facilitate a collaborative relationship with 3D creation.
Project name: ORG3
One sentence introduction: an organization management tool based on ENS subdomain.
Founding team: Org3 team members graduated from USC and CMU, and have working backgrounds in Google, Meta, Tiktok, PonyAI, and other companies. The project founder has won the top award at ETHSanFrancisco.
Project introduction: Org3 is a decentralized organization and community management tool based on ENS subdomain. Org3 is a cheaper, more convenient, and more secure alternative to traditional token-based solutions. Org3 uses the resolution service of ENS to provide users with an intuitive organizational management structure, and users no longer need to use difficult-to-distinguish wallet addresses in the organization. Org3 allows users to create and distribute subdomains with very low Gas Fee. Users can set many rules and have more control than token-based solutions. Using ENS subdomains as the core, Org3 is integrating and working with Dapps and DAO tools to support a decentralized work environment.
Project name: Symposium Lab
One sentence introduction: a decentralized scientific research sharing platform empowered by blockchain and AI
Founding Team: The founding team is composed of SaaS and AI serial entrepreneurs and Harvard Medical School professors. Other members come from data science, computer science, and financial talents from top companies in various industries such as LinkedIn, Broad Institute, Morgan Stanley, PJT Partners, and Cohere.ai.
Project introduction: Empowering scientific research pre-printing and decentralized data sharing through AI and blockchain, Symposium Lab aims to build a global open science community, provide a fair scientific research environment for all students, researchers and scientists, and connect them to a A growing and evolving content creation and peer review network that breaks the monopoly of traditional publishers and rewards scientific research that advances human civilization. Symposium Lab's products build on the company's core asset: Leveraging the contributions of community members to enable users to more efficiently access, integrate, analyze and manage research-related data and information across organizations.
Project name: Ladder
One sentence introduction: Provide liquidity for your NFT Swap
Founding Team: The core team comes from the investment incubation business team of Byterade Lab.
Project introduction: Ladder Protocol is a decentralized NFT AMM that enables instant NFT exchange and better price discovery. Ladder Protocol is a peer-to-peer system designed to exchange NFT (ERC20 | ERC721 | ERC1155) on ETH, BSC and Polygon.
Project name: Eigen Network
One-Sentence Introduction: Privacy-Centric zkVM for Developers
Founding team: The team members are from Australia and China. They graduated from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Beihang University. They have worked in large Internet companies and research laboratories and have extensive experience in cryptography, blockchain, and privacy protection technologies.
Project introduction: Eigen Network created a hierarchical proof system with constant proof size and trustless settings, extended zkVM with a private standard template library to support privacy-preserving computation, and built zkzkRollup as a privacy layer for web3.0.
Project name: CALDANCE
One sentence introduction: a MACHINE-FI sports reward application project that connects NFT blockchain digital assets in the WEB2.0 and WEB3.0 worlds by using physical consumption-level sports and fitness hardware.
Founding Team: The core team is serial entrepreneurs with years of experience in sports, IOT, and Web3 industries. The team's first entrepreneurial project was acquired by Microsoft.
Project introduction: CALDANCE uses the model of MachineFi and game incentive mechanism to use project-certified physical sports equipment for sports exercises to generate real, credible and non-tamperable sports data. Based on these large-scale valuable physical hardware, The user group and user movement data, through the development into a valuable brand and ecology, generate value and reward users.
Project name: Lewk Protocol
In one sentence: We help web3 builders create user-owned professional identities and referral networks using Soul bound NFTs and verifiable credentials.
Founding Team: Dr. Alysia Wu was a senior engineer at Verizon Media, Credit Karma, Chime, Opendoor, and Compound Labs.
Project introduction: The Lewk protocol we are building is a modular protocol for displaying personal achievements through on-chain and off-chain records to build a web3 native professional identity and recommendation network. By having your identity and professional network on-chain, we provide web3 newbies, job seekers and employers an essential utility.
Project name: Ascendant Network
One sentence introduction: Ascendant Network is a decentralized metaphysical ecology.
Founding team: The core team comes from well-known universities such as Peking University, UC Berkeley, Hong Kong University, and Insec Business School. They have experience in Ali, Xiaohongshu, UBS, Kucoin, etc., and have successfully operated NFT projects and trading platforms.
Project introduction: Ascendant will release a series of interesting and practical products based on the astrolabe, such as new year fortune, token matching and other products to assist users in investing. Later, Ascendant will also launch natal analysis, personality test, fortune analysis, combination analysis, etc., so that users can deeply explore themselves and gain spiritual comfort. Ascendant will carry out a variety of combinations with NFT. By using AIGC, it will give users a personalized and dynamic NFT experience in various unpacking scenarios, and enjoy the charm of web3 metaphysics as much as possible.
Project name: Winner
One sentence introduction: a decentralized NFT exchange that supports leverage and share2earn.
Founding team: The core team is composed of technical directors, R&D and designers of domestic first-tier manufacturers. The team has rich experience in Web3 project R&D and operation. The team leader is responsible for the design and R&D of NFT projects with a market value of over ten million. contributors.
Project introduction: The NFT track has the problems of large price fluctuations and insufficient liquidity. The participation cost of blue-chip projects is high, and ordinary projects are prone to price collapse and lack of liquidity. Winner is a decentralized NFT exchange with the following features:
- Leverage transaction: support ERC721/ERC1155 mixed package sale and leverage transaction;
- Share2Earn: Support social sharing fission and form an attention economy.
- Play2Earn: Through NFT AirDrop and gamification scenarios, increase the enthusiasm of participants.
Through these unique designs, Winner can lower the threshold for NFT transactions, improve liquidity, and continuously generate new legends of wealth creation for the NFT market.
Project name: Xcast
One sentence introduction: xCast is a next-generation on-chain podcast platform, aiming to make the spread and evolution of "sound civilization" more free and diverse.
Founding team: xCast core team members come from top universities in the world, have worked in large Internet companies, have rich work experience in product, design and technology, have participated in the development of Internet products with 1 million daily users, and have web3 projects from 0 to 1 Entrepreneurial experience.
Project introduction: Creators can freely upload audio of any subject on xCast, and listeners can enjoy rich and unique audio content and interact with podcast hosts online. Each audio theme has an autonomous community (Bubble) with a specific NFT identity. xCast not only enables users to easily obtain mainstream podcast content, but also accommodates various subcultural sound lovers. Through a benign incentive mechanism, users are encouraged to create, reprocess, disseminate and consume audio content. At present, xCast has reached a potential partnership with several podcasters, and will launch the Beta version of the product in the first quarter.
Project name: The Reader
One sentence introduction: Kindle in the Web3 era—come to The Reader and invest in the next "Three-Body Problem".
Founding team: The core team is mainly from Tencent and Ali, familiar with the publishing industry, with IP and celebrity brokerage resources; the consultant team includes copyright experts specially invited by the government, well-known game master planners in the industry, core developers of well-known reading software, and well-known media technology reporters in the industry , a CS PhD from the University of California and a blockchain entrepreneur with an Amazon background.
Project introduction: B-side: Authors/copyrights can publish books on the chain, issue book NFT, and sell e-books; C-side: NFT investors/readers can invest in book NFT, distribute e-books to get high commissions, and make money by reading.
Project name: Sodium
One-sentence introduction: easy-to-use next-generation secure digital wallet
Founding team: The core team comes from Tencent and Ali. The team has been in business for 7 years. Previous projects have received investment from Sequoia Capital and YC America. They have successful project experience in the web3 track. This is the second time to participate in the moon landing hackathon .
Project introduction: The bottom layer built with MPC (multi-party computation) technology and ZK is a trustless network. The private key is not generated on the user side, and no one owns the private key. Decentralized trustless nodes store part of the information. There is privacy between them, different from Multsign and all non-custodial wallets, its underlying paradigm builds an extremely secure information confidentiality system, and upper-level decentralized applications can easily build asset management systems based on this wallet.
Project name: Decrypto
One sentence introduction: building trustworthy metrics for web3 projects
Founding team: The founder is the former chief cloud security and risk control architect of Bytedance US AI lab, IBM US Crypto&Security, Palo Alto Networks, FireEye and so on. He is a national project winner and a top three computer science professor in computer science, and the first prize winner of China's 2021 QAX Innovation Sandbox.
Project introduction: Descrypto builds a trustworthy security measurement platform for web3 projects, including automated smart contract security testing and web3 infrastructure project security testing. This is an advanced AI/ML-based risk control framework with real-time computing capabilities to evaluate web3 projects by carefully checking code, on-chain data, and project insights. They efficiently detect zero-day, known/unknown threats, risks, and real-time anomalous behavior across hundreds of millions of large-scale DAU applications.
Project name: MemeBook
One-sentence introduction: Web3 intelligent investment and research community, allowing information and analysis to flow accurately, allowing comments and interactions to help others.
Founding team: The core team comes from first-line Internet companies such as Ebay, Ali, Tencent, Shanda, and Netease, and graduated from universities such as Tsinghua University, Tongji University, and Wuhan University. Has several years of industry experience in the Web3 field and long-term good cooperation.
Project introduction: MemeBook is a Web3 intelligent investment research community developed by CodeFlyLabs for junior and intermediate users. Users can comfortably obtain accurate information in the Web3 world through intelligent recommendation and field search, including news information, user post opinions, timely on-chain transaction analysis, address on-chain assets and operations, etc.
Project name: Tristan Alliance
One sentence introduction: Web3 marketing and loyalty management platform based on account abstraction and brand NFT.
Founding team: The core team comes from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Tsinghua/INSEAD, Fudan University and other well-known universities. They have years of entrepreneurial experience in Web2 and Web3 and experience in product development, scale growth, and technical sales. They also have experience in France, Australia, and Malaysia. Come and wait for multiple nationalities, decades of overseas living experience and a global perspective.
Project introduction: Tristan solves the ease-of-use problem of Web2 user migration. Create a Web3 identity and account system for users based on Web2 accounts (including Internet Apps, social platforms, etc.). This process conforms to the usage habits of Web2 users and greatly reduces the migration cost of billions of users.
Project name: DrinkUP
One sentence introduction: DrinkUP, a fun and fun NFT membership platform, helps beverage brands to promote products and repurchase.
Founding Team: The core team is from Tencent, Bilibili, Meituan, Qutoutiao, New Oriental, 22:15 and other well-known Internet companies and well-known consumer goods companies, and they all undertake core tasks. The team members have been responsible for many products with tens of millions of daily activities, and have operated and operated well-known web3 projects. They have rich experience in product creation and growth/operation.
Project introduction: Connect beverage brands and users through gamification and NFT with leisure and social attributes, so that users and consumer brands can combine with NFT to establish a beverage-centric digital community, allowing brands to expand from the real social space to a wider world Web3.0 social space opens a new paradigm of brand marketing.
Project name: Avault
One-sentence introduction: a one-stop full-chain revenue service platform that completes cross-chain interoperability with one click.
Founding team: The core team comes from well-known companies such as Ali, UBC and Mytoken, universities and blockchain companies. They have many years of working experience in blockchain and have in-depth research on the cross-chain track and the DeFi track.
Project introduction: Avault provides a way to subvert the previous web3 Defi dApp interaction. As a one-stop full-chain income service platform on the market, Avault users can use any asset on any chain supported by Avault to perform Omni Staking, Omni Copy-trading and other operations with one click, forgetting the cumbersome cross-chain experience and focusing on for speed, usability, and what really matters in their trade.
Project name: Gameland
In one sentence: Gameland is a community-driven gaming social infrastructure that connects developers with their players and content creators.
Founding Team: The founders once built a Polkadot-based cross-chain unsecured lending aggregation defi platform, created the concept of a vAMM transaction pool, and completed product pledges on the HuoBi platform, with a total value of 100 million US dollars.
Project introduction: Gameland provides gamers with a high-quality decentralized game social open platform to help game developers gather players and users. Players have a strong demand for game communities, and the channel + vertical community model can give players a one-stop high-quality experience. Build a bridge connecting users for developers, solve the R&D pain points that developers are difficult to obtain high-quality feedback from players, and realize the ability to migrate content to multiple platforms for content creators, increasing the passive income ability of creators. Through an open social graph, users can easily manage their social network data and return the ownership of social data to users.
Project name: Discover
One sentence introduction: an open social network based on the soul map.
Founding team: Founder Chesky holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Zhejiang University, a serial entrepreneur, and has 6 years of experience in the blockchain industry. In 2016, he joined Qulian Technology as a member of the founding team and served as product director, general manager of product and operation center and other positions.
Project introduction: Discover aims to establish an open social network based on soul maps. Relying on the self-developed soul certificate protocol, it describes the multi-dimensional digital identity of each individual and forms an exclusive social identity data set, allowing everyone to have their own metaverse passport. And based on digital identity, explore and mine the connection value between social nodes to promote decentralized social governance. On the basis of the self-developed protocol, the project developed and launched a mobile demonstration application, which provides convenient functions such as sending and receiving soul certificates and recommending soul friends with an experience close to Web2. By reducing the cognitive cost of Web2 users, social relations and social identities are realized. Capture and migration of massive off-chain data.
Project name: Scale Protocol
One sentence introduction: an on-chain multi-asset derivatives trading protocol that provides users with diversified trading hedging tools.
Founding team: The team members graduated from the University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business with majors in finance, IT and MBA. They have many years of experience in global asset management, Internet market operation experience and centralized exchange development and design experience. The team is also equipped with a professional financial asset risk management consultant team, who have worked together for many years in previous Web2 project cooperation and cooperated with each other tacitly.
Project introduction: This is the second time for Scale Protocol to participate in the moon landing hackathon. Scale Protocol products are positioned to provide users with clear and transparent transaction matching derivatives trading protocols. The team's unique and innovative development of the DPF trading model achieves a more concise and smooth trading process through high leverage and low fee rates, combined with intelligent algorithm models to maximize the utilization of funds and provide traders with better trading depth. At the same time, the platform aggregates a wealth of asset targets, including but not limited to cryptocurrencies, foreign exchange, precious metals, commodities, etc., to help traders realize various asset hedging and reduce transaction risks. The team is committed to continuous innovation and iteration on the on-chain derivatives trading protocol, providing a better trading experience, attracting more trading partners to join the Web3 world, and enjoying fair and smooth decentralized financial services.
Project name: Ghost NFT
In one sentence: a safer, more efficient, combined NFT leasing agreement and market.
Founding team: The core team members graduated from Peking University, Harbin Institute of Technology and other well-known universities in computer science. Work experience in well-known Internet companies such as Baidu and Xiaomi.
Project introduction: The GhostNFT protocol does not require NFT asset transfers and over-collateralization, which brings better security and capital efficiency, and supports any standard NFT/SBT leasing. The GhostNFT leasing market supports self-deployment leasing contracts without permission on the application side, and can specify the one-to-many and many-to-one leasing combinations of application items and NFT collections.
