Originally published by CoinDesk on February 27, 2025. By Aoyon Ashraf, edited by Benjamin Schiller. Archived here for reference. Wayback Machine copy →
Consensus EasyA Hackathon Winners: AI Agents, Gaming, Trading, Payments, NFT Platforms
February 27, 2025 · CoinDesk
Consensus HK EasyA Hackathon (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)
Every successful crypto conference needs a Hackathon to showcase the ideas and projects that will usher in the next wave of Web3 ideas.
EasyA's founders Dominic and Phil Kwok set out to create a competition that not only showcases bright ideas but also ensures that the winners actually stick around to build the future of Web3. The participants focus on one piece of tech where they plan to launch their technology, as opposed to different chains.
The two-day event saw some of the world's best developers compete for a chance to win over $200,000 and showcase their projects to influential VCs and investors.
The participants built their projects within different tracks, including Aptos, Ripple, Polkadot and OriginTrail. Some of the winners included AI-powered portfolio managers on DeX, gaming on the blockchain, payments solutions, social media platforms and NFT platforms.
Aptos Track
1st Place: ProfitX — An AI-powered portfolio manager integrated with Merkle Trade DEX.
2nd Place: HealthDB — An AI agent for health data management using Monte Carlo Tree Search.
3rd Place: Grand Theft Aptos — An open-world blockchain game with AI-driven NPCs.
4th Place (tied): Ai.apt (quant trading agent) and MoME (LLM-based transaction parser).
Ripple Track
1st Place (tied): Xeno — A tap-to-pay RLUSD solution to support global consumers and businesses, eliminating 1-3% card fees with XRP Ledger's low-cost transactions and NFC convenience.
1st Place (tied): FrameUS — A fan donation platform.
2nd Place (tied): Modern Portfolio Theory (DeFi risk balancing) and Playcheck (AI-verified betting with XRP Ledger for secure fund management).
3rd Place: QR RLUSD — A QR code-based payment solution to help merchants and customers execute cross-border transactions instantly with RLUSD stablecoin and Pyth Oracle real-time FX rates.
Polkadot / MozaicNFT Track
1st Place: MozaicDot — A comprehensive NFT platform on Polkadot's AssetHub enabling creation, deployment, viewing, buying, and selling of NFTs within the Polkadot ecosystem.
2nd Place (tied): Nemwork (AI pet platform) and FrameUS.
OriginTrail Track
Pix x OriginTrail — Digital Rain Technologies' autonomous AI oracle that performs I-Ching divinations and persists readings to OriginTrail's Decentralized Knowledge Graph.
Mixture of Multichain Experts (MoME) — A RAG-based platform that automatically parses, verifies, and explains blockchain transactions across multiple networks—Aptos, Ripple, Polkadot, and OriginTrail.
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Crust Network Track
MoME — Also recognized in this track for its cross-chain capabilities.
About the author: Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. He spent almost a decade at Bloomberg covering equities, commodities and tech.