On Sept. 11, 2023, the Web3 Gaming Hackathon 2023 finals and award ceremony, co-hosted by ABGA, Klaytn, Iskra and CESS, was successfully held at the Sands Convention Center in Singapore. Since the beginning of the hackathon, over 100 game projects have been fiercely competing, and today, the top-10 presented their outstanding project results, determining the final winner of the competition and receiving a reward of $80,000 as well as additional support from Google Cloud, Slowmist and other partners of the hackathon.
The panel of judges consisted of well-known Web3 industry leaders:
- Uno Lee — vice president of business and governance at Klaytn Foundation
- Jessie Dai — co-founder and chief operating officer of CESS
- Blue — chief technical officer at SlowMist
- Min Xue — partner at Foresight X
- JT Law — partner at IVC
- Aria Zhang — investment partner at Zonff Partners
- Evans Huangfu — partner and chief investment officer at Arcane Group
- Kiwi — head of research at OKX Ventures
- Pawn — chief technical officer at NuLink
- Alex Cooper — community manager at Footprint Analytics
- Bill Byun — CEO of Encoding Labs
- Simon Lee — game center executive director at Iskra
- Junyoung Park — game business director at Iskra
The purpose of this hackathon is to unleash the potential of the gaming industry through blockchain technology, connect Web2 with Web3, stimulate the potential of blockchain games, and promote the continuous and rapid development of the gaming ecosystem.
In addition to the intense competition, experts from various fields also delivered insightful speeches at the venue and shared their recent strategies for Web3 games.
Astin Han, business manager of the Klaytn ecosystem, stated that Klaytn is committed to supporting Web3 developers, recently launching the Ignite on Klaytn (IOK) program, which aims to support developers and enhance the one-stop solution of the Klaytn ecosystem.
Subsequently, Ben Colayco, chief financial officer at Iskra, spoke about Iskra’s contribution to the global expansion and local execution of the Web3 gaming market by launching an integrated, end-to-end Web3 gaming community platform.
Jessie Dai from CESS mentioned that CESS, as the first blockchain solution for large-scale commercial storage built for Web3, is currently empowering Web3 games to achieve “digital immortality,” supporting the digital lifespan of Web3 games.
Eefy Lin, customer solution architect at Google Cloud APAC, revealed that Google Cloud is building a blockchain node engine for the automation of blockchain infrastructure deployment, and is also constructing BigQuery public datasets for multichain meta-analysis and real-time unified data ingestion architecture.
Blue from SlowMist highlighted some of the company’s services in his speech, including blockchain security audit services, consulting and monitoring services, and blockchain AML and CFT compliance solutions.
Pawn from NuLink shared information about NuLink, revealing that it is closely collaborating with several GameFi partners to provide secure privacy protection solutions, empowering Web3 games.
Paul Solntsev, head of Cointelegraph Accelerator, discussed the theme of accelerating GameFi adoption. He pointed out that despite issues such as poor game quality, limited awareness of players outside of Web3 and a lack of sustainable business models, GameFi is still gaining attention. He then offered suggestions for Web3 startups from multiple dimensions. Lastly, Solntsev stated that Cointelegraph Accelerator is providing media products, marketing advice, mentoring support and more for Web3 startups.
Following a series of insightful speeches and impressive demonstrations by the top-10 teams, the results of the 2023 Web3 Gaming Hackathon were announced. The complete list of winners is as follows:
- First prize: Legend of Arcadia
- Second prize: SERAPH, Planet Hares
- Third prize: Tearing Space, Arena of Faith, Mirror Planet
- ABGA’s choice: Lumiterra
- Klaytn’s choice: Mhaya
- Iskra’s choice: TownStory
- CESS’s choice: Sui Game
With the conclusion of the award ceremony, the two-month-long hackathon of 2023 has come to a perfect end. The organizers have expressed their heartfelt congratulations to the top-10 of this competition as well as sincere thanks to the other game teams and judges who put in so much effort for the hackathon. Of course, the most impressive were the profound Web2 and Web3 insights from the speakers, making this competition even more professional and in-depth.
