🏆 #HackCanton S3 — THE WINNERS ARE IN!
3 weeks of building. 12 Grand Finalists. Here's who took home the prizes.
🏆 OVERALL WINNERS
🥇 Canborsa Lending (@Canborsa_DEX) — $2,000
🥈 Exodus — $1,250
🥉 Tavryn — $750
🎯 BEST IN TRACK · $500 EACH
• Financial Applications — Talang
• RWA & Business Workflows — PledgeGuard
• Investment Infrastructure — Alluvren
• Data & Analytics — Plimsoll
🛡 @BitSafe_Finance · 50,000 canton-network:native
🥇 Gold — Umbra (@UmbraOnCanton) · 30,000 CC
Contribution Pool:
• CompressRail (@CompressRail) — 12,000 CC
• Indivisa — 6,000 CC
• Canborsa Lending — 2,000 CC
👛 @grofty_labs · 10,000 canton-network:native
🥇 Talang — 5,000 CC
🥈 GroftPay — 3,000 CC
🥉 https://t.co/KGn2106fde — 2,000 CC
Plus @NODERS_TEAM NaaS & Ambassador benefits for the finalists.
Some teams took home more than one award. Every team gave us something worth watching.
Huge respect to all the builders, judges, sponsors and partners who made S3 happen 🤝
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📋 Less paperwork. More building.
One thing that worked well in #HackCanton S3:
“It was easy to understand what to submit, when, and in what format. Having fields with templates in them made it easier to fill out the required information”
— Pavel Shter, @Canborsa_DEX 🥇
Glad the templates helped! 🙌
🎥 Missed the #HackCanton S3 Grand Final?
• 12 finalists
• Live pitches
• Judge Q&A
• Winners crowned 🏆
See what the teams actually built on @CantonNetwork.
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We took 2nd at #HackCanton S3 🥈 Exodus brings Pendle-style fixed-rate yield to Canton: split a yield-bearing asset into PT + YT, trade them through private RFQ.
TALANG WON. TWICE.
1st place in the @grofty_labs Wallet & Onboarding challenge AND Best in Track, Financial Applications
at the #HackCanton Season 3 hackathon!!!
Still can't believe it. Massive thanks to @appsfactory_cc, @CantonNetwork, @grofty_labs and every judge and mentor who pushed us all the way.
Talang is just getting started.
#BuildOnCanton
👛 @grofty_labs × #HackCanton S3
10,000 canton-network:native awarded in the Wallet & Onboarding Bounty!
🥇 Talang — 5,000 CC
🥈 GroftPay — 3,000 CC
🥉 https://t.co/L67cIIPPDs — 2,000 CC
Three winning projects building with Grofty.
Congrats to the teams! 🔥
My first hackathon win.
Alluvren won Best Investment Infrastructure at the HackCanton Season 3 Grand Final.
Honestly, I needed this one. My wallet was drained recently, and that knocked me hard. Hearing “You are best in this track” hit different.
Here’s how it went.
Alluvren is a redemption desk for private funds on Canton. When investors ask for more money back than the fund has in a window, someone has to decide who gets what, and today that’s a spreadsheet and an email thread.
On Alluvren, a payout only executes when two locks open:
🔒 the fund’s own rules: treasury, the COO, and compliance when it’s under 50% funded
🔒 BitSafe governance: a threshold of members confirming from their own nodes
Each investor sees only their own allocation. The ledger itself enforces pro-rata, so nobody can be favoured.
Along the way, I also sent 11 pull requests to BitSafe’s Decentralization Manager. All 11 are merged.
My heart was racing before the pitch. Four minutes, a recorded demo, two minutes of questions, and then my project’s name came up on the winners slide.
Thank you to [@CantonNetwork ] [@BitSafe_Finance ] [@appsfactory_cc ] and the judges. Your feedback made the product better.
Code and everything you need to reproduce it: https://t.co/YSIuPMdld2
🏆 Umbra won the @BitSafe_Finance Gold track at HackCanton Season 3!
This season we hosted our parties across two nodes, stopped our own node and settled a trade on DevNet despite that.
Thank you to BitSafe for backing decentralization on Canton, thank you to @appsfactory_cc for organising and creating the perfect place to grow canton developers, and projects🫡 and thanks also, to the judges too!
A big congrats to every finalist and winner you guys shipped this season fr!!🫡
Umbra won the BitSafe Gold track at HackCanton S3!
The moment that actually stuck with me the most this season, was switching our own node off and watching a trade still settle live on DevNet through BitSafe's node.
Decentralization really did stop being a slide thing, and became a property of @UmbraOnCanton .
Big thanks to the @BitSafe_Finance team, and @appsfactory_cc. Congrats to all the winners and finalists this season the builds this season were unreal. Upwards only📈
🏆 WE DID IT! PLIMSOLL IS A HACKATHON WINNER! 🚀🎉
Thrilled to share that Plimsoll has won $500 in the Best Data, Analytics & Ecosystem Dashboards category! 🥇💚
This is more than just a win. It’s a milestone that represents the power of building, innovating, and pushing boundaries in the ecosystem.
Plimsoll was built with a vision to make ecosystem data more accessible, meaningful, and actionable. In a space that continues to evolve, having the right data and insights is essential for understanding growth, tracking progress, and making smarter decisions.
Being recognized in the Best Data, Analytics & Ecosystem Dashboards category is a huge motivation to keep improving, keep shipping, and keep building tools that bring more clarity and value to the ecosystem.
A big shoutout to everyone who made this hackathon exciting and inspiring! Hackathons remind us that great ideas can become real products when creativity meets execution. 💻⚡
And this is only the beginning. 🚀
We’re excited to keep building, exploring new possibilities, and contributing to the future of blockchain analytics and ecosystem intelligence.
Huge respect to the organizers, judges, builders, and everyone who participated. Every project adds something valuable to the ecosystem, and it’s amazing to see what happens when builders come together to create.
A special shoutout to @appsfactory_cc@CantonNetwork and @BitSafe for being part of the ecosystem conversation. The future belongs to those who keep building, experimenting, and turning ideas into reality. 🔥
🏆 Project: Plimsoll
📊 Category: Best Data, Analytics & Ecosystem Dashboards
💰 Prize: $500
🥇 Status: WINNER!
We came to build. We came to innovate. And we’re leaving with a win! 💚
More building. More shipping. More impact.
The journey continues. LFG! 🚀🔥
#Hackathon #Canton #BitSafe #Blockchain #DataAnalytics #Web3 #Builders #Innovation
3rd place overall is huge, massive congrats to the Tavryn team! Solving real-world invoice problems in Nigeria using Daml smart contracts is an absolute chad move. This is just the beginning for sure!
@tavryn1 won 3rd place overall at the #HackCanton by @appsfactory_cc Season 3.
Small businesses in Nigeria often wait months to get paid by the big companies they work for, and banks rarely lend to them against those unpaid invoices.
Tavryn lets them get loans against their invoice. A small business uploads its invoice, the company that owes the money approves it, and a lender pays the business upfront.
How Canton makes it work:
• The rules are written as Daml smart contracts. If two lenders try to fund the same invoice at the same moment, Canton accepts one and refuses the other, so each invoice can be financed only once.
• The lender's payment in Canton Coin and the record that the invoice is financed go through in one transaction. Either both happen or neither does.
• Each party sees only its own deals. Lenders can't see each other's offers, and a business's invoices stay private.
• Lenders sign in with their own Canton wallet, like Loop.
It's live today on Canton DevNet at https://t.co/74DEUP5AOQ
This win is just the beginning. Tavryn is just getting started🔥
Thank you to the judges, the HackCanton team and @CantonNetwork 🙏
Gm Gm chat! so I’d love to drop my takeaways from the just concluded HackCanton S3, from what i actually loved this season, down to issues i faced and of course some builder tip so you dont waste time on things that Ive already figured out.
So for S3, @umbraoncanton focused mainly on decentralisation of our node, as centralisation already showed how bad it could be when your only node is down, and what I loved this season, was how the @BitSafe_Finance's team actually showed up, and assisted with the co-hosting of our parties, on their node. They actually stayed with the node-down run even after the first attempt
failed, and that genuinely meant a lot to us! The @appsfactory_cc team were also super active and i could see how they swiftly attended to other participants' issues kudos to the team.
So, down to challenges I faced this season, the one that actually stood out, was with the wallet integration, where i found out that every wallet signs differently, so even when dealing with just 4 wallets, and those wallets wanted the same 32-byte hash, they all kinda wanted it in 4 different shapes, so for instance, 1 decodes base64 itself, while another straight up wants it wrapped by its own SDK, another UTF-8 expands a bare string before signing.
So basically, if not careful, you just find out withdrawals or basic transactions silently do nothing, and unfortunately, most of our integration time went there, not even into the Daml lol.
With all these said, what i genuinely feel would help S4, is,
• A link to documentation holding details about exactly which bytes a wallet should sign, with sample hashes to check against if possible (Im actually working on setting up a public repo for this later too).
• Again, links to docs for the one ledger permission an externally-signed trade needs before it can execute.
And now as a developer on Canton this might help you save some time actually;
• I’d advise you run tests against 2 wallets from day one, because 1 working wallet proves nothing lol except if you only plan to integrate 1 single wallet though.
• Record the demo before deadline hours this is actually very important, as a poorly made demo could miss lots of key points that judges watch out for.
But in all, the builds this season were really at the top, and it was really nice listening to you guys pitch yesterday🫡🫡
@appsfactory_cc@Canborsa_DEX Umbra here👀 thank you very much! And congrats to all winners. All finalist cooked fr, and this season builds were absolute fire🔥
🔴 WE'RE LIVE!
The #HackCanton S3 Grand Final is on.
🚀 Finalist pitches
🎤 Live judging
🏆 Winners announced today
Who takes the crown?
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