Have a look at the past success seen in ERGOHACK!
What better way is there to understand the potential of the competition other than to see the proliferation of applications constructed in the past.
Detailed below is all of those who have participated within an ERGOHACK, with links to the winners so you can see why they won!
ERGOHACK I
Summary
Ergo kicked off its venture into development-based online virtual events, hackathons, back in June of 2021. Providing participants with an idea of what to encode, the event held was themed with “hack to change”. The event saw submissions situated from a variety of areas, such as lotteries all the way to collaborative spending.
Projects
| Smart Pools (Inspired GetBlok.io) | Sigma Stamp | |
| ErgoRaffle | Simpler Joint Spending Tool | |
| Ergo Index Fund | Ergo Charts |
Winners
1st Place
ErgoRaffle
2nd Place
SigmaStamp
3rd Place
ErgoTeam
ERGOHACK II:
Social Transformation
Summary
Following on from the “hack to change” initiative, ErgoHack II requested contenders to focus on social transformation. Taking place in October of 2021, projects sought to tackle this focus from different perspectives. Some took a technical stance when developing, such as what can be seen in Ergo Subpooling, while others worked towards encouraging transformation in enterprise domains, to the likes of Ergo Audio. Nonetheless, this rendition of ErgoHack was full of high quality ventures.
Projects
| Minotaur Wallet | Ergopad |
| ErgoLend | Ergo Subpooling |
| Ergo Audio | HYPO10USE (Quid Games) |
Winners
1st Place
ErgoLend
2nd Place
Ergo-Subpooling
3rd Place
Quid Games
ERGOHACK III:
Privacy & Security
Summary
ErgoHack III emphasised creativity in the realms of privacy & security, and was conducted during February of 2022. Volume of participants grew massively during this instance of ErgoHack, in addition to the range of entries. Among these, tackled areas included NFTs, a DNS for wallets, as well as functionality for Stealth Addresses. Its valid to think that endeavours within this competition pushed the envelope for distributed ledger technology.
Projects
| Tooling | EX | Gaming | Identity | Wallets |
| The Delphi Project | Sky Harbor | Hypo10 use | ErgoDNS | Nautilus |
| Ergo-Castanet | Guap Swap | NightOwl | Stealth Addresses #1 |
SAFEW |
| aneta BTC | Stealth Addresses #2 |
Satergo |
Winners
1st Place
Stealth Addresses #1
2nd Place
SAFEW
3rd Place
Nautilus
ERGOHACK IV:
ERGOHACKFEST
Summary
Whereas previous ErgoHack’s lived over several days, ERGOHACKFEST (IV) survived over the course of several weeks beginning in May of 2022. Several familiar faces from historic ErgoHacks returned, accompanied by a swarm of other new partakers. This was the biggest event held yet. From ERG-EVM bridges to Graph QL APIs, ERGOHACKFEST contenders recognised the advantage they had in the increased duration and piped their advantage into ambition.
Projects
| Azorus | ColivingDAO | dAppStep |
| Ergo-graphql | ErgoNation | ErgoSphere |
| Ergrow | LETS | Multisig |
| NightOwl | Oracle-Pools2 | SwampAudio |
| Tensile | RubyNFTs | SentientSWAP |
| InERGitance | Platform137 | ErgoSock/ErgoNodes |
Winners
1st Place, with 56 points
Multisig (Minotaur)
2nd Place, with 55 points
Oracle-Pools2
3rd Place, with 53 points
ErgoSock/ErgoNodes (Satergo)
Special Prize, from an Ergo whale, worth 1000 SigUSD each:
ergo-graphql
NightOwl
5 Community Favourites
NightOwl
Azorus
ergo-graphql
ErgoNation
dappStep
ERGOHACK V:
Mining & Minting
Summary
With ErgoHack V: Mining and Minting, participants focused on developing dApps and technology that continues to expand the utility and potential of the Ergo blockchain.
Twelve different projects competed in the ErgoHack and our judges from the Ergo Foundation, Flux, Djed Alliance and Alephium have decided on the winners for this hackathon.
Projects
| CYTI | ergonames | paizo |
| ergo-audit | snisp | eip38-partial-voting |
| satergo | dumdumdum | sigma-rust-jit |
| ergo-payroll | obolflip | dlop-art-generator |
Winners
1st Prize (Ergo Foundation and Flux), with 218 points
CYTI
2nd Prize (Ergo Foundation and Flux), with 191 points
ergonames
3rd Prize (Ergo Foundation), with 190 points
Paizo
3rd Prize (Flux), with 174 points
Obolflip
Special Prize (Ergo Foundation) worth 1000 SigUSD
snisp
ERGOHACK VI:
Cypherpunk Finance
Summary
With ErgoHack VI: Cypherpunk Finance, participants focused on developing dApps and technology challenges to create privacy tools using Ergo’s protocols and mixers, promoting decentralized finance while adhering to regulations..
Sixteen different projects competed in the ErgoHack and our judges from the Ergo Foundation,Ilya Oskin and Luivatra from ErgoPad, have decided on the winners for this hackathon.
Projects
| Analog-Ergo | Ergo Stats | Ergode | |
| Lithos | ChainCash | Lilium | |
| SigmaO | Riadne Hlady2 | Privacy Guide | |
| Perma Ergo | Net Notes | Sigma Subscriptions | |
| Quantum Swap | SIPS | Explorer UI | SigmaStamp |
Winners
1st Prize (Ergo Foundation and Ergopad),
Ergo Tizen
2nd Prize (Ergo Foundation and Ergopad),
SigmaO
3rd Prize (Ergo Foundation and Ergopad),
Community Vote :
1st Prize (Ergo community),
Ergo Tizen
2nd Prize (Ergo community),
SigmaO
3rd Prize (Ergo community),
Judges
Alexander Chepurnoy
Alexander Chepurnoy is an experienced blockchain developer, speaker and educator. From 2014 to 2015 he was a core developer for the NXT blockchain and a Co-Founder of smartcontract.com, now known as Chainlink. From 2016 to 2017, Alexander worked as a Lead Developer at Waves and Scorex Manager at IOHK. He began his journey with Ergo in 2016.
Robert Kornacki
Robert Kornacki has been an ERGO community member from day one and has been involved with Cardano since 2017. In 2019, he became a dLab/EMURGO Fellow, following that up in 2020 as EMURGO’s Head of R&D and a board member of the ERGO Foundation. In 2021 he co-founded a new crypto development company, dcSpark.
Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo
Bruno contributed to Scorex (the basis of Ergo) back in 2017 and later joined Input Output, where he is currently Technical Director for Stablecoins and CBDCs. He designed the SigmaUSD stablecoin that has been developed by Ergo and Emurgo.
Ilya Oskin
Ilya Oskin is an experienced software engineer and he has been a core developer at Ergo since the launch of the project. Ilya has a degree in Economics from The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He is also the supervisor at GeekBrains, an online educational platform devoted to blockchain development.
Alexander Slesarenko
Slesarenko is an ERGO Foundation Board Member and graduate of Applied Mathematics from Udmurt State University. He has extensive experience in software development as a team leader, architect and researcher. He worked as Team Leader at Huawei Research Lab focusing on developing languages and compilers for high-performance big data processing. Alexander is a Blockchain Core Developer and Lead Developer of ErgoScript at ERGO.
Aleksei Pupyshev
Aleksei is currently also the Founder of Graviton, and a Co-Founder of Neutrino protocol and Gravity protocol. He initially became involved in the crypto space in 2014, when he led a team at an algorithmic HFT hedge fund focusing on mining pool analytics and developing liquidity models for one of the first crypto exchanges.
Marty, ErgoPad
Marty is one of the co-founders of Ergopad. His goals with the platform are to give development teams better access to funding so that they can build on Ergo and help grow the ecosystem. He believes in the initial philosophies of Bitcoin, namely freedom from third-party intervention and manipulation of global financial systems. He would like to help Ergo expand on this philosophy as much as possible by providing extensive DeFi tools to the end-user. With ErgoHack Fest, he is primarily interested in each teams’ contribution to the growing Ergo codebase and functionality, and how these new tools can help developers or users access the underlying features built into the Ergo network protocol.
Anon_real, Darkfund0
Anon_real is an anonymous developer in the Ergo Ecosystem. They have been active in Ergo since 2019 and contributed to several projects. They are also the developer of Zero-Knowledge Treasury, Ergo TX Assembler, Ergo Utils, Ergo Auction House, and ErgoTeam. Anon_real has contributed to the extension of EIP-004 (which is about asset standard), and has proposed EIP-0022 and EIP-0024, which address the auction contract standard and artwork standard.
Joseph Armeanio
Joseph has been involved in crypto on the investment side since 2013, and was a partner CIO at Big Bear Investments. Joseph has been on the board of Universal Education Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization since 2008. He brings a passion for counter economic frameworks and tools for social good. His role as business developer at the Ergo Foundation is to create partnerships in the crypto industry, as well as educational partnerships and research opportunities that drive the adoption of Ergo tooling in the public and non-profit sectors.
Mark Glasgow
Mark is an Ergo Foundation member and works across various roles in Ergo. As a Computing Science graduate with a personal passion for improving inclusive systems, he is also the Technical Director for Disabled Students UK CIC – a non-profit that was named as one of the most influential disability-led organizations in the UK.
Luivatra from ErgoPad
Luivatra has a Bachelor of Science in computer science (with a specialization in AI) and a Master of Science (in Games) from the University of Utrecht and IT University in Copenhagen, respectively. After over ten years of experience as an engineer and software architect in the financial sector, Luivatra sought new challenges and transitioned to the unique and exciting developer work at ErgoPad and Paidia. Luivatra has been active in Ergo since 2021 and continues to explore the inner workings of eUTXO while working full time as ergoscript developer at Ergopad.