Announcing the Winners of Convergence: A Chainlink Hackathon
Blog post from Chainlink
Convergence: A Chainlink Hackathon gathered global developers to create advanced applications using the Chainlink platform, resulting in a record-breaking 554 submissions across categories such as DeFi & Tokenization, CRE & AI, Prediction Markets, Risk & Compliance, and Privacy. Key projects included FlowVault, a proactive DeFi vault predicting capital movements; Ghost Finance, a private lending protocol; SentinelCRE, an autonomous DeFi agent protecting against exploits; TAPL, a BTC tap-trading platform; and Aegis-Gate, a compliance layer preserving user privacy. The hackathon showcased a shift toward building full-stack systems integrating offchain data and onchain execution, leveraging the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for orchestrating complex workflows, highlighting a new paradigm of verifiable, automated applications seamlessly operating across onchain and offchain environments.
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