Grafana Labs held its first company-wide hackathon, where Team Stonks 'n Crypto emerged as the overall winner and best pitch recipient. The team, comprising Ward Bekker, Willie Engelbrecht, Leon Sorokin, and Yas Ekinci, developed a live stock and crypto monitoring platform by leveraging Grafana's capabilities along with projects like Loki and Cortex, aiming to expand Grafana's application beyond IT observability into the financial market space. The project idea originated from Ward's personal work on a crypto trading system, which highlighted the potential for Grafana in visualizing financial market data. The team's efforts included creating a new OHLC/candlestick panel and integrating live data from platforms like Twitter and Reddit. Their collaboration was marked by innovative solutions and cross-functional expertise, leading to plans for making the project publicly accessible and refining its components for wider use. The hackathon fostered creativity and teamwork, with participants expressing pride in their accomplishments and the opportunity to collaborate globally.