A 48-hour developer marathon attracted builders from around the world, with a total prize pool exceeding $50,000.

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On September 21-22, 2025, while the Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) event was taking place in Seoul, Hyperliquid also held its first offline hackathon locally.

This 48-hour developer marathon attracted builders from around the globe, ultimately selecting 13 award-winning projects, with a total prize pool exceeding $50,000.

As competition intensifies and user expectations rise, Hyperliquid needs a richer application layer to solidify its ecological position.

This hackathon also signifies its transition from a pure trading platform to a complete ecosystem, where outstanding projects may become future dark horses in the ecosystem, harboring opportunities.

(Source: X user @reason8eth)

From AI trading assistants to cross-chain infrastructure, from risk management tools to social trading platforms, let's quickly take a look at the standout projects from this competition.

First Place: Hyperliquid Copilot

Project Positioning: An AI-based professional trading assistant that provides institutional-level trading execution capabilities for Hyperliquid users.

This project was developed by the Wildmeta team, founded by Kevin Chen (@c_kevin75). Interestingly, Kevin was liquidated for $2 million on Hyperliquid on the day of the hackathon, and that evening he won first place with this project. In his acceptance speech, he mentioned wanting to "write trading lessons into Wildmeta products."

Wildmeta is a broader Hyperliquid trading platform that offers trader discovery, notification systems, chain abstraction, and HyperCore/HyperEVM account management. The Copilot feature showcased in the hackathon focuses on AI-driven trading insights, including real-time signal generation, automated order execution, and quantitative analysis.

The tool integrates seamlessly with HyperCore, utilizing on-chain data and market patterns for AI analysis to help traders improve efficiency. It particularly emphasizes risk management features, which may stem from the founder's own trading experiences.

Current Status: The Wildmeta app is now live, supporting iOS and Android, and is compatible with the Hyperliquid desktop application without requiring additional wallet setups.

Data Performance: Reports indicate that the platform has over 1 million PnL users.

Reason to Watch: This is a mature project with an existing user base, and the founder's personal trading experience provides genuine insights into product development needs.

Second Place: Edgescan

Project Positioning: @edgescan, a smart contract security scanner designed specifically for Hyperliquid and HyperEVM.

Edgescan is a cybersecurity company that has been operating for over 10 years, focusing on vulnerability scanning and penetration testing services. The company has handled over 40,000 security assessments and has a strong foundation in traditional web security.

This project provides ongoing security monitoring services for the Hyperliquid ecosystem, capable of detecting various vulnerabilities in smart contracts, including SQL injection, API exposure, and other critical security issues. The system supports contract scanning on HyperEVM and can identify malicious assets and shadow IT risks.

Edgescan employs a "hybrid automation + manual verification" approach, claiming to achieve 100% accuracy, effectively eliminating false positives. The system integrates the EUVD (European Vulnerability Database) to meet compliance requirements and can scan over 768 active exploited CVE vulnerabilities.

Current Status: The foundational platform is already operational, and a customized scanning feature was developed specifically for the Hyperliquid ecosystem during the hackathon.

Data Performance: The company has previously handled over 40,000 assessments and has a good track record in traditional security.

Reason to Watch: As the Hyperliquid ecosystem grows rapidly, security needs will rise sharply. Edgescan's mature team and technical accumulation lay a solid foundation for success in this niche market.

Third Place: HODL Bot

Project Positioning: @hlbot_hl, a Telegram-based group trading bot focused on long-term holding and risk management strategies.

There is relatively little information about the project team, but the product design indicates a deep understanding of community-driven trading and risk management.

The core of HODL Bot is to simplify complex risk management strategies into simple operations within Telegram groups. Users can set automated long-term holding strategies, and the system will perform automatic rebalancing. More importantly, the bot supports delta-neutral hedging functions, helping users protect asset value during market fluctuations.

The project directly integrates with the Hyperliquid API, supporting over 100 perpetual contracts and up to 50x leverage. All operations are completed through the Telegram interface, allowing users to maintain full control over their wallets without the need for asset custody.

Current Status: Currently operating as a Telegram bot, it is in the early stages. The team plans to develop a native application.

Reason to Watch: Social trading is an important trend in DeFi development, and HODL Bot's innovations in group collaboration and risk management are worth noting.

Fourth Place: Hyper Homo

Project Positioning: A native social copy trading platform for Hyperliquid.

The team has adopted a meme culture and community-driven branding strategy, with limited background information available.

The platform allows users to follow top traders' perpetual and spot positions in real-time, supporting customizable position sizes and stop-loss settings. Users can vote within the community to choose the signals and strategies to follow, forming a decentralized investment decision-making mechanism.

The project fully leverages Hyperliquid's on-chain order book characteristics to achieve transparent, low-slippage trade copying. Compared to other copy trading platforms, users can see the complete on-chain trading records.

Current Status: Currently in the prototype stage, with no available product interface yet.

Reason to Watch: The copy trading market is vast, and if a first-mover advantage can be established within the Hyperliquid ecosystem, significant growth is expected.

Fifth Place: STIBS

Project Positioning: A Hyperliquid yield smoothing tool focused on reducing drawdown risks in DeFi strategies.

There is little information about the team, but public information shows that STIBS reduces the volatility of individual strategies by aggregating and averaging the returns of users' different strategies. The system dynamically allocates between perpetual, spot, and HLP liquidity mining, automatically hedging during abnormal funding rates.

The project's innovation lies in achieving yield smoothing through a pool mechanism, allowing users to obtain relatively stable APY without enduring the severe fluctuations of a single strategy.

Current Status: Currently in the early prototype stage, not yet deployed.

Reason to Watch: Yield smoothing is a core demand for institutional investors, and if the product matures, it is expected to attract a large amount of capital seeking stable returns.

Sixth Place: HyperFlash

Project Positioning: A cross-chain arbitrage engine focused on sub-second execution and zero capital occupation, see the GitHub address here.

This project was completed by a 19-year-old genius developer, causing quite a stir at the hackathon. Despite his youth, his technical implementation level received high recognition from the judges.

Developer's social media account: @AndreiDeSte

HyperFlash addresses the issue of low capital efficiency in traditional cross-chain arbitrage. Traditional solutions require pre-funding on multiple chains, while HyperFlash can complete arbitrage operations without locking funds through innovative asynchronous bridging technology.

The system can perform cross-chain arbitrage at the millisecond level, a qualitative improvement compared to the minutes of operation time required by traditional DEXs. More importantly, the entire process does not require pre-set TVL, greatly enhancing capital efficiency.

Current Status: A prototype demonstration has been completed, and technical feasibility has been verified, but productization will require more time.

Reason to Watch: Cross-chain arbitrage is an important demand in DeFi, and if the technical solution matures, the market potential is enormous. The innovative thinking of the young developer is also worth looking forward to.

Seventh Place: Tetrics

Project Positioning: A portfolio analysis and risk scoring tool.

The team focuses on DeFi risk management and has a partnership with the Anoma ecosystem, indicating expertise in privacy protection and cross-chain technology.

Tetrics provides Hyperliquid users with comprehensive analysis of their portfolios, including risk scoring, asset allocation recommendations, and potential loss warnings. The system can monitor users' position risks in real-time and provide optimization suggestions.

The project combines traditional financial risk management models with the unique needs of DeFi, capable of handling risk calculations for various asset types, including perpetual contracts, spot, and liquidity mining.

Current Status: In the early development stage, with a basic framework but incomplete functionality.

Reason to Watch: As the scale of DeFi user assets grows, the demand for professional risk management tools will increase significantly.

Eighth Place: BASIS X

Project Positioning: @BasisFi, an on-chain funding pool for delta-neutral basis trading.

The team has a background in quantitative trading and a deep understanding of basis trading strategies.

BASIS X achieves relatively stable basis returns by simultaneously holding opposite positions in spot and perpetual contracts. Users can deposit funds into the pool to enjoy stable returns from delta-neutral strategies.

The project implements a fully on-chain basis trading strategy with high transparency, allowing users to view strategy performance in real-time.

Current Status: A test version is live, with a current TVL of $3,790, making it one of the few projects with actual fund management.

Data Performance: Although the TVL is still small, it has begun actual operations, demonstrating the ability to fully realize the concept into a product.

Reason to Watch: Delta-neutral strategies are favored by institutional investors, with stable and predictable market demand.

Ninth Place: HyperSonia

Project Positioning: An AI trading coach that provides personalized trading guidance.

There is relatively little information about the team, but the product features indicate a certain understanding of AI technology and trading education.

HyperSonia combines semantic search and predictive alert functions to provide users with personalized trading advice and market insights. The system can analyze users' trading history and offer targeted improvement suggestions.

Current Status: Currently in the prototype stage, with no standalone website or product interface.

Reason to Watch: Trading education is a huge market, and AI-driven personalized guidance is expected to transform traditional learning methods.

Tenth Place: AlgoGene

Project Positioning: A trading strategy generator driven by genetic algorithms.

There is limited information about the project, which generally uses genetic algorithms to automatically generate and optimize trading strategies, continuously improving strategy parameters through simulated evolutionary processes to find the optimal trading model.

In theory, applying the concept of biological evolution to trading strategy optimization can uncover complex strategy combinations that are difficult to design manually.

Current Status: In the early development stage, primarily completing the design of the algorithm framework.

Other Special Award Projects

Spread, RedStone Special Award

Project Positioning: An NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer) router that finds the best trading prices for users.

Spread compares prices across multiple DEXs and automatically routes users to the best price for trade execution, reducing slippage and trading costs.

Current Status: An MVP version is available, having received the RedStone Partner Award.

HyperPlug, First Place in deBridge Track

Project Positioning: A multi-chain wallet interaction component that simplifies cross-chain operations.

It provides developers with easy-to-integrate cross-chain interaction components, lowering the technical barrier for DApp development.

Current Status: A developer toolkit is available.

Hyper Metal (Prototype Stage)

Project Positioning: A DeFi risk detector that identifies potential vulnerabilities through on-chain simulations.

It simulates various attack scenarios in real environments to help protocols discover security risks. Currently in the proof-of-concept stage, focusing on the development of security tools.

Due to time constraints, the information currently published about the above projects is not complete, and some projects lack social media accounts and product interfaces, which may lead to information discrepancies or errors.

For more information on the Hyperliquid hackathon and project progress, you can follow the official social media account of the Hyperliquid Hackathon for further updates.

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