Original source: Moon Workshop

On January 14th, the Moonshot Workshop 2022/2023 Web3 Winter Hackathon Apollo Day was successfully held, and a total of 22 projects stood out to enter the Moonshot Apollo Day. The Hackathon was jointly organized by HKUST Crypto Fintech Lab, Blockchiain Academy, Aspecta, RSS3, KCC, Zettablock, IOSG, etc. It received a total of 216 project registrations from around the world, of which 50 teams were selected to enter the Hackathon Workshops, and finally a total of 22 teams The team enters the final lunar landing, Apollo Day, to present their work to the public.

List of projects:

Project name: Chataverse

community"community"chatting software

Founding Team: Chataverse team members graduated from UCSD, USC and UW. He has worked for Apple, Tesla, JPMorgan and ByteDance.

Chataverse is an NFT-Gated social chat software. The Web 3.0 community needs a tailor-made NFT gated social chat app so that users can socialize and co-govern in a transparent and secure way. Users can build their own communities, chat, and publish posts in Chataverse, and through NFT holding verification, NFT Holders and the community are more closely linked.

This is the second time that the Chataverse team has participated in the moon landing hackathon, and the team has recently received YC America's Pre-seed investment.

Project name: ST World

One sentence introduction: a UGC platform for spatial computing, using blockchain technology to build a creative economy.

Founding team: The founding team includes Bell Chen (CEO) who published research on generative AI in IEEE at the age of 18, Elijah Mansur (CTO), a fast learner who built all backends and contracts with only 16 months of programming experience , and Yuan Hong (Product Lead), an avid gamer and game developer.

System Terminal is a user-generated content platform that combines 3D and AI, allowing users to easily create, share and monetize virtual environments and AR decorations. Our goal is to significantly reduce the cost of 3D content by leveraging creative data to train a powerful large-scale 3D generative model. We also designed a new contract, the Non-Fungible Copyright Token (NFCT), to facilitate a collaborative relationship with 3D creation.

Project name: ORG 3

In one sentence: an organization management tool based on ENS subdomains.

Founding team: Org 3 team members graduated from USC and CMU, and have working backgrounds in Google, Meta, Tiktok, PonyAI, and other companies. The project founder has won the top award at ETHSanFrancisco.

Project introduction: Org 3 is a decentralized organization and community management tool based on ENS subdomains. Org 3 is a cheaper, more convenient, and more secure alternative to traditional token-based solutions. Org 3 uses the resolution service of ENS to provide users with an intuitive organizational management structure, and users no longer need to use difficult-to-distinguish wallet addresses in the organization. Org 3 allows users to create and distribute subdomains with very low gas fees. Users can set many rules and have more control than token-based solutions. Using ENS subdomains at its core, Org 3 is integrating and working with Dapps and DAO tools to support a decentralized work environment.

Project name: Symposium Lab

One sentence introduction: a decentralized scientific research sharing platform powered by blockchain and AI

Founding Team: The founding team is composed of SaaS and AI serial entrepreneurs and Harvard Medical School professors. Other members come from data science, computer science, and financial talents from top companies in various industries such as LinkedIn, Broad Institute, Morgan Stanley, PJT Partners, and Cohere.ai.

Project introduction: Empowering scientific research pre-printing and decentralized data sharing through AI and blockchain, Symposium Lab aims to build a global open science community, provide a fair scientific research environment for all students, researchers and scientists, and connect them to a A growing and evolving content creation and peer review network that breaks the monopoly of traditional publishers and rewards scientific research that advances human civilization. Symposium Lab's products build on the company's core asset: Leveraging the contributions of community members to enable users to more efficiently access, integrate, analyze and manage research-related data and information across organizations.

Project name: Ladder

One sentence introduction: Provide liquidity for your NFT Swap

Founding Team: The core team comes from the investment incubation business team of Byterade Lab.

Project introduction: Ladder Protocol is a decentralized NFT AMM that enables instant NFT exchange and better price discovery. Ladder Protocol is a peer-to-peer system designed to exchange NFTs (ERC 20 | ERC 721 | ERC 1155 ) on ETH, BSC and Polygon.

Project name: Eigen Network

One-Sentence Introduction: Privacy-Centric zkVM for Developers

Founding team: The team members are from Australia and China. They graduated from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Beihang University. They have worked in large Internet companies and research laboratories and have extensive experience in cryptography, blockchain, and privacy protection technologies.

Project introduction: Eigen Network created a hierarchical proof system with constant proof size and trustless settings, extended zkVM with a private standard template library to support privacy-preserving computation, and built zkzkRollup as a privacy layer for web3.0.

Project name: CALDANCE

One sentence introduction: a MACHINE-FI sports reward application project that connects NFT blockchain digital assets in the WEB2.0 and WEB3.0 worlds by using physical consumption-level sports and fitness hardware.

Founding Team: The core team is serial entrepreneurs with years of experience in sports, IOT, and Web3 industries. The team's first entrepreneurial project was acquired by Microsoft.

Project introduction: CALDANCE uses the model of MachineFi and game incentive mechanism to use project-certified physical sports equipment for sports exercises to generate real, credible and non-tamperable sports data. Based on these large-scale valuable physical hardware, The user group and user movement data, through the development into a valuable brand and ecology, generate value and reward users.

Project name: Lewk Protocol

In one sentence: We help web3 builders create user-owned professional identities and referral networks using Soul bound NFTs and verifiable credentials.

Founding Team: Dr. Alysia Wu was a senior engineer at Verizon Media, Credit Karma, Chime, Opendoor, and Compound Labs.

Project introduction: The Lewk protocol we are building is a modular protocol for displaying personal achievements through on-chain and off-chain records to build a web3 native professional identity and recommendation network. By having your identity and professional network on-chain, we provide web3 newbies, job seekers and employers an essential utility.

Project name: Ascendant Network

One sentence introduction: Ascendant Network is a decentralized metaphysical ecology.

Founding team: The core team comes from well-known universities such as Peking University, UC Berkeley, Hong Kong University, and Insec Business School. They have experience in Ali, Xiaohongshu, UBS, Kucoin, etc., and have successfully operated NFT projects and trading platforms.

Project introduction: Ascendant will release a series of interesting and practical products based on the astrolabe, such as new year fortune, token matching and other products to assist users in investing. Later, Ascendant will also launch natal analysis, personality test, fortune analysis, combination analysis, etc., so that users can deeply explore themselves and gain spiritual comfort. Ascendant will carry out a variety of combinations with NFT. By using AIGC, it will give users a personalized and dynamic NFT experience in various unpacking scenarios, and enjoy the charm of web3 metaphysics as much as possible.

Project name: Winner

One sentence introduction: a decentralized NFT exchange that supports leverage and share 2 earn.

Founding team: The core team is composed of technical directors, R&D and designers of domestic first-tier manufacturers. The team has rich experience in Web3 project R&D and operation. The team leader is responsible for the design and R&D of NFT projects with a market value of over ten million. contributors.

Project introduction: The NFT track has the problems of large price fluctuations and insufficient liquidity. The participation cost of blue-chip projects is high, and ordinary projects are prone to price collapse and lack of liquidity. Winner is a decentralized NFT exchange with the following features:

• Leveraged trading: support ERC 721/ERC 1155 mixed package sale and leveraged trading;

• Share 2 Earn: Support social sharing fission and form an attention economy.

• Play 2 Earn: Increase participant motivation through NFT airdrops and gamification scenarios.

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Project name: Xcast

One sentence introduction: xCast is a next-generation on-chain podcast platform, aiming to make the spread and evolution of "sound civilization" more free and diverse.

Founding team: The xCast core team members come from world-class universities and have worked in large Internet companies. They have rich work experience in product, design and technology. They have participated in the development of Internet products with 1 million daily users, and have a web3 project from 0 to 1. Entrepreneurial experience.

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Project name: The Reader

One sentence introduction: Kindle in the Web3 era—come to The Reader and invest in the next "Three-Body Problem".

Founding team: The core team is mainly from Tencent and Ali, familiar with the publishing industry, with IP and celebrity brokerage resources; the consultant team includes copyright experts specially invited by the government, well-known game master planners in the industry, core developers of well-known reading software, and well-known media technology reporters in the industry , a CS PhD from the University of California and a blockchain entrepreneur with an Amazon background.

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Project name: Sodium

One-sentence introduction: easy-to-use next-generation secure digital wallet

Founding team: The core team comes from Tencent and Ali. The team has been in business for 7 years. Previous projects have received investment from Sequoia Capital and YC America. They have successful project experience in the web3 track. This is the second time to participate in the moon landing hackathon .

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Project name: Decrypto

One sentence introduction: building trustworthy metrics for web3 projects

Founding team: The founder is the former chief cloud security and risk control architect of Bytedance US AI lab, IBM US Crypto&Security, Palo Alto Networks, FireEye, etc. He is a national project award winner and a top three computer science professor in computer science, and the first prize winner of China's 2021 QAX Innovation Sandbox.

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Project name: MemeBook

One-sentence introduction: Web3 intelligent investment and research community, allowing information and analysis to flow accurately, allowing comments and interactions to help others.

Founding team: The core team comes from first-tier Internet companies such as Ebay, Ali, Tencent, Shanda, and NetEase, and graduated from universities such as Tsinghua University, Tongji University, and Wuhan University. Has several years of industry experience in the Web3 field and long-term good cooperation.

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Project name: Tristan Alliance

One sentence introduction: Web3 marketing and loyalty management platform based on account abstraction and brand NFT.

Founding team: The core team comes from well-known universities such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Southeast University, Tsinghua/INSEAD, Fudan University, etc. They have many years of entrepreneurial experience in Web2 and Web3 and experience in product development, scale growth, and technical sales. They also have experience in France, Australia, Malaysia, etc. Come and wait for multiple nationalities, decades of overseas living experience and a global perspective.

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Project name: DrinkUP

One sentence introduction: DrinkUP, a fun and fun NFT membership platform, helps beverage brands to promote products and repurchase.

Founding team: The core team comes from well-known Internet companies and well-known consumer goods companies such as Tencent, Bilibili, Meituan, Qutoutiao, New Oriental, 22:15, and all undertake core tasks. The team members have been in charge of many products with tens of millions of daily activities, and have operated and operated well-known web3 projects. They have rich experience in product creation and growth/operation.

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Project name: Avault

One-sentence introduction: a one-stop full-chain revenue service platform that completes cross-chain interoperability with one click.

Founding team: The core team comes from well-known companies such as Ali, UBC and Mytoken, universities and blockchain companies. They have many years of experience in blockchain work and have in-depth research on the cross-chain track and the DeFi track.

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Project name: Gameland

In one sentence: Gameland is a community-driven gaming social infrastructure that connects developers with their players and content creators.

Founding Team: The founders once built a Polkadot-based cross-chain unsecured lending aggregation defi platform, created the concept of a vAMM transaction pool, and completed product pledges on the HuoBi platform, with a total value of 100 million US dollars.

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Project name: Discover

One sentence introduction: an open social network based on the soul map.

Founding Team: Founder Chesky holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Zhejiang University, a serial entrepreneur, and has 6 years of experience in the blockchain industry. In 2016, he joined Qulian Technology as a member of the founding team and served as the product director, general manager of the product and operation center, etc.

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Project name: Scale Protocol

One sentence introduction: an on-chain multi-asset derivatives trading protocol that provides users with diversified trading hedging tools.

Founding team: The team members graduated from the University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business with majors in finance, IT and MBA. They have many years of experience in global asset management, Internet market operation experience and centralized exchange development and design experience. The team is also equipped with a professional financial asset risk management consultant team, who have worked together for many years in previous Web2 project cooperation and cooperated with each other tacitly.

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Project name: Ghost NFT

In one sentence: a safer, more efficient, combined NFT leasing agreement and market.

Founding team: The core team members graduated from Peking University, Harbin Institute of Technology and other well-known universities in computer science. Work experience in well-known Internet companies such as Baidu and Xiaomi.

Project introduction: The GhostNFT protocol does not require NFT asset transfers and over-collateralization, which brings better security and capital efficiency, and supports any standard NFT/SBT leasing. The GhostNFT leasing market supports self-deployment leasing contracts without permission on the application side, and can specify the one-to-many and many-to-one leasing combinations of application items and NFT collections.

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About Moonshot Workshop:

Moonshot Commons is a Gen Z technology maker community, established in early 2021, invested by more than ten venture capital funds and Web3 companies including Hash Global, HashKey, ZhenFund, Zhichun Capital, Pickup Technology, etc., dedicated to Build a more inclusive entrepreneurial sandbox for Web3 developers and entrepreneurs around the world.