Congrats to all the winners and honorable mentions from the
@colosseum Frontier Hackathon, the largest one yet by participation.
I've been at
@techexpohq (African Tech Expo, ATE 2026) for the past two days, which is why this is coming late.
Things landed differently than I'd hoped, but getting to the interview stage is still something to be proud of (right?).
With
@blockride_xyz (v1 of the idea), we got honorable mention at both Hyperdrive and Renaissance, without ever reaching an interview. Our first submission used NFTs for tokenization, which we later realized had real limitations. Second time around we switched to SFTs, which came with their own constraints too. After that we stepped away from hackathons entirely and just kept building on our own, at our own pace, with no deadline pushing us (slow and probably not steady).
Around March this year, with no hackathon in mind at all, I started redesigning the whole idea from scratch. I only found out about the Frontier Hackathon about two weeks before it kicked off, and decided to bring this new version into it. This is a completely different approach from what we built for Blockride, rebuilt from the ground up in about a month, and two weeks into the hackathon we had to redesign the entire model. Proud of what we managed to put together in that window.
This time around, we got to the interview stage, and next time, we're definitely gunning for the win.
Thanks to
@DefiSolar and
@c2yptic for never getting tired of me running this idea past them over and over.
Shipping continues.
Congrats to all the winners and honorable mentions.
This is the largest crypto hackathon yet with 2,857 project submissions. That's a seriously deep field.
We poured our hearts into this throughout the hackathon and after, and getting interviewed out of that many builders is something we hold dearly.
Shipping continues, as on-chain fleet financing won't build itself.