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NWC on Nostr: First ever NWC hackathon track has ended! 9 out of 26 projects during btcplusplus in ...

First ever NWC hackathon track has ended!

9 out of 26 projects during in Florianópolis integrated Nostr Wallet Connect to let users use bring their own wallets into the created apps.

1 mln sats will be distributed to 3 best projects thanks to and Flash (https://paywithflash.com/)

Let's take a look! 👇



Zaplit won 333k sats for creaing a "Splitwise with lightning" where users can connect their own wallets and automatically split bills. 🧾 Very useful tool for conferences!
https://devpost.com/software/zaplit

Money Badger won 333k sats for a gamified wallet for kids & parents, where kids can get rewards for simple tasks parents set for them. Kids' wallets are sub-wallets running on the parents' Alby Hub. Awesome!
They also won 100k sats for best design 🎨
https://devpost.com/software/money-badger-w94srg

Team that integrated bitcoin payments with NWC into a White Noise by , a hiper private messaging app built on Nostr, won another 333k sats for best existing app integration. They also won a second place overall, which granted them additional 3 mln sats ⚡
https://devpost.com/software/zaps-from-white-noise

The main price of the whole hackathon, 5 mln sats, goes to - a solution that's a lightning bridge to Brazil fast payments system Pix. Now you can pay with bitcoin EVERYWHERE in Brazil! And you can deposit sats with your NWC connected wallet 🔌
https://devpost.com/software/zapzappi

, won 500k sats for a quirkiest hack, an AI agent that requires zaps to stay alive and shitpost on Nostr 😃 They use NWC to provide the wallet to Sloppy with Alby Hub. https://savesloppy.org/
https://devpost.com/software/ai-scarcity

Other NWC projects that we hope will become great, fully fledge products soon:

🎶 SonicStream - "Spotify but transparent with NWC lightning payouts directly to artists". This has potential!
https://devpost.com/software/sonicstream

Suggestr, a Nostr client where you can suggest Nostr profiles to broadcast certain posts and even bribe them to do so! Bribe payouts are NWC powered, of course.
https://devpost.com/software/suggestr

Finally, two similar projects: Karpatio & Bitcoin Free Market are Nostr-based decentralised product marketplaces, that connects customers directly with local businesses. NWC is enabled by https://bitcoin-connect.com/ integration.

https://devpost.com/software/kartapio
https://devpost.com/software/bitcoin-free-market

Thanks to all projects that chose to build on Nostr Wallet Connect and thanks to and for hosting the event and NWC track.

NWC prizes of total 1 mln sats were funded by and Flash (https://paywithflash.com/). Kudos!