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Hackathons

2026

Block Party

HackKU - Ripple Winner

Hackathon winning project built on the XRP ledger. Completely redefines digital ticket sales, using unreleased blockchain features to eliminate third-party reselling forever. In this system, fans cannot resell tickets -- they can only return them!

  • Created an SDK for ticket vendors in TypeScript
  • Leveraged experimental features such as Decentralized IDs, Multi-Purpose Tokens, Hooks, and Smart Escrows
  • Capitalized on blockchain technology to allow for verifiable and cheap auditing

Check out the repo here and the DevPost here.

2026

Bounty Bot

RaikesHacks - Agentic AI Winner

A next-generation evaluation platform developed to accelerate rising software engineers in an ever-growing, AI-native world. LeetCode for AI agent orchestration for real-world problems.

  • Companies submit problems they want solved
  • Students are provided boilerplate for their orchestration
  • They submit a Docker image to DockerHub and can test their solution against a "sample problem" while they build
  • Once submissions are uploaded, companies are provided with a Golang CLI tool to automatically mount the images into their codebase
  • Their CI/CD pipelines will integrate the results back to us, where we calculate a score for the best submissions and update a leaderboard

Check out the repo here.

2025

Banana Blockchain

Cornhacks - General Winner

A supply-chain transparency tool designed to give consumers the piece-of-mind about their produce while streamlining administrative visions.

  • Crates are assigned a UUID for tracking
  • Every transaction is recorded on the ledger (harvest, transfer, store)
  • QR codes are generated with GPS data to ensure no process of the chain is broken
  • At every step, a Haversine function audits to ensure that produce isn't moving "too fast" and that the cryptographic chain hasn't been tampered with
  • Once a customer receives the produce, they can enter the code on the sticker and see an interactive, 3D map of where their produce has travelled across the world

Check out the repo here.