Moonshot The 7th Apollo Day of the 22 selected projects

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On January 14th, Moonshot Workshop 2022/2023 Web3 Winter Hackathon Apollo Day was successfully held. A total of 22 projects were selected to enter Moonshot Apollo Day. The hackathon was jointly organized by the Crypto Fintech Lab, Blockchain Academy, Aspecta, RSS3, KCC, Zettablock, IOSG, etc. A total of 216 projects around the world were registered. Fifty teams were selected for Hackathon Workshops, and 22 teams went to the final Apollo Day to present their work to the public. In this Apollo Day keynote address, KK, founder of Hash Global, and Dr. Lucas, founder of Bytrade.

Some of the guests and tutors invited by the Lunar Workshop include:

Suji Yan, Founder of Mask Network, Professor Chen Kayou, Director of Blockchain Center of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Evan Shapiro, CEO of Mina Protocol, Liu Xing, Partner of Sequoia China, YY Lai, Partner of Signum Capital, Professor Dawn Song, CEO and founder of Oasis Labs, Professor Wang Yang, Vice President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Charles, founder of Galxe, Hash Global founding partner KK, IOSG founding partner Jocy, Mirror World CPO Jialin, HashKey Partner DC, Dr. Raullen Chai, Founder of IoTeX; Tina, Investment Director of Zhenfund; Dr. Lucas, Vice President of Code; Founder of Bytetrade; Tang Yi, executive director of Qiming Ventures; Penny, co-founder of Sixiang Technology; Zeng Yinglong, partner of Zhichen Capital; Founder of RSS3 Joshua, ChainIDE founder Wu Xiao and dozens of other professors, founders and partners from universities, public chains, venture capital funds, and Web3 companies.

List of items

Project name: Chataverse

This is a FT-gated "community" chat software

Founding Team: Chataverse is an affiliate of UCSD, USC, and UW. He worked at Apple, Tesla, JPMorgan and ByteDance.

Chataverse is an NFT-Gated social chat software. The Web 3.0 community needs a NFT gated social chat application tailored specifically to it so that users can socialize and co-govern transparently and securely. Chataverse provides users with the ability to create their own community, chat, and post within ChatAverse, connecting NFT Holders to the community through NFT holding verification.

This is the Chataverse's second Lunar Hackathon, and the team was recently funded by YC USA's Pre-seed.

Project name: ST World

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

Founding Team: The founding team includes Bell Chen (CEO), who published his research on generating AI at the age of 18 in IEEE, and Elijah Mansur (CTO), a fast learner who built all the backend 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 profit from virtual environments and AR decorations. Our goal is to significantly reduce the cost of 3D content by training a powerful large-scale 3D generation model using the data created. We have also designed a new contract, Non-Homogeneous Copyright Token (NFCT), to facilitate collaborative relationships with 3D authoring.

Project name: ORG3

A brief introduction: An organization management tool based on ENS subdomain name.

Founding Team: The Org3 team members graduated from USC and CMU and have worked at Google, Meta, Tiktok, PonyAI, etc. The founders of the project have won top awards at ETHSanFrancisco.

Project Description: Org3 is a decentralized organization and community management tool based on ENS subdomain. Org3 is a cheaper, more convenient, and more secure alternative to traditional token-based solutions. Org3 uses ENS 'parsing service to provide users with an intuitive organization management structure. Users no longer need to use hard-to distinguish wallet addresses in the organization. Org3 allows users to create and distribute subdomains for a very low Gas Fee. Users can set many rules and have more control than token-based solutions. Using the ENS subdomain as the core, Org3 is integrating and collaborating with Dapps and DAO tools to support a decentralized work environment.

Project name: Symposium Lab

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

Founding Team: The founding team consists of SaaS and AI serial entrepreneurs and Harvard Medical School professors. Other members are data science, computer science, and finance talent from top companies in various industries, including linkedin, Broad Institute, Morgan Stanley, PJT Partners, Cohere.ai, and others.

Project introduction: Symposium Lab aims to build a global open science community through AI and blockchain enabling research preprinting and decentralized sharing of data, providing a level playing field for all students, researchers, and scientists, connecting them to a growing and evolving network of content creation and peer review. Break the monopoly of traditional publishers and reward scientific research that advances human civilization. Symposium Lab's products build on the company's core asset: leveraging contributions from community members, enabling users to more efficiently access, integrate, analyze, and manage research-related data and information across organizations.

Project Name: Ladder

In one sentence: Provide liquidity for your NFT Swap

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

Ladder Protocol is a decentralized NFT AMM that enables instant NFT exchange and better price discovery. Ladder Protocol is a peer-to-peer system, to exchange the ETH, BSC and Polygon NFT (ERC20 | ERC721 | ERC1155).

Project name: Eigen Network

In one sentence: a privacy-centric zkVM for developers

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

Project description: Eigen Network created a layered proof system with a constant proof size and no-trust Settings, extended the zkVM to support privacy-protecting computing with a private standard template library, and built zkzkRollup as a privacy layer for web3.0.

Project name: CALDANCE

Introduction in one sentence: A MACHINE FI sports reward application project connecting WEB2.0 and NFT blockchain digital assets in the WEB3.0 world by using physical consumption level sports and fitness hardware.

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

Project introduction: Through MachineFi and game incentive mechanism, CALDANCE uses project-certified physical sports equipment for exercise, generating real, credible and immutable sports data. Based on these large-scale valuable physical hardware, user groups and user sports data, Caldance develops into a valuable brand and ecology. Generate value and reward users.

Project name: Lewk Protocol

One sentence introduction: We help web3 builders create a user-owned professional identity and referral network using Soul bound NFT and verifiable credentials.

Founding team: Dr. Alysia Wu has worked as a senior engineer at Verizon Media, Credit Karma, Chime, Opendoor, and Compound Labs.

Project Description: The Lewk protocol we are building is a modular protocol for demonstrating individual achievements through on-chain and off-chain records to build the web3 Native Professional identity and referral network. By having your identity and professional network on-chain, we provide an essential utility for web3 newbies, job seekers and employers.

Project Name: Ascendant Network

Ascendant Network is a decentralized metaphysical ecology.

Founding team: The core team is from Peking University, UC Berkeley, the University of Hong Kong, and the Advanced Business School of Insek. It has the experience of Alibaba, Xiaohongshu, UBS, Kucoin, etc., and has successfully operated the NFT project and trading platform.

Project introduction: Ascendant will launch a series of interesting and practical products based on Astrology, such as New Year fortune, token matching and other products to help users invest. Ascendant will also introduce Life plates, personality tests, fortune analysis, and combination plates to enable users to delve deeper into themselves and find spiritual solace. Ascendant will combine with NFT in a variety of ways, using AIGC to give users a personalized and dynamic NFT experience in each disassembled scene, maximizing the charm of web3 metaphysics.

Project name: Winner

One-sentence introduction: Decentralized NFT exchanges with Leverage and share2earn support.

Founding team: The core team is composed of technical directors, R&D and designers of domestic first-tier factories. 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 market value of 10 million, and is a contributor to Ethereum.

Project introduction: NFT track has the problem of high price fluctuation and lack of liquidity, blue chip project participation cost is high, ordinary project is prone to price collapse, lack of liquidity. Winner is a decentralized NFT exchange that has the following characteristics:

Leveraged trading: Support ERC721/ERC1155 mixed package sale and leveraged trading; Share2Earn: Supports social sharing fission to form an attention economy. Play2Earn: Increase participant motivation through NFT airdrops and gamification scenarios.

With these unique designs, Winner can lower the barrier to entry for NFT trading, improve liquidity, and create a never-ending stream of new wealth-making legends for the NFT market.

Project name: Xcast

In a word: xCast is the next generation of on-chain podcasting platform, aiming to make the spread and evolution of "sound civilization" more free and diverse.

Founding team: The core team members of xCast come from the world's first-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 a daily turnover of 1 million, and have the entrepreneurial experience of web3 project from 0 to 1.

Project description: Creators are free to upload audio of any subject on xCast, and listeners can enjoy rich and unique audio content and interact with podcasters online. A Bubble of individual NFT identities for each audio genre, xCast not only allows users to easily access mainstream podcast content, but also embraces subcultural sound enthusiasts. Through a benign incentive mechanism, users are encouraged to create, process, disseminate and consume audio content. xCast has a potential partnership with a number of podcasters and will launch a product Beta in the first quarter.

Project name: The Reader

In a word: 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 Alibaba, familiar with the publishing industry, with IP and star brokerage resources; The advisory team includes copyright experts specially invited by the government, leading game planners in the industry, core developers of well-known reading software, well-known media technology journalists in the industry, CS PhD of University of California and blockchain entrepreneurs with Amazon background.

Project introduction: End B: Author/copyright Party can publish books on the chain, issue book NFT, and sell e-books; C end: NFT investors/readers can invest in books NFT, distribute e-books to obtain high commission, reading to earn money.

Project name: Sodium

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

Founding team: The core team is from Tencent and Alibaba, which has been running a business for 7 years. In the past projects, the team has received investment from Sequoia Capital and YC America, and has successful project experience in web3 circuit. This is the second time to participate in the Moon landing Hackathon.

Project introduction: multi-party computation (MPC) technology and the base built by ZK is a de-trust network. The private key is not generated at the user side and no one has the private key. Decentralized de-trust nodes store some information and there is privacy between nodes. Different from Multsign and all unmanaged wallets, its underlying paradigm builds extremely secure information security system, and the upper layer decentralized applications can easily build asset management systems based on this wallet.

Project name: Descrypto

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 and more. He is a National Project winner and one of the top three computer science professors in computing. He is also the First Prize winner of the 2021 QAX Innovation Sandbox in China.

Project introduction: Descrypto builds a reliable security measurement platform for web3 project, including automated smart contract security detection and web3 infrastructure project security testing. This is an advanced AI/ML based risk control framework with real-time computing capabilities to evaluate web3 projects by scrutinizing code, on-chain data, and project insights. They effectively detect zero-day, known/unknown threats, risks, and real-time abnormal behavior in hundreds of millions of large-scale DAU applications.

Project name: MemeBook

Introduction: Web3 intelligent investment research community enables accurate flow of information and analysis, and enables comments and interaction to help others.

Founding team: The core team is from Ebay, Alibaba, Tencent, Shanda, NetEase and other first-line Internet companies, graduated from Tsinghua, Tongji, Wu University and other universities. Have several years of industry experience in Web3 field and long-term good collaboration.

MemeBook is a Web3 intelligent investment research community developed by CodeFlyLabs for beginning and intermediate users. Through intelligent recommendation and domain search, users can comfortably obtain accurate information in the Web3 world, including news information, user post opinions, just-in-time transaction analysis, assets and operations on the address chain, etc.

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 is from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Southeast University, Tsinghua /INSEAD, Fudan University and other well-known universities. They have many years of entrepreneurial experience in Web2 and Web3 and experience in product development, scale growth and technology sales. They also have French, Australian, Malay and other nationalities, as well as decades of overseas living experience and global vision.

Project Description: Tristan solves the ease-to-use problem of Web2 user migration. Create Web3 identity and account system for users based on Web2 accounts (including Internet apps, social platforms, etc.), which conforms to the usage habits of Web2 users and greatly reduces the migration cost of billions of users.

Project name: DrinkUP

In a word: DrinkUP, a fun NFT member platform that helps beverage brands promote and re-purchase their products.

Founding team: The core team is from Tencent, Bilibili, Meituan, Qutoutiao, New Oriental, 22:15 and other well-known Internet companies and consumer products companies, and all undertake core work. Team members are responsible for a number of products with tens of millions of days of life, and have operated well-known web3 projects, with rich experience in product building and growth/operation.

Project introduction: Through gamification and casual social NFT, beverage brands and users are connected, users and consumer brands can establish a drink-centered digital community by combining with NFT, so that brands can expand from the real social space to the broader Web3.0 social space, and open a new paradigm of brand marketing.

Project name: Avault

One sentence introduction: one-click complete cross-chain interoperation one-stop full-chain revenue service platform.

Founding team: The core team is from well-known companies such as Ali, UBC and Mytoken, universities and blockchain companies, with many years of blockchain work experience, and deep research in cross-chain track and DeFi track.

Project Description: Avault offers a way to subvert previous web3 Defi dApp interactions. Staking is a great opportunity for staking a staking staking staking, Omni Copy-trading, and staking. Avault is staking a staking staking staking on any asset on any Avault chain. Forget about the tedious cross-chain experience and focus on speed, usability, and what really matters in their transactions.

Project name: Gameland

Gameland is a community-driven social infrastructure for games that connects developers with their players and content creators.

Founding team: The founder created the Polkadot-based cross-chain unsecured lending aggregation defi platform, pioneered the concept of vAMM trading pool, and completed product pledge on HuoBi platform, with a total value of $100 million.

Project Description: Gameland provides an open platform for game players to discover high-quality decentralized social games, helping game developers to bring together players and users. Players have a strong demand for game communities, and the channel + vertical community model can provide players with a one-stop quality experience. Build a bridge for developers to connect with users, solve the research and development pain point that it is difficult for developers to obtain high-quality feedback from players, realize the ability of multi-platform migration of content for content creators, and increase the passive income ability of creators. With the open social graph, users can easily manage their social network data and return ownership of social data to the user.

Project name: Discoverse

In one sentence: An open social network based on the Soul Map.

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

Project introduction: Discoverse aims to establish an open social network based on the soul map, characterise each individual's multi-dimensional digital identity and form an exclusive social identity data set based on the self-developed soul voucher protocol, so that each person can have his/her own meta-cosmic passport, and explore and mine the connection value between social nodes based on the digital identity, so as to promote decentralized social governance. Based on the self-developed protocol, the project developed and launched a demonstration application on the mobile terminal, which provides convenient functions such as sending and receiving soul credentials and recommending soul friends with similar experience to Web2. By reducing the cognitive cost of Web2 users, the project realized the capture and migration of mass data under the chain such as social relations and social identities.

Project name: Scale Protocol

One sentence introduction: a multi-asset derivatives trading protocol on a chain, providing users with diversified trading hedging tools.

Founding Team: Team members graduated from the University of Hong Kong, the City University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in finance, IT and MBA, with many years of experience in global asset management, Internet market operation and centralized exchange development and design experience, the team is also equipped with a professional financial asset risk management consultant team. In the previous Web2 project cooperation for many years, tacit cooperation.

Project description: This is the second time for Scale Protocol to participate in the Moon Hackathon. The product of Scale Protocol aims at providing users with clear and transparent derivatives trading protocols for making deals. The innovative DPF trading mode developed by the team makes the trading process more concise and smooth through high leverage and low rate, and combines the intelligent algorithm model to maximize the utilization rate of funds and provide more excellent trading depth for traders. At the same time, the platform aggregates a wealth of assets, including but not limited to cryptocurrency, foreign exchange, precious metals, bulk commodities, etc., to help traders realize various asset hedging and reduce trading risks. The team is committed to continuous innovation and iteration on on-chain derivatives trading protocols, providing better trading experience, attracting more trading partners to join the world of Web3, and enjoying fair and smooth decentralized financial services.

Project name: Ghost NFT

In one sentence: A more secure, efficient, integrated NFT leasing agreement and market.

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

Project Description: The GhostNFT protocol eliminates the need for NFT asset transfer and excess collateral, resulting in better security and capital efficiency, and supports any standard NFT/SBT leasing. GhostNFT Rental market supports non-licensed self-deployment lease contracts. You can specify one-to-many or many-to-one rental combinations of application projects and NFT collection.

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