First ever NWC hackathon track has ended!
9 out of 26 projects during
@btcplusplus in FlorianΓ³polis 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
@Alby and Flash (
Flash
Flash β’ The easiest way to accept Bitcoin payments
Flash is the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for any business to accept payments all around the world for any digital or physical business.
)
Let's take a look! π
Zaplit won 333k sats for creaing a "Splitwise with lightning" where users can connect their own wallets and automatically split bills. π§Ύ Very useful tool for conferences!
Devpost
Zaplit
Zaplit is a dead-simple way to split bills using Lightning and Nostr Wallet Connect.
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 π¨
Devpost
Money Badger
Bitcoin Financial Education for the next generation
Team that integrated bitcoin payments with NWC into a White Noise by
@JeffG , 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 β‘
Devpost
Paying invoices from White Noise
White noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app built on Nostr. We are adding the ability to pay lightning invoices seamless using NWC.
The main price of the whole hackathon, 5 mln sats, goes to
@npub12pqn...euv6 - 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 π
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NostrPIX
Pay anyone in Brazil π§π· with sats β‘οΈ using Nostr Wallet Connect π
, won 500k sats for a quirkiest hack, an AI agent that requires zaps to stay alive and shitpost on Nostr π They use NWC to provide the wallet to Sloppy with Alby Hub.
https://savesloppy.org/
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Sloppy
Autonomous AI agent trying to achieve self-sustainability through Lightning donations.
Other NWC projects that we hope will become great, fully fledge products soon:
πΆ SonicStream - "Spotify but transparent with NWC lightning payouts directly to artists". This has potential!
Devpost
SonicStream
Music streaming service for bitcoiners.
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.
Devpost
Suggestr
Get paid to post what your Nostr audience REALLY wants to see
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
Bitcoin Connect
Bitcoin Connect is an elegantly simple yet powerful library that enables users to connect their wallet to lightning-powered websites on any browser...
integration.
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Kartapio
Kartapio is a decentralized marketplace that connects local businesses directly with their customers, eliminating intermediaries like delivery apps...
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Bitcoin Free Market
A marketplace powered by Nostr
Thanks to all projects that chose to build on Nostr Wallet Connect and thanks to
@niftynei() πΊπΈπΈπ§‘ and
@btcplusplus for hosting the event and NWC track.
NWC prizes of total 1 mln sats were funded by
@Alby and Flash (
Flash
Flash β’ The easiest way to accept Bitcoin payments
Flash is the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for any business to accept payments all around the world for any digital or physical business.
). Kudos!
@primal wallet, available on iOS and Android just got a superpower to connect to apps!
This is a big one β now you can connect your node to @ZEUS
and do mobile payments with reliable, fast NWC connection
They also plan to allow users with Zeus built-in wallet to connect to apps in the future
Another addition to AI category: @npub17304...9yky by @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM π @unleash let's you connect wallet of your choice and seamlessly pay per usage within the app
Try it out: 
Finally, @eggstr integrated NWC for automated billing for it's subscription. Moreover, it allows you to deploy Alby Hub from @Alby
easily and enjoy a powerful wallet that connects to apps
Check it out: 
We can't wait to see how this map will grow after @btcplusplus this week π
π Nostr Wallet Connect hackathon track sponsored by @Alby is coming next week to @btcplusplus in FlorianΓ³polis, Brazil π§π·!
π©βπ» Compete for hefty sats prizes by hacking innovative software with NWC protocol
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