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!

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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¨

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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‘

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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
@npub1jyhk...6g5p , 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!

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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.

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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!