First ever NWC hackathon track has ended! 9 out of 26 projects during Cooperative Catfish 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 Thoughtless Antelope and Flash (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! 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 🎨 devpost.com/software/money-badger-w94srg Team that integrated bitcoin payments with NWC into a White Noise by Cheerful Moose , 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 ⚡ devpost.com/software/zaps-from-white-noise The main price of the whole hackathon, 5 mln sats, goes to Petite Monkey - 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 🔌 devpost.com/software/zapzappi Cuddly Kangaroo , 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. savesloppy.org 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! 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. 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 bitcoin-connect.com integration. devpost.com/software/kartapio devpost.com/software/bitcoin-free-market Thanks to all projects that chose to build on Nostr Wallet Connect and thanks to Stale Perch and Cooperative Catfish for hosting the event and NWC track. NWC prizes of total 1 mln sats were funded by Thoughtless Antelope and Flash (paywithflash.com/). Kudos!