Starknet Winter Hackathon: Winners and What’s Next

The Starknet Winter Hackathon was a two-week online event that energized the developer community around Starknet’s Layer-2 technology. Participants transformed ideas into over 100 innovative projects, showcasing the potential of decentralized applications built on Starknet. Following the hackathon, builders were invited to join the ETHDenver Hacker House—an accelerator offering mentorship, tools, and networking to help refine and scale their projects.

Key Ideas

Community-Driven Innovation: The hackathon united a global community of developers, resulting in a surge of creative dApps and experimental tools built on Starknet.
Ecosystem Growth and Support: Starknet continues to invest in its builder ecosystem through initiatives like the Hacker House, providing structured support for project development and scaling.

Why It Matters?

Developers have chances to build AI-integrated DeFi platforms on Starknet, such as governance tools or prediction markets. They should use Starknet.js and Next.js for full-stack development and experiment with Paymaster to enable gasless transactions and flexible payment flows.