Solana DeFi hackathon winners focus on DEX order books, interoperability
A recent Solana hackathon generated unique ideas leveraging the blockchain's architecture. Solana and Serum announced the winners of a recent two-week hackathon focusing on building decentralized finance projects on the Solana blockchain. A total of nine projects were eligible for the hackathon’s official prize pool, with an additional project winning a community prize.The winning projects are primarily new DeFi protocols, though some infrastructure and tooling solutions also made the cut.The two first-place winners, Mango Markets and PsyOptions, won $50,000 in USDC-SPL, or USD Coin (USDC)....
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