The ICP - WCHL25 - Qualification Round, held online from July 1 to 25, 2025, attracted widespread participation from the global developer community. A total of 11,774 developers registered for the hackathon, and 1,551 project submissions were reviewed and approved across five competition tracks: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bitcoin Decentralized Finance (Bitcoin DeFi), Fully On-Chain, Real-World Assets (RWA), and Open Track. As the initial phase of the World Computer Hacker League, the event focuses on encouraging developers to build decentralized applications based on the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP).

The participating projects explored a variety of areas, including decentralized intelligent systems, Bitcoin-integrated financial applications, full-chain system development, real-world asset tokenization practices, and diverse Web3 implementation scenarios. A key goal of the competition was to deploy a minimum viable product (MVP) to the mainnet, thereby expanding the application landscape of the ICP ecosystem and showcasing developers' technical prowess and innovative ideas.

This round of competition features a $30,000 prize pool for participants to compete for. During the event, organizers also provided developers with technical support, project exposure, and a path to the next round. The high level of participation and the emergence of high-quality projects not only fostered developer growth, but also increased adoption within the ICP ecosystem and highlighted emerging trends in blockchain technology. Notably, the top 50% of projects will advance to the national competition, building momentum for the subsequent global finals.

Winning Project Hackathon

This qualifying competition features 16 categories and 48 sub-awards, highlighting breakthroughs in decentralized technology, artificial intelligence (AI), decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 infrastructure. First, second, and third prizes will be awarded in each category. The following section will group and rank projects by country or region, providing an overview of the top projects in each region.

Argentine winner

•First Prize: ckPayment – A smart contract-based payment SDK that provides developers with decentralized, trustless payment integration similar to Stripe on Internet Computer.

•Second Prize: Infinity Task Protocol – uses a modular architecture to implement an on-chain freelance platform to ensure project collaboration is secure, scalable, and reduces intermediaries.

•Third Prize: Design Guardian – Facilitates the design and display of fashion, bridging fashion, digital art galleries and gaming scenarios through blockchain.

Brazilian winner

•First Prize: Kaisen – Integrating AI-driven personalized learning with blockchain-based credentials to create a user-centric dApp that authenticates educational records.

•Second Prize: BeneChain – Using the ICP blockchain to efficiently and transparently manage employee benefits, achieving a win-win situation for employers and employees.

•Third Prize: TaaS – Provides a fully on-chain automated fact-checking protocol for Web 3 applications, relying on community consensus for verification.

Canadian winners

•First Prize: Hosty.live – supports one-click deployment of GitHub front-end projects as real-time websites on ICP canister, simplifying the decentralized hosting process.

•Second Prize: Satsurance – Building a decentralized insurance market where BTC holders and risk experts can underwrite and purchase crypto asset insurance on-chain.

•Third Prize: AVAI Agent – Implements AI-automated security audits of ICP smart contracts and generates enterprise-level audit reports.

American winners

•First Prize: Prometheus Protocol – Developing an on-chain micropayment protocol to support decentralized monetization of AI agents and tool access payment functions.

•Second Prize: Consensus – Design an ICP protocol-level HTTP proxy to support efficient and consensus-secure external API communication.

•Third Prize: Ad Network – provides a full-chain advertising protocol that supports decentralized advertising and transparent developer rewards.

Kenyan winners

•First Prize: Optic – Launched a decentralized chat platform with a built-in DeFi investment pool, allowing users to earn on-chain returns while chatting.

•Second Prize: OHMS – supports on-chain AI model uploading, operation and maintenance, and monetization, combined with autonomous agent and ICP implementation.

•Third Prize: AfriTokeni – Using blockchain tokens to incentivize climate-smart agriculture, certify and reward sustainable growing practices.

Nigerian winners

•First Prize: Riverr Finance – Natively implements decentralized trading of BTC and ETH derivatives on the ICP blockchain.

•Second Prize: REXX – supports the tokenization of real-world assets and uses AI to automate investment analysis and execution.

•Third Prize: Café – Provides a decentralized, AI-powered collaborative development, documentation, chat and development assistant platform for Web 3 teams.

Vietnamese winners

•First Prize: CharClub Candid Curio – Building a decentralized interactive platform centered around verifiable digital experiences and limited-time art, emphasizing experience rather than single transactions.

•Second Prize: Dtrack app – provides cryptocurrency and NFT asset portfolio tracking tools, with decentralized user data storage.

•Third Prize: OfficeX – A privacy-oriented open source document editing and storage suite that requires no registration and is fully decentralized.

Indonesian winner

•First Prize: Fradium – Combining AI threat detection with community voting to improve Web 3 security and dynamic trust transactions.

•Second Prize: PeridotVault: Next-Gen Gaming, Powered by AI – A Web 2/Web 3 gaming desktop platform that combines AI personalization with decentralized asset management.

•Third Prize: Plantify – Democratizing venture capital through equity tokenization, increasing investment transparency and accessibility.

Indian winners

•First Prize: Reputation Dao – Using soulbound points to create a decentralized, tamper-proof reputation system and achieve transparent trust scoring.

•Second Prize: CannisterDrop – provides a decentralized CDN for ICP blockchain for web resource hosting and distribution.

•Third Prize: InheritNext – Provides a decentralized CDN for ICP blockchain for web resource hosting and distribution.

Ukraine & Poland winners

•First Prize: AlfaAPY – Automatically and dynamically reallocate funds across DeFi protocols on ICP to maximize returns.

•Second Prize: Voyager – supports decentralized service discovery, allowing users and AI agents to interact without the need for centralized Internet organizations.

•Third Prize: PikaGoVPN – a decentralized VPN that integrates AI-driven security analysis, server rental, and on-chain node monitoring.

Philippines & South Korea winners

•First Prize: SpotQuest – gamifies geography learning through photo puzzles, contributes geography education datasets, and rewards users with blockchain.

•Second Prize: KnowFi – provides an easy-to-use Web 3 learning environment with blockchain and ICP-related courses and modules.

•Third Prize: QikCard – provides an easy-to-use Web 3 learning environment with courses and modules related to blockchain and ICP.

Chinese winners

•First Prize: DawnPickCFD – Decentralized after-hours trading of derivatives backed by real-world assets (RWA), using leveraged contracts and running on ICP.

•Second Prize: ALAYA-AI creator’s kickstarter – Building a decentralized collaborative AI and voice intelligence network, using blockchain to incentivize hardware and software contributors.

•Third Prize: ZeroLock – Provides an on-chain AI-driven vulnerability bounty framework, managed by a DAO, with multiple token rewards, to improve Web 3 security.

Bulgarian winner

•First Prize: Merodocs – Implementing a decentralized peer-to-peer electronic signature process, supporting privacy and independent document signing, and eliminating centralized oversight.

•Second Prize: Internet of Buildings on ICP – Tokenizing components of the real-world building environment on ICP to support refined, programmable asset management.

•Third Prize: Context Protocol – Proposes a decentralized domain name service that associates community identities with AI servers for security verification and discovery in the new Internet ecosystem.

UK winners

•First Prize: VaultStamp – Use blockchain timestamps to authenticate digital asset creation and protect intellectual property rights.

•Second Prize: Bonded – Using AI cryptography to verify interpersonal relationships and optimize immigration visa and related processes.

•Third Prize: GhostKeys – Provides a distributed cryptographic vault to manage keys and sensitive information for users and AI agents, serving as an alternative to traditional key infrastructure.

Portugal winner

•First Prize: Polychain – Launched a post-quantum secure cross-chain Layer 2 DeFi solution that integrates quantum-resistant encryption, privacy, and MEV protection.

•Second Prize: Icpjobs.com – A blockchain-based freelancing platform with built-in AI-driven job matching, collaboration, and payment capabilities.

•Third Prize: ChainPredict ICP – Create an AI-based on-chain prediction market that automatically generates market, data analysis, social and gamification experiences.

Global Award Winners

•First Prize: Neuron Bot – Implementing native, secure DAO governance for the ICP community and integrating Discord with staking.

•Second Prize: Nisto – provides a modular AI smart wallet and social DeFi platform with scalable functionality integrated on ICP.

•Third Prize: OpenKeyHub – Building a decentralized, censorship-resistant GitHub alternative with on-chain identity, rewards, and developer collaboration tools.

These achievements demonstrate the participants' diverse exploration and practice in technical fields such as decentralized finance, digital rights management, artificial intelligence development tools and privacy solutions.

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About the Organizer

The World Computer Hacker League (WCHL), driven by ICP, is a global, multi-tiered hackathon designed to bring together top technical talent.