Odaily News BNB Chain announced the results of the latest batch of BNB Hack (6/23–7/17). The social protocol Basement (DeSoc direction), AI-driven DeFi assistant DeFi Copilot, and strategy tool BIBIM (AI direction) successfully won awards, all of which can receive 3,000 USDT bonus, 50,000 Kickstart reward package and official Demo Day display opportunities. At the same time, Peridot and Agent Einstein in the AI direction entered the incubation observation list. This round received more than 30 submissions from developers around the world, including from the offline event in New York: Basement: Provides an instant social layer for web pages, combined with AI Agents to achieve one-click chat, interaction, rewards and information aggregation; DeFi Copilot: A one-stop PancakeSwap trading assistant that integrates real-time analysis, one-click order placement, and automatic management; BIBIM: Uses visual interfaces and AI to simplify strategy building, testing, and monetization, reducing the complexity of DeFi; BNB Hack is a long-term hackathon launched by BNB Chain for Web3 innovation directions such as AI, DeSoc, DeSci, and DePIN. It has received more than 200 global submissions and has selected 9 Tier 3 projects and 40 potential projects.

Odaily News BNB Chain announced that DeFi protocol UpTop and AI health technology platform Bitring have become the new official sponsors of the BNB Hack hackathon. This joining not only brings two new bounty challenges to developers, but also further expands BNB Hack's technical exploration in the fields of AI, DeSoc, DeSci and DePIN. • UpTop is a decentralized liquidity protocol built on BNB Chain. It lowers the threshold for DeFi users through one-click BNB unilateral staking and IL protection mechanism. UpTop launched a $8,000 bounty challenge to encourage developers to expand contracts and innovate governance mechanisms around the next generation of liquidity pools. • Bitring is a wearable health platform that combines AI bio-monitoring, on-chain incentives and smart contract insurance. Its core product is a 999 gold smart ring that provides 24-hour health data analysis and on-chain protection. This time, Bitring has set up 10 Genesis smart rings (each worth US$1,199) as development rewards to encourage the construction of AI modules that can identify diet and nutritional analysis.

Odaily News Web3 security company CertiK appeared at the Paris Proof of Talk 2025 Summit as a platinum sponsor and led discussions on core security issues. The conference brought together leading figures and innovative companies in the global Web3+AI field to conduct in-depth exchanges on topics such as Web3 data security, DeSci, DePIN and decentralized AI. During the summit, CertiK will co-host a VIP dinner with XVentures to promote exchanges among industry leaders, and will lead two roundtable discussions to discuss the security and sustainable trust mechanisms of Web3 wallets and asset custody, and share CertiK’s experience and insights in ensuring the security of assets for thousands of blockchain projects. As the cornerstone of industry security, CertiK said it will continue to promote technological innovation and safeguard the asset security of developers and users around the world.

Odaily News BNB Chain announced today that it will host a long-term hackathon for global developers, BNB Hack, with four core tracks: AI (artificial intelligence); DeSci (decentralized science); DeSoc (decentralized social); DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure network). There is no deadline, and projects can be submitted at any time. Winners and finalists will be selected every two weeks. During the participation process, mentor guidance, technical support, and project acceleration opportunities will be provided. The finalists will have the opportunity to receive up to $10,000 in rewards, MVB accelerator direct interviews, and the opportunity to showcase their projects on BNB Chain official channels. The participating projects must be deployed on opBNB or BSC mainnet/testnet; must be open source and available to others; the project should be a new project participating in the hackathon for the first time; and must include GitHub links, demo videos, contract addresses, and other submission materials.

Odaily News The blockchain game project MOBOX officially announced its transformation into the DeSci (decentralized scientific research) field, launching a new platform with "gamified scientific research" as its core. The project aims to gamify the scientific research process so that everyone can participate in experiments, confirm the results, and realize commercial realization. MOBOX's first hardware product is the "Magic Box", which looks like a petri dish and has modules such as spectrum control, nutrient supply, temperature and humidity management, and gas monitoring. It can accurately simulate the natural environment and support users to conduct basic biological experiments on fungi, vegetables, etc. at home with low barriers. The project roadmap shows that MOBOX will gradually expand from basic biological cultivation to medicinal plants and high-value microorganisms, and ultimately build a global distributed scientific research collaboration platform to serve AI drug development, smart agriculture and other scenarios.

Odaily News April 4, 2025 — BNB Chain, together with YZi Labs and CMC Labs, officially announced the 16 selected projects for the ninth season of the Most Valuable Builder (MVB) Accelerator Program. This season’s themes focus on tracks such as AI, DeFi, and DePIN. The selected teams will participate in a four-week intensive incubation and have the opportunity to receive investment support from YZi Labs. Key Events: Offline Opening Ceremony in Hong Kong (April 5-6) • Time: April 5-6 (coinciding with the Hong Kong Web3 Festival and BNB Super Meetup) •Highlights: Project parties will have face-to-face exchanges with industry mentors, investors and the BNB Chain core team to discuss key challenges of early Web3 projects (such as token economic design, financing strategies, etc.). The 16 shortlisted projects are: AI • BitGPT: Decentralized AI Agent Network • Datai Network: On-chain AI providing structured data layer • Echopy: BNB on-chain AI portfolio optimizer • Eurexa AI: The first on-chain tokenization platform for robotics • Everlyn: High-speed Web3 video generation tool • JoJoWorld: Decentralized 3D spatial data platform • Super Protocol: Collaborative confidential AI marketplace • TermiX: AI-powered Web3 operating system DeFi • BitFi: Native BTC Interest-Bearing CeDeFi Solution • LIKWID: Permissionless, Oracle-Based Margin Trading Protocol DePIN • XPIN: AI-driven consumer-grade DePIN platform DeSci • Stadium Science: A prediction market platform that accelerates scientific research • Citadel Labs: A deep tech project launch platform for games and entertainment • Oneverse: Southeast Asia’s top Web2 game marketplace • TCOM Global: AI+Web3 decentralized IP protocol infrastructure • Pieverse: A decentralized protocol that reconstructs the human attention economy Sarah S, head of business development at BNB Chain, said: “MVB provides a critical bridge for early-stage teams to connect to industry resources, and we look forward to supporting projects with long-term potential through incubation.”

Odaily News The decentralized scientific research platform Bio Protocol launched the V1 version upgrade, based on the Base and Solana chains, with core functions including BioDAO Launchpad, AI-driven BioAgents and new DAO milestone mechanism. The new system has transformed from the original screening accelerator to a fully on-chain project application and financing process, and expanded the actual utility of BIO tokens in governance, financing and services, promoting the democratization of scientific research in the DeSci field. (The Block)

Odaily News According to the official X account of the Sei Foundation, Sei is considering acquiring 23andMe, a genetic testing company that has filed for bankruptcy protection, and plans to put the genetic data of more than 15 million users on the chain and give users ownership and control over their own genetic data. Sei said that genetic data security has become a national security issue, and 23andMe is currently facing serious financial difficulties and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Several state attorneys general have reminded users to consider deleting their personal data on the platform. If this acquisition goes forward, Sei will protect privacy through blockchain encryption mechanisms, allowing users to decide whether and how to authorize the use and monetization of their own data. Sei said this will be its "most radical decentralized science (DeSci) project."

Odaily News Recently, the third season of the hackathon jointly organized by EDU Chain, Open Campus, and developer platform HackQuest was officially launched. This event has six major tracks including AI, DeFi, Earn, DeSci, Play, and others, with a total prize pool of up to $250,000. As a continuation of the previous two seasons, this season is also the final season of the EDU Chain hackathon series. The winning projects will not only receive generous bonuses, but also have the opportunity to enter the incubator OCI and receive Grant support of $20,000 to $100,000. At the same time, ExVul Security will support the hackathon as an Open Campus security partner, providing free or discounted security consulting and audit services to the winning teams. The online submission period for the event is scheduled from February 10 to April 10, 2025, and the selection results will be officially announced on May 1, 2025. In addition to the online competition, Edu Chain will also hold multiple offline workshops, meetups and hackerhouse events in Nigeria, China, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries to provide participants with comprehensive ecological deployment support.

Odaily News Dana, an investor of Yzi Labs, said in a post that projects suitable for applying for Yzi Labs include: DeFi: Implementing new mechanisms that have never been tried before, including leveraging Uni v4 hooks, new LP/MEV value accumulation, and DeFi projects that develop innovative features and functions on new chains and increase adoption; AI Agents: have sovereignty, can accept bribes and make decisions on their own, including which tokens to buy, promote, sell, and whether to launch their own tokens and design token economics, or can seamlessly share memories, a potential new form of asset; RWA: asset ownership registries, verifiable voting results, borderless payments to a global workforce, crypto debit/credit cards and micropayment use cases for our daily life interactions; Desci: Infrastructure for verifiable/accountable off-chain experiments, workflows (i.e., Benchling), and DeFi projects built on on-chain Desci IP; Consumer applications: mainly to incentivize entry into Web3. But the above is just my temporary idea, Yzi will release more complete content later.