BasePaintBasePaint Year 3 Hackathon winners announced
BasePaint revealed the winners of its Year 3 Hackathon after 32 projects were judged by an 8-person panel over two rounds, with each project read by at least three judges and the eight finalists judged by all.
Grand Prize went to CanvasFlip by @afurourrego, a trading card game where each card is a BasePaint day backed by that day's real on-chain history.
Other honors included:
- Judges' Favorite — bp3dex by @gandhionchain, converting any canvas into a 3D voxel sculpture.
- Art Projects — BasePaint World by @cryptologist99, a playable pixel overworld of canvases.
- For Collectors — Missing Days by @vvegalex, showing which BasePaint days a wallet owns.
- For Artists — a plugin by @GulaManYOW with bucket fill and other tools.
- Honorable mentions — Semantic Search, Shard Memories, a fully on-chain viewer NFT by @JestemZero, and STRATA pixel-stroke visualization.
Sources
- 4/ STRATA — Who painted which pixel, in what order, in what color. 134,000 stroke events replayed for a single day. "Loved exploring the heatmap and visualizing an artists contributions with one click" https://t.co/ZMjJeS7iOH Replying to their earlier post: 3/ Onchain Viewer by @JestemZero — an NFT that replays any day by reading Base directly. No server, no host, nothing to switch off. "Captures the ethos of making Basepaint something that can last for…x.com ↗
- 3/ Onchain Viewer by @JestemZero — an NFT that replays any day by reading Base directly. No server, no host, nothing to switch off. "Captures the ethos of making Basepaint something that can last forever without anyone hosting anything" https://t.co/kkzVxgjmgy Quoting @JestemZero: This is outside the box form the @basepaint_xyz hackathon since this is actually an NFT. But it is fully onchain so open source and freely available as anything since it's never going away. The BasePaint Canvas Fully Onchain Viewer. An NFT that not only replays the canvas https://t.co/uxj4U1v3io https://t.co/PgPcmsORC0 Replying to their earlier post: 2/ Shard Memories by @Pinkyblu_ Generative pixel art built from BasePaint palettes and tiles. Simplex noise, flow fields, cellular automata, recombining real canvas fragments. https://t.co/jVh9IkoxG…x.com ↗
- JUDGES' FAVORITE — bp3dex by @gandhionchain Any canvas as a 3D voxel sculpture. 110,000+ voxels in a single day, fly through the layers and see everything painted over. "Awesome! And surprising." https://t.co/tn57RY0t8A Replying to their earlier post: ART PROJECTS — BasePaint World by @cryptologist99 A playable pixel overworld built out of BasePaint canvases, with mini-games and galleries in the map. One judge ranked it #1 in the whole hackathon.…x.com ↗
- HONORABLE MENTIONS 1/ Semantic Search by @SarkarAbhijoy Describe a canvas in plain language, find it. The most quietly useful thing built this week. https://t.co/nIRNfKAM0o Quoting @SarkarAbhijoy: BasePaint Semantic Search: Find canvases based on your description If you ever had difficulty remembering canvas names or days, this is for you. Built with @claudeai to fix my pet peeve. https://t.co/UU3tY6Qf2B. https://t.co/mkwyyVJXtt https://t.co/C25MQB1rV5 Replying to their earlier post: JUDGES' FAVORITE — bp3dex by @gandhionchain Any canvas as a 3D voxel sculpture. 110,000+ voxels in a single day, fly through the layers and see everything painted over. "Awesome! And surprising."…x.com ↗
- 2/ Shard Memories by @Pinkyblu_ Generative pixel art built from BasePaint palettes and tiles. Simplex noise, flow fields, cellular automata, recombining real canvas fragments. https://t.co/jVh9IkoxGo Quoting @Pinkyblu_: 🟦WELCOME TO SHARD MEMORIES 🟥 Create generative art from tiles of @basepaint_xyz canvases Each canvas is cut into pieces to create new unique combinations You can use different algorithms, custom colors, and animations to create your artwork Try now: https://t.co/UcBTgqyWNO https://t.co/0Co9mLMVdj https://t.co/nKXSczeXT0 Replying to their earlier post: HONORABLE MENTIONS 1/ Semantic Search by @SarkarAbhijoy Describe a canvas in plain language, find it. The most quietly useful thing built this week. https://t.co/nIRNfKAM0ox.com ↗
- ART PROJECTS — BasePaint World by @cryptologist99 A playable pixel overworld built out of BasePaint canvases, with mini-games and galleries in the map. One judge ranked it #1 in the whole hackathon. "Familiar to normies and crypto people alike" https://t.co/BajCDBTB7r Quoting @cryptologist99: Presenting BasePaint World! I had the idea after Canvas 939 that we could make a little navigable canvas out of it, which quickly spiraled - what if we connected all the similar canvases? What if we imbedded all the canvases inside those canvases? What if we built games and https://t.co/eLPG6Ody5V https://t.co/tARGlHOymY Replying to their earlier post: FOR COLLECTORS — Missing Days by @vvegalex Shows which BasePaint days an address owns and, the useful part, which it doesn't. "Clean, simple and instantly useful to visualize and complete a collecti…x.com ↗
- FOR COLLECTORS — Missing Days by @vvegalex Shows which BasePaint days an address owns and, the useful part, which it doesn't. "Clean, simple and instantly useful to visualize and complete a collection" https://t.co/W2IgEdLrJ6 Quoting @vvegalex: Missing Days: paste any wallet and see its whole @basepaint_xyz life. No wallet connect, no keys, no backend. Built for the hackathon and CC0, so it can live on https://t.co/RVwPGKN0WE https://t.co/IjGar0NKQz https://t.co/p7J17k73iF https://t.co/IHgWekHXS1 https://t.co/dLwY9b2LeX Replying to their earlier post: FOR ARTISTS — BasePaint Plugin by @GulaManYOW Bucket fill, image-to-palette, color picker, stroke export: the tools painters keep asking for, dropped into the canvas. Zero permissions requested. "F…x.com ↗
- 🏆 GRAND PRIZE — CanvasFlip by @afurourrego A trading card game where the cards are BasePaint days. All 1,087 of them, and the stats on each card are that day's real on-chain history. Top score AND the most first-place votes. The only project to win both ways. https://t.co/S2s8G57N6a Replying to their earlier post: 32 projects. One week. 8 judges, 2 rounds. Every project was read by at least 3 judges. The eight finalists were judged by all! Here's what won the BasePaint Year 3 Hackathon 👇 https://t.co/89j9eln…x.com ↗
- FOR ARTISTS — BasePaint Plugin by @GulaManYOW Bucket fill, image-to-palette, color picker, stroke export: the tools painters keep asking for, dropped into the canvas. Zero permissions requested. "For the artists this seems like a no-brainer" https://t.co/Cuz2y87AIh Quoting @GulaManYOW: Hey artists and builders! 🖌️🔵 I built a new plugin for BasePaint and I'd love for you to try it out. Huge thanks to @afurourrego and @uwucreamy , their work was the main inspiration for this project! 📂 Get it here: https://t.co/z272m4AMzl (Check video below how to use) 👇👀 https://t.co/ub4F4RFwR3 https://t.co/VIHJsw88Hf Replying to their earlier post: 🏆 GRAND PRIZE — CanvasFlip by @afurourrego A trading card game where the cards are BasePaint days. All 1,087 of them, and the stats on each card are that day's real on-chain history. Top score AND…x.com ↗
- 32 projects. One week. 8 judges, 2 rounds. Every project was read by at least 3 judges. The eight finalists were judged by all! Here's what won the BasePaint Year 3 Hackathon 👇 https://t.co/89j9eln76q Quoting @basepaint_xyz: Announcing BasePaint Hackathon! Celebrate 3 years of BasePaint by vibe coding fun apps on top of our amazing artwork. 2 ETH worth of prizes + special swag. No programming skills required, just bring your ideas! Registration open @ https://t.co/4XjAgyeK72 https://t.co/kbyS0YUutbx.com ↗
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