Boundless x Trustless Work Hackathon: Winners and Recognitions
Last week, we wrapped up four exciting days of building, collaboration, and innovation during the Boundless x Trustless Work Hackathon and now, the results are in.
What started as a small hackathon aimed at improving our hackathon flow quickly turned into something much bigger. Builders from different tech backgrounds and countries came together to explore practical ways to implement Trustless Work's escrow infrastructure, and the response exceeded our expectations with far more submissions than we anticipated.
Throughout the hackathon, participants brought their A game. We saw strong technical execution, creative experimentation, and thoughtful solutions tackling real-world problems.
On Saturday, May 16th, we hosted the Boundless Showcase, where participants presented live demos of their projects amidst networking and community conversations with fellow builders.
Before announcing the final winners, we also want to recognize a few standout demo presentations from the showcase stage:
Boundless Showcase Recognitions
- Best Live Presentation — Mark Ndubuisi for Sunvasi
- Most Structured Demo — Solomon Adzape for CRYPT
- Most Creative Demo — Victor Ogbonna for CNG-Protect Safety Verification
- Best Energy & Engagement — Isaac for Stipend
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Showcase or participated in the hackathon.
To explore all the projects submitted during the hackathon, check them out here: Boundless x Trustless Work Hackathon Projects.
And now, to what we've all been waiting for — the final results.
Boundless x Trustless Work Hackathon Winners
First Place — Conductor
Prize: $500 Built by: Joshua Ibitoye
Conductor is an autonomous AI task marketplace where AI agents earn real USDC for completing real work, with every payment secured through Trustless Work escrow on Stellar. Users can describe a task in plain English, set a budget, and have the platform break the work into milestones with clear acceptance criteria. Payments are locked into escrow upfront, while AI agents execute the tasks and AI verifiers approve completed work on-chain before funds are released.
Second Place — Crypt
Prize: $300 Built by: Solomon Adzape
Crypt is a parametric SLA escrow that automatically pays out USDC to subscribers when their provider's API goes down — no lawyers, no disputes, just code. It uses automated conditions and Trustless Work escrow infrastructure to remove the friction from service-level agreements, ensuring compensation is handled transparently and instantly when downtime occurs.
Third Place — GoPadi
Prize: $200 Built by: Ejiofor Celestine
GoPadi is an escrow-powered errand platform designed to make local errands safer for both customers and runners. Customers can post errands, runners can accept them, and payments are locked into Trustless Work escrow before work begins. Once the errand is completed and proof is uploaded, funds are released after approval.
Honorable Mentions
Beyond the top three winners, we also recognized a number of projects for their creativity, technical execution, and unique approaches to using Trustless Work infrastructure. Each honorable mention project received a 100 USDC prize.
- Best UI/UX Design — Sunvasi
- Best Real-World Use Case — Stipend
- Best Technical Implementation — Verix
- Most Innovative Idea — Trustless OSS
- Best Use of Trustless Work — Kinetic
Thank you to all our judges, and congratulations to all the winners, excited to see what you do next!
What's Next
We've come to the end of this hackathon, but we hope this is only the beginning for many of the projects that emerged from it.
A lot of the ideas submitted already have strong foundations. Whether you won or not, keep refining your product, talk to real users, collect feedback, and continue building in public. The teams that grow beyond hackathons are usually the ones that stay consistent after the event ends.
Publish your progress. Apply for grants. Look for open-source contributors. Reach out to other builders you met during the hackathon and keep collaborating.
Don't let your project die in a GitHub repository.
And most importantly, this was the first Boundless Hackathon — and definitely not the last.
A Huge Thank You
To everyone who participated, either as individuals or teams, and to everyone who attended the showcase.
Thank you to our partners at Trustless Work, everyone at The Block Hive who helped organize the event, and every builder who decided to spend their time creating something ambitious within a few hours.
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