#LegendsOfLightning 2022 Winners
After 9 weeks maker activity - we finally have crowned our first ever Legend of Lightning! Congratulations Lightsats ⚡️👑
Nine weeks ago we embarked on a bold dream to create a 2 month long, accelerator style tournament in order boost the level of activity in Bitcoin’s maker ecosystem. What a journey it has been, thank you to all who joined us along the way. Over the course of the event, we’ve had:
🗓 65+ Events
🛠 41 Workshops
🤝 11 Conferences & Meetups
💬 10 Spaces, Discussions, and Virtual Hangouts
🍕 4 Hackathons & Building Sessions
🛣 2 Tracks
Our mission was clear: onboard new makers into the ecosystem, innovate on bitcoin and lightning, and help new or existing projects incubate their ideas and turn dreams into a reality. With 260 makers and 73 projects entered across 2 prize tracks (61 🧡 + 12 🌍), we believe we got pretty close.
But like all great things, they must come to an end. Here the first ever winners of BOLT🔩FUN’s #LegendsOfLightning tournament series…
Winners & Awards 🏆
Lightsats ⚡️
Lightsats is a pre-coiner self onramp via tips and gifts. We take recipients by their hand, educate them about bitcoin, instruct them on how to self custody and show them how they can actually use bitcoin right away. Check it out!
⚡️ The Legend: Overall Winner
🥇 1st Place: Global Adoption Track 🧡
AgriMint 🌱
AgriMint is a self-sovereign micro-banking application for agriculture communities in Africa. Consisting of a web application and integrated hardware wallets, AgriMint aims to be the Africa’s next community savings technology. Check it out!
⚡️ Runner Up: Overall
🥇 1st Place: Building For Africa Track 🌍
🎨 Best Design: Building For Africa Track 🌍
Mutiny 🕸
Mutiny Web is a bold experiment to create a self lightning wallet (node) inside of a browser, and they did it! Built using LDK, this project rewrote the score of what is possible with lightning on the web. Check it out!
⚡️ Runner Up: Overall
🥈 2nd Place: Global Adoption Track 🧡
LN⚡️VPN
LNVPN is a privacy focused VPN provider that only Lightning payments, they also offer one time usage telephone numbers to receive KYC codes. Check it out!
🥈 2nd Place: Building For Africa Track 🌍
Nolooking 👀
Nolooking allows new node runners to quickly and privately fund their node and open channels with a single scan or click, all at a lower cost. They even launched their product on Umbrel’s app store! Check it out!
🥉 3rd Place: Global Adoption Track 🧡
BitPayRoll 💸
BitPayRoll is an easy-to-use bitcoin payroll platform for companies to pay their employees. Now you can easily manage, schedule, and pay your companies workforce with bitcoin. Check it out!
🥉 3rd Place: Building For Africa Track 🌍
Saving Satoshi 👩🚀
Saving Satoshi is a light-hearted first point of contact for developers of all ages curious about bitcoin development, using an immersive game UX that uses rich visuals and seamless interactions to journey makers through time and space to learn about bitcoin coding. Check it out!
🎨 Best Design: Global Adoption Track 🧡
Special Mentions & Shout Outs
A HUGE thank you to all the projects, mentors, sponsors, and makers that made this event as special as it was - we couldn’t have done it without you! Even though they didn’t win a prize today, I just wanted to give a huge props to all of our finalists Africa Free Routing, Afromnemonics, Banxaas, PennyBit, Sats2Data, 10101, BTCMap, Forkable Recipe, Lightning Mobile Push Payments, PlebFM, Stack or Spend, as well as the countless other projects you can find here.
A big shout out to the tournament’s sponsors Fulgur Ventures, Africa Bitcoin Conference, and Qala for all their hard work and support in making this come true!
What’s next?
We’ve got some huge tournaments, hackathons, and other maker events planned for 2023! Stay tuned as we begin releasing the schedule early next year. In the meantime…
Until next time folks,
Shock & Roll ⚡️🤘