Convergence: A Chainlink Hackathon brought together developers from around the world to build advanced applications leveraging the Chainlink platform.

This year’s Convergence hackathon saw a record-breaking 554 submissions leveraging the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) across key categories, including DeFi & Tokenization, CRE & AI, Prediction Markets, Risk & Compliance, Privacy, and Autonomous Agents.

We would like to thank all the developers, sponsors, judges, mentors, and contributors who made Convergence: A Chainlink Hackathon a success.

Now, let’s take a look at the winning projects.

Hackathon Victory Showcase 

DeFi & Tokenization 

1st Place: FlowVault 

FlowVault is a proactive DeFi vault designed to address limitations in the modern vault landscape. FlowVault aims to predict where capital will move before markets reprice by continuously ingesting cross-chain indicators like stablecoin spreads, perpetual funding rates, bridge flows, and liquidation/RWA signals, through four CRE workflows that score opportunities and write them onchain. An orchestrator then selects the highest-conviction opportunity and executes with predefined risk gates and position lifecycle rules, helping ensure strategy deployment stays disciplined while adapting to real-time shifts in liquidity and market structure.

2nd Place: Ghost Finance 

Ghost Finance designed a private lending and borrowing protocol built to protect users from the downsides of fully transparent DeFi money markets. In public onchain lending markets, visible rates and positions can expose participants to frontrunning, sandwich attacks, and other forms of adverse execution.

Ghost Finance solves for both privacy and better price discovery by matching lenders and borrowers privately, keeping negotiated rates out of public view and enabling more customizable outcomes based on risk tolerance. Powered by CRE and Confidential Compute, Ghost Finance helps ensure market data and user positions remain private while still enabling secure, verifiable lending and borrowing onchain.

CRE & AI  

1st Place: SentinelCRE

SentinelCRE is an autonomous DeFi agent built to protect protocols and digital vaults from exploits, hacks, and extreme market volatility. The system continuously analyzes onchain activity in real time, combining CRE and AI to detect anomalous behavior and automatically trigger preemptive safeguards such as circuit breakers or withdrawal pauses before malicious actions occur.

This project applies three control layers; onchain policy checks, behavioral anomaly scoring, and a dual-AI consensus step, with additional oversight through guardian contracts and CRE workflows that can freeze or challenge agent behavior. The agent is designed to run 24/7 without human intervention, bringing always-on, rules-driven protection to high-value DeFi systems.

2nd Place: AI Financial Workspace Legos + Ghost Privacy

AI Financial Workspace Legos + Ghost Privacy is a full-stack privacy finance platform combining CRE, the Chainlink Automated Compliance Engine (ACE), private token transfers, and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) supporting:

• Milestone escrow with AI-driven dispute arbitration
• Private transfer rail using FHE-encrypted balances and Confidential Compute Private Token Sandbox.

The project leverages CRE to orchestrate 16 workflows across compliance, treasury, attestation, payroll, invoicing, and settlement, using AI “contract agents” to review signed documents (e.g., PDFs) and coordinate dispute resolution through an agentic workforce.

Prediction Markets

1st Place: TAPL

TAPL is a real-time BTC tap-trading platform where users express short-term views on BTC/USDT by selecting a $20 price band and a 5-second window before placing a trade with a single tap. Instead of traditional directional trading, TAPL turns micro-volatility into time-bounded outcomes, with multipliers from ~1.2× (near-spot) up to 100× (farther bands). Settlement is oracle-verified, and pricing is powered by Brownian Bridge math to model the probability of price reaching a given band within the window.

2nd Place: Memepull Arena

Memepull Arena is a dual GameFi platform that blends competitive PvP gameplay with prediction markets. In its PvP Battle mode, players choose a side and deposit tokens into a shared pool, with the side that achieves the best price performance winning the combined pot. The project also offers classic template-based Yes/No prediction markets tied to onchain milestones such as predicting whether a token reaches a specific price by a defined time.

CRE powers the core mechanics by fetching prices and liquidity data, computing outcomes, enforcing rules via anti-manipulation and safety checks, and writing the final, verifiable results onchain.

Risk & Compliance

1st Place: Aegis-Gate

Aegis-Gate is a privacy-preserving compliance layer for DeFi that allows users to prove they meet regulatory requirements—such as KYC, AML, or accredited investor status—without exposing sensitive personal or financial data onchain. Using CRE, Aegis-Gate securely verifies identity via World ID and financial eligibility via providers like Plaid within a trusted execution environment.

Rather than publishing raw user data, the system writes a simple onchain attestation (e.g., “compliant: yes/no”) that protocols can use to gate access. This approach enables DeFi applications to enforce compliance while preserving user privacy, addressing a core industry tradeoff between regulatory requirements and data exposure.

2nd Place: ACE Sandbox

ACE Sandbox is a tokenization platform for compliant digital assets, supporting ERC-3643 permissioned tokens, identity and credential-based policy controls, SIWE-authenticated operator flows, and CRE-powered workflows. It also includes asynchronous vault request and claim flows, with cross-chain settlement enabled via the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).

The project demonstrates how CRE, ACE, CCIP, and x402 can be combined to support the full lifecycle of compliant tokenized assets, from issuance and access control to cross-chain distribution and settlement.

Privacy

1st Place: SSL — Stealth Settlement Layer

SSL (Stealth Settlement Layer) is a privacy-preserving trading platform for tokenized real-world assets that delivers a “dark pool” style experience onchain. It allows verified participants to place and match trades without revealing order details, trading intent, or settlement destinations publicly, while still enforcing compliance through World ID and Chainlink ACE.

Built using Chainlink Confidential Compute early access—including confidential HTTP response encryption—this architecture directly addresses front-running and copy-trading risks inherent in transparent markets, making it highly relevant for institutional DeFi use cases.

2nd Place (shared): TACIT

TACIT is a privacy-preserving OTC settlement protocol that allows counterparties to execute trades onchain without revealing trade details. Users agree on terms offchain, and a CRE workflow manages the full lifecycle—decrypting trade parameters, verifying both parties through sanctions and KYC checks, and executing atomic delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement.

Once completed, the system publishes a minimal onchain attestation confirming execution, preserving both privacy and verifiability. TACIT demonstrates how institutional-grade trading workflows can be executed privately while maintaining compliance and onchain guarantees.

2nd Place (shared): VeritasX

VeritasX is a privacy-preserving prediction market that allows users to place bets and receive payouts without exposing their positions, identities, or transaction amounts onchain. A CRE workflow orchestrates the market lifecycle end-to-end by routing private bets through Chainlink’s private transactions infrastructure, automatically resolving market outcomes using Gemini AI, and executing private payouts to winners. Once a market concludes, the smart contract records only the aggregate pool totals and the final outcome.

1st Place: InControl

InControl is an AI-powered portfolio intelligence platform that combines traditional financial planning with decentralized infrastructure. It uses CRE to provide consensus-verified data, automate investment strategies such as dollar-cost averaging, securely access external APIs via Confidential HTTP, and enable agent-based monetization through x402 payments.

The system integrates AI agents, onchain attestations, and private workflows into a unified experience, demonstrating how CRE can serve as the orchestration layer for agent-driven financial applications and machine-to-machine interactions.

Demo

2nd Place: CRE Risk Router

CRE Risk Router is an onchain risk decision layer for autonomous DeFi agents that evaluates trades before execution. When an agent proposes a transaction, it triggers a CRE workflow that runs a series of risk checks—including confidence thresholds, market conditions, oracle health, and position sizing—across 8 logic gates.

The system then writes an onchain attestation indicating whether the trade is approved, constrained, or rejected, which the agent uses to determine execution. This architecture introduces real-time risk management, auditability, and governance into agent-driven financial systems.

Honorable Mentions

• SettleKit
• EASE eHealth
• X402-chainlink
• Veil Protocol
• Strevvo
• ClearRate
• LienFi
• Espresso
• Verity
• Agent Auction Protocol
• Ghostfund
• Aegis Protocol V5

A Shift in Onchain Applications

This year’s Convergence Hackathon highlights a clear shift in how developers are approaching onchain applications. Rather than building isolated smart contracts, teams are designing full-stack systems that combine offchain data, computation, and automation with secure onchain execution.

Across every category, developers leveraged the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to orchestrate complex workflows—from risk evaluation and compliance to private trading, AI-driven decision-making, and autonomous agent execution. The breadth and quality of submissions demonstrate strong momentum behind a new development paradigm: applications that are verifiable, automated, and capable of operating seamlessly across onchain and offchain environments.

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