Our first hackathon concluded with a bang! 💥 🌍 We had people from Guatemala, UK, Italy, and one person even flew 35 hours from South Africa to join us for the event! Even though we purposefully kept participation to 20 people, we wound up with nine teams presenting their projects for almost three hours. The breadth of use cases went beyond our expectations, given it was only a two-day hackathon (Gen-AI, ZK proof, IP graph, social remixing, licensing pools, etc.) Below are some of the projects we found particularly interesting: 💬 Webthreen: This incorporates generative AI and Story as the web3 Webtoon to lower the barrier for visual storytelling and co-creation (character, scene, multi-media experience). Each component is automatically registered as an IP Asset on Story and is easily licensable to studios, collaborators, or the community. 👤 ZkKYC: Leveraging the power of succinct ZK proofs, this project can connect with existing major platforms like Coinbase or government platforms to provide proofs of KYC without revealing information. Whether for licensing requirements or capital formation (royalty pools), builders on Story can leverage the hook feature, along with service providers, to connect off-chain data with on-chain requirements. 🛍️ 7007 Studio: Presented a Gen-AI marketplace that assists artists in creating their own fine-tuned model and provides monetization opportunities by leveraging eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7…, an ERC-721 extension interface for zkML based AIGC-NFTs. Each output asset is automatically registered as IP Asset on Story, providing clear attribution for the model usage and potential revenue distribution. Thank you to the incredible talent and thoughtful builders who joined us to dig into Story Protocol in such an exciting way to close out 2023!

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