While most people still perceive hackathons as a "developer competition," some deeper changes are already underway.

On April 21, the HTX Genesis Hackathon, organized by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-sponsored by TinTinLand and OpenCity, kicked off in Hong Kong. The opening ceremony was well-received, with a high level of engagement and interaction. Participants from the developer community, investment institutions, projects, trading platforms, and public chain ecosystems gathered to engage in a systematic discussion on the technological evolution and commercial implementation of AI × Web3.

As a key entry point for global innovators within the HTX DAO ecosystem, the HTX Genesis Hackathon broke away from the traditional developer-centric approach from the start and instead built a complete closed-loop of "development—incubation—investment—launch." The event focused on tracks such as AI and Web3 infrastructure, emphasizing demand-driven development and sustainable growth logic, aiming to identify innovative projects with long-term value.

Web3 Reconstruction Logic Driven by AI: Ecosystem Capability as the Core Competitive Variable

What sets the HTX Genesis Hackathon apart is the content it seeks to convey.

During the opening ceremony, Justin Sun, Global Advisor of Huobi HTX, made a significant online appearance and shared the latest insights on the industry's future direction around the AI × Web3 integration trend, providing a more macroscopic perspective for the entire event.

According to Justin Sun's analysis, the AI Agent will replace traditional interaction methods and become the core driver of the next stage of the Web3 ecosystem.

He explained that past Web3 applications were often accompanied by a steep learning curve and complex on-chain interactions. With the introduction of AI Agents, decentralized applications will evolve from "manual operation" to "intent-driven" based on natural language. This means that AI Agents will autonomously understand user needs, automatically plan routes, and complete complex on-chain settlements such as cross-chain transactions. This paradigm shift towards intelligence and autonomy will not only significantly unleash on-chain productivity but also serve as a new breakthrough point to break through the Web3 user growth bottleneck and lead the industry towards real large-scale adoption.

Molly, Ambassador of HTX DAO, then shifted the focus from industry insights back to the ecosystem itself.

Molly shared insights on the "HTX DAO Ecosystem Development Plan: Launch of Ten Million Ecosystem Fund and Value Loop Strategy."

She pointed out that the core vision of the HTX Genesis Hackathon is to build a free financial port based on the exchange's ecosystem. Around this goal, a five-element ecosystem matrix covering the entire industry chain was constructed, including:

The Huobi HTX as the core business engine and liquidity center;

The HTX DAO serving as the ecosystem's governance hub and centralized decision-making brain;

The Public Chain and Innovation Layer leveraging TRON to provide a payment network backbone, building a robust DeFi infrastructure with JustLend, SunX, and others;

The HTX Ventures focusing on industry frontiers, providing investment, incubation, and acceleration services to excellent projects;

B.AI targeting future trends, dedicated to establishing a financial infrastructure for the AI Agent era.

In addition, Molly introduced that to empower the ecosystem in practice, the hackathon launched a heavyweight Ecosystem Development Fund totaling 10 million USDT. The fund has abandoned the traditional indiscriminate approach and adopted a "precision empowerment" strategy. Through a three-tiered distribution mechanism of "Early Innovation Milestone Release (Tier 1), Business Growth Convertible Grant (Tier 2), and Outstanding Ecosystem Additional Funding (Tier 3)," it provides full-cycle support for projects from cold start to business maturity.

Molly also specifically emphasized that regarding future development, Huobi HTX has clearly put forward the four core strategic keywords of "Stability, Transparency, Institutionalization, AI Empowerment." The aim is to enhance the platform's long-term competitiveness in a complex market environment and provide ecosystem participants with more predictable growth prospects.

During the subsequent roundtable session, the discussion gradually converged on several more fundamental questions:

How is value created? How can capital flow more efficiently on-chain? And how can Web3 applications truly achieve mass adoption?

Roundtable Forum Scene

Many participants generally believe that a single technological breakthrough is no longer sufficient to support a new growth cycle. Only through the synergy of multiple elements such as technology, capital, liquidity, and users can the Web3 ecosystem move from structural innovation to systemic prosperity.

Full-Spectrum Resource Empowerment: Anchoring the Next Web3 Alpha

With in-depth discussions, the event blueprint of this HTX Genesis hackathon will also be fully revealed.

The event will run from April 2026 to July, expecting to attract approximately 100 hardcore development teams globally, culminating in a stage showcase and selection in Hong Kong.

In addition to prize incentives, selected projects will also receive multidimensional support from TRON Foundation, Huobi HTX, and B.AI, including computing resources, technical integration, ecosystem collaboration, and joint promotion.

In the era of AI and Web3 acceleration integration, the HTX Genesis hackathon is transforming from a single-event platform into an "infrastructure node" connecting global developer innovation with top-tier ecosystem resources. It is not only seeking the next Alpha but also providing the most solid structural support for the real growth of Web3 applications in the next stage.

About HTX DAO

HTX DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) initiated by Huobi HTX Exchange and TRON Foundation to support the ecosystem, collaboratively established by community members, early contributors, and global advisors. HTX DAO is dedicated to building an open governance ecosystem that is user-driven, rule-transparent, and efficiently collaborative, serving as a key engine to drive the development of a decentralized financial system.

Based on the principle of "Coin Holdings Equal Governance," HTX DAO aims to inspire global user consensus and participation, connect community interests with platform value, and explore a new order in the world of crypto finance.

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