While most people still understand hackathons as "developer competitions," some deeper changes have already begun to occur.

On April 21, the HTX Genesis hackathon, hosted by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-initiated by TinTinLand and OpenCity, opened in Hong Kong. The opening event had high energy, with increasing frequency of exchanges and interaction density, as participants from the developer community, investment institutions, project parties, trading platforms, and public chain ecosystems gathered to systematically discuss the technological evolution and commercial landing of AI × Web3.

As an important entry point for the HTX DAO ecosystem targeting global innovators, the HTX Genesis hackathon breaks away from the traditional single development orientation from the very beginning and instead constructs a complete closed loop of "development - incubation - investment - launch." The event focuses on tracks such as AI and Web3 infrastructure, emphasizing demand-driven logic and sustainable growth, aiming to filter innovative projects with long-term value.

Web3 Reconstruction Logic Driven by AI: Ecological Capability Becomes Core Competitive Variable

The difference of the HTX Genesis hackathon lies in what it attempts to express.

At the opening ceremony, Huobi HTX Global Advisor Sun Yuchen made a prominent online appearance and shared his latest judgments on the future development direction of the industry around the trend of AI × Web3 integration, providing a more macro perspective for the entire event.

Sun Yuchen analyzes that AI Agents will replace traditional interaction methods and become the core driving force of the next phase of the Web3 ecosystem.

He explained that past Web3 applications often came with extremely high learning thresholds and complex on-chain interactions, while the introduction of AI Agents will drive decentralized applications from "manual operation" to "intention-driven" based on natural language. This means that AI Agents can autonomously understand user needs, automatically plan paths, and complete complex on-chain settlements such as cross-chain and transactions. This paradigm shift towards intelligence and autonomy not only greatly releases on-chain productivity but also becomes a new breakthrough point to overcome the bottleneck of Web3 user growth, leading the industry toward true large-scale adoption.

HTX DAO Ambassador Molly's speech shifted the focus from industry judgment back to the ecosystem itself.

Molly shared on the theme "HTX DAO Ecosystem Development Plan: Announcement of 10 Million Ecological Fund and Value Closed 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 hinterland. Around this goal, five ecological matrices covering the entire industry chain were constructed, among which:

• Huobi HTX serves as the core business engine and liquidity center;
• HTX DAO acts as the governance hub of the ecosystem and the centralized decision-making brain;
• Public chains and innovation layers provide payment network support with TRON and build solid DeFi infrastructure with JustLend, SunX, etc.;
• HTX Ventures focuses on industry frontiers, providing investment, incubation, and acceleration services for excellent projects;
• B.AI aims at future trends, committed to building financial infrastructure aimed at the AI Agent era.

According to Molly, to implement ecological empowerment, this hackathon has launched a scale of 10 million USDT ecological development fund. This fund abandons the traditional indiscriminate funding approach and adopts a "precision empowerment" strategy through a three-tiered release mechanism of "early innovation milestone release (Tier 1), commercial growth convertible grants (Tier 2), and excellence in ecology additional grants (Tier 3)," ensuring projects evolve from cold start to commercial maturity throughout their life cycle.

Molly also specifically pointed out that regarding future development, Huobi HTX has clearly proposed four core strategic keywords: "stability, transparency, institutionalization, AI empowerment," aiming to enhance the platform's long-term competitiveness in a complex market environment and provide ecological participants with more certain growth expectations.

In the subsequent roundtable session, the discussion gradually converged on several more essential questions:

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

Roundtable forum site

Many participants generally believe that a single technological breakthrough can no longer support a new round of growth cycles; only through the cooperation of multiple elements such as technology, capital, liquidity, and users can the Web3 ecosystem achieve a transition from structural innovation to systemic prosperity.

Comprehensive Resource Empowerment: Anchoring the Next Web3 Alpha

As the discussion deepens, the blueprint for this HTX Genesis hackathon will unfold comprehensively.

The event period lasts from April 2026 to July, expecting to attract about 100 hardcore development teams from around the world, culminating in a stage exhibition and selection in Hong Kong.

In addition to prize incentives, selected projects will also receive multidimensional support from TRON, Huobi HTX, and B.AI, including computing power resources, technical docking, ecological cooperation, and joint promotion.

In the wave of accelerating integration of AI and Web3, the HTX Genesis hackathon is transforming from a single event platform into an "infrastructure node" connecting global developer innovation and top ecological resources. It is not only seeking the next Alpha but is also providing the most solid structural support for the true growth of the next phase of Web3 applications.

About HTX DAO

HTX DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) initiated by Huobi HTX exchange and supported by the TRON public chain ecosystem, established collaboratively by community members, early contributors, and global advisors. HTX DAO is committed to building an open governance ecosystem that is user-driven, rule-transparent, and highly collaborative, becoming a key engine to promote the development of decentralized financial systems.

HTX DAO adheres to "holding tokens is governance," aiming to stimulate the consensus and participation of global users, connect community interests with platform values, and explore a new order in the world of cryptocurrency finance.

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