While most people still understand hackathons as "developer competitions," 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 was lively, with rising frequency of exchanges and interaction density, bringing together various participants from developer communities, investment institutions, project parties, trading platforms, and public chain ecosystems to engage in systematic discussions around the technological evolution and commercial landing of AI × Web3.

As an important entry point for global innovators within the HTX DAO ecosystem, this HTX Genesis hackathon broke away from the traditional single development focus from the very beginning, instead building a complete loop of "development—incubation—investment—launch." The event focused on areas such as AI and Web3 infrastructure, emphasizing demand-driven and sustainable growth logic, aiming to filter out innovative projects with long-term value.

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

What sets the HTX Genesis hackathon apart is the content it seeks to express.

At the opening ceremony, Huobi HTX global advisor Sun Yuchen made a significant online appearance, sharing his latest judgment on the future development direction of the industry around the trends of AI × Web3, providing a more macro observation perspective for the entire event.

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

He explained that past Web3 applications often came with extremely high learning curves and complex on-chain interactions, while the introduction of AI Agents will propel decentralized applications to evolve 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 transactions. This paradigm shift towards intelligence and autonomy will not only greatly unleash on-chain productivity but will also become a new breakthrough point to overcome the user growth bottleneck in Web3 and lead the industry towards true large-scale adoption.

Molly, the ambassador of HTX DAO, shifted the focus from industry judgment back to the ecosystem itself.

Molly delivered a presentation titled "HTX DAO Ecological Development Plan: Release of the Tens of Millions Ecological Fund and Value Closed-loop Strategy."

She pointed out that the core vision of the HTX Genesis hackathon isto build a free financial port based on the exchange’s hinterland. In pursuit of this goal, five major ecological matrices covering the entire industry chain have been constructed, including:

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

●HTX DAO as the governance hub and centralized decision-making brain of the ecosystem;

●Public chains and innovation layers providing payment network support with Tron, building a solid DeFi infrastructure with JustLend, SunX, etc.;

●HTX Ventures focusing on industry frontiers, providing investment, incubation, and acceleration services for outstanding projects;

●B.AI targeting future trends, dedicated to creating financial infrastructure for the AI Agent era.

Additionally, Molly mentioned that to implement ecological empowerment, this hackathon heavily launched an ecological development fund with a scale of 10 million USDT. This fund abandons the traditional "flooding" approach, adopting a "precise empowerment" strategy, releasing through a three-tier mechanism of "Early Innovation Milestone Release (Tier 1), Commercial Growth Convertible Subsidy (Tier 2), and Excellent Ecology Additional Subsidy (Tier 3)," providing full lifecycle support for projects moving from a cold start to commercial maturity.

Molly also specifically pointed out that regarding future development, Huobi HTX clearly proposed four core strategic keywords: "stability, transparency, institutionalization, AI empowerment," aimed at enhancing the long-term competitiveness of the platform in a complex market environment and providing ecosystem 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 is no longer sufficient to support a new cycle of growth; only with the collaboration of multiple elements such as technology, capital, liquidity, and users can the Web3 ecosystem potentially achieve transformation from structural innovation to systematic prosperity.

Multidimensional Resource Empowerment: Anchoring the Next Web3 Alpha

As the discussion deepens, the blueprint for the HTX Genesis hackathon will also be fully unveiled.

The event cycle will last from April 2026 to July, expected to attract about 100 hardcore development teams globally, culminating in stage displays and evaluations in Hong Kong.

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

In the wave of accelerated integration of AI and Web3, the HTX Genesis hackathon is transforming from a singular competition platform into an "infrastructure node" that connects global developer innovation and top ecological resources. It's not just looking for the next Alpha; it's also providing the strongest 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 supported by the Tron public chain ecosystem, collaboratively established by community members, early contributors, and global advisors. HTX DAO is committed to building an open governance ecosystem that is user-led, rule-transparent, and efficiently collaborative, becoming a key engine for promoting the development of decentralized financial systems.

HTX DAO adheres to the principle of "Holding Tokens Equals Governance," aimed at stimulating consensus and participation among global users, connecting community interests with platform value, and exploring a new order in the world of crypto finance.

Contact Information

Official website: www.htxdao.com

Email: media@htxdao.com

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