HackCanton Season 3 — Closing Ceremony | Judging, Finalists & What’s Next

🏁 Welcome to the #HackCanton Season 3 Closing Ceremony. After three weeks of building, workshops, mentoring and shipping on ‪@CantonNetwork‬, Season 3 is entering its final stretch. In this live session, we’ll recap the season, look at what builders created, walk through the judging process, and explain the road to the Grand Final on October 21. Important: submissions remain open until October 9 at 23:59 UTC — so builders still have time to finish, upload and submit after the ceremony. In this session: — HackCanton Season 3 by the numbers — Highlights from the build phase — Projects, demos and ecosystem integrations — Final submission checklist — What happens after the deadline — How async judging works — What judges will evaluate — Finalists announcement timeline — Grand Final preparation — Partner challenges and builder support — What comes next for standout teams — AppsFactory Accelerator and post-hackathon opportunities — HackCanton Season 4 — Q&A 📅 HackCanton S3 timeline: — Sep 17 — Opening Ceremony — Sep 18–Oct 9 — Build phase — Oct 9, 12:00 UTC — Closing Ceremony — Oct 9, 23:59 UTC — Submission deadline — Oct 10–18 — Async judging — Oct 19 — Finalists announced — Oct 21, 14:00 UTC — Live Grand Final 🏆 Season 3 tracks: — Real-World Asset & Business Workflows — Financial Applications: DeFi, Exchanges & Prediction Markets — Investment Infrastructure: Funds, DAOs & Governance — Data, Analytics & Ecosystem Dashboards — Open Track: Build Anything 🤝 Season 3 ecosystem: — BitSafe — 50,000 CC challenge across Contribution Pool and Gold — Grofty — 10,000 CC Wallet & Onboarding Bounty — Metatarz — Canton wallet and builder onboarding — OneSwap — swaps and liquidity infrastructure — ‪@Hackenio‬ — Daml security and AI-assisted auditing — Procur3 — Daml security expertise — ‪@CantonFoundation‬ — ecosystem support 🗓 Date: October 9, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12:00 UTC 🛠 Format: live season recap, judging overview, next steps and Q&A 🎙 Hosted by: — Ales (CPO, ‪‪@NODERSLLC‬) Submissions remain open until: October 9, 2026 · 23:59 UTC Season 3 streams & workshops:    • HackCanton Season 3   Learn more: AppsFactory — https://appsfactory.cc/ HackCanton — https://appsfactory.cc/hackathons AppsFactory Accelerator — https://appsfactory.cc/accelerator Canton Network — https://www.canton.network/ Canton Docs — https://docs.canton.network/ NODERS — https://noders.team/ Follow AppsFactory: X — https://x.com/appsfactory_cc Telegram — https://t.me/appsfactory_cc YouTube —    / @nodersllc   #BuildOnCanton — https://hackathon.appsfactory.cc/seas...