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December 4, 2025 · 3 min · SQD Team

SQD Hackathon at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires

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SQD Hackathon at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires

ETHGlobal Buenos Aires was a proper “sleep? never heard of her” kind of weekend — and we loved it.

We came to Buenos Aires to meet builders where they build: in the arena, under time pressure, with big ideas and questionable amounts of caffeine. The challenge was simple:

By the end, 10 teams had wired their dapps into Portal + Pipes — spanning AI agents, data marketplaces, onchain subscriptions, cross-chain tracking, DeFi signal detection, and more.

The SQD Prize Tracks (and What We Looked For)

We sponsored three SQD tracks at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires:

  • Best Overall Project using the Pipes SDK — $3,500
  • Most Creative / Innovative Use Case of the Pipes SDK — $1,000
  • Most Degen Use Case of the Pipes SDK — $500

The judging lens was consistent: did you use Pipes in a meaningful way, does it work, and is it demo-ready?

Winners

1) Best Overall — Data Context Market (DCM) ($3,500)

Data Context Market is a decentralized marketplace where creators can store and monetize datasets, while AI agents can automatically discover and purchase them using x402 micropayments.

What stood out: DCM didn’t just “index stuff” — it shipped a whole ecosystem:

  • An MCP server for natural-language blockchain dataset generation via SQD Pipes
  • A marketplace flow for storage + discovery (Filecoin + onchain registry)
  • A clean web dashboard for humans
  • Indexing into ClickHouse for analytics

Showcase: https://ethglobal.com/showcase/data-context-market-02545

2) Most Creative / Innovative — TIMBA LLM Eval ($1,000)

TIMBA LLM EVAL turned Polymarket into a proving ground for agents.

The team built a tool to backtest prompts against historical Polymarket data, then pushed it further: agents compete, read each other’s stats, and refine predictions in a market-style arena — with x402 in the mix for agent-to-agent requests.

Showcase: https://ethglobal.com/showcase/timba-llm-eval-btyue

3) Most Degen — Galactic Alpha ($500)

Galactic Alpha asked the question nobody asked — and therefore it had to be built:

“What if the stars actually did guide our trades?”

It’s a playful DeFi portal combining onchain Uniswap V2 metrics (streamed via Pipes SDK) with real-time astro signals. Vaults open on celestial conditions. ENS subnames get… cosmic. It’s fun, it’s wired, it might moon, it might break.

Showcase: https://ethglobal.com/showcase/galactic-alpha-v1hz5

The Full Roster (10 Projects)

Below are all of the SQD-linked hackathon submissions from the weekend — different flavors, same energy: ship fast, wire data properly, make it demoable.

What We Learned (aka: What Builders Actually Want)

Even across wildly different apps, the pattern was loud:

  • Teams want fast, reliable access to both historical and real-time onchain data (without babysitting infra).
  • Agents are becoming first-class users — and that forces better primitives for discovery, payments, reputation, and monitoring.
  • “Data products” are evolving: not just dashboards — but datasets, signals, automations, and marketplaces.

Portal + Pipes SDK are built for exactly this: getting onchain data into your app fast, clean, and at scale.

Build with Portal + Pipes

If you want to build on the same stack used at ETHGlobal Buenos Aires:

And if you shipped something cool with Pipes — we want to see it.

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