Sui’s first Demo Day was a huge success. Over forty projects registered for the contest held during Sui Builder House Hong Kong, and 28 shortlisted teams gave five minute demos of both new and established projects building on Sui in front of ~200 attendees made up of developers, founders, community builders, VCs, and expert judges.

Demos were separated into four primary tracks:

• NFT & Gaming
• Infrastructure & Dev Tooling
• DID, Governance & Social
• DeFi & Payment

Meet the Winners

A first, second, and third place Audience Favorite and Judge’s Choice winner were announced for each of four tracks, for a combined $50K in prizes. Judges evaluated presentations based on the project, its concept, implementation, usability, and contribution to the Sui ecosystem, as well as the quality and content of the pitch itself.

The judges were Jenny Cheng (Animoca Ventures), Jeffrey Hu (HashKey Capital), Ming Ng (Tribe), Lorenzo Daffina (Jump), and Allen Zhao (Bixin Ventures).

Demo Day attendees voted for their favorite projects through anonymous ranked preference voting, choosing three projects per primary track.

NFT & Gaming

1st place, Judge’s Choice and Audience Favorite

Suia
Suia.io is a social application built on Sui, which aims to create an open community through digital asset ownership.

2nd place, Judge’s Choice and 3rd place, Audience Favorite

Web3 MUD Ex
Web3 MUD Ex is a Web3 MUD game framework and DAO tooling using the Elixir language. It can automatically generate a text-based game world called MUDverse that supports Sui contract plugins, based on the existing structure of the DAO organization.

3rd place, Judge’s Choice

Backrooms
Backrooms is an immersive escape room game made with UE5.1 and ChatGPT.

2nd place, Audience Favorite

StarryNift
StarryNift is a gamified metaverse co-creation platform, bringing you immersive 3D virtual experiences where you can play, create, and socialize.

Infrastructure & Dev Tooling

1st place, Judge’s Choice and Audience Favorite

Sui Move Analyzer
The Sui Move Analyzer is a Visual Studio Code plugin developed by MoveBit. It is a free and open source product that improves the development experience of Sui.

2nd place, Judge’s Choice and 3rd place, Audience Favorite

Cubic
Cubic is on a mission to simplify and streamline the process of creating Web3 games for builders, while also making them more accessible and friendly for gamers.

2nd place, Audience Favorite

Suiet Wallet
Suiet Wallet is a third-party Sui wallet. Designed for everyone, it is open source and doesn’t track any data.

3rd place, Judge’s Choice

Mirror World
Mirror World's Smart Platform is an all-in-one developer platform that maximizes Web3 user conversion through its white-labled marketplace, NFT management, and payment solutions.

DID, Governance, & Social

1st place, Judge’s Choice and Audience Favorite

ComingChat
ComingChat is a lifestyle tool and social portal that combines ChatGPT, socialization, and Sui.

2nd place, Judge’s Choice and 3rd place, Audience Favorite

Releap
Releap Protocol is a decentralized social graph where creators can publish their content as NFTs to be discovered, enjoyed, and traded on chain.

3rd place, Judge’s Choice and 2nd place, Audience Favorite

HighSea Protocol
Highsea Protocol provides a zero-code, highly interoperable solution for building decentralized collaborations.

DeFi & Payments

1st place, Judge’s Choice

Aries Market
Aries Markets provides an all-in-one borrowing and lending platform. Users can seamlessly borrow funds, lend assets, swap cryptocurrencies, and trade various assets.

2nd place, Judge’s Choice and 1st place, Audience Favorite

Typus Finance
Typus is a real yield infrastructure that integrates derivatives, swaps, and lending protocols. Typus provides enhanced risk rewards for LPs and deepens liquidity in the DeFi ecosystem.

3rd place, Judge’s Choice

KriyaDEX
Kriya is building sophisticated infrastructure for trading derivatives on-chain. This vertically integrated suite of products aims to solve for inaccurate price discovery, disproportionate custodian risk, and fragmented liquidity in a nascent ecosystem.

2nd place, Audience Favorite

Bucket Protocol
Bucket Protocol is a decentralized lending protocol that allows you to draw interest-free loans against digital assets.

3rd place, Audience Favorite

ABEx Finance
ABEx is a pioneering on-chain derivatives & swap protocol. It provides traders with zero slippage and high leverage trading services using a synthetic architecture to improve capital efficiency.