Last weekend, we wrapped the first phase of the Qwen SKYST Hackathon. 40+ students. 2 tracks. 14 prizes. But more importantly, new ideas, fresh energy, and real talent. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us, our advisors, and valued partners @Alibaba_Qwen by @alibaba_cloud and @base for powering the experience. We were also honored to have Prof. Seungryong Kim from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Korea University join us on stage as a speaker. Special shoutout to the dev clubs at SKY universities and KAIST for showing up strong. Congrats to all the winners! Phase 2 is on the way. Stay sharp.

2/ Phase 1 focused on model fine-tuning across two tracks: • Alibaba Cloud Track: teams trained an AI hedge fund task by fine-tuning Qwen models. • Base Track: explored how open models interact with onchain infra via @base MCP, with focus on scale, security, and utility. All models were trained on FLock’s AI Arena, privately, collaboratively, and onchain. Here are the results👇

3/ Alibaba Cloud Track: 🥇 Team 6 - Yonsei Univ (Park Moon-soo, Lim Dae-han, Jung Joon) 🥈 Team 4 - Korea Univ (Ma Hyun-woo) 🥉 Team 5 - Korea Univ (Kang Min-jun) 4th: Team 2 - SNU (Park Geon-woo, Jo Hyun-tak, Kim Byeong-woo)

5/ Honorable Mentions: 5th: Team 9 - Korea Univ (성준영) 6th: Team 19 - SNU (박정헌, 정성윤) 7th: Team 22 - Korea Univ (박보건)

6/ Base Track: 🥇 Team 10 - Korea Univ (Hwang Sang-min) 🥈 Team 9 - Korea Univ (Seong Jun-young) 🥉 Team 6 - Yonsei Univ (Park Moon-soo, Lim Dae-han, Jeong Jun) 4th - Team 16 (Korea Univ)

7/ Honorable Mentions: 5th - Team 15 (Korea Univ) 6th - Team 22 (Korea Univ) 7th - Team 13 (Korea Univ)

8/ The future of AI won’t be built behind closed doors. It’ll be open, accessible, and decentralized. That’s what we’re working toward with FLock, Qwen, Base, and the next generation of developers. Phase 2 starts soon. Let’s keep building!