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) 4°: Team 2 - SNU (Park Geon-woo, Jo Hyun-tak, Kim Byeong-woo)

5/ Menzioni d'onore: 5°: Team 9 - Università della Corea (Seong Jun-young) 6°: Team 19 - SNU (Park Jeong-heon, Jeong Seong-yoon) 7°: Team 22 - Università della Corea (Park Bo-geon)

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

7/ Menzioni d'onore: 5° - Team 15 (Università della Corea) 6° - Team 22 (Università della Corea) 7° - Team 13 (Università della Corea)

8/ Il futuro dell'IA non sarà costruito dietro porte chiuse. Sarà aperto, accessibile e decentralizzato. Questo è ciò a cui stiamo lavorando con FLock, Qwen, Base e la prossima generazione di sviluppatori. La Fase 2 inizia presto. Continuiamo a costruire!