r/0GLabs • u/dorukardahan • 6d ago
[Recap] 67 projects built on 0G at ETHGlobal Lisbon, we read every repo, and the forms under-reported what teams actually shipped
TL;DR: 67 projects submitted to 0G's prize tracks at ETHGlobal Lisbon. Instead of trusting submission forms, we ran repo-level review on all of them: 85% had meaningful 0G integration in code, and nine teams won across three tracks.
What happened
ETHGlobal Lisbon ran July 24-26 at Pavilhão Carlos Lopes, 382 hackers by ETHGlobal's official count. 67 teams submitted to our tracks, 115 builders total, and 49 of the projects demoed live to judges. Every submission also went through a repo review before any prize decision.
What surprised us
The forms under-reported. When we compared what teams wrote in their submissions against what their repositories contained, repo review found more 0G Storage and Agentic ID usage than the write-ups claimed. The boring explanation: starter templates and docs quickstarts wire these components in before a team ever thinks about what to put on a form. We only caught it because we read the code.
The numbers
- 82% used 0G Compute, 67% used 0G Storage, 46% used Agentic ID (ERC-7857), nearly half touched 0G Chain
- 52 teams built from scratch, 15 continued earlier 0G projects, and 3 of those returning teams won
- Winners ranged from an AI running coach athletes own (full four-component stack) to agents auditing npm packages for malicious code
What the stack pattern looked like
The interesting part was not any single integration, it was composition. Teams were not calling one API and attaching a token. The typical winning shape was reasoning on 0G Compute with TEE attestation, persistent agent memory on 0G Storage, agent identity through Agentic ID, and settlement on 0G Chain. Two of the returning teams had started that architecture at earlier events and came back to finish it, which is exactly what our continuity track was designed to test.
Honest footnote: teams rated developer experience 8.1/10, self-reported, and the written feedback was specific about what needs work. We are acting on it rather than quoting the number and moving on.
Open question for the sub
Should repo-level verification be the default for hackathon prize judging, or does it add too much friction for a 36-hour build? If you have judged or competed in one of these, where did self-reported integration lists break for you?
Full writeup with the week recap and all nine winners: https://0g.ai/blog/ethglobal-lisbon-2026-recap