Hackathon Submissions
Explore projects built during the Ranger Build-a-Bear Hackathon.
All Submissions (56)
A floor-first, quarter-based USDC strategy that harvests carry early and hardens into maturity-linked claims as the cycle progresses, targeting ≥10% APY through interest rate swaps and PT markets.
A robust discrete lot and cardinality-constrained Mean-Variance-Skewness-Kurtosis (MVSK) vault for optimised RWA yield allocation.
A three-mode USDC vault that activates CARRY (delta-neutral funding rate capture on SOL/BTC/ETH-PERP), MAKER (oracle-linked limit orders earning Drift maker rebates), or LEND (four-protocol USDC routing) based on market conditions.
A bidirectional funding rate collection vault on Hyperliquid with regime-aware sizing, 5-layer circuit breaker, and 92 unit tests.
DriftBear Neutral Farmer — an AI-powered delta-neutral vault on Ranger Earn that harvests yield from five sources: funding rate capture, DLOB market making, JIT auction fills, DLOB order filling, and LST collateral yield.
PiggyBank is a structured yield product bridging TradFi and DeFi by enabling yield generation on tokenized stocks through a liquid, compliance-first architecture.
Project Lyra, a live mainnet strategy by Cipher Labs that has been running since March 9, 2026, with all trade activity verifiable on Solscan.
A USDC vault deploying 90% to overcollateralized lending and 10% to BTC perpetual trades driven by Deribit options-flow signals.
Dawn Vault — a validator-native yield vault built by an active Solana validator operator, using a two-layer architecture: Base Layer (Kamino Multiply USDC, active) and Alpha Layer (SOL delta-neutral, conditional).
A funding rate arbitrage vault by Paystream Finance.
Ranger Basis Guard Vault — a USDC-denominated managed vault that converts market imbalance into controlled carry, harvesting Drift-native carry while keeping exposure near delta-neutral and preserving liquidity for fast deleveraging.
Yogi Vault — a dynamic tilted delta-neutral vault on Drift that eliminates price risk through delta-neutral execution and adjusts its short bias (0–10% tilt) across five dimensions of real-time intelligence, including cross-venue funding comparison against Binance and Bybit.
HYDRA — a Hybrid Yield Dynamic Rebalancing Architecture coordinating three components: The Sentinel (lending optimizer across four protocols), The Reaper (delta-neutral basis trade on Drift), and The Oracle (AI market regime detector).
A vault that dynamically allocates between sHYUSD and hyUSD based on SMA mean-reversion signals, rotating to the cheaper asset when it deviates from fair value.
A leveraged USDC vault that loops through USDX/mUSDX (mortgage-backed stablecoin) on Save, targeting ~11% net APY at 4x leverage from non-crypto mortgage interest yield.
Apex Sentinel — an institutional-grade delta-neutral liquidator and arbitrage engine intercepting liquidations across Kamino, MarginFi, and Solend.
A two-strategy vault combining real-time spike detection and 4-hour mean-reversion, with 2,160 parameter combinations tested and 84% win rate achieved.
A dual-engine USDC vault on Ranger Earn combining 50% Kamino floor yield (4–12% APY) and 50% XGBoost ML-driven momentum/mean-reversion trades on Zeta perps.
K1 Protocol — a USDC yield vault live on Solana mainnet at k1.money, with 12.11% APY and allocations across HYUSD, ONyc, and uWatt.
An autonomous AI-driven yield optimizer on Solana mainnet that dynamically allocates USDC across lending protocols and Drift perpetual markets to maximise risk-adjusted returns.
Delta Neutral Vault by Reform DAO — a market-agnostic product generating consistent yield while neutralising price exposure.
A fully on-chain delta-neutral USDC vault capturing SOL perpetual funding rates via Flash Trade and Jupiter.
Basis Bear Crusher — an adaptive multi-market delta-neutral funding rate capture vault on Drift Protocol, rotating between SOL, BTC, and ETH markets to capture the highest available funding rate and deploying idle capital to USDC lending when no market is favourable.
NeutralAlpha Vault — an AI-assisted delta-neutral USDC vault on Solana that captures perp funding yield while minimising directional exposure through continuous hedge control.
Aroon Drift Bot is an automated, indicator-driven market-making strategy deployed on the Drift Protocol (Solana), operating within a non-custodial Ranger Vault framework.
Strata is a systematic, rule-based, long-only crypto swing-trading vault strategy with a five-year verified backtest record from 2021 through 2025.
CrimsonARB is an AI-augmented delta-neutral funding rate arbitrage vault on Drift with "Proof of No-Trade" transparency logging, documenting every opportunity the AI evaluates including deliberate skips.
Ranger Quant Vault — a smart-money USDC yield router using real-time DeFi Llama API data to dynamically shift liquidity between tier-1 Solana money markets, targeting a strict >10% APY floor with zero delta exposure and zero impermanent loss.
An autonomous ML-driven USDC yield vault on Solana using LSTM models to predict optimal allocation across Ondo USDY, Kamino, MarginFi, Jupiter Lend, and Raydium CLMM.
A delta-neutral USDC vault deploying 85–90% to Marginfi/Save lending and 10–15% as collateral for a short perp on Zeta Markets, targeting 10–16% APY with a 3% max drawdown circuit breaker.
Ranger Shield — a structured yield product splitting one base vault into two investable positions: a Protected Position (70% of capital, priority claim, targeting 10% APY) and a Risk Buffer (30%, receiving residual yield and absorbing losses first).
Golden Governor v1.2.5 Lite — a safety primitive for institutional DeFi with deterministic safety envelopes, hard drawdown limits, and institutional-grade execution.
RegimeGuard — a regime-switching yield vault that reads SOL-PERP funding conditions on-chain and allocates between a delta-neutral basis trade (using JitoSOL as the spot hedge for extra staking yield) and pure USDC lending.
An AI delta-neutral vault with verifiable on-chain strategy attestation.
Nanuq Finance — a USDC yield allocator across Kamino, Marginfi, and Lulo with a YieldBackend interface for protocol composability.
RangerBasis blends automated funding rate capture, lending optimization, and circuit-breaker protection into one vault.
A multi-protocol USDC lending yield optimizer on Solana, dynamically routing capital between Jupiter Lend and Kamino every 30 minutes to capture the highest available APY.
Sentinel Apex is an operator-run USDC delta-neutral carry vault on Solana.
M7 is a signal-driven vault trading memecoins based on proprietary Telegram groupchat discovery signals.
A delta-neutral USDC vault executing funding rate arbitrage and yield farming on Solana, with a 35% TVL withdrawal limit per 24h and max 35% per protocol exposure.
Lifted Finance issues LUSD, a fully liquid yield-bearing token on Solana whose price appreciates continuously as yield accrues from optimised DeFi lending allocations.
SaveToWin is Solana's first principal-protected prize-linked savings vault, combining a streak multiplier system (up to 32x), a rolling jackpot (10% growth per epoch), and auto-rolling PT-ONyc yield discovery for 10.42% blended APY.
A macro-aware basis trading vault on Solana that uses a Housing Market Index oracle to dynamically control leverage — running 3x in stable markets and auto-deleveraging to 100% USDC during macro credit shocks.
SolNeutral — a fully built delta-neutral USDC yield vault on Solana with a deployed Anchor smart contract, functional frontend dashboard, and strategy executing through Drift Protocol with live trade proof.
A USDC-denominated multi-strategy vault on Solana combining Drift reserve, Kamino stable carry, Marginfi canary, and Perena exotic sleeves with a deterministic off-chain solver and Cobo MPC simulation layer.
A delta-neutral funding rate harvesting strategy on Drift Protocol via Voltr Vault, earning yield from two streams: hourly funding payments from the short perpetual leg and USDC lending yield on collateral.
BHRAMHA Trading System — an algorithmic trading system with quantitative strategy execution and documented trade history.
Shadow Weaver — a market-neutral yield vault on Drift Protocol that captures funding rate premiums on SOL perpetuals while enforcing a 15% maximum loss limit.
Equxi Vault — a USDC vault supplying liquidity to Kamino Finance lending markets via a dedicated PDA, targeting ~11.5% APY from organic lending interest (~7.5%) and Kamino protocol token emissions (~4%).
MindVault is being built to solve a critical gap in the on-chain ecosystem: the lack of secure infrastructure for AI agents managing capital.
Ranger Cash-and-Carry USDC Vault — a delta-neutral yield vault autonomously switching between Basis Capture and Lending Fallback.
A rotating community savings system (Ajo/Esusu) digitised on Solana using Anchor smart contracts, with automated payouts, dynamic collateral, and 4-channel notifications.
A Ranger delta-neutral vault with dashboard for tracking performance on Solana DeFi.
Corsair CARV-1 — an autonomous vault strategy system on Ranger that transforms a vault from passive capital storage into an active execution system.
AXTR — on-chain risk and reputation infrastructure for Solana protocols, providing modular wallet scoring using behavioural, timing, and cluster-based analysis with controlled B2B API access.