# Inside the Continuity Track Debut at ETHGlobal New York

> A closer look at the first Continuity Track and where it goes next.

**Published by:** [ETHGlobal](https://paragraph.com/@blog.ethglobal/)
**Published on:** 2026-07-16
**Categories:** ethglobal, hackathon, developers, ethereum, web3-hackathon
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@blog.ethglobal/inside-the-continuity-track-debut

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For eight years, every ETHGlobal hackathon started with an empty repo. Bringing in existing code meant disqualification. This year at ETHGlobal New York, we decided to change that. 61 teams chose a new path. What changed The Continuity Track debuted at ETHGlobal New York, June 12–14 at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Builders could still start from scratch (the original way). They could now bring existing work too, as long as they shipped something new during the weekend: From Scratch: start with an empty repo and ship by Sunday. Extend: keep building an open source repository you maintain. Ship a Feature: add a new open source feature to an existing private product. Everything else stayed the same. Teams of 1 to 5. Up to three sponsor SDKs. Only 36 hours to ship. What happened in New York New York produced 232 projects. 61 chose Continuity, accounting for 26% of submissions. Continuity represented 26% of submissions and 3 of the 10 projects selected for the finale. Teams used Continuity in every major category. One-third of AI, infrastructure and security projects came through the track. Gaming reached 30%. Wallets and payments came in at 21%. DeFi came in at 18%. The projects that proved it Three Continuity projects reached the finale. Immunity extended its agent security work into an onchain immune system for AI agents: researchers mint antibodies against prompt injection, backed by bonds and a three-LLM challenge court. The weekend went to rebuilding nine contracts on Base and adding ENS-based reputation. Finalist, plus Chainlink and ENS prizes. Void Tactics already had its fully onchain tactical combat game. The 36 hours made it tournament-ready: World ID one-human-per-entry checks, Dynamic embedded wallets, match replays on Walrus. Finalist, second in World's existing-projects track, and Dynamic's Best Wallet Glow Up. UNSU kept building a wallet that runs in any browser: no apps, no extensions, no accounts, keys derived client-side, an ENS name on every wallet. The third Continuity finalist and an ENS prize winner. More Continuity projects won partner prizes The results went beyond the finale. In total, 23 Continuity projects won at least one partner prize. A few of the winners: Thurman Protocol turned a loan-sale proof of concept into trustless settlement: DocuSign webhooks trigger a Chainlink CRE workflow that settles a delivery-vs-payment escrow onchain. First in Arc's Continuity Track, plus a Chainlink prize. Azimuth coordinates cheap Raspberry Pi ground stations that receive live weather-satellite downlinks, staking and settling rewards on Hedera with captures stored on Walrus. Three prizes: Sui, Hedera, and third in ENS's Continuity prize. Nuro Finance built onchain banking for AI agents: an ENS name for every business and agent, with wallet records written across Ethereum and Base in one signed payload. Won 1st place in Best ENS Continuity Integration. Justify runs creator prediction markets: Chainlink feeds resolve objective questions, a reasoning LLM oracle resolves subjective ones, and World ID keeps traders human. First in World's existing-projects track. Pampalo Private Swap shields USDC and ETH into private notes, then sends and swaps on public Uniswap v3 liquidity with Noir ZK proofs generated in the browser. Uniswap Foundation prize winner, and one of ETHGlobal New York's Spotlight teams. Better Wallet is an airgapped hardware wallet with ERC-7730 clear signing: the device shows exactly what you sign, and NFC is the only bridge out. Uniswap Foundation prize winner. BitLazarus pays USDC bounties to bring dead torrents back, with an ENS subdomain per infohash, recovered files on Walrus, and escrow on Arc. ENS Continuity prize winner. Calibre is an esports prediction market with Polymarket-linked pricing; through the weekend, they added Dynamic wallets and ENS gamer tags. Placed 2nd in Best ENS Continuity Integration. JuryDuty turned its points game for betting on friends, trips, and group chats into crypto-backed markets with Privy wallets, ENS identities, and Blink deposits. Blink's Continuity consumer-app prize. Continue building in Lisbon The Continuity Track returns at ETHGlobal Lisbon, July 24–26 at Pavilhão Carlos Lopes. 36 hours of building, and $100,000 in prizes across 8 partners. We’re excited to see what teams bring to Lisbon and how Continuity grows at future ETHGlobal hackathons. Applications close Friday, July 17. Apply to Hack: https://ethglob.al/H734NIIBRQ

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