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EVE Online developer CCP Games has announced the winners of its latest hackathon to build mods and third party tools for its blockchain-based survival MMO, EVE Frontier. The winner, CradleOS, took home $25,000 for its in-game civilization-building tool, with a remaining $55,000 split among other winners.

Blockchain's still a dirty word for me, but EVE Frontier is the only game I've seen to make a convincing argument for its own implementation . It's also still in active development in the Year of Our Lord 2026, long after the gold rush ended⁠, and that's a commitment I admire.

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CradleOS : A bespoke UI and system to manage, coordinate, and govern resources and territory in-game, with an in-universe story about a mysterious AI attached.

Blood Contract : A bounty system to functionally create PvP quests for other players.

Civilization Control : A similar,…