PlayAI Wins BNB Hack Tier 3 With 36,000 Signups

BNB Chain, a community-driven blockchain ecosystem, has announced the winners of its June 27 batch of the BNB Hack, a program designed to foster innovation across various sectors including AI, DeSoc, DeSci, DePIN, and the broader Web3 space. The evaluation process, which involved over 20 submissions, recognized PlayAI as the latest Tier 3 winner. Additionally, three other projects—Twazi, Coinbasket, and SeniorFi—were selected as Tier 4 potential awardees.

Since its inception, BNB Hack has received more than 180 submissions from builders around the world. The program's flexible, bi-weekly evaluation system has identified a total of 6 Tier 3 winners and 38 potential awardees. These projects benefit from tiered rewards, continuous feedback, and ecosystem support, which helps accelerate their path to real-world deployment.

The newly elevated Tier 3 project, PlayAI, is an AI-powered DeFi automation platform that recently launched its BNB yield optimizer workflow. This platform enables users to maximize returns across BNB Chain protocols like Venus, ListaDAO, and KernelDAO through prompt-based staking. PlayAI is currently in public beta with over 36,000 signups and a Token Generation Event (TGE) campaign underway. As a Tier 3 winner, PlayAI secured $3,000 in USDT rewards, a $50,000 Kickstart Package, and a Demo Opportunity.

The three Tier 4 projects—Twazi, Coinbasket, and SeniorFi—demonstrated strong potential and will continue to receive technical support, visibility, and evaluation for future tier advancement. Twazi is a no-code workflow platform for building AI-powered trading bots and DeFi automation pipelines. Coinbasket is an AI-driven crypto portfolio builder that creates personalized baskets based on natural language prompts, leveraging real-time data and autonomous agents. SeniorFi is a platform that tokenizes future receivables from elderly care institutions into tradable digital assets, using AI for risk analysis and ensuring compliance with Brazilian digital asset regulations.

BNB Hack has proven to be a dynamic launchpad for blockchain innovation. Past awardees have shown significant traction, product upgrades, and ecosystem impact. Notable achievements include Tearline achieving over 2.8 million interactions on BNB Chain, WORLD3 recording 164,000 agent transactions and 300,000 in-game interactions in June, SentismAI surpassing $3 million in trading volume with 100 agents and 22,000 MiniApp users, and TagAI integrating with Binance Wallet, hitting over $45 million in trading volume. Other projects like Tutorial Agent, Stitch AI, and Visualyze have also demonstrated significant on-chain activity, strategic partnerships, and ongoing product enhancements.

BNB Hack is open to builders at any stage, from solo developers to early startups. Successful projects can unlock rewards of up to $10,000 in cash and a $50,000 Kickstart package, and may be considered for MVB, the BNB Demo Day, and official demo opportunities. Projects must have launched on testnet or mainnet after February 12, 2025. Applications for the next batch are open until July 9. Interested builders can apply through the official channels.

BNB Chain is composed of BNB Smart Chain (BSC), a secure DeFi hub with the lowest gas fees of any EVM-compatible L1, serving as the ecosystem’s governance chain. opBNB is a scalability L2 that delivers some of the lowest gas fees of any L2 and rapid processing speeds. BNB Greenfield meets decentralized storage needs for the ecosystem and lets users establish their own data marketplaces. The ecosystem also offers a range of monetary and ecosystem rewards as part of its Builder Support Program, along with tooling such as the AI Solution for developers to explore. The AvengerDAO community protects BNB Chain users, while Red Alarm provides a real-time risk-scanner for Dapps.