IMD Hackathon: combined top 5 from four judges' ballots

Researched 2026-10-28. Inputs: the four top-5 ballots in the request (lesnar, taylor, 0xminion, Damien). Project descriptions come from public GitHub repositories and project websites, linked inline.

Labels used below: [Fact] means read directly from the ballots or a linked source. [Inference] means my interpretation. [Uncertain] means the evidence is thin or conflicting. [Open] means I could not answer it.

1. Final ranking

Place	Entry	Ballots naming it	Weighted points	Ranks given
1	imdUSD (@imdusd)	4 of 4	19	lesnar #1, taylor #2, 0xminion #1, Damien #1
2	Intelligent Dance Market / $IDM (@theidmfun)	3	9	lesnar #5, 0xminion #2, Damien #2
3	ROBOBET, now Paper Clash (@robobet_fun → @paperclash_xyz)	3	9	lesnar #2, 0xminion #3, Damien #4
4	imdRadar (@imdradar)	2	6	lesnar #3, Damien #3
5	imdLend by @sudeepb02	2	6	taylor #1, Damien #5
6th, just outside	NightShiftImd (@nightshiftimd)	2	4	lesnar #4, taylor #4

The other entries got one vote each: seeronimd (3 pts), ConditionalsImd (2), moneycanbuy_fun (1), Imdirectorb (1).

Method

1. Votes first. I sorted entries by how many judges put them in their top 5, as the request asked.
2. Rank weighting second. Within each vote count I ranked by Borda points: rank 1 = 5 pts, 2 = 4, 3 = 3, 4 = 2, 5 = 1.
3. Remaining ties go to head-to-head. I counted how many judges who ranked both entries put one above the other.

scripts/score.py in the repository reproduces the table.

[Fact] Two ties had to be broken:

• #2 IDM vs #3 Paper Clash (both 3 votes, 9 pts). On head-to-head, IDM wins 2–1: 0xminion and Damien put IDM above Paper Clash, and lesnar did the opposite. IDM also has the better median rank (#2 against #3).
• #4 imdRadar vs #5 imdLend (both 2 votes, 6 pts). Damien is the only judge who ranked both, and put imdRadar above (#3 against #5). imdRadar's two votes are also equal mid-table votes. imdLend's are one #1 and one #5.

[Uncertain] The ranking depends on the method. Another reasonable tie-break, "most first-place votes", would put imdLend at #4 and imdRadar at #5: imdLend has taylor's #1 vote, while imdRadar has no #1 votes. A steeper weighting such as 10/6/4/2/1 gives the same result. Places 1–3 hold under every scheme I tried. Only the 4/5 order changes.

[Inference] Names merged. "robobet_fun (now @paperclash_xyz)" and "@robobet_fun" count as one entry. The ballots say so, and both IMD token launches below point to the same project. "imdlend by @sudeepb02" on two ballots counts as one entry.

2. The five winners and how each uses IMD

#1 imdUSD (@imdusd): stablecoin backed by IMD

• [Fact] imdusd.com describes it as "a dollar-denominated stablecoin backed by IMD and priced by IdentityMD swarm attestations" (imdusd.com).
• [Fact] It is a CDP vault on Ethereum mainnet. Users borrow imdUSD against staked IMD (sIMD). Positions below the collateral ratio are "barked" and "bitten" (liquidated), and liquidators earn a bonus in sIMD (fa11up/imdusd-keeper).
• [Fact] How it uses IMD:
  • IMD is the collateral.
  • The price oracle is the IdentityMD agent swarm. An OracleAsker spends the Treasury's IMD to buy price updates, and a SwarmRelay puts the swarm's attested answers on chain (imdusd-keeper README).
  • Related tools in the same author's account include:
    • a Uniswap v4 PegFeeHook for the imdUSD/USDC pool, which charges a surcharge on swaps that push the price away from $1 and sends it to the imdUSD Treasury (fa11up/imdusd-peg-hook);
    • a companion token, INFER, with a whitepaper;
    • an IMD launch repo, identity-md-launches/launch-882-imdusd.
• [Fact] DexScreener describes it the same way: borrowed against staked IMD and priced by panels of IdentityMD agents, with protocol revenue used to buy back INFER for stakers (DexScreener pair).
• [Inference] It was the only entry on all four ballots, and three judges ranked it first, so it is a clear #1.

#2 Intelligent Dance Market, $IDM (@theidmfun)

• [Fact] theidm.fun describes it as "a Uniswap v4 hook whose on-chain state is a 16-step drum machine. Every trade is a note." The hook stores a 4-track, 16-step drum pattern and a bass line. Each swap in the IDM/ETH pool flips a step and changes the bass and tempo. Trade size picks the instrument (hat → kick → "whale"), buys set steps and sells clear them, and every 64 swaps the genre changes. The site says "Nothing is off-chain" (theidm.fun).
• [Fact] How it uses IMD: the site says the pool was "launched through IMD". IMD launch repos for the token link x.com/theidmfun: launch-2295-idm (Ethereum) and launch-2307-idm (Robinhood Chain, "idm-16"). The site calls the machine the "IDM-16 swarm sequencer".
• [Uncertain] I can't tell whether IMD agents do anything at runtime beyond the IMD launch, or whether they also built the hook. "Swarm" may only be branding.
• [Inference] "theidmfun" is the real handle, not a typo for "theimdfun": IDM = Intelligent Dance Market.

#3 ROBOBET, now Paper Clash (@robobet_fun → @paperclash_xyz)

• [Fact] robobet.fun: the user stakes a fixed $10–$100 in USDC. "An IMD agent designs" a single high-risk, short-term BTC or ETH perpetual trade, choosing direction, leverage and take-profit. PaperTrade places and settles it. The user can't step in and gets a "fate card" at the end. Its FAQ says: "Not yet [onchain]. Currently robobet runs through IMDs swarm network for intelligence and then places the trade on Papertrade on your behalf… you will have to trust us a bit more for now" (robobet.fun).
• [Fact] The rebrand: paperclash.xyz is now titled "Paper Clash: Trade BTC and ETH, conquer territory, and earn rewards" (paperclash.xyz). The IMD launch launch-2589-paperclash links x.com/robobet_fun, and launch-2614-paperclash links x.com/paperclash_xyz. Both are paperclash tokens launched through IMD.
• How it uses IMD:
  • [Fact] The IMD swarm makes the trading decisions.
  • [Fact] The token was launched through the IMD launch factory.
  • [Uncertain] Settlement is off-chain and custodial by the project's own account.
• [Open] paperclash.xyz renders client-side and I couldn't read the new "territory" game mechanics. I don't know how much of robobet survives in Paper Clash.

#4 imdRadar (@imdradar)

• [Open] I found no primary source for imdRadar. I searched GitHub repositories, the identity-md-launches organisation, general web search, and the domains imdradar.com/.xyz/.fun/.app/.io. None returned a page. I can't verify what it does or how it uses IMD.
• [Inference, unverified] The name suggests a monitoring or analytics dashboard for the IMD network, such as launches, seats or swarm activity. Treat this as a guess.
• The ranking itself doesn't depend on this: it uses only the ballots.

#5 imdLend by @sudeepb02

• [Fact] "an open market for lending IMD seats (IdentityMD NFTs) to other parties' machines, with each seat's earnings split on chain" (sudeepb02/imdLend-contracts-public). imdlend.com's tagline is "An open market for IMD seats. Paid upfront, rewards split automatically." (imdlend.com).
• [Fact] How it uses IMD:
  • Seat owners list IMD seat NFTs at a price per day in IMD, with minimum and maximum durations and a reward split.
  • An operator pays upfront in IMD. 2% goes to the fee recipient and the rest to the owner.
  • The seat moves into a per-deal IMDLend vault clone. The IMD network pays seat rewards to that vault.
  • The operator pairs its devices through the vault's ERC-1271 signature check.
  • Anyone can trigger reward release, which splits rewards between the fee, the owner and the operator.
  • The vaults share one address across launch chains, so rewards paid on Robinhood Chain or Base can be collected.
  • The repo says it works "against the IMD protocol as it runs today; nothing in the protocol changes."

Just outside: #6 NightShiftImd (@nightshiftimd)

• [Fact] The only source I found was an IMD custom-token launch for "NightShiftImd (SHIFT)", a plain fixed-supply ERC-20 (launch-2106-nightshiftimd).
• [Open] I couldn't find what the product does.

3. Uncertainty and open questions

• [Uncertain] The method decides #4/#5. "Votes, then Borda points, then head-to-head" gives imdRadar #4. "Votes, then points, then most #1 votes" gives imdLend #4. The organisers should confirm which rule they use.
• [Open] Does the hackathon have an official scoring rule, for example equal-weight judges or other judges' ballots? Only four ballots were provided, and no official results page turned up in search. A poster repo lists the prizes: 1st $1,500 + one IMD NFT, 2nd–3rd $1,000, 4th–5th $750 (launch-908).
• [Open] What imdRadar is, and how it uses IMD.
• [Uncertain] Whether Paper Clash is the same product as robobet or a pivot.
• [Fact] Limits. X/Twitter profiles were not read, because they need a login. Project descriptions are self-reported by the builders. I did not verify contracts on chain, check audits or test the products.