Hedera has selected five winners in its Scaffold-HBAR Template Bounty, awarding $2,000 in HBAR to each project after a developer competition focused on reusable application infrastructure. The winning templates cover multisig governance, decentralized limit orders, automated liquidation checks, recurring token purchases and prediction markets, giving developers executable starting points for several common Hedera application patterns.
According to Hedera’s official winners announcement, each project can be loaded through Scaffold-HBAR using a single command that references the developer’s public repository. The templates remain community-maintained external projects rather than code merged directly into Hedera’s main Scaffold-HBAR repository.
The bounty distributed a total of $10,000 across five equal prizes following a two-week development window that ended October 4. Entries were required to deploy a working application on Hedera testnet, include verifiable transaction evidence and make substantive use of services such as HTS, HCS, Hedera Schedule Service or Solidity contracts running on Hedera.
Winners Target Automation and Native Hedera Services
SpaceDev’s Hedera Governed Operations template demonstrates multisig governance using an account’s native threshold key. Sensitive actions are represented as scheduled transactions and execute once enough council members sign them. The model uses Hedera’s native account and scheduling infrastructure rather than deploying a separate multisig smart contract.
Jagadeesh’s SaucerSwap Limit Orders template targets decentralized trading automation. Users deposit tokens into an on-chain vault and define a target price, while Hedera Schedule Service repeatedly triggers the vault’s own checks. The design removes the need for an external keeper or continuously running server to monitor and execute the limit-order condition.
Custos, developed by Victor Jayeoba, applies similar scheduled execution to leveraged positions. The contract checks liquidation conditions every 30 minutes and schedules its own subsequent run. It also combines Chainlink and Supra price feeds, rejecting stale data or readings that diverge by more than 5%. The template demonstrates how scheduled contract execution and redundant oracle checks can be composed around liquidation logic.
RetailBox’s Recurring Buy template automates purchases through SaucerSwap on schedules ranging from hourly to weekly, while Predera by Manish Shivabhakti uses scheduled settlement for prediction markets. Predera reads Chainlink prices with Pyth as a fallback and represents YES and NO positions using Hedera Token Service assets that can trade on SaucerSwap before settlement.
The focus on executable templates reflects a wider effort among blockchain ecosystems to shorten the path from documentation to working applications. Fetch.ai has taken a similar approach with one-command templates for multiple AI-agent architectures, while Arbitrum has combined technical ecosystem development with direct funding through its London Founder House. The common objective is to reduce initial development overhead, although easier scaffolding does not guarantee that resulting applications reach sustained production usage.
Winning Templates Remain Testnet Starting Points
Hedera makes that limitation explicit. All five winning projects were tested on testnet, remain unaudited and are not intended for direct mainnet deployment in their current form. Developers adapting the code for production are responsible for their own security reviews, modifications and legal compliance.
That distinction matters particularly for templates involving leveraged trading, automated swaps and oracle-dependent settlement. Reusable code can standardize integrations and reduce repetitive setup, but it cannot substitute for application-specific threat modeling or audits. Other ecosystems are increasingly addressing that next step separately, including Arbitrum’s $7.8 million program to subsidize smart-contract security reviews.
Scaffold-HBAR itself launched earlier in 2026 as an open-source development stack combining Next.js, Hardhat or Foundry and preconfigured Hedera network tooling. Community templates extend that model without requiring every use case to become part of the core repository.
The bounty’s measurable output is therefore five reusable, testnet-validated development patterns rather than five production applications. Their longer-term value will depend on whether developers reuse the templates, maintain their repositories and convert the underlying patterns into audited applications with sustained activity.
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