HashPack sponsored this week’s three-part builder spotlight. Host Tate spoke with three Hedera builders across back-to-back segments. Each covered a different layer of the ecosystem. Youssef builds onchain analytics. Dave, who goes by Hefty, builds creator infrastructure. Brandon, better known as the HBAR Bull, tokenized his own audience.
Notably, none of them raised grant money. Instead, all three bootstrapped during a slow market. That constraint shaped what they shipped and how fast.
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Onchain analytics. Creator infrastructure. Tokenized memberships.
Three builders join @TateOnChain to showcase what they’re building on Hedera and how it works.
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HashTrace Targets the Gaps Retail Users Hit on HashScan
Youssef launched HashTrace after struggling with HashScan, Hedera’s official explorer. His frustration tracks with documented limitations. HashScan prioritizes hexadecimal identifiers over readable names, and an open issue requests searching by entity name instead. NFT holder lists truncate at roughly 100 entries. Transaction history pagination caps out near 10 pages.
Additionally, the Hedera-operated mirror node applies an implicit 60-day window to several REST endpoints. Queries without explicit timestamps return only recent data. As a result, casual users cannot easily reconstruct a wallet’s full history.
Youssef recalled onchain investigator ZachXBT describing Hedera as difficult to trace. He treats that criticism as the problem statement. HashTrace consolidates balances, transfers, and NFT pages into one view. Furthermore, it flags which wallets exchange the most value with each other, which helps cluster wallets under one owner.
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A Finance Manager Built It in Roughly 35 Hours
Youssef is not a developer. He works as a finance manager with an accounting and audit background. However, he built HashTrace on an AI app-building platform after a contact offered him free credits. The first version took around 35 hours. He has added five to ten hours since launch.
Importantly, he asked the tool to push everything to a GitHub repository he controls. That way the project survives if the platform disappears. A domain was his only cash expense. Meanwhile, his wife, a UX designer, shaped the interface.
The newest feature is wallet alerts. Users pick a wallet and a token, then receive a push notification when holdings drop past a threshold. Consequently, followers can check whether a promoter still holds what they promote. Wallet aggregation sits next on his roadmap.
Built by Slime Ships Creator Tools Behind an NFT Gate
Dave runs Built by Slime, which publishes a Hedera creator toolkit at slime.tools. Access works through a single gate. Holders of a Slime NFT unlock the full set. After that, users pay only network fees, which stay below a cent for most actions.
Two exceptions apply. Liquidity pool creation routes through SaucerSwap, which charges its own fee. Domain registration is built but waiting on wallet-side resolution. Dave said he plans to open source the tools eventually, so projects can self-host.
The team recently added a metadata update tool. Hedera supports mutable NFT metadata natively through HIP-657, which introduced a METADATA key. Therefore creators can update NFTs without deploying a smart contract. Hashinal inscriptions come next, alongside the existing IPFS pinning option. Roughly 10 to 15 projects currently use the staking tool.
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Trash Pandas Spreads 9,999 NFTs Across Three Networks
Trash Pandas is the first collection built entirely on Slime’s own tools. The project site lists 9,999 total NFTs, split evenly at 3,333 per network. Mint price sits at roughly $5. Hedera went live first and reached about 47 percent minted within days. XRP Ledger follows, then Algorand.
Mint proceeds fund the next build rather than a treasury. Phase four adds a store where holders buy traits and customize their NFTs, similar to a seasonal battle pass. That model depends on native metadata updates, which is why network choice matters. Dave said he avoids Solidity where possible, citing smart contract risk.
BULLbarians Turns an Audience Into a Tokenized Membership
Brandon started BULLbarians during a hard stretch between jobs. Kabila’s team encouraged him to tokenize his community. The collection sold out in under an hour. Holders now get early access to his content plus occasional exclusives.
He mints through Kabila and lists on SentX. Community management runs on Calaxy, the Hedera-based social platform from Solo Ceesay and Spencer Dinwiddie. Calaxy raised $26 million in a round co-led by the HBAR Foundation and Animoca Brands. The platform handles token gating, whitelist transfers, and value transfers in one place.
Brandon has covered Hedera since December 2018. He now works to return more value than holders paid in. The Earthlings game plans to integrate BULLbarians, including an in-game bull bar.
What the Three Builds Share
All three builders solved problems they personally hit. Youssef wanted to read his own wallets. Dave wanted tools he could reuse across networks. Brandon wanted to reward people who backed him early. None waited for a grant committee.
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