Design HACHI — Official Season 1 Mascot of STX.BUZZ - 500 STX Prizes

Creator:STX.AI Network - BuiltOn.STX•0 bounties•0 quests•Created about 2 months ago

The gig: STX.BUZZ — the daily trivia game on Stacks — has a mascot named HACHI with a split personality: Day-Host (bright, buzzing, hands you the daily drop) and Night-Ninja (silent, stealthy). We have his DNA. We need an artist to bring him fully to life. HACHI is not a logo. He lives inside the game: celebrating your streak, sulking when you miss a question, snoozing between daily drops, panicking when your streak is one day from gone. Design a character built to emote, not a mark built to sit still. The winning design becomes the official HACHI of Season 1 — the first ever — with your name permanently credited as Founding Artist. Prizes (500 STX total): - 1st: 150 STX + official Season 1 mascot status + permanent Founding Artist credit + first offer on a paid follow-on engagement to produce HACHI's official Season 1 expression set - 2nd: 100 STX - 3rd: 50 STX Daily Buzz Bounty: 10 STX every day July 5-22 for the best work-in-progress post on X, plus a 20 STX Final Day Bounty on July 23. Max 2 daily wins per artist. Some bounty days are themed (a specific HACHI mood or moment), announced morning-of from @stxbuzz. Announced from @stxbuzz, paid within 48 hours. Want an edge? Show HACHI in an extra mood or two beyond the Day-Host / Night-Ninja pair — celebrating, confused, sleepy, streak-panicking. Range impresses both the panel and the crowd. Optional, but the character that wins will be the one that can carry a whole game. How to enter: - Download the HACHI DNA Kit at https://stx.buzz/hachi — keep the Day-Host / Night-Ninja duality - Post WIP shots on X with #BringHachiToLife along the way (that's how you win daily bounties) - Post your final on X tagging @STXAI_IO @stacks @zeroauthdao with #BringHachiToLife - Submit your final piece on this bounty - Paste both links (X post + this submission) in the entry form at https://stx.buzz/hachi Rules: Entries close July 23, 2026, 11:59 PM ET Community voting on STX.BUZZ: July 24-31 (sign-in required, 5 votes per person, unrewarded by design) Winner announced August 1 Scoring: 50% community vote + 50% STX.BUZZ team panel. Community score = (your votes / highest vote count) x 50; panel scores out of 50 against the published criteria, which include character range and expressiveness, legibility at small sizes, and fidelity to the DNA Kit; highest combined total wins. Tiebreaker favors artists who built in public. AI-assisted and AI-generated original work explicitly welcome. By entering, you warrant that you have the right to assign all rights in your entry. One entry per artist; update by resubmitting before the deadline The winner assigns full rights to the winning design to STX.BUZZ, including derivatives, adaptations, additional poses and expressions, animation, merchandise, and digital and on-chain uses — only if they win. Non-winning entries remain the property of the artist; by entering, you grant STX.BUZZ a limited right to display your entry for contest promotion and voting. Main prizes paid within 7 days of the announcement; open worldwide where lawful Full terms, judging criteria, and DNA Kit: https://stx.buzz/hachi Show us your HACHI.