Innowise wins Bronze at the 2026 Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence

We’ve got another reason to celebrate. Innowise has received a Bronze Stevie® Award in the 2026 Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence for our work on Haust Network.

The project was honored in the Technical Innovation of the Year, Financial Technology category. This year’s competition attracted more than 700 nominations from organizations across 37 countries and territories, so earning a place among the winners feels especially significant.

Haust Network is a next-generation DeFi ecosystem built around an EVM-compatible Layer-2 blockchain powered by zk-rollups. Together with Haust Labs, our team worked on far more than a single blockchain product. We helped develop an interconnected ecosystem that brings a wallet, decentralized exchange, lending protocol, cross-chain liquidity tools, smart accounts, and an AI-powered financial assistant into one platform.

A major goal of the project was to make DeFi less intimidating for people who don’t want to wrestle with network switching, gas fees, multiple wallets, and complicated smart contract interactions. Features such as social recovery, fee sponsorship, multi-token gas payments, batch transactions, and natural-language interaction with HAIA help make those processes feel much closer to the financial apps people already know.

This Bronze Stevie® Award is a proud moment for everyone involved. Haust Network asked our engineers to solve demanding problems across blockchain infrastructure, wallet security, smart contracts, liquidity, AI, and user experience. Seeing that work recognized by an international judging panel is a welcome nod to both teams and to the product we continue to build together.

The Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence recognize accomplishments by individuals, teams, and organizations across the technology sector. For Innowise, this award adds another important chapter to a project that has already earned international attention in the fintech industry.