Country dossier
Worldwide badge coverage for Taiwan, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
HITCON CMT 2017's official event page documents the HITCON Badge Challenges activity and an electronic badge powered by a MediaTek chipset, with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, game-controller/joystick, infrared, and LED display features. The official ticketing page ties the limited deluxe electronic badge to the Premium Pass, and the events page says additional badges would be released for conference-day purchase.
HITCON CMT 2018's official events page documents HITCON Wallet as a limited blockchain electronic badge for Royal VIP and Premium Pass holders, with secure-element cold-wallet functionality, electronic paper, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy. The same official page says holders could join a secret activity during the conference and later use the device as an offline physical wallet for Bitcoin or Ethereum.
An official HITCON CMT electronic board badge shaped around Taiwan, combining collectable conference identity, 24 LED unlock states, sponsor booth challenges, a snake warm-up, and ARM TrustZone exploitation stages.
HITCON CMT 2023's official events page says the badge was more than an identification badge: card readers and mini-games were placed at booths and around the venue, attendees used their badges to activate and interact with them, and the Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers for hands-on inspection.
HITCON CMT 2024's official activity page and PCB Badge guide frame every attendee ID as a PCB badge, with score accrual across activities, badge games, BadUSB play, docking between badges, game battle behavior, and on-site programmer or FTDI support at the activity desk.
HITCON 2025's official PCB Badge guide and public technical repository document an attendee PCB badge with a hacker-pet mode, built-in games, pedometer scoring, cross-board interaction, BadUSB behavior, Red-vs-Blue tower-capture play, and released STM32CubeIDE-oriented firmware/PCB project materials.
Events
The August 25-26, 2017 HITCON CMT edition whose official pages documented the first HITCON Badge Challenges electronic badge, powered by a MediaTek chipset with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, joystick, infrared, and LED display features.
The July 27-28, 2018 HITCON CMT edition whose official pages documented HITCON Wallet, a limited blockchain electronic badge bundled with Royal VIP and Premium passes and built around secure-element cold-wallet, e-paper, Wi-Fi, and BLE features.
The HITCON CMT 2019 edition whose official event page documented a Taiwan-shaped electronic board badge, sponsor challenge LED unlocks, and an ARM TrustZone badge challenge.
The HITCON CMT 2023 edition where the attendee badge acted as more than identification, activating booth and venue card-reader mini-games with NFC reader learning at the Activity Team booth.
The HITCON CMT 2024 edition whose official activity page said every attendee ID was a PCB badge, with score accrual, games, docking between badges, BadUSB play, and on-site programmer support.
The August 15-16, 2025 HITCON edition whose PCB Badge guide documents a hacker-pet badge, games, pedometer scoring, Red-vs-Blue tower capture, cross-board interaction, and BadUSB behavior.
Lifecycle
The official PCB Badge guide documents a BadUSB activity path as part of the 2024 badge game surface.
The badge guide documents BadUSB behavior and script execution as part of the 2025 badge activity surface.
The badge mini-games awarded special prizes to the top three daily scores and participation-prize eligibility when attendees crossed stated thresholds.
The 2025 PCB Badge guide documents a Hacker Pet mode alongside score display and other badge activities.
One official Badge Challenges path asked attendees to catch all Hackermon and become Hackermon master, with a HITCON CMT 2018 ticket as the award.
The second official Badge Challenges path was Master of Snake, also tied to a HITCON CMT 2018 ticket prize.
The JLCPCB BOM lists 128 LED designators for the matrix and eight TL3301-style tactile switches, matching the firmware row/column refresh and button-scan notes.
The KKTIX page tied the limited deluxe electronic badge to Premium Pass tickets, while the official events page said a few electric badges would be released for attendee purchase during the conference.
HITCON described the Wallet badge as coming with Royal VIP and Premium Passes, with the KKTIX page documenting limited electronic-board inclusion for VIP and Premium tickets.
The official 2018 pages introduced digital currency into souvenirs, HITCON Token collection, and Hacker Cat upgrades alongside the Wallet badge context.
The official guide describes Red-vs-Blue tower capture behavior as a team game played through the badge ecosystem.
HITCON placed card readers and mini-games at booths and scattered around the venue, letting attendees activate interactions with their badge.
The 2024 activity system used the PCB badge as an attendee score surface across HITCON activities and games.
Attendees could unlock badge LEDs by solving the board puzzle or completing sponsor booth challenges, with all LEDs unlocked leading to a HITCON lottery chance.
The public repository README documents hardware-version selection through V2.2 for the 2025 attendee badge in STM32CubeIDE.
The official events page says HITCON Wallet contained a Secure Element CoolWallet, electronic paper, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy.
HITCON's official events page says the 2017 electronic badge was powered by a MediaTek chipset and included Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, joystick/game-controller input, infrared, and an LED display.
The repository production CSV identifies the V2.2 badge controller as an STM32F103CBT6 in an LQFP-48 package.
The repository BadUSB notes document HID report framing, script loading, command bytes, and custom-HID interface context for writing scripts to the badge.
The badge challenge used ARM TrustZone separation with non-secure and secure stages, command-line interaction, snake warm-up behavior, and unlock states.
The production CSV identifies an IRM-H638T IR receiver and an LSM6DS3TR-C motion sensor, grounding the badge's IR and movement-scoring surfaces in the hardware archive.
The 2024 badge guide describes docking badges with other attendees and game battle behavior, making the physical badge a social interaction device.
The 2025 guide documents cross-board interaction and game-battle behavior, pairing badge-to-badge play with Tetris, Dino, and Snake activities.
HITCON said badge holders could use the device after the event as an offline physical wallet for Bitcoin or Ethereum, but this catalogue pass does not independently verify wallet security or firmware implementation.
The Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers so attendees could learn about common ID-card operation and inspect the contents inside their badge.
HITCON documented programmer and FTDI support at the activity desk for attendees working with the PCB badge.
Operational history
The record distinguishes the Wallet electronic board from the regular conference credential and avoids implying universal attendee distribution.
The record should not imply every 2017 attendee received this electronic badge.
The catalogue preserves the official badge and activity evidence while avoiding unverified security, blockchain, or component-level claims.
The dossier records the verified platform and challenge claims while avoiding unsupported component-level or firmware claims.
The dossier records the verified interaction model while avoiding unsupported component-level or security-primitive claims.
The dossier records the verified interaction model while avoiding unsupported component-level claims.
The 2017 HITCON entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated/placeholder art.
The 2018 HITCON Wallet entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or publishing generated badge art.
The entry ships without a hero image rather than using generated, placeholder, or unlicensed imagery.
The Taiwanese HITCON 2023 entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event images or using generated placeholder art.
The 2024 HITCON entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated/placeholder art.
The 2025 HITCON entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated/placeholder art.
The dossier records the verified interaction, production, and technical-archive surface while avoiding unsupported production-scale and image-provenance claims.