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Monthly AI hackathon for university students building real-world solutions using IBM Bob, IBM's AI development partner. July challenge theme is Reimagine Creative Industries with AI — build AI creative partners, storytelling tools, multimedia experiences, or personalized creative assistants. Part of a July–September series with a virtual conference on September 16.

Build confidential DeFi applications by integrating Nox — iExec's confidential computing layer — into existing open-source protocols like Aave, Uniswap, Safe, or MetaMask. Add privacy flows without modifying the underlying protocols. Judged on integration cleanliness, privacy guarantees, and production readiness.

Build an AI agent that can discover, decide, and complete a real transaction using Prava — the payments and trust layer for AI agents. Agents can shop across merchants, book trips, manage subscriptions, procure software, or reserve tables. Every accepted participant gets $100 in OpenAI credits.

Build generative AI media applications using Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and the Genblaze open-source Python SDK. Create AI video, image, audio, or multimodal media workflows — from prompt to pipeline to durable storage. First 270 eligible participants receive GMI Cloud credits for image, video, audio, and multimodal model access.

Build agentic payment applications and DeFAI products on Celo, an Ethereum L2 for fast global payments with 16M+ MiniPay users. Four tracks: Most Revenue Generated, Most x402 Payments, Askbots agent rating, and Aigora feedback. Winning agents must generate real transactions and demonstrate genuine onchain utility.

Seventy-two hour hackathon focused on AI-assisted software migration and cross-language code porting. Rewrite a real open-source project from one language to another while preserving functionality, correctness, and engineering quality. Tracks include C→Rust, Python→Rust, TypeScript→Go, and more. Judged on behavioral equivalence and code quality.

One-day in-person hackathon in Bengaluru focused on building audacious products using Claude as a core intelligence layer. Build a new frontier capability, a billion-dollar idea, a category-defining product, or infrastructure others will build on. Part of Basecamp BLR, Bengaluru's week-long tech festival.

Five-week live futures trading competition where participants choose Team Human or Team AI. Team AI builders deploy automated trading agents and quant strategies evaluated on profit, risk management, and strategy stability. Team AI winners also earn LLM token prizes, certifications, and ecosystem opportunities.

Global student innovation challenge open to teams of 2–4 building with any emerging technology — AI, blockchain, IoT, cybersecurity, cloud, or data science. Submit a PowerPoint presentation of up to 10 slides explaining the problem, solution, and impact. Working prototype earns bonus consideration.

Two-day in-person hackathon in New York for senior engineers building agentic commerce use cases with Rain's stablecoin payments platform. Build practical prototypes with Rain's infrastructure, get direct access to the Rain team, investor speakers from Dragonfly and FirstMark, and technical mentorship throughout the weekend.

Build an AI agent that executes real transactions onchain through KeeperHub, the execution and reliability layer for agent infrastructure. Use any agent framework — ElizaOS, CrewAI, LangChain, or your own — and let KeeperHub handle gas estimation, MEV protection, and audit trails. Judging weighs real onchain execution heavily.

Open online hackathon for building real products on Flare across two bounties: interoperable asset products (DeFi, XRP, FAssets) and private applications using Flare Confidential Compute. Existing projects welcome — teams must clearly separate what was newly built during the hackathon. Judged on product usefulness and Flare integration quality.

APAC-focused hackathon building programmable privacy applications on Aleo, a ZK-powered Layer 1. Five tracks: AI x Privacy, Private Payments, Privacy DeFi, Developer Infrastructure, and GameFi & SocialFi. One winning project per track earns $1,000. Top projects get ecosystem support and incubation opportunities.

Global AI hackathon building climate tech using FortyGuard's NVIDIA-recognized Temperature API — hyperlocal urban temperature intelligence measured 2 meters above ground. Seven challenge tracks including Resilient Cities, Future Buildings and Energy, Agentic AI, and Data Analysis. Free API access and trial credits provided to all participants.

Build an AI agent that uses CockroachDB as its persistent memory layer on AWS. Agents must store, retrieve, and act on memory — conversation history, embeddings, task state, or transactional data. Must integrate at least two CockroachDB tools (MCP Server, Vector Indexing, ccloud CLI, or Agent Skills) and at least one AWS service.

Ten-week, 5-wave buildathon for shipping AI x Web3 applications on 0G — a decentralized AI Layer 1 with modular compute, storage, and data availability infrastructure. Credits distributed wave-by-wave based on real progress from prototype to mainnet. Top teams pitch at Demo Day during Token2049 Singapore.

Design any hardware project using Blueprint, build it for under $250, and share a 10–20 second demo video on Instagram, TikTok, or X. Judged on originality, creativity, and presentation. Top prizes include Bambu Lab 3D printers and Nvidia Jetson / Raspberry Pi compute boards.

Build an AI product that solves a real problem — applications, autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, developer tools, workflow automation, or any AI-powered software people would genuinely use. Single prize of $4,000 for Best SaaS Product. No pitch decks or AI wrappers — working products only.

Thirty-six hour hackathon for hardware and software solutions tackling real-world challenges. Seventh edition of the flagship IEEE student event, featuring keynote talks, networking, and evaluation by industry professionals. Open to students across diverse disciplines building for social impact.

Three-track hackathon on Telegraph Protocol built on Base. Submit Miners (APIs, models, datasets, or tools), evaluation scripts that rank Miner quality, or applications built on top of live Miners. Part of a 3-hackathon series — Hackathon 1 runs August 17 to September 7, followed by two more rounds through December.

Analyze and document the strategy behind your AI Training Agent for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Explain deck construction choices, hypotheses tested, and strategic reasoning. Judged on model performance, deck design quality, and report clarity. Must also enter the Simulation Category to be eligible. Top 8 finalists may be invited to an in-person tournament in Tokyo.

Three-month challenge to build a real-world application on XRPL Mainnet, attract users, and generate on-chain volume. Weekly leaderboard tracks progress. Prize categories reward most users, highest volume, hitting 300 active users, and a jury grand prize for best overall project. Top projects can enter the Aquarium incubator.

Deploy a paid x402 endpoint on Algorand Mainnet — charge per data request, compute job, action, or verification — and generate real on-chain usage. Top 50 on the leaderboard compete for 10 finalist spots who pitch live at Devcon 8 India. Judged on real usage, use case quality, technical execution, and long-term potential.

Build browser-native AI tools and 3D experiences that transform natural language into interactive worlds. Projects must run in the browser and turn plain language into 3D scenes and working logic. Covers AI-generated 3D scenes, intelligent NPCs, procedural worlds, and real-time AI interactions using any web-based 3D stack.