Anyone can take part in this hackathon, as long as you agree to Encode Club’s Terms and Conditions and Celestia.org Terms of Service. Prizes subject to the terms below.

Yes, you need to have a team, and your team must have between 3 and 5 members. This is a strict rule.

Yes! You can join Encode Club’s Discord server for remote support on everything hackathon-related.

If you need more information about the hackathon, you can always check out the Hacker Pack, which contains all the necessary information about the hackathon.

The Celestia team will also support offline meetups with local partners.

You’ll receive regular email updates. For announcements, and everything else on the organisational side, also keep an eye on Encode’s and Celestia’s X accounts.

Also make sure you’re in our Discord server and assign yourself the Celestia Mammothon role.

No, we don’t have open bounties for this hackathon; we require each team to pick one of the published project ideas and dedicate themselves to building it according to the preset criteria.

Each project idea comes from one of our idea partners (see above).

Yes, each project idea will have its dedicated workshop, designed to introduce you to the idea and give you the first push.

The workshops will be given by the idea partner who suggested the idea.

The hackathon has a standard learn-build-submit structure;
1. workshops and idea period - 20th Jan-1st Feb
2. building period - 1st Feb-28th Feb
3. post-submission period - 1st Mar-18th Mar

The project idea tutorials, hosted by partners, will start on the 20th of January, and will last until the 1st of February. All tutorials will be live and online, with recordings available afterwards.

The building period will last until the 28th of February, which is the official submission deadline for the hackathon.

After the submissions, judges will evaluate the projects and finalists will be picked. Finalists will be invited to pitch practices before the official live Finale and Prizegiving event (virtual).

We will review all the projects, and the best projects will be invited for live pitching at our virtual ‘finale and prizegiving’ event in March. At this event we will determine and announce the winners.

Don’t worry!

Your team code should be in an email titled “You have successfully registered for the Celestia Mammothon”, which you received upon registering. Try finding it. It might have ended up in your spam folder.

If you still can’t find it, feel free to reach out to us and we’ll send it to you manually.