University Hackathon:
Future of Blockchain
A 7-week online hackathon dedicated to supporting innovative projects across all chains led by students. Unlock your potential, collaborate, and shape the future of tech!
Launching 25th November
Join our virtual 7-week hackathon aimed at university students!
Collaborate, learn, and compete for a chance to win exciting prizes while building real-world solutions with cutting-edge tech.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, there's something for everyone to explore and create!
BUILD ON
ANY CHAIN
Find team members, learn, complete challenges and win great prizes
Teams must have one team member who is a university student or is related to an educational club or community!
Bounties and Prizes
Benefits
Certificate for your CV & LinkedIn for building a project in Web3 and demonstrating technical ability.
Access to Accelerators, dedicated programmes to nurture founders and help them raise funds.
Participating in a Hackathon is a key credit for acceptance into the Encode Internship Programme
Bounties
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You challenge is to build the most innovative and impactful applications using iExec's tools and resources.
Unleash your creativity and explore unique use cases for iExec's technology. This is a broadly scoped bounty, allowing you to utilize any combination of iExec components that make sense for your application or tool.
iExec Tools
DataProtector Core & Sharing for protecting data, managing access control and monetisation.
Web3Mail for decentralised, blockchain-based communication, allowing apps to email Ethereum account holders without needing to store or know their email addresses.
Inspiration for Builders
To help spark your creativity, we've prepared a list of potential project ideas. Remember, these are just suggestions - feel free to think outside the box!
🏢 Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenisation Platform
Create a platform that enables tokenisation of real-world assets, such as real estate or commodities, ensuring secure and transparent transactions using blockchain technology.🔒 Decentralised Password Manager
Use DataProtector to securely store and share passwords among team members.
📊 Private Data Marketplace
Create a platform where users can securely share and monetize their data using DataProtector Sharing.
🔍 Decentralised Search Engine
Create a search engine that respects user privacy by leveraging iExec's confidential computing capabilities.
💻 Decentralized E-Learning Platform Create a decentralized e-learning platform where educators can securely monetize their courses using iExec DataProtector Sharing.
Check out the Hacker Pack for more inspiration, or come up with your own project which utilises iExec's tools and resources!
Prizes
Best use of DataProtector Core & Sharing
🥇 1st Prize 👉 $3000 USDC
🥈 2nd Prize 👉 $2000 USDC
🥉 3rd Prize 👉 $500 USDC
Best integration of Web3 Mail
🥇 $1000 (RLC)
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While you’re using iExec tools to build projects and exploring the documentation to understand features, we want to hear from you!
Submissions could provide:
Tool Feedback: Suggestions on how to improve the functionality, user experience, or performance of our tool. Think about usability, feature enhancements, bug reports, or integration ideas that could make the tool more efficient and developer-friendly.
Documentation Improvements: Help us improve clarity, comprehensiveness, or organisation in our documentation. Identify gaps, confusing sections, or propose better examples and explanations that would help new and experienced users alike.
Evaluation Criteria:
Clarity and Detail: Well-explained and detailed suggestions will stand out.
Impact: Feedback should address critical issues or proposes improvements with the potential to significantly enhance the iExec tools.
Feedback should be given using the template provided in the Hacker Pack
Prizes
🏅5 x 100$
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For this project your goal is to build a system centered around LLM management of trades. Based on realtime data, how should funds in a user’s portfolio be allocated? The system should take some input data (prices, news, open positions, etc.) and pass this information to one or more LLMs and arrive at a decision (buy/sell/modify/hold/etc.) and eventually execute these trades. A complete working example will be provided in the starter kit, which you can optionally choose to reference or build upon.
Check out the Hacker Pack for resources and judging criteria.
Prizes
🥇 1st Prize 👉 $4000 USDC
🥈 2nd Prize 👉 $2000 USDC
🥉 3rd Prize 👉 $1000 USDC
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Using Koii’s task-template, build and deploy a production-ready version of your dApp on Koii Network alongside your own KPL token.
Your submission must be a deployed task on Koii
Your submission must have a minted KPL token
Prizes
Grand Prize: $500 USDC and 5000 $KOII to the best built project!
Best Business Use-Case: $200 USDC and 5000 $KOII
Most innovative Project: $200 USDC and 5000 $KOII
Honorable Mentions: 30 x $100 USDC and 1000 $KOII
Up to 200 $KOII available to anyone who participates in the challenge (to cover gas or similar fees only)!
All winning participants will be granted the opportunity to apply with special priority to join Koii Ocean, Koii’s accelerator program, where winners can gain access to special resources (such as investment opportunities) to launch their dApp as a business and gain access to grants/private funding opportunities.
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Build anything from a range of DEXes, Payments, Stablecoins to NFTs, DePIN, Privacy - or even a very unusual idea, whatever you find fancy and useful, just ship it!
🏆 $2,000 USDC Prize Pool
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Build a cryptographic tool that supports social good/that benefits society. Your project can focus on areas such as privacy, accessibility, or identity, but is not limited to these fields.
Requirements: We welcome any application, provided you can demonstrate how it serves the greater good.
Prizes
🥇 1st Prize 👉 $1000
🥈 2nd Prize 👉 $500
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Nethermind invites you to build on Starknet. Build what? Absolutely anything! Yes, that's right. Absolutely anything! The most useful and creative project wins! Think about a Smart Contract that does something unique, something that doesn't exist on Starknet yet, or an integration of some kind, perhaps a tool that helps others access Starknet data.
Prizes
🥇 1st Prize 👉 $1000
🥈 2nd Prize 👉 $500
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Build an autonomous AI agent that can independently perform meaningful actions on-chain or interact with blockchain infrastructure. We're looking for projects that demonstrate genuine agency - where the AI can reason about, plan, and execute blockchain operations with minimal human oversight.
Prize Focus:
Autonomous agents that can interact with DeFi protocols
AI-driven DAO governance systems
Agents that can deploy and manage smart contracts
Multi-agent systems for decentralized coordination
On-chain verification of agent actions
Novel applications of agent-based systems in blockchain
Prizes
🥇 1st Prize 👉 $1000
🥈 2nd Prize 👉 $500
More information and resources available in the Future of Blockchain Hackathon Hacker Pack.
Please register to find out more!
Hackathon Schedule
Mon, Nov 25th5:30 pm BST | Launch Event |
Mon, Nov 25th6:00 pm BST | Protect and Monetise Data: A Web3 Developer Toolkit |
Wed, Nov 27th5:30 pm BST | Koii Workshop: How to build an app on Koii from Zero to Hero! |
Fri, Dec 29th5:30 pm BST | Scaling Bitcoin & Citrea |
Mon, Dec 2nd5:30 pm BST | Deploy Your First Cairo Smart Contract |
Wed, Dec 2th5:30 pm BST | Let the agent decide: Using LLM driven systems for onchain trading decisions |
Ongoing | Project Building |
Ongoing | Project Building & Support |
Ongoing | Christmas Break! |
Week 7 (Jan 6th - 12th) | Final push! |
Sun, Jan 12th23:59 in your time zone | Submission deadline! |
Mid-Late JanuaryTime TBA! | Pitch practices for finalists! |
Mon, Jan 27th5:30 pm GMT | Finale and Prizegiving |
Upcoming Events
Previous Events
Launch Event
Koii Workshop
iExec Workshop
Nethermind Workshop
Citrea Workshop
Spectral Workshop
Speakers, Mentors & Judges
Anthony Beaument
Encode Club
Martin Leclercq
iExec
Zane Peckye
Spectral
Omer Talip Akalin
Citrea
Avinash Pillay
Koii
Aayush Giri
Nethermind
Eomji Park
Encode Club