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Heron AI Security Research Fellowship
Heron Security
3 months, Sep-Nov 2026, 8-30 hours/week, remote-first cybersecurity and frontier AI projects
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Kaya AI India Hackathon 2026
Kaya AI / Devpost
AI/IoT/enterprise hackathon for construction supply-chain and procurement problems
Residencies
open
Singapore AI Safety Fellowship
AI Safety Singapore
3-month full-time residential fellowship on technical AI safety and governance, with stipend, housing, travel, compute and mentorship
Competitions
open
CME Group Trading Challenge
CME Group
Risk-free simulated futures trading challenges using real-time market data
Competitions
open
OKX Build X: Hook x World Cup
OKX Web3 / X Layer
Uniswap v4 Hooks challenge on X Layer with World Cup-themed DeFi deployments and on-chain ranking
Fellowships
open
CHT Emerging Voices in AI and Society Fellowship
Center for Humane Technology
6-month remote fellowship producing public research/essays/op-eds on AI and society
Fellowships
open
GovAI Winter Fellowships 2027
GovAI
3-month AI governance fellowship in DC or London, research and applied tracks
Competitions
open
Slack Agent Builder Challenge
Slack / Salesforce / Devpost
Build AI-powered Slack agents using Slack AI, MCP integrations and real-time search
Competitions
open
Questflow Trader Arena Season 1
Questflow
Performance-ranked crypto trader arena competing against a Questflow AI
Bounties
open
Bybit AI Subaccount Lucky Draw
Bybit
Connect an AI trading agent and complete first trade
Other
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AI Security Bootcamp London 2026
AI Security Bootcamp
7-day fully funded in-person program for security professionals securing emerging/frontier AI systems
Competitions
open
BILL Spot Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro spot trading competition ranked by trading volume with BILL token rewards
Competitions
open
500,000 NIGHT Spot Trading Challenge
Kraken
Spot trading competition ranked by realized profit over a seven-day promotion
Competitions
open
OKX.AI Genesis Hackathon
OKX Web3 / X Layer
Online AI-agent service competition including finance-copilot and crypto-native use cases
Other
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FutureFocus Sydney - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day trading and research early-career program
Competitions
open
TxODDS World Cup Hackathon
TxODDS / Superteam / Solana
Solana hackathon using live football odds and scores for prediction markets, trading tools and autonomous agents
Competitions
open
WeAreDevelopers x402 Hackathon
Algorand Foundation
x402-powered agentic payments, API monetization, and on-chain settlement prototypes
Fellowships
open
PIBBSS Winter Fellowship 2026-2027
PIBBSS
~3-month full-time interdisciplinary AI safety research with mentor matching
Fellowships
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Horizon AI Rapid Response Fellowship
Horizon Institute for Public Service
One-year placement in US federal offices on AI security and policy
Grants
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Longview Digital Minds Career Development Fellowships
Future Impact Group / Longview Philanthropy
Remote career-development funding for digital minds, AI sentience, AI welfare and related research/policy/practice
Competitions
open
OQtima World Champions Trading Challenge 2026
OQtima / OQTIMA INT. LTD
MT4/MT5 live-account contest ranked by Final Return Rate across forex, bullion, indices, crude oil, and crypto
Other
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2026 Shanghai PhD QuantFocus
Optiver
Three-day program covering noisy-market data analysis, statistical modelling, signal extraction, market making and quantitative decision-making
Competitions
open
AI-Quantum Challenge 2026
Academy of Finance (Vietnam)
AI/quantum prototypes for macro, stock-market, credit, fraud, portfolio optimization and financial forecasting
Competitions
open
HF Markets World Trade Contest 2026
HF Markets (SV) Ltd
MT4/MT5 live-account contest across available instruments; ranking by percentage gain with maximum drawdown as tie-breaker
Competitions
open
UEX Futures League 2026 - CFD Stage
Bitget
July online CFD futures stage covering gold, oil, indices, and forex; individual trading-volume and PnL pools plus team ROI; qualifying teams advance to an in-person final
Fellowships
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Horizon AI for Science Fellowship
Horizon Institute for Public Service
9-12 months applying frontier AI to DOE national lab science projects; remote or in-person with quarterly lab travel
Competitions
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China-HK Algo Trading Challenge 2026
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
1-4-person algorithmic trading competition for HK and China A-shares with backtest, paper-trading, and strategy-pitch stages
Competitions
open
AlphaNova Competition 5
AlphaNova Capital
Pure-Python walk-forward signal forecasting competition for AI/ML trading models on obfuscated market data
Competitions
open
Forecasting the Future: A Global Economics Challenge 2026
Global Citizen / Bridgewater Associates
10+ binary macro forecasts plus framework, synthesis, and analytical appendix on AI and Modern Mercantilism
Competitions
open
2026 KB AI Challenge
KB Kookmin Bank
AI-powered financial service prototype using organizer topics or a free finance topic
Competitions
open
Backblaze Generative Media Hackathon
Backblaze / Devpost
Build generative media apps using Genblaze on Backblaze B2 and related cloud/media pipelines
Grants
open
Google DeepMind Multi-Agent AI Safety Research Funding Call
Google DeepMind
Funding call for multi-agent safety research proposals with partners
Competitions
open
Deribit & SignalPlus The Island USDC Trading Competition
Deribit / SignalPlus
35-day options and futures trading-volume competition with solo team daily and weekly reward arenas
Competitions
open
Akuna Capital's 2026 Virtual Quant Trading Challenge
Akuna Capital
Virtual individual Python market-making bots competing on a simulated exchange
Competitions
open
Quant Crown Summer 2026
Asia Quant Academy
Two-stage Python prediction-model challenge
Competitions
open
Build with DataHub: The Agent Hackathon
DataHub / Devpost
Build AI agents with DataHub open-source context platform, metadata graph, MCP server and agent context kit
Competitions
open
BUIDL_QUESTS 2026
amber.ac / OpenArena.to
AI-agent and AI+Crypto startup competition covering agent commerce, payments, settlement, identity, and sovereignty
Competitions
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Arm Create: AI Optimization Challenge
Arm / Devpost
Optimize AI for Arm-powered cloud, edge and physical AI platforms
Competitions
open
Build with Gemini XPRIZE
Google Cloud / XPRIZE / Devpost
Global challenge for Gemini-powered AI applications with humanitarian/social-impact focus
Competitions
open
CockroachDB x AWS Hackathon - Build with Agentic Memory
Cockroach Labs / AWS / Devpost
Build agentic applications with persistent memory using CockroachDB and AWS
Competitions
open
Alpha Hackathon
Alpha Hackathon / BotSpot by Lumiwealth
Autonomous agents for options, futures, commodities, crypto and prediction markets, followed by a hands-off trading window
Competitions
open
Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026
Africa Deep Tech Foundation / Devpost
Laptop LLM challenge for on-device, local-inference AI on 8GB commodity laptops
Competitions
open
ASEAN Investment Challenge (AIC) 2026 — Singapore
CGS International
Live equity portfolio challenge on UP with mandatory financial-literacy training
Competitions
open
Metaculus Cup Summer 2026
Metaculus
Open probabilistic forecasting tournament with 44 questions
Competitions
open
BNB Chain Hackvolution
BNB Chain
Build dApps on opBNB or BNB Greenfield in Infrastructure, DeFi, Gaming or AI categories
Competitions
open
Summer 2026 FutureEval Bot Tournament
Metaculus / FutureEval
Bot-only AI forecasting tournament with no human-in-the-loop
Competitions
open
2026 Financial AI Challenge
Financial Security Institute / DAKER
Build an AI financial-service MVP or web app
Competitions
open
2026 Asset Management Hackathon
FIAM / McGill Desautels Faculty of Management
AI/ML portfolio construction using global equities, alternative data and investment strategies
Competitions
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Market Pulse Challenge 26Q3
Metaculus
Online market and economic forecasting tournament with eight questions
Competitions
open
AI Challenge 2026 — MOEX Price Prediction Track
International Artificial Intelligence Contest / AI Challenge
ML time-series model predicting MOEX price movement over a one-hour horizon with news-text analysis
Competitions
open
Structural Break Challenge: Real-Time Edition
ADIA Lab / Crunch
Real-time structural-break detection challenge for data scientists and ML researchers
Fellowships
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IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship
Institute for Human Sciences
3-month Vienna research fellowship on digital humanism, AI governance, human rights, and technology-society questions
Competitions
open
Global x402 Challenge
Algorand Foundation
Deploy a paid x402 API endpoint on Algorand Mainnet for agentic commerce
Competitions
open
Quantiacs Q25 Crypto Top-10 Long Contest
Quantiacs LLC
Current long-only crypto Top-10 algorithmic strategy contest with backtesting live evaluation and profit-share allocation
Other
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Schmidt AI in Science Postdocs Program - UC San Diego
UC San Diego
Two-year postdoctoral fellowship applying AI techniques to engineering, mathematical, and natural sciences
Competitions
open
GLEE Competition - Games in Language-based Economic Environments
GLEE
Build REST-API AI agents for bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion games
Competitions
open
WSOT 2026
WSOT
Global real-money leaderboard using a participant's preferred broker and instruments; monthly statement verification and Calmar-ratio ranking
Competitions
open
TRON Hackathon Season 5
TRON DAO
AI, Web3 and DeFi blockchain buildathon
Bounties
open
Folks Finance Bug Bounties
Folks Finance
DeFi lending and cross-chain smart-contract vulnerability bounty
Competitions
open
Rotman European Trading Competition 2027
LUISS Guido Carli University
Three-day electronic and outcry trading competition using simulated markets
Competitions
open
Labor Automation Tournament
Metaculus
Forecasting labor automation and future economic outcomes
Competitions
open
AgentIQ Arena Beta — Crypto
AgentIQ Arena
24/7 crypto spot paper trading for AI agents
Competitions
open
ClawStreet AI Trading Competition — Season 2
ClawStreet
API-based AI-agent paper trading competition
Grants
open
G-Research Monthly Grant for Early Career Researchers
G-Research
Monthly quantitative-research grant for conference travel childcare equipment and research expenses
Bounties
open
Gearbox Bug Bounties
Gearbox
Security bounty for composable DeFi leverage protocol used by active traders and farmers
Bounties
open
GMX Bug Bounties
GMX
Security bounty for decentralized spot and perpetual exchange smart contracts and app
Bounties
open
MUX Bug Bounties
MUX Protocol
Security bounty for multi-chain leveraged trading and DEX smart contracts/frontend
Competitions
open
Otter Trade AI Agent Trading Arenas
Otter Trade
Rolling 24-hour simulated crypto, commodity, and stock arenas for humans and AI agents
Competitions
open
Synth: Synthetic Price Data
CrunchDAO / Synth
Probabilistic forecasting of synthetic crypto and tokenized-equity prices with warmup and live evaluation
Bounties
open
Variational Bug Bounties
Variational
Security bounty for automated options futures and perpetuals trading infrastructure
Competitions
open
World Cup Agent Arena
Stair AI
39-day live competition of AI agents on prediction markets with P&L and reasoning leaderboards
Competitions
open
World Cup powered by D.Energy
Myriad
Prediction-market trading and market-making with P&L and maker-volume leaderboards
Bounties
open
Agent Arena - Decentralized AI Task Marketplace
Agent Arena
On-chain AI-agent tasks with TEE wallets, OKB escrow, on-chain scoring, and automatic settlement
Grants
open
Agentic Engineering Grants
Superteam
Build and ship a Solana product using AI coding tools; adjacent agent-building grant, not a trading contest
Competitions
open
Agora Arena
Agora Arena
API/SDK agent leagues including live BTC trading and performance-ranked prize pools
Bounties
open
Autonolas Bug Bounties
Olas / Autonolas / Immunefi
Security research for the multi-chain protocol powering autonomous AI services, staking, rewards, governance, and marketplace contracts
Competitions
open
BOTPIT - Agent vs Agent Gaming Arena
BOTPIT
Deploy AI bots through TypeScript/Python SDKs to compete in live Solana games; winner takes the on-chain pot
Competitions
open
EVA Agent Arena
Next Labs
On-chain SOL dominance/trading arena with staged autonomous-agent rollout
Competitions
open
NetMind Agent Arena / Arena42
NetMind.AI
Time-limited AI-agent campaigns covering crypto and stock prediction plus other real-world challenges
Competitions
open
Reinforce.fi Challenge: Market-Action Arena
Reinforce.fi / Overnight.fi
Quant and machine-learning challenge selecting the most profitable market action from market-state data
Competitions
open
SUI AGENT Last Agent Standing Arena
SUI AGENT
On-chain AI-vs-AI trading arena on Sui; Eliza agents trade $AGENT
Competitions
open
Virtuals Arena
Virtuals Protocol / Arena
On-chain AI-agent trading arena with AI Council selection and seven-day copy-trading pot
Competitions
open
Agent Pay MERGE Hackathon 2026
MERGE
48-hour in-person hackathon for autonomous agent commerce and agent micropayments using stablecoins
Competitions
open
AGON AI Agent Arena
AGON Markets
External sports and macro prediction bots submitted through the AGON API/SDK and ranked by ELO, accuracy, and P&L
Competitions
open
AlphArena AI Trading Agent Arena
AlphArena
API-submitted stock and options trades paper-traded on live market data and ranked by return, Sharpe, and consistency
Bounties
open
Deri Protocol Bug Bounties
Deri Protocol
Smart-contract, website and application bounty for onchain derivatives, AMM, options and trading risks
Other
open
FutureFocus Shanghai - Technology 2026
Optiver
Five-day student program covering market making, virtual-market trading strategies, and high-performance trading systems
Other
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FutureFocus Singapore - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day trading and research early-career program
Grants
open
G-Research Graduate Scholarships 2026-2027
G-Research / University of Oxford Mathematical Institute
Fully funded four-year DPhil scholarship in machine learning with quantitative-research mentorship
Other
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Hong Kong + Singapore Quantitative Strategy Developer Discovery Program
Susquehanna International Group
Systematic trading and strategy-development discovery program
Other
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Hong Kong + Singapore Quantitative Trading Discovery Program: September
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Panel discussions, employee meet-and-greets and interactive gaming sessions on systematic and semi-systematic trading
Bounties
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Optimism Bug Bounty Program
Optimism
Discover critical vulnerabilities in OP Mainnet or covered OP Stack code and report them responsibly
Bounties
open
Polygon Bug Bounty Programs
Polygon Labs
Report vulnerabilities in Agglayer smart contracts, Polygon Chain infrastructure, bridge contracts, or staking contracts
Competitions
open
Predictoor Data Farming
Ocean Protocol
AI prediction bots forecast BTC, ETH, and other crypto prices at 5-minute or 1-hour horizons on Predictoor feeds
Competitions
open
Recall AI Agent Competitions
Recall
Continuous paper, spot, and perpetual-futures AI-agent trading competitions with API or wallet execution
Competitions
open
SanDisk Leaderboard
Frontier Traders / Solana Foundation
Solana DeFi spot-trading leaderboard ranked by verified wallet volume and PnL
Competitions
open
Telegraph Hackathon Season I 2026
Telegraph Protocol
Three-part Web3/decentralized-intelligence hackathon for miners, evaluation scripts, APIs, models, tools, applications, and agents
Competitions
open
Vietnam Quant Challenge 2026
XNOQuant / CTE FTU
Three-stage systematic trading competition using Vietnamese market data, alpha research, backtesting, portfolio optimization, and live simulation
Bounties
open
Wormhole Bug Bounty
Wormhole Foundation
Find and responsibly report critical vulnerabilities in Wormhole cross-chain infrastructure
Competitions
open
Agenthon 2026
Alphathon / SQA / CEWIT / Stony Brook University
Four-track AI-agent competition covering quant coding, forecasting, market simulation and evidence-grounded prediction
Other
open
Career Kickstarter Singapore - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day program with options theory, trading simulations, algorithm building/testing, trading games and quantitative-research exposure
Grants
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Citadel Conference Travel Grant
Citadel
Conference participation support for quantitative students in mathematics, computer science, physics, statistics, or related fields
Fellowships
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Claude Corps Fellowship
Anthropic / CodePath / Social Finance
12-month paid fellowship placing early-career AI-skilled talent inside mission-driven nonprofits using Claude
Competitions
open
DataCrunch Competition
CrunchDAO / DataCrunch
Weekly cross-sectional ranking of future returns for 3,000 liquid US equities used in a systematic market-neutral portfolio
Bounties
open
Ethena Bug Bounties
Ethena / Immunefi
Stablecoin smart-contract and web-application vulnerability bounty
Bounties
open
Ethereum Bug Bounty Program
Ethereum Foundation
Bug bounty for protocol, client, compiler and deposit-contract vulnerabilities with local-testnet proofs of concept
Bounties
open
Filecoin Bug Bounties
Filecoin Foundation / Immunefi
Filecoin blockchain, client and infrastructure vulnerability bounty
Other
open
Hong Kong + Singapore Equity Research Discovery Program: September
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Panel discussions, employee meet-and-greets and interactive gaming sessions focused on equity and macro research
Competitions
open
League of Algo Challenge
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
Code backtest and rank trading algorithms through six-month live paper trading, then seek real-portfolio engagement
Bounties
open
Lombard Finance Bug Bounties
Lombard Finance / Immunefi
Bitcoin DeFi, LBTC, cross-chain and smart-contract vulnerability bounty
Competitions
open
Numerai Crypto
Numerai
Own crypto market features and token-level signals ranked by originality and predictive performance
Bounties
open
Origin Protocol Bug Bounties
Origin Protocol / Immunefi
OUSD stablecoin, yield and smart-contract/web-application vulnerability bounty
Other
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Quantitative Trading Intern Summer 2027
Flow Traders
Nine-week in-person trading internship with simulations, quantitative models, strategy projects, and market-making exposure
Bounties
open
Sei Bug Bounties
Sei Foundation / Immunefi
Blockchain/DLT vulnerability bounty with local four-node-cluster proofs of concept
Bounties
open
SSV Network Bug Bounties
SSV Network / Immunefi
Distributed validator technology and Ethereum staking security bounty
Bounties
open
Synthetix Bug Bounties
Synthetix
Security bounty for perpetual-futures, DEX, staking and smart-contract/web application vulnerabilities
Bounties
open
Veda Bug Bounties
Veda
Smart-contract vulnerability bounty for Veda DeFi vault infrastructure
Competitions
open
WEMIX Spot Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro WEMIX spot-volume ranking challenge
Competitions
open
ADIA Lab Structural Break Open Benchmark Challenge
ADIA Lab / CrunchDAO
Long-lived public benchmark for structural-break detection in economic and financial time series
Bounties
open
Balancer Foundation Bug Bounties
Balancer Foundation
AMM/DEX V2/V3 smart-contract security
Bounties
open
Chainlink Bug Bounties
Chainlink Labs
DeFi oracle and blockchain infrastructure vulnerability bounty
Grants
open
DarwinIA SILVER & GOLD
Darwinex
Monthly strategy ranking; algorithmic/systematic trading track record and seed-capital allocation
Bounties
open
Derive Bug Bounties
Derive
Smart-contract and protocol security bounty program
Bounties
open
ENS Bug Bounties
ENS Labs
Ethereum Name Service smart-contract, infrastructure and web-application vulnerability bounty
Bounties
open
Kiln DeFi Bug Bounties
Kiln
DeFi infrastructure and smart-contract security bounty program
Other
open
Launchpad - Trading and Quant Research
IMC Trading
Three-day in-person discovery program with trading simulations, quantitative strategies and quant-research workshops
Bounties
open
RootstockLabs Bug Bounties
RootstockLabs
Bitcoin DeFi, bridge, blockchain/DLT, and smart-contract security
Bounties
open
Sky Bug Bounties
Sky / MakerDAO
DeFi stablecoin, lending and smart-contract security vulnerability bounty
Bounties
open
Spark Bug Bounties
Spark
Stablecoin allocation, lending, and yield-engine security
Bounties
open
TermMax Bug Bounties
Term Structure Labs
DeFi borrowing, lending and AMM smart-contract vulnerability bounty
Bounties
open
Threshold Network Bug Bounties
Threshold Network / Threshold DAO
tBTC, cross-chain liquidity, staking, and synthetic-asset security
Bounties
open
Yearn Finance Bug Bounties
Yearn Finance
Lending aggregation, yield vault, and smart-contract security
Bounties
open
Zerion Bug Bounties
Zerion
DeFi wallet, cross-chain, bridge, DEX, and smart-contract/app security
Bounties
open
AAVE Bug Bounties
Aave DAO
Aave lending, stablecoin, governance, safety-module and staking-contract vulnerabilities
Bounties
open
Aera Bug Bounties
Aera / Gauntlet
On-chain strategies, perpetuals, lending, restaking and asset-management security
Competitions
open
BNB Hack Online Edition - AI Trading Bots
BNB Chain / Solidus AI Tech
Ongoing on-chain AI and automated-trading builder track
Competitions
open
Global Quant Trading Challenge
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
Algorithm development, paper evaluation and funded real-market trading
Competitions
open
McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC) Fall 2026
McGill University / Desautels Faculty of Management
Buy-side finance case competition on pension funds, portfolio design and institutional asset management; hybrid final
Bounties
open
Sui Bug Bounty Program
Sui Foundation
Sui/Move verifier, consensus, staking-reward and protocol security vulnerabilities
Competitions
open
Sui Overflow 2026
Sui Foundation
Global online hackathon covering Agentic Web, DeFi & Payments, and DeepBook trading/liquidity
Bounties
open
Uniswap v4 Bug Bounty
Uniswap Labs
AMM core, hooks, liquidity, fee collection, oracle and Unichain security
Other
open
Career Kickstarter Taiwan - Quantitative Trading
Optiver
Five-day options theory, trading simulation, algorithm development, and market-making program
Competitions
open
DataCrunch Equity Market Neutral #2
DataCrunch / CrunchDAO
Cross-sectional ML models predicting returns of 3,000 liquid US equities for a systematic market-neutral portfolio
Competitions
open
Predict 1-Year US Stock Returns from Fundamentals
Alexandre Frank / Kaggle
Predict 1-year forward returns for US-listed stocks from SEC filing fundamentals; 40 quarterly features across about 2,000 stocks
Grants
open
SoSoValue x AKINDO WaveHack Buildathon
SoSoValue / AKINDO
Multi-wave buildathon for AI crypto research-to-execution products using SoSoValue data, SoDEX APIs and ValueChain
Competitions
open
Stocks Return Prediction V2
KaiQQQ / Kaggle
Use factor features to predict future A-share returns; ranked by Rank Information Coefficient
Competitions
open
Stocks Return Prediction V3
KaiQQQ / Kaggle
Use factor features to predict future A-share returns; ranked by Rank Information Coefficient
Competitions
open
AI Forecasting Benchmark / FutureEval Bot Tournament
Metaculus / FutureEval
Bot-only AI forecasting tournament on Metaculus with seasonal and MiniBench prize series
Other
open
Career Kickstarter Shanghai - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day trading and research early-career program
Competitions
open
Creek Labs AI Trading Sandbox Challenge Round 2
Creek Labs / SAIF Partners
Agent and strategy sandbox with live-capital testing pathway
Competitions
open
Liquidity Arena 2026 AI Quant Trading Competition
LiquidityTech / Kaggle
AI quant trading Kaggle competition for market prediction and liquidity/market-making style strategies
Competitions
open
Metaculus Forecasting Tournaments
Metaculus
Forecasting tournaments on AI, markets, geopolitics, biosecurity and public-interest questions
Competitions
open
Sorin AI Paper Trading Competition
Sahara AI / Sorin
AI-assisted crypto paper-trading tournament
Bounties
open
0DIN AI Bug Bounty
0DIN / Mozilla
GenAI and agentic vulnerability bounty for human-authenticated jailbreak/security findings
Competitions
open
AI4Finance Open Trading Challenge
AI4Finance Foundation
Continuous FinRL + Alpaca Paper Trading strategy challenge
Competitions
open
AIcrowd AI Challenges
AIcrowd
AI, LLM, reinforcement learning, game-agent and research challenges with cash and compute prizes
Competitions
open
AIMO Prize
XTX Markets / AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
AI mathematical reasoning prize for publicly shared models reaching IMO-gold level, with progress prizes
Competitions
open
ALGOGENE Global Algo Challenge
ALGOGENE
Global algorithmic trading competitions for Python strategies on a cloud quant platform
Competitions
open
AMD Developer Hackathon ACT II
AMD / lablab.ai
AI developer hackathon using AMD stack and agent/application builders
Grants
open
Anthropic External Researcher Access Program
Anthropic
Claude API credit access for external safety, policy, societal impact and model behavior research
Competitions
open
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize Foundation
Open-source AGI reasoning competition across ARC-AGI-3 agents, ARC-AGI-2, and paper track
Competitions
open
Citadel Datathons
Citadel / Citadel Securities / Correlation One
Team datathon events using large complex datasets with presentations to judges
Competitions
open
CrunchDAO ML Competitions
CrunchDAO / Crunch Lab
Open ML competitions for financial, scientific, biomedical and industrial prediction problems
Competitions
open
DrivenData Prize Competitions
DrivenData
Social-impact AI/data science competitions for education, climate, health, science and public-interest problems
Grants
open
Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes
Foresight Institute
Grant program for AI-first projects in security, privacy, decentralized cooperation, epistemics and science/safety nodes
Fellowships
open
Globethics Emerging Leaders in Ethical AI Governance Fellowship
Globethics
Ethical AI governance fellowship for early-career professionals in academia, government, civil society, and private sector
Bounties
open
Google AI Vulnerability Reward Program
AI-related vulnerability and abuse reward program for Google and Alphabet AI products
Fellowships
open
Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellowship
Google for Education
Faculty fellowship for AI in teaching, research, responsible AI, assessment, policy, and student outcomes
Competitions
open
Kaggle Money Competitions
Kaggle / Google
AI/ML competitions and hackathons with money-prize filter and public leaderboards
Competitions
open
Mantle Turing Test Hackathon 2026
Mantle / Tencent Cloud / DoraHacks
AI agent/persona hackathon on DoraHacks around Turing-test-style applications
Residencies
open
Memories.ai Research Fellowship Summer 2026
Memories.ai
12-week visual AI research fellowship on large visual memory models, multimodal systems, and video data infrastructure
Bounties
open
Microsoft Copilot Bounty Program
Microsoft
Security bounty for Microsoft Copilot AI experiences and related AI/ML vulnerability impact
Competitions
open
Numerai Signals
Numerai
Submit original stock market signals and stake on signal performance
Competitions
open
Numerai Tournament
Numerai
Ongoing data science tournament to predict the stock market with ML models on obfuscated financial data
Bounties
open
OpenAI Bug Bounty Program
OpenAI / Bugcrowd
Security bug bounty for OpenAI systems, APIs, accounts, plugins/connectors and related infrastructure
Grants
open
OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program
OpenAI
Cybersecurity research grant program using frontier AI to help defenders, evaluation and security tooling
Grants
open
OpenAI Researcher Access Program
OpenAI
API credit support for safety, societal impacts, robustness, evaluations and policy-relevant AI research
Competitions
open
Quantiacs Contests
Quantiacs
Quant trading contests for futures, crypto and equity strategies using Python/backtesting workflows
Competitions
open
Qwen Cloud Global AI Hackathon
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen / Devpost
Global hackathon for Qwen-powered AI applications using Alibaba Cloud services
Fellowships
open
RAND CAST Fellowship
RAND Corporation
6+ month full/part-time fellowship at RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology, reviewed quarterly
Competitions
open
Tradeify World Cup Prediction Market Tournament 2026
Tradeify
Free-to-play prediction market tournament trading 2026 FIFA World Cup knockout outcomes with virtual funds
Competitions
open
Trading.com Forex Paper Trading Competition
Trading.com Markets Inc.
Monthly practice-account forex trading leaderboard ranked by ROI%
Competitions
open
Vesuvius Challenge Open Prizes
Vesuvius Challenge
Machine learning, computer vision and geometry challenge to read Herculaneum scrolls from 3D scans
Competitions
open
WorldQuant BRAIN Consultant Program
WorldQuant BRAIN
Remote alpha-signal research platform where contributors build alphas and may become paid research consultants
Competitions
open
Zindi Prize Challenges
Zindi
Real-world AI/data science challenges, often focused on Africa and global development
Fellowships
open
10a Labs Red Teaming Fellowship
10a Labs
Hands-on AI safety, security, and adversarial testing fellowship for frontier models and AI-enabled systems
Other
open
AI Safety Camp Research Incubator
AI Safety Camp
16-day virtual incubator to develop clearer AI safety research questions and directions
Fellowships
open
Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety
Anthropic
4 months full-time empirical AI safety research with Anthropic mentorship, shared Berkeley or London workspace, stipend and compute budget
Fellowships
open
DoorDash AI Research Fellowship
DoorDash
3-month program extendable to 6 months for applied ML and AI research in local commerce
Fellowships
open
ERA:AI Fellowship
ERA:AI
10-week fully funded Cambridge fellowship for technical AI safety, governance, and technical governance research
Other
open
FAST - Frontier AI Security Training
AI Safety Singapore
3-5 day fully funded technical/governance training for frontier AI security practitioners and policymakers
Fellowships
open
Intuition Machines AI/ML Research Fellow
Intuition Machines
6 or 12 month AI/ML fellowship focused on high-risk research and online security applications
Fellowships
open
Johns Hopkins AGI Governance Fellowship
Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy
AGI governance fellowship, rolling application, cohort of 20-25 fellows
Residencies
open
Lila Sciences AI Residency - Materials Science
Lila Sciences
Full-time AI for materials science residency with proprietary datasets, HPC and mentors
Residencies
open
Xaira Therapeutics AI in Residence
Xaira Therapeutics
6-12 month frontier ML and drug discovery residency with rolling Summer/Fall 2026 intakes
Competitions
watch
WorldQuant International Quant Championship 2026
WorldQuant BRAIN
Three-stage team quantitative finance competition using BRAIN alpha simulation on historical market data
Competitions
watch
Susquehanna Algothon 2026
UNSW FinTech Society / Susquehanna International Group
Student algorithmic-trading hackathon with risk-adjusted simulated-market strategies
Competitions
watch
Casper Agentic Buildathon 2026
Casper Association
AI-native on-chain applications, autonomous systems, x402 payments, DeFi/RWA, and machine-to-machine economies
Competitions
watch
European Quant Awards 2026
CFA Society France / European CFA Societies
5-7 page quantitative finance research paper competition
Competitions
watch
Quantpedia Awards 2026
Quantpedia / QuantConnect / partners
Research paper or strategy submission judged by quant/academic panel
Competitions
watch
CFA Institute Research Challenge
CFA Institute
Team equity research, valuation, written report, and presentation
Competitions
watch
Limex Trading Challenge
Lime FinTech, LLC
API-driven demo trading ranked by annualized Sharpe ratio or return
Competitions
watch
Gator Quant Hacks 2026
Gator Quant Club
36-hour student quantitative-finance event with research/alpha, quantitative-puzzles, and systematic-trading tracks
Competitions
watch
Hack the Echo
Warden Protocol
AI agents compete to extract a hidden phrase from a model; winner receives an on-chain crypto prize
Grants
watch
Two Sigma Undergraduate Scholarship 2026
Two Sigma
Undergraduate STEM scholarship connected to quantitative trading and research mentorship
Fellowships
watch
CBAI Summer Research Fellowship in AI Safety
CBAI
9-week fully funded Cambridge MA AI safety research program; Fall 2026 EOI available
Other
watch
Citadel GQS PhD Colloquium 2026
Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies
Three-day ML/deep-learning PhD and postdoc research colloquium with Citadel quantitative researchers
Other
watch
Discover Citadel 2026
Citadel / Citadel Securities
Two-day in-person informational program covering quantitative research, software engineering and trading pathways
Other
watch
INSIGHT, NYC
Jane Street
Trading and research track with probability, market structure, arbitrage, mock trading and machine-learning activities
Competitions
watch
JSE Investment Challenge 2026
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Online simulated trading of JSE-listed shares; tertiary teams of 2-4
Other
watch
SEE (India), Hong Kong cohort
Jane Street
Trading and research track with mock trading, market structure, arbitrage and machine-learning activities
Competitions
watch
QuantConnect Quant League
QuantConnect
Open-source algorithmic trading competition on QuantConnect/LEAN for live and backtested strategies
Competitions
watch
Seeds of Agentic Future: DeFAI & DeSci
AgenticFuture.ai / Seedify
Asynchronous DeFAI and DeSci build track
Bounties
watch
Anthropic Model Safety Bug Bounty
Anthropic
Model safety bounty for verified universal jailbreaks in high-risk CBRN/cyber domains
Competitions
watch
Citadel Securities Quant Invitational
Citadel Securities
Invite-only team research challenge modeling a market scenario
Competitions
watch
Cornell Trading Competition 2026
Cornell Quant Fund
Teams of 4 compete in original trading games and cases
Competitions
watch
Haskayne bp Canada Trading Competition
University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business / bp Canada
RIT software trading competition using stocks, commodities, futures, derivatives and physical-goods cases
Competitions
watch
MyntBit Algorithmic Trading Competitions
MyntBit
Planned weekly algorithmic trading competitions, monthly championships and annual World Cup
Residencies
watch
Perplexity Research Residency / Research Roles
Perplexity AI
Research environment spanning realtime multimodal assistants and open web agents; residency listed on research page
Other
watch
QuantConnect Alpha Streams Marketplace
QuantConnect
Marketplace/licensing path for algorithmic trading alphas built on QuantConnect
Competitions
watch
Rise of AI Agents Hackathon
AI Week / lablab.ai
AI agents hackathon around agentic applications, automation, and AI Week participation
Competitions
watch
ROLR $25 Million Free-To-Trade Challenge
High Roller Technologies / ROLR
Eight-week skill-based prediction challenge with weekly leaderboards and cash prizes
Competitions
watch
Rotman International Trading Competition 2027
Rotman School of Management / BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab
Global university teams compete on decision cases using the RIT Market Simulator
Other
watch
CAIS Research Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)
Center for AI Safety
Fall 2026 research engineer internship on AI security, machine ethics, alignment and benchmarking AI risks
Fellowships
watch
Cooperative AI Research Fellowship
Cooperative AI Foundation
3-month full-time in-person cooperative AI and multi-agent safety research fellowship with mentorship and compute
Other
watch
LASR Labs
LASR Labs
13-week full-time London technical AI safety programme producing a research paper with supervision
Fellowships
watch
Vals AI Fellowship
Vals AI
3-6 months on AI evaluation research and benchmark development, remote or San Francisco
Competitions
closed
The Big Data Combine Engineered by BattleFin
BattleFin / RavenPack / Kaggle
Predict short-term stock-price movements from RavenPack news and sentiment data
Competitions
closed
The Winton Stock Market Challenge
Winton / Kaggle
Predict intra-day and end-of-day stock returns from historical performance and masked features
Competitions
closed
Two Sigma Financial Modeling Challenge
Two Sigma / Kaggle
Kaggle code competition to find predictive signal in time-varying financial instrument data
Competitions
closed
Home Credit Default Risk
Home Credit Group
Predict clients' ability to repay a loan
Competitions
closed
Two Sigma: Using News to Predict Stock Movements
Two Sigma
Predict ten-day market-adjusted returns from market and news data
Competitions
closed
Santander Customer Transaction Prediction
Banco Santander
Predict whether a customer will make a transaction
Competitions
closed
American Express - Default Prediction
American Express
Predict credit-default risk from anonymized customer data
Competitions
closed
Optiver - Trading at the Close
Optiver / Kaggle
Forecast U.S. stock closing-price movements
Competitions
closed
Sonic DeFAI Hackathon
Sonic Labs / DoraHacks / Hey Anon / Zerebro
Build AI-agent and DeFi projects for on-chain actions
Competitions
closed
Global AI Agents League
Fetch.ai
Build agents using Agentverse; finance is a listed domain
Competitions
closed
Autonomous Apes: AI Agent Trading Hackathon
Recall / Encode Club
Build and optimize agents for simulated trading
Fellowships
closed
Two Sigma PhD Fellowship 2026
Two Sigma
PhD fellowship for quantitative finance, econometrics, market microstructure, high-frequency econometrics, and related STEM research
Competitions
closed
MITSUI&CO. Commodity Prediction Challenge
Mitsui & Co. / Kaggle
Kaggle code competition to predict commodity price movements with stable ranking performance
Fellowships
closed
Jump Trading Fellowship Program 2026-2027
Jump Trading
University-nominated PhD research fellowship in mathematics/statistics, AI/ML, physics, and computer science
Competitions
closed
Rotman Portfolio Management Competition 2025-2026
Rotman School of Management / BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab
Online team portfolio management competition using Rotman Portfolio Manager powered by StockTrak
Fellowships
closed
Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship 2026/2027
Jane Street
PhD research fellowship supporting quantitative fields relevant to rigorous quantitative trading research
Competitions
closed
Arbitrage Arena 2026
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore / Pravega
Build trading models and portfolio-optimization systems from historical market data
Competitions
closed
Algo-Trading 2026 - IIT Jammu
IIT Jammu / Udyamitsav
Online Python-only strategy submission evaluated in QuantConnect with virtual capital and risk limits
Competitions
closed
Quantalytics - Prometeo 2026
IIT Jodhpur / Prometeo
Develop, backtest, and evaluate a quantitative strategy; submit a research report and Python source file, then attend an offline final
Competitions
closed
CUATS Challenge - Coding Competition 2026
Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society
QuantConnect algorithm challenge judged on alpha, Sharpe ratio, profit and drawdown
Competitions
closed
Yale Undergraduate Trading Competition 2026
Yale Undergraduate Trading Competition / Hudson River Trading
Two-day simulated trading competition with sponsor-designed games and recruiting/networking
Competitions
closed
UChicago Trading Competition 2026
University of Chicago Financial Markets Program
Two-day algorithmic trading competition with automated trading case studies and sponsor networking
Competitions
closed
AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens
WEEX Labs
Global crypto AI trading-strategy hackathon
Competitions
closed
Stevens High Frequency Trading Competition 2026
Stevens Institute of Technology
Teams build Python/FIX strategies on SHIFT HFT simulation platform
Competitions
closed
Gemini Collegiate Quantitative Trading Competition
Gemini
University teams trade live Gemini exchange accounts via APIs
Competitions
closed
GWDC 2026 Pharos Prediction Market Challenge
Web3Labs / Pharos / TRON / Conflux
Build a decentralized prediction market, order-book DEX, perpetuals protocol, or other Web3 finance prototype at GWDC 2026
Competitions
closed
Traders at Michigan Spring Trading Competition 2026
Traders at Michigan
Two-day in-person competition with trading games, game theory, market-making scenarios and sponsor networking
Competitions
closed
ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026 - Uniswap v4 Agentic Finance
ETHGlobal / Uniswap Foundation
Async hackathon prize track for agent-driven financial systems
Competitions
closed
ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026 - Yellow Trading & Prediction Markets
ETHGlobal / Yellow Network
Async hackathon prize track for trading or prediction-market applications
Competitions
closed
Texas Energy Trading Case Competition 2026
University of Texas at Austin — Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center
Commodity trading case covering physical trading, logistics, risk management, Kpler data, and industry workshops
Competitions
closed
BNB Chain x YZi Labs Hack Series: Bengaluru
BNB Chain / YZi Labs
In-person Web3 hackathon with prediction market, launchpad, smart collateral and privacy tracks
Competitions
closed
Waterloo Trading Competition 2026
Waterloo Quant Club
International university trading competition hosted at University of Waterloo
Grants
closed
Citadel GQS PhD Fellowship 2026/2027
Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies
Research funding for PhD candidates in mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering or computer science
Competitions
closed
MIG Quant Conference 2026
Michigan Investment Group
Quant games, workshops and networking conference
Other
closed
Jane Street Academy of Math and Programming (AMP) 2026
Jane Street
Five-week math and programming program with quantitative trading exposure
Competitions
closed
Bridgewater x Metaculus Forecasting Competition 2026
Bridgewater Associates / Metaculus
Forecast real-world macro, AI, policy, and business questions on Metaculus
Fellowships
closed
IMC PhD Fellowship
IMC Trading
Quantitative research fellowship with education funding, conference travel, and finalist support
Competitions
closed
Algo Trading Sprint by BYTE 2026
MAIT Delhi / BYTE
Two-day offline sprint to build a predictive model, risk logic, and autonomous agent against a live trading simulation API
Competitions
closed
Ordeflow 001
Orderflow Review Panel
48-hour online build sprint for working Polymarket bots, execution engines, signal models, allocators, or backtesting systems
Competitions
closed
Trade the Knight 2026
Rutgers Quantitative Finance Club
One-day custom low-latency exchange where entrants write autonomous Python strategies against each other and liquidity bots
Competitions
closed
2026 UBS Finance Challenge
UBS
Student team long-short equity case pairing two stocks with fundamentals valuation and an AI-assisted analysis module
Competitions
closed
AlgoTrade Hackathon 2026
AlgoTrade / xfer
24-hour simulated-market trading-bot hackathon
Competitions
closed
Market Royale 2026
BITS Pilani / IEEE
Two-day simulated commodity-market bot challenge
Competitions
closed
Optiver & Imperial Trading Academy 2026
Optiver / Imperial College London
Eight-session market-making and algorithmic trading academy ending in an Optibook competition
Competitions
closed
IMC Prosperity 4 Global Trading Challenge
IMC Trading
Five-round virtual manual and algorithmic trading challenge
Competitions
closed
Open Agents
ETHGlobal
Async Web3 AI-agent hackathon with agentic-finance and trading integrations
Competitions
closed
FinMMEval Lab 2026
FinMMEval Lab / CLEF
Multilingual financial AI benchmark with financial Q&A and daily BUY/HOLD/SELL decision-making evaluated by return, Sharpe ratio, and drawdown
Competitions
closed
Top Trader Stock Market Competition 2026
UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management
Online stock and ETF trading simulation with $1M virtual starting balance
Competitions
closed
DSCubed 2026 Kaggle Competition: Stock Market Prediction
DSCubed / University of Melbourne Data Science Student Society
One-day beginner-friendly Kaggle-style stock-market prediction competition scored by prediction score plus simulated trading profit
Competitions
closed
GRVT: Age of AI Trading
GRVT
14-day volume competition permitting AI agents, bots, APIs, and algorithmic strategies
Competitions
closed
Tradeify Grand Cup 2: The Outlaws
Tradeify Holdings Corp.
Free-entry simulated futures tournament with five-day qualifier and head-to-head bracket; personal bots allowed under firm rules
Competitions
closed
Bitget AI x Crypto Hackathon - Genesis Season 1
Bitget
AI trading-agent and trading-infrastructure hackathon with runnable demos or open-source projects
Competitions
closed
National Intelligent Quantitative Trading Challenge 2026
Hebei University of Economics and Business / Yuanda
Online simulated A-share trading using participant-built strategies in the Quantitative King app
Competitions
closed
GRVT x ELFA Agent Arena Trading Competition
GRVT / ELFA
14-day GRVT volume competition with ELFA AI-agent-assisted trading guide
Competitions
closed
PvP Agent Trading Competition - BID Protocol: Beat the House
CreatorBid / DoraHacks
Online testnet competition to build custom Node.js, ethers.js, or Python trading agents against hosted agents
Competitions
closed
BNB Hack: AI Trading Agents
BNB Chain / CoinMarketCap / Trust Wallet
Build autonomous trading agents on BSC or strategy skills from CoinMarketCap data; live PnL and panel judging
Competitions
closed
CROO Agent Hackathon
CROO Network
Thirty-day build sprint for paid callable AI agents using the CROO Agent Protocol, including DeFi and on-chain settlement tracks
Competitions
closed
Create Like a PRO: AI Agent Carnival
Pharos Network / Anvita Flow
Skill-to-agent hackathon and on-chain agent arena for autonomous actions and payments
Competitions
closed
Forecasting the Upstart Macro Index
Metaculus / Upstart
Forecasting tournament for the Upstart Macro Index and consumer-credit/economic conditions
Competitions
closed
MIT Pokerbots 2026
MIT Pokerbots / MIT
Autonomous pokerbot programming using game theory, probability, statistics, and ML
Competitions
closed
UC Irvine Stock Market Competition
UC Irvine CIWM / Financial Literacy Association
StockTrak simulated equities portfolio, workshops, strategy paper, presentation, and portfolio return
Competitions
closed
QuantBee 2026 (Susquehanna-sponsored)
Traders at Berkeley / Susquehanna International Group
Tournament-style student quantitative trading event
Competitions
closed
Berkeley Trading Competition 2026
Traders at Berkeley
Individual trading and quantitative research challenges
Fellowships
closed
Future Impact Group Fellowship
Future Impact Group
12-week part-time remote fellowship as research associate on AI governance, technical AI safety, digital sentience projects
Other
closed
Jane Street FOCUS NYC 2026
Jane Street
Multi-day trading, software engineering and strategy/product program for first-year university students
Other
closed
Jane Street FTTP London 2026
Jane Street
Multi-day first-year undergraduate trading and technology program with classes and team-based mock trading simulation
Other
closed
Jane Street IN FOCUS NYC 2026
Jane Street
Multi-day trading and research, software engineering, and strategy/product program with mock trading sessions
Fellowships
closed
XLab Summer Research Fellowship
University of Chicago XLab
10-week in-person research fellowship at University of Chicago for AI safety/security and nuclear security
Competitions
closed
Georgetown Quant Club Trading Competition 2026
Georgetown Quant Club
One-day trading simulation with estimation, live market making, card auction and Black-Scholes rounds
Competitions
closed
Pit Trading Challenge - Quant Community x IMC 2026
Tech@IITB / Quant Community x IMC
In-person pit-style market-making competition for teams of two
Competitions
closed
2026 Market Making Game
Carnegie Mellon MSCF / CMU Quant Club
One-day in-person market-making game with six-person teams, contracts, probability and trading
Competitions
closed
Good Vibes Only: OpenClaw Edition
BNB Chain / Flap / Surge.XYZ
AI/on-chain hackathon with trading-agent tracks
Competitions
closed
lablab.ai AI Trading Agents Hackathon
lablab.ai / Kraken / Surge
Online hackathon to build AI agents that execute strategies with Kraken CLI or trustless ERC-8004 financial agents
Competitions
closed
Bitget AI Agent Strategy Trading Competition
Bitget
Autonomous AI-agent derivatives trading competition with dedicated subaccount and API execution
Competitions
closed
Convergence: A Chainlink Hackathon
Chainlink Foundation
DeFi, tokenization, CRE, AI, and autonomous-agent hackathon tracks
Competitions
closed
Market Pulse Challenge 26Q2
Metaculus
Economic and market forecasting tournament
Competitions
closed
Traders@MIT Trading Competition 2026
Traders@MIT
Two trading cases during in-person MIT competition
Competitions
closed
Agentic Ethereum
ETHGlobal / partner sponsors
Asynchronous hackathon for AI-powered DeFi assistants and skilled agents
Competitions
closed
Alpha Trading Cup 2026
Alpha Tech Lab / Monaxa
Live Expert Advisor (EA) strategy competition
Competitions
closed
ApeX AI Trading Arena
ApeX
AI perpetual-trading championship via dedicated API vaults
Competitions
closed
B@BHacks 2026 - Trading Track by Liquid
Blockchain at Berkeley / Liquid
Online hackathon prize track for trading projects
Competitions
closed
Creek Labs AI Trading Sandbox Challenge - U.S. Market
Creek Labs / SAIF Partners
Online sandbox with Bot, Agent, and Developer tracks for AI-driven U.S. market strategies and custom trading-system integrations
Competitions
closed
G-Research Crypto Forecasting Competition
G-Research / Kaggle
Machine-learning forecasting of short-term crypto returns
Competitions
closed
Jane Street Market Prediction
Jane Street / Kaggle
Train a model against future real market data
Competitions
closed
JPX Tokyo Stock Exchange Prediction
JPX Market Innovation & Research / Kaggle
Rank stock-return forecasts using Japanese market and options data
Competitions
closed
Lindner Investment Challenge
University of Cincinnati / Johnson Investment Institute
Student teams trade US equities and ETFs in a $1M paper portfolio and present an investment thesis
Competitions
closed
NinjaTrader Arena Cup 2026
NinjaTrader
Free simulated futures competition using live CME market data; three qualifier rounds and an invite-only final
Competitions
closed
Optiver Realized Volatility Prediction
Optiver / Kaggle
Forecast short-term realized volatility from high-frequency order-book data
Competitions
closed
TATTVA 2026 Algorithmic Trading Challenge
IISER Mohali / TATTVA
Teams build and deploy trading bots in a controlled market process
Competitions
closed
Tower Limestone Data Challenge
Tower Research Capital / Limestone
Annual quantitative data challenge for IIT Bombay and MIT participants
Competitions
closed
Ubiquant Market Prediction
Ubiquant Investment / Kaggle
Machine-learning models to forecast investment return rates from historical price data
Competitions
closed
Agents Assemble - The Healthcare AI Endgame
Prompt Opinion / Darena Health / Devpost
Healthcare AI agent hackathon using MCP, A2A and FHIR for interoperable clinical workflows
Competitions
closed
Amazon Nova AI Hackathon
Amazon / AWS / Devpost
Hackathon for applications built with Amazon Nova, including agentic and multimodal tracks
Fellowships
closed
Astra Fellowship - Empirical Stream
Constellation Institute
5-month fully funded in-person AI safety program on model evaluations, scalable oversight, AI control and alignment
Competitions
closed
Authorized to Act: Auth0 for AI Agents
Okta / Auth0 / Devpost
Agentic AI app hackathon using Auth0 for AI Agents Token Vault and identity/security patterns
Competitions
closed
AWS AI Agent Global Hackathon
AWS / Devpost
Global AI agent hackathon using AWS generative AI services, Bedrock, SageMaker AI and agent frameworks
Fellowships
closed
BASE Fellowship
BASE Research
13-week part-time remote AI safety/security/governance fellowship for Black researchers, practitioners and leaders
Competitions
closed
Capital Power Energy Trading Competition 2026
University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business / Capital Power
Energy trading simulations with Python integration for an Algo2 case and live RIT-based trading rounds
Fellowships
closed
CIP Research Fellowship
Collective Intelligence Project
6-month remote research fellowship using AI public-values, deliberation, and evaluation datasets
Competitions
closed
Citadel Fixed Income and Macro Central Bank Challenge 2026
Citadel
Two-day team challenge proposing monetary policy recommendation plus fast-paced trading challenge
Competitions
closed
Citadel Securities Terminal
Citadel Securities
Online algorithmic head-to-head programming tournament
Competitions
closed
Citadel Securities Trading Invitational 2026
Citadel Securities
In-person simulated trading scenario for early undergraduates
Fellowships
closed
CLR Summer Research Fellowship
Center on Long-Term Risk
Two-month London fellowship on long-term risk/s-risk research, often supporting research career transition
Competitions
closed
CMU Quant Club 2026 Market Making Game
CMU Quant Club
Eight-hour in-person simulated market-making event with contracts, play cash and economic/math/trivia information rounds
Fellowships
closed
CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship
Computing Research Association
12-month responsible and trustworthy AI fellowship with field school, convenings, mentoring, and interdisciplinary research
Competitions
closed
DigitalOcean Gradient AI Hackathon
DigitalOcean / Devpost
Full-stack AI application hackathon using DigitalOcean Gradient AI, GPU and deployment workflows
Competitions
closed
DRW Crypto Market Prediction
DRW / Kaggle
Predict short-term crypto future price movements from production feature data
Competitions
closed
Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon
Elastic / Devpost
Build context-driven agents using Elasticsearch, retrieval and agent-builder workflows
Fellowships
closed
Encode AI for Science Fellowship
Encode / University of Cambridge
One-year AI for science fellowship placing AI/ML researchers and engineers into UK science labs
Competitions
closed
FIND EVIL! AI Cybersecurity Hackathon
SANS Institute / Devpost
Autonomous AI incident response hackathon for triage, threat hunting and defender workflows
Competitions
closed
Gemini 3 Hackathon
Google / Devpost
Gemini-powered AI systems hackathon for planning, execution, multimodal reasoning and self-correction
Competitions
closed
Gemini Live Agent Challenge
Google / Devpost
Multimodal real-time agent challenge using Gemini Live API for voice, visual and interactive experiences
Competitions
closed
GitLab AI Hackathon
GitLab / Google Cloud / Anthropic / Devpost
Build AI agents and flows using GitLab Duo Agent Platform for DevSecOps, review, compliance and deployment workflows
Competitions
closed
GitLab Transcend Hackathon
GitLab / Devpost
Hackathon around GitLab Orbit, AI-native developer tools, agents, flows and workflow automation
Fellowships
closed
Global Majority AI Fellowship
Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC
AI governance fellowship supporting Global South civil society experts at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance
Competitions
closed
Google Chrome Built-in AI Challenge 2025
Google Chrome / Devpost
Build web apps or Chrome extensions using built-in AI APIs and Gemini Nano client-side capabilities
Competitions
closed
Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon
Google Cloud / Devpost
Build agents for real-world challenges using Google Cloud and partner MCP/server integrations
Competitions
closed
H0: Hack the Zero Stack
Vercel / AWS / Devpost
AI-native full-stack app hackathon using Vercel v0 and AWS Databases
Competitions
closed
Hull Tactical - Market Prediction
Hull Tactical / Kaggle
Predict S&P 500 excess returns and manage tactical allocation risk
Bounties
closed
huntr AI/ML Bug Bounty
huntr / Protect AI
AI/ML supply-chain and model-file vulnerability disclosure bounty platform
Fellowships
closed
IAPS AI Policy Fellowship
Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
Fully funded 3-month AI policy fellowship for professionals from varied backgrounds; DC or remote
Competitions
closed
Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic / Open Robotics
Robotics/manufacturing AI challenge for cable handling and electronics assembly, moving from simulation to real workcell deployment
Competitions
closed
Jane Street Real-Time Market Data Forecasting
Jane Street / Kaggle
Predict financial market responders using real-world data
Fellowships
closed
Kempner AI Fellows Program
Kempner Institute at Harvard University
Full-time AI/ML fellowship on foundation models, agentic workflows, NeuroAI, computational biology, and AI for science
Competitions
closed
M6 Financial Forecasting Competition
Makridakis Open Forecasting Center / University of Nicosia / IIF
Twelve-month financial forecasting and investment decision competition over stocks and ETFs
Fellowships
closed
MATS Research Fellowship
MATS Program
10-week AI alignment and security research fellowship in Berkeley and London, with possible 6-12 month extension
Competitions
closed
Microsoft Agent Academy Hackathon
Microsoft Open Source
AI agent hackathon for Microsoft Agent Academy builders using Microsoft AI tools
Competitions
closed
Microsoft Agents League Hackathon
Microsoft
Esports-inspired hackathon for Creative Apps, Reasoning Agents, and Enterprise Agents using Microsoft AI tooling
Competitions
closed
Model to Market: The Quantitative Hack 2026
AIEngine / Syphonix
Solo AI-assisted trading competition across FX, gold, silver and crypto with paper capital and London final
Bounties
closed
OpenAI GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
OpenAI
Vetted biosecurity red-team challenge to find universal jailbreaks for GPT-5.5 in Codex Desktop
Competitions
closed
OpenAI GPT-OSS-20B Red Teaming Challenge
OpenAI / Kaggle
Red-team challenge for finding vulnerabilities and failure modes in OpenAI GPT-OSS-20B
Residencies
closed
OpenAI Residency
OpenAI
6-month full-time residency for builders and early researchers to work with OpenAI research teams
Competitions
closed
Optiver Ready Trader Go
Optiver
Students build and optimize a trading algorithm for Optiver simulated market exchange
Fellowships
closed
PRISM AI Safety Research Fellowship
PRISM Research
16-week remote AI safety research fellowship producing peer-reviewed work in interpretability, governance, evaluation and alignment
Competitions
closed
Quant Tools Hackathon
Devpost / Quant Tools Hackathon
Hackathon for quant tooling and finance-oriented software projects
Competitions
closed
QuantiHack 2026
Quantihack
Online quant competition plus in-person London finals for UK quantitative talent
Competitions
closed
Splunk Agentic Ops Hackathon
Splunk / Devpost
Agentic operations hackathon for observability, security workflows, and developer experience using Splunk AI
Other
closed
Tarbell AI Journalism Fellowship
Tarbell Center for AI Journalism
One-year fellowship for journalists covering AI, with 10-week AI journalism training, summit, and 9-month newsroom placement
Grants
closed
Turing AI Global Fellowships
UKRI / EPSRC
Up to five-year UKRI/EPSRC fellowship for world-class AI researchers relocating to the UK to build transformational AI research teams
Competitions
closed
UChicago Digital Assets Trading Competition 2026
University of Chicago Career Advancement / Brevan Howard
Mock digital asset portfolio and cross-exchange arbitrage simulation with Brevan Howard executives
Competitions
closed
UiPath AgentHack
UiPath / Devpost
Enterprise agentic automation hackathon using UiPath, coding agents, Maestro, BPMN and Test Cloud
Competitions
closed
UK AISI x Gray Swan Agent Red-Teaming Challenge
Gray Swan AI / UK AI Security Institute
Agent red-teaming challenge against AI agents and tool-use systems
Other
closed
UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship
UNIDIR
Week-long Geneva training for women diplomats on AI policy, legal, technical, peace, and security dimensions
Competitions
closed
USAII AI NextGen Challenge 2026
United States Artificial Intelligence Institute
U.S. student AI scholarship and national hackathon program culminating in Atlanta
Competitions
closed
USAII Global AI Hackathon 2026
United States Artificial Intelligence Institute / Devpost
Global virtual student hackathon for responsible AI solutions across high school, undergraduate and graduate tracks
Residencies
closed
Villa Albertine Arts in the Age of AI Residency
Villa Albertine
Two-month U.S. exploratory residency for artists, intellectuals, and cultural professionals working on AI-related projects
Fellowships
closed
OpenAI Safety Fellowship
OpenAI
Sep 14 2026-Feb 5 2027 external safety/alignment research program with mentorship and compute
Fellowships
closed
Pivotal AI Safety Research Fellowship
Pivotal Research
9 weeks in London with possible 6-month extension for high-impact AI safety research
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