US AI & Tech Portfolio Challenge - week of 2026-07-30
NetMind.AI / Arena42
Agent-operated long-only paper portfolio of 12 US AI and technology stocks
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| US AI & Tech Portfolio Challenge - week of 2026-07-30 | NetMind.AI / Arena42 | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-06 | Online | yes | 200 CR prize; 50 CR entry fee |
| Financial Modeling World Cup 2026 | Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC) | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-07 | Online; flexible Friday-Monday stage windows | yes | Annual and stage cash prizes; 1st $7000; 2nd $4000; 3rd $2000; 4th $1000; stage… |
| Tickmill Trading Cup 2026 | Tickmill Ltd | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-07 | Online | yes | 1st $8,000; 2nd–3rd $3,000 each; 4th–8th $1,000 each; 9th–16th $500 each; 17th–… |
| C:\>DIR Global Agentic Regulator Hackathon | Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) / C:\>DIR | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-09 | Virtual / optional Cambridge-Singapore showcase | yes | $100,000 total team prize pool: $35,000 first; $15,000 second; $10,000 third; $… |
| CME Group Trading Challenge (August 2026) | CME Group | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-09 | Online | yes | Overall: $2,500/$1,750/$1,250; places 4–15: $100 each; daily prizes $500 |
| SoAI 2026 AI Algorithmic Trading Competition | Society of Algorithmic Intelligence | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-09 | Online simulation; Singapore for cash presentation | limited | SGD 3,000 total prize pool; personal allocation not stated |
| The Leap with TradeStation — July 2026 | TradingView | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-09 | Online | yes | 1st $10,000; 2nd $7,000; 3rd $6,000; 4th $3,500; 5th $2,500; 6th–25th $550 each… |
| The Island USDC Trading Competition | Deribit by Coinbase and SignalPlus | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-10 | Online via SignalPlus and Deribit | yes | Up to $600,000 USDC event reward pool; solo and team mechanisms |
| US Financials Portfolio Challenge — week of 2026-08-03 | NetMind.AI / Arena42 | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-10 | Online | yes | 250 CR Arena credits; non-cash reward |
| Quant Crown — Algorithmic Investment Competition Summer 2026 | Asia Quant Academy | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-10 | Online | yes | HKD 5,000 champion; HKD 3,000 second; HKD 2,000 third; training and analyst-tra… |
| ETH Lima Hackathon 2026 | ETH Lima | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-12 | Hybrid | hybrid | $2,000+ Arbitrum bounty; $2,000+ prize pool |
| BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 | amber.ac / OpenArena.to | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-12 | Online build; Singapore finals | hybrid | $50,000+ cash pool; $2,000/team finalist travel support |
| Trader Arena Season 2 | Questflow | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-13 | Online | yes | $10,000 prize pool; rewards capped at $3,000 per participant |
| PROS Trading Challenge 2026 | Kraken | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-13 | Online via Kraken Pro | yes | 50,000 PROS pool; rank 1 5,000; ranks 2–3 2,500 each; ranks 4–10 1,000 each; ra… |
| World Trading Cup 2026 | ATFX Global | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-14 | Online regional stages; Hong Kong world finals | limited | USD 210,000 total cash rewards; USD 100,000 champion; regional awards of USD 5… |
| MiniBench — 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-14 | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-14 | Online / worldwide subject to restrictions | yes | Performance-based distribution from $1,000 prize pool |
| Agent Builders Cup — Series 1 | Botcamp / Hummingbot | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-15 | Online; finals livestreamed and winners announced at a Token2049 side event in Singapore | yes | $20,000+ total prize pool; $800 USDC starting capital per selected finalist age… |
| Rising Star in Quant Finance Award — 2027 | Risk.net | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-16 | Online submission; annual Risk Awards ceremony | yes | Award and November ceremony invitation |
| THE CIPHER | xPortal Equity AG | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-16 | Global subject to availability | yes | EGLD-denominated prizes at published USD-equivalent values; weekly leaderboards… |
| All-Market Showdown 2026 (Vietnam Exclusive) | Bybit | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-16 | Online Bybit platform; Vietnam-only | yes | Up to $330,000 USDT total campaign pool; up to $180,000 derivatives and spot; u… |
| BlackRock Applied Research Award 2026 | BlackRock | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-16 | Virtual final; recognition in India | hybrid | $6,500 winner; $1,500 each of four runners-up |
| Datarails AI in Finance Challenge 2026 | Datarails / FinanceOS | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-18 | Online / global | yes | Winner trip for entrant and one guest, approximate retail value $2,000; runner-… |
| VALR Perps Trading Competition: Trade the Universe | VALR | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-18 | Online | yes | Up to 100,000 USDC dynamic pool; qualifying winners receive equal shares; no re… |
| Alpha Hackathon 2026 | Lumiwealth / BotSpot | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-19 | Hybrid: online build/trading with San Francisco kickoff and finale | limited | $500 first team; $300 second team; $200 third team |
| AI-Enabled Investing Competition — September 2026 | University of Chicago / Alex Cha | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-21 | University of Chicago; exact venue not stated | limited | Team prizes: 1st $15,000; 2nd $10,000; 3rd $5,000 |
| QUID Spot Trading Challenge 2026 | Kraken | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-21 | Online via Kraken Pro | yes | 160000 QUID pool; tiered leaderboard rewards; lower tier shares a variable pool |
| JSE Investment Challenge 2026 – Public Virtual Trading Game | Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-21 | Online; South Africa only | yes | R100,000 annual first prize per portfolio category |
| Liquidity Arena 2026 | LiquidityTech / LTP | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-21 | Online/live API trading | yes | $300,000+ total reward value; $100,000+ team cash-prize pool; AI credits and pr… |
| CSPR Spot Trading Challenge 2026 | Kraken | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-26 | Online via Kraken Pro | yes | 12,100,000 CSPR pool; rank 1 1,000,000; ranks 2–3 600,000 each; ranks 4–10 200… |
| CSPR Perpetual Futures Trading Challenge 2026 | Kraken | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-26 | Online via Kraken Pro | yes | 3,800,000 CSPR pool; rank 1 800,000; rank 2 400,000; rank 3 300,000; ranks 4–5… |
| The Phyntex Showdown 2026 — Merdeka Traders Cup | Phyntex Markets | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-28 | Online | yes | $20,000 total cash prize pool; 1st $7,000; 2nd $5,000; 3rd $3,000; 4th $1,500… |
| Stock Earnings Season 2026 | Bybit | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-30 | Online via Bybit | yes | Up to $1,000,000 USDT-equivalent pool; $50,000 USDT-equivalent Cybertruck grand… |
| ASEAN Investment Challenge 2026 - Singapore | CGS International | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-31 | Singapore / online trading platform | yes | SGD 3,000 winner; SGD 2,000 runner-up; SGD 1,000 second runner-up; SGD 500 four… |
| CFA European Quant Awards 2026 | CFA Societies (CFA Institute) | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-31 | Remote paper submission; award ceremony in winner's application country | limited | €3,000 first; €2,000 second; €1,000 third |
| Reinforce.fi Challenge: Market-Action Arena | Reinforce.fi | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-08-31 | Online | yes | $2,500 first; $1,500 second; $1,000 third |
| August Trading Competition 2026 | OQtima | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-01 | Online via OQtima portal | yes | Combined $20,000 cash pool; one Apple iPhone prize draw |
| Global x402 Challenge | Algorand Foundation | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-01 | Global; live finalist presentation at Devcon 8 India | limited | $100,000 USD + 500,000 ALGO project pools; top-five project awards: $25,000/$22… |
| Metaculus Cup Summer 2026 | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-01 | Online | yes | $5,000 prize pool |
| CFA Institute Research Challenge 2026–2027 — CFA Society Istanbul Local Challenge | CFA Institute / CFA Society Istanbul | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-04 | Global; Istanbul local stage | limited | USD 10,000 educational scholarship paid to global champion university |
| XAU & XAG Perps Trading Challenge 2026 | Kraken | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-05 | Online via Kraken Pro | yes | 20000 USDG prize pool; tiered leaderboard rewards |
| 2026 ECMI Best Paper Competition | European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) / CEPS | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-06 | Email submission; ECMI Annual Conference venue not stated | limited | EUR 5000 to winning author(s) |
| Summer 2026 FutureEval Bot Tournament | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-06 | Online | yes | $50,000 prize pool |
| ETHOnline 2026 | ETHGlobal | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-06 | Remote | yes | $85,000 total partner prize pools: The Graph $15,000; Ledger $15,000; Hedera $1… |
| Telegraph Hackathon — Season I (Hackathon 1), 2026 | Telegraph Protocol | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-07 | Online | yes | $5,000 H1 USD pool: Miner $2,000; Script Author $1,000; Application $2,000; Sea… |
| dreamDEX Algo Arena | dreamDEX / Somnia Network | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-07 | Online / dreamDEX | yes | USDso token-denominated $10,000 pool over 8 weeks; $1,250 USDso weekly leaderbo… |
| 2026 Finance AI Challenge | Financial Security Institute (FSEC) | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-07 | South Korea | hybrid | ₩35,000,000 total team/project prize pool |
| The Smart Money Era: Build the Era | BNB Chain | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-09 | Online | yes | $30,000 main-track winner; $10,000 TermiX track; 1,000 CAKE; 50,000 XP |
| Mathematics Undergraduate Research Awards (MURA) — Winter 2027 | University of Waterloo | Grant / Funding | open | 2026-09-10 | University of Waterloo; on-campus or remote | yes | $11,000/term minimum (MURA $6,000 plus supervisor contribution $5,000 minimum) |
| HTX Quantitative Trading Championship #1 | HTX | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-13 | Online exchange/API | yes | Performance-based USDT and HTX-token rewards; no salary; requires substantial t… |
| M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition — 2027 | M&SOM Journal / INFORMS | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-16 | 2027 MSOM Conference | limited | M&SOM publication + First/Second Prize distinction |
| Market Pulse Challenge 26Q3 | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-16 | Global / online | yes | $7,500 prize pool |
| Paid Undergraduate Research Interns — 2026-27 Academic Year | Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Science | Internship | open | 2026-09-18 | Boston University | limited | $2,500 per student research intern |
| Career Kickstarter - Trading 2026 | Optiver | Training | open | 2026-09-20 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | no | Fully expensed travel and hotel accommodation in Amsterdam; no salary or stipen… |
| ETHGlobal Tokyo 2026 | ETHGlobal | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-23 | In person | no | $45,000 total partner prize pools: World $15,000; ENS $10,000; Uniswap Foundati… |
| WorldQuant University MSc in Financial Engineering | WorldQuant University | Training | open | 2026-09-29 | Online | yes | Tuition-free education; no stipend listed |
| GPIF Finance Awards for Students 2026-2027 | Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-30 | Japan | limited | Certificate and publication of awardees and research on the GPIF website; no ca… |
| INFORMS Practice Section Distinguished Practitioner Award — 2026 | INFORMS Practice Section | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-30 | Online nomination; Analytics+ conference venue not stated | limited | Plaque and formal citation; presentation opportunity; no cash award |
| Gemini Predictions Taker Rewards Program | Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc. | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-30 | Online / Gemini Predictions | yes | Variable USD rewards; daily rate 0.50%-1.50% after 15 active trading days; mont… |
| 2026 Asset Management Hackathon | FIAM / McGill Desautels Faculty of Management | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-30 | Online preparation/submission; in-person finals | hybrid | $35,000 total team prize money; listed awards $15,000/$10,000/$5,000/$3,000/$2… |
| ADIA Lab Structural Break Open Benchmark Challenge | ADIA Lab / CrunchDAO | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-30 | Online | yes | Per quarter: $3,000 / $2,000 / $1,000 for 1st-3rd |
| College Fed Challenge 2026 | Federal Reserve Board / Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-30 | Hybrid; virtual submission/Q&A and in-person finals | hybrid | No monetary prize stated on official overview; finalists cover travel and lodgi… |
| Q25 Crypto Top-10 Long Contest | Quantiacs | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-30 | Online | yes | Top-seven strategy allocations: $1,000,000/$500,000/$250,000/$100,000/$50,000/$… |
| Franz Edelman Award — 2027 | INFORMS / Practice Section | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-01 | Online application; 2027 finalist venue not published | limited | $10,000 prize for the winning work/authors; team/project allocation not specifi… |
| Right! said FRED: Q3 2026 Finance and Economics Challenge | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-01 | Global / online | yes | No cash prize stated; top three receive a GJO badge; first-time top performer m… |
| Turner Impact Portfolio Challenge 2026-2027 | Wharton Impact / University of Pennsylvania | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-04 | Online application; Wharton finals | limited | No salary or stipend listed; educational portfolio tools, webinars, coaching, a… |
| Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge 2026 | Bloomberg for Education | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-04 | Online via Bloomberg Terminal | yes | No stipend or personal award disclosed on official 2026 page; educational Bloom… |
| Citadel Conference Travel Grant — NeurIPS 2026 | Citadel | Grant / Funding | open | 2026-10-05 | NeurIPS, Sydney, Australia | no | In-kind pass, travel, lodging, transport, and meals; no fixed cash award stated |
| University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program — Spring 2027 | University of Minnesota Office of Undergraduate Research | Grant / Funding | open | 2026-10-05 | University of Minnesota; project-dependent | limited | $1,800 student research stipend |
| The Economist: The World Ahead 2026 | Good Judgment Open / The Economist | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-09 | Global / online | yes | Winner published in The Economist; no cash prize stated on official challenge p… |
| SIAM Industry Prize — 2027 | SIAM | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-15 | Online nomination | yes | Engraved medal; $2,000 cash; reasonable travel expenses for one person |
| OR/MS Tomorrow Mini Poster Competition 2026 | INFORMS / OR/MS Tomorrow | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-15 | Online | yes | $250 first place; $150 second place; $100 honorable mention per group |
| SIAG/FME Early Career Prize 2027 | SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-15 | Online nomination; 2027 conference venue not listed | yes | Certificate and travel reimbursement |
| GLEE Competition 2026 — Games in Language-based Economic Environments | GLEE Competition / IAB Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026 | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-10-20 | Online | yes | $6,000 total: Agent Track $5,000; Human Track $1,000; award certificates |
| Voloridge Ascend Program 2027 | Voloridge Investment Management | Training | open | 2026-10-31 | Jupiter Florida United States | no | Daily stipend during the program; travel to and from the program and hotel acco… |
| World Series of Trading (WSOT) 2026 | Tradants GmbH | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-11-01 | Online / global | yes | Championship Bracelet; Stocks Bracelet; Risk Control Bracelet; Hall of Fame and… |
| US Midterms 2026 | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-11-04 | Online | yes | $10,000 prize pool |
| GRiddles Prize Competition 2026 | G-Research | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-11-05 | Online | yes | £1,000 per riddle; £2,000 additional first-correct prize for riddles 4, 8, and… |
| Qminers Algo Trade Arena 2026 | Qminers | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-11-06 | In-person trading challenge | no | 200,000 CZK total team prize pool |
| 2026 Microcap Stock Picking Contest | GeoInvesting / MS Microcaps | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-11-07 | Online / public leaderboard | yes | $2,500 first; $1,500 second; $1,000 third per contest; 4th-10th non-cash subscr… |
| QIE Blockchain Hackathon 3.0 | QIE | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-11-30 | Online/mainnet build | limited | $17,000 total prize pool across grand prizes category winners and special awards |
| MacroNations Global Economic Strategy Tournament 2026 | MacroNations LLC | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-11-30 | Online / global | yes | Shared award fund for top finalists; amount confirmed at season close; top 8 qu… |
| Financial Econometrics Conference 2027 — Lancaster Financial Econometrics Prize | Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy (EMP) / Lancaster University Management School | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-12-01 | Lancaster University, UK | no | £1,000 best-paper prize to author(s) |
| Charles H. Dow Award 2027 | CMT Association | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-12-11 | Online submission; annual symposium in New York City | yes | $5,000 |
| Folks Finance Bug Bounties | Folks Finance | Bounty | open | 2026-12-31 | Online vulnerability reporting | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty: critical $50,000 minimum up to $200,000; high $10,000… |
| In the News 2026 | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-01-01 | Global / online | yes | No separate cash prize stated on official challenge page |
| A Challenge of Interest! | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-01-01 | Global / online | yes | No prize or reward stated on official challenge page |
| International Trade Challenge | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-01-01 | Global / online | yes | Not listed on official page |
| Iran & Energy Challenge | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-01-01 | Global / online | yes | Not listed on official page |
| Ben Graham Centre's 2027 International MBA Stock Picking Competition | Ivey Business School / Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-01-11 | In person | no | $14,000 team prize pool: 1st $8,000; 2nd $4,000; 3rd $2,000 |
| Artificial Intelligence in 2026 and Beyond | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-02-01 | Online | yes | No cash prize or other reward stated on official challenge page |
| USA Economics and Business Olympiad 2027 | USA Economics and Business Olympiad | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-02-27 | Digital competition from anywhere; proctoring required | yes | Team USA selection for five students to the International Economics Olympiad; G… |
| Rotman European Trading Competition 2027 | LUISS Guido Carli University | Prize / Competition | open | 2027-06-30 | LUISS University, Rome, Italy | no | EUR 10,000 total team cash prizes |
| In the News 2027 | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2028-01-01 | Global / online | yes | No separate cash prize stated on official challenge page |
| Global Economics: Purchasing Managers' Indices Challenge | Good Judgment Open | Prize / Competition | open | 2028-01-01 | Global / online | yes | Not listed on official page |
| POTUS Predictions | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2029-01-03 | Online / worldwide subject to restrictions | yes | $15,000 prize pool |
| Labor Automation Tournament | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2036-01-01 | Online, worldwide subject to restrictions | yes | $35,000 prize pool |
| Bucket Protocol Smart Contracts | Bucket Protocol / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $100,000-$500,000; High $5,000-$50,000; Medium $100-$2,000; Low $10-$50 |
| Injective Open Liquidity Program | Injective | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | 20,000 INJ current epoch 62; 20,000 INJ epoch 63 |
| Kamino Bug Bounties | Kamino / Immunefi | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Per-report bounty: smart-contract critical up to $1,500,000; high up to $100,00… |
| Pendle Boros Bug Bounty | Pendle Finance / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $50,000-$500,000; High $20,000-$100,000 per qualifying report |
| Allora Forge — live crypto prediction competitions | Allora Foundation | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online / Allora Forge | yes | Performance-based ALLO rewards by prediction accuracy; no salary |
| Astros Smart Contracts | NAVI Protocol | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | yes | $150-$150,000 per valid report; critical $15,000-$150,000; high $2,500-$15,000… |
| Bluefin Dex Contracts | Bluefin | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | limited | $5,000-$15,000 per valid report; critical $10,000-$15,000; high $5,000; medium… |
| idOS Apps and SC | idOS Network | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | yes | $250-$5,000 per valid report; critical $5,000; high $2,500; medium $1,000; low… |
| Momentum Smart Contracts | Momentum | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | limited | $50-$200,000 per valid report; critical $20,000-$200,000; high $2,000-$20,000… |
| Prizefight — Agentic Trading Competition | Prizefight | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Variable performance-based purse funded by entry fees; no fixed personal cash a… |
| Scallop Protocol (Smart Contract) | Scallop | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | yes | $30-$300,000 per valid report; critical $30,000-$300,000; high $3,000-$30,000… |
| Agent Trading Tournament | Kuru | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online/onchain arena | limited | $100,000 pool; $50,000 champion; $25,000 second; $7,500 each 3rd-4th; $2,500 ea… |
| BlockPI Network Bug Bounties | BlockPI Network | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / Immunefi submission | yes | Critical $2,500-$5,000; high $1,500; medium $1,200; low $1,000 |
| Cronos Smart Contracts | Cronos | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $20,000-$200,000; high $500-$20,000; medium/low $0 |
| Unitus V2 Smart Contracts | Unitus | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $50,000; high $5,000; medium $2,000; low $1,000 |
| 1inch Aqua | 1inch | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | $100-$100,000 per valid report or improvement proposal; critical $20,000-$100,0… |
| ADI Foundation zkVM Verification | ADI Foundation | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | $200-$10,000 per valid vulnerability; critical $10,000; high $5,000; medium $2… |
| Ample Smart Contracts | Ample | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $0-$20,000; high $0-$5,000; medium $0-$1,000; low $0-$500 per valid re… |
| Dexalot Smart Contracts | Dexalot / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | yes | Critical $10,000-$20,000; high $4,000-$6,000; medium $1,000-$2,000; low $200 |
| DeXe Protocol Smart Contracts | DeXe Protocol | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $10,000-$500,000; high $5,000-$10,000; medium $1,000; low $0 |
| Ember EVM Smart Contracts | Ember Protocol / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | yes | Critical $10,000-$15,000; high $5,000; medium $0; low $0 |
| FlowX CLMM Smart Contracts | FlowX Finance / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | yes | Critical $5,000; high $2,000; medium $700; low $200 |
| Haedal Smart Contracts | Haedal | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | limited | Critical $20,000-$200,000; high $1,000-$20,000; medium $50-$1,000; low $5-$50 |
| Layer3 Smart Contracts | Layer3 | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $0-$500,000; high $0-$50,000; medium $0-$5,000; low $0 |
| Multipli Smart Contracts | Multipli | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | $0-$10,000 per valid vulnerability; critical $5,000-$10,000; high $2,000-$5,000… |
| NAVI Protocol Bug Bounty | NAVI Protocol | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Up to $300,000 for critical smart-contract vulnerabilities; up to $10,000 for w… |
| NEAR Intents: Bridges | NEAR | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | $100-$300,000 per valid report; critical $10,000-$300,000; high $5,000-$10,000… |
| Raydium Bug Bounty | Raydium | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical: 10% of directly affected funds capped at $505,000 with $50,000 minimu… |
| Turbos Finance Smart Contracts | Turbos Finance / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof | yes | Critical $5,000-$15,000; high $1,000-$3,000; medium $50-$500; low $0 |
| WorldQuant BRAIN Research Consultant Program | WorldQuant BRAIN | Fellowship | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Merit-based performance compensation; Grandmaster level consultants can potenti… |
| 0x Bug Bounties | 0x | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Severity-based bounty: smart-contract critical $100,000-$1,000,000; high $35,00… |
| Arcadia Finance Smart Contracts Bug Bounties | Arcadia Finance / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | limited | Critical $0-$25,000; high $0-$7,500; medium $0-$2,000; low $0 |
| Cetus Web Bug Bounties | Cetus / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | limited | Critical $5,000-$10,000; high $1,000-$5,000; medium $100-$1,000; low $10-$100 |
| Citrea Protocol & Smart Contracts Bug Bounties | Citrea / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | limited | Critical $25,000-$250,000; high $10,000-$25,000; medium $1,000-$3,000; low $100… |
| Ethena Bug Bounties | Ethena | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Smart-contract critical $100,000-$3,000,000; high $10,000-$75,000; medium $10,0… |
| Exactly Bug Bounties | Exactly | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Severity-based bounty: smart-contract critical $10,000-$25,000; high $5,000-$10… |
| Hedera Bug Bounties | Hedera | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Blockchain critical $10,000-$30,000; high $3,000-$10,000; medium $3,000 |
| Solv Smart Contracts Bug Bounties | Solv Protocol / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | limited | Critical $30,000-$50,000; high $5,000-$15,000; medium $1,000-$3,000; low $200-$… |
| SSV Network Bug Bounties | SSV Network | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $50,000-$250,000; high $30,000; medium $10,000; low $1,500 |
| Stargate Bug Bounties | Stargate Foundation / StargateDAO | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Severity-based bounty: critical $100,000-$10,000,000; high $10,000-$100,000; me… |
| Starknet Blockchain/DLT Bug Bounties | Starknet / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | limited | Critical $15,000-$250,000; high $1,250-$10,000; medium $0; low $0 |
| TermMax Bug Bounties | Term Structure Labs / TermMax | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Severity-based bounty: smart-contract critical $10,000-$50,000; high $3,000-$25… |
| The Graph Bug Bounties | The Graph Foundation | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Severity-based bounty: smart-contract critical $15,000-$50,000; high $5,000-$15… |
| Treehouse Smart Contracts Bug Bounties | Treehouse Finance / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | $1,000-$250,000; critical $100,000-$250,000; high $25,000-$50,000; medium $5,00… |
| US High-Growth Portfolio Challenge — week of 2026-08-10 | NetMind.AI / Arena42 | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | 150 CR Arena42 credits; non-cash reward |
| Wilmott End-of-year Competition — Q-variance | Wilmott | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | One-year WILMOTT magazine subscription and publication of technique |
| Zynk Protocol Bug Bounties | Zynk / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | $0-$5,000; critical up to $5,000 |
| Beanstalk Bug Bounties | Beanstalk | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Smart-contract critical $100,000-$1,100,000; severity-based rewards for high me… |
| Decentraland Bug Bounties | Decentraland | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Maximum bounty $500,000; severity-based rewards per official table |
| Derive Bug Bounties | Derive / Lyra V2 / Immunefi | Bounty | open | Not listed | Not listed | yes | Critical up to $50,000; high $5,000; medium $2,000; low $500 |
| ENS Bug Bounties | ENS | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Smart-contract critical $10,000-$250,000; high $25,000-$100,000; medium $10,000… |
| Hefty Hacks 2026 | TechZap | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | ₹75,000 team/project prize pool; official prizes page also displays a $775 Devf… |
| Horizen Bug Bounties | Horizen | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $5,000-$10,000; high $3,000; website/app critical $3,000; website/app… |
| League of Traders — Warden Protocol | Warden Protocol | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online / global | yes | 5,000,000 $WARD current reward pool; personal share varies |
| Monad Consensus & Execution Bug Bounty | Monad Foundation / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Not listed | yes | Critical up to $1,000,000; high $150,000; medium $35,000 |
| Morpho Bug Bounty | Morpho / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / Cantina submission | yes | Critical up to $2,500,000; high up to $50,000; medium up to $10,000; low up to… |
| PancakeSwap Infinity Bug Bounty | PancakeSwap / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Not listed | yes | Critical up to $1,000,000; high $20,000; medium $2,000 |
| Symbiotic Bug Bounty | Symbiotic / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Not listed | yes | Critical up to $500,000; high $100,000; medium $10,000 |
| 42project Bug Bounty Program | 42project | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / 42project | yes | Critical up to $25,000; high up to $8,000; medium up to $2,500; low up to $500 |
| ADI Predictstreet Smart Contracts | ADI Foundation / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $10,000; high $5,000; medium and low $0 per vulnerability |
| Centrifuge Protocol Bounty | Centrifuge / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / Cantina submission | yes | Critical $250,000; high $50,000; medium $5,000 |
| Cetus Smart Contracts Bug Bounty | Cetus / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $30,000-$300,000; high $3,000-$30,000; medium $100-$1,000; low $10-$100 |
| Chainlink Bug Bounty | Chainlink Labs | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Variable severity-based bounty: smart-contract critical $100,000-$3,000,000; hi… |
| FISG Non-Farm Payrolls Forecast Challenge | FISG | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online / FISG platform | yes | $140 perfect prediction; $40 prediction within ±0.1; gift set within ±0.2; firs… |
| Gemini Predictions Liquidity Rewards Program | Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc. | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online / Gemini Predictions | yes | Daily USD rewards from active event and contract pools, typically $10-$1,000/da… |
| Hyperbridge Protocol | Hyperbridge / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $30,000-$50,000; high $5,000-$15,000; medium $2,000-$5,000; low $200-$… |
| Kiln OmniVault Bounty | Kiln / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / Cantina submission | yes | Critical $500,000; high $50,000; medium $20,000; hard cap $1,000,000 |
| Kuru Bug Bounty | Kuru Labs | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Variable severity-based bounty: critical up to $50,000; high up to $25,000; med… |
| Midas Bug Bounty | Midas.app / Cantina | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / Cantina submission | yes | Critical $500,000; high $25,000; medium $5,000; low $1,000; total rewards hard… |
| Numinous: Predictive Agents For Real World Outcome | CrunchDAO | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | $5,000 USDC Phase 2 pool |
| RedStone Bug Bounty | RedStone | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Variable severity-based bounty: critical up to $250,000; high up to $50,000; me… |
| RootstockLabs Bug Bounties | RootstockLabs | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Variable severity-based bounty: blockchain/DLT critical $10,000-$200,000; smart… |
| Starknet Staking | Starknet / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical $15,000-$100,000; high $1,500-$10,000; medium $1,000; low $0 per vulne… |
| Starknet Web & SC | Starknet / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / HackenProof submission | yes | Critical smart contract $15,000-$250,000; web critical $5,000-$10,000; high $1… |
| OKX Labs Onchain Bug Bounty | OKX Labs | Bounty | open | Not listed | Global / online | yes | Up to USD 1,000,000 individual bounty |
| Ondo Perps Bug Bounty | Ondo Global (Panama) Inc. | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical up to $1,500,000; high up to $100,000; medium up to $20,000; low up to… |
| Polygon Bug Bounties | Polygon | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $20,000-$250,000; high $10,000; medium $2,000; payout denominated in U… |
| Reserve Protocol Bug Bounty | Reserve Protocol | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical up to $10,000,000; high up to $100,000; medium up to $5,000; low up to… |
| TradeWars Weekly Trading Contests | TradeWars | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online / demo trading | yes | 75% of net payouts from funded Crypto Fund Trader accounts under the profit-sha… |
| Uniswap Bug Bounty | Uniswap Labs | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical up to $15,500,000; high up to $1,000,000; medium up to $100,000 |
| Gemini Predictions Maker Rebate Program | Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc. | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online / Gemini Predictions | yes | Daily USD rebates for resting maker orders; crypto and commodities rebate rate… |
| NexHack 2.0 | NexVerse-IITM | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | In person; IITM Janakpuri, New Delhi | no | INR 37,000 cash prize pool: 1st INR 21,000; 2nd INR 11,000; 3rd INR 5,000 |
| 1inch - Web Bug Bounties | 1inch | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online global submission | yes | Up to $50,000 bounty; critical $15,000-$50,000; high $5,000; medium $1,000; low… |
| Compound Finance Bug Bounties | Compound DAO | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online vulnerability reporting | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty: critical $50,000-$1,000,000; high $10,000-$50,000; me… |
| Gearbox Bug Bounties | Gearbox / Immunefi | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical 10% of directly affected funds up to $150,000 with $6,000 minimum; hig… |
| Global Quant Trading Challenge | ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD. | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Provided capital and 85% profit share; no fixed cash prize |
| sBTC Bug Bounties | Stacks Endowment (Stacks) | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online global submission | yes | Up to $250,000 bounty; critical $25,000-$250,000; high $5,000-$25,000; medium $… |
| Velodrome Finance Bug Bounties | Velodrome Finance / Optimism Foundation / Immunefi | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Smart-contract critical flat $100,000 bounty; high $40,000; medium $5,000; low… |
| Balancer Foundation Bug Bounties | Balancer Foundation | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $100,000-$1,000,000; High $25,000-$75,000; Medium up to $15,000 |
| G-Research Monthly Grant for Early Career Researchers | G-Research | Grant / Funding | open | Not listed | Online application; research location not specified | limited | Up to £2,000 per grant |
| GMTrade Bug Bounties | GMTrade | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $25,000-$100,000; High $10,000-$20,000; Medium $2,500-$7,500; 10% trea… |
| Intuition Bug Bounties | Intuition | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $5,000-$100,000; High $2,500-$5,000; Medium $1,000-$2,500; Low $1,000 |
| Lista DAO Bug Bounties | Lista DAO | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical $100,000-$1,000,000; high $5,000-$10,000; medium $1,000-$5,000 |
| Lombard Finance Bug Bounties | Lombard Finance | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical smart contract $50,000-$250,000; high $10,000-$50,000; medium $2,500… |
| Next Challenge Edition #6 2026-2027 | NextWise / Paris Dauphine–PSL University | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online competition; awards ceremony location not stated | limited | Individual: €700/€650/€600/€550/€500/€400; club: €4,000/€3,500/€3,000/€2,500/€2… |
| Origin Protocol Bug Bounties | Origin Protocol | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical smart contract up to $1,000,000; critical web/app $25,000; high $15,000 |
| Polymarket Liquidity Rewards | Polymarket | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Variable daily USD rewards based on order size pricing and market contribution… |
| Recall AI Agent Paper Trading Competitions | Recall | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Variable RECALL token rewards distributed by exponential decay |
| Spark Bug Bounties | Spark | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Smart-contract critical $50,000-$5,000,000; High $10,000-$100,000; web/app crit… |
| Zest Protocol V2 Bug Bounties | Zest Protocol | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Critical up to $100,000 with $20,000 minimum; high $1,000-$20,000 |
| ZKsync Era Bug Bounties | ZKsync | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Blockchain critical $50,000; smart-contract critical $100,000-$300,000; High $2… |
| BNB Chain Bug Bounty Program | BNB Chain / BNB Foundation | Bounty | open | Not listed | Worldwide subject to sanctions and local law | yes | P* case by case; P1 $20000-$100000; P2 $5000-$20000; P3 $1000-$5000; P4 $300-$1… |
| Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program | Ethereum Foundation | Bounty | open | Not listed | Worldwide subject to sanctions and local law | yes | Up to $1000000 USD for qualifying bugs |
| Jane Street Visiting Researcher Program | Jane Street | Residency | open | Not listed | Jane Street offices or remote | limited | Not listed on official page |
| Parallel Bug Bounties | Parallel | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Per-vulnerability: smart-contract critical $50000-$250000; high $10000-$50000… |
| Polymarket Bug Bounty | Polymarket | Bounty | open | Not listed | Worldwide subject to sanctions and platform restrictions | yes | Critical up to $5000000; high up to $500000; medium up to $50000; low up to $50… |
| 0x Protocol V4 Bug Bounty | 0x Labs | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty: critical up to $1,000,000; high up to $350,000; mediu… |
| 2027 Internship - Quantitative Researcher (Undergrad) | Virtu Financial | Internship | open | Not listed | New York, United States | no | $5,000-$5,800 weekly salary; excludes sign-on bonuses, housing, meals, benefits… |
| AAVE Bug Bounties | Aave | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | Critical 10% of directly affected funds, max $1,000,000 min $50,000; high max $… |
| Agent Pay — MERGE Hackathon 2026 | MERGE | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | On site; Madrid | no | €25,000+ team/project prize pool |
| Central Trading Graduate Programme — Autumn 2026 | Man Group / Man Central Trading | Training | open | Not listed | Online application; workplace not stated | limited | Not listed on official page; graduate employment programme |
| Equity Volatility Quant Researcher Intern (Summer 2027) | Walleye Capital | Internship | open | Not listed | Miami, United States | no | $50,000 for 10 weeks; $10,000 housing stipend; domestic transportation to and f… |
| G-Research Quant Research Internship — Summer 2027 | G-Research | Internship | open | Not listed | Central London, United Kingdom | no | Highly competitive compensation plus accommodation; relocation and immigration… |
| GMX Bug Bounties | GMX | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | Smart-contract critical up to $5,000,000; high $25,000; medium $10,000; web/app… |
| Graduate Quantitative Researcher (2027 Incoming Graduate) | 3Red Partners | Internship | open | Not listed | Chicago | no | Expected base salary range $125,000-$200,000 plus performance-based bonuses and… |
| MUX Bug Bounties | MUX Protocol | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | Critical $20,000-$100,000; High $5,000-$20,000; Medium $2,000-$5,000; web/app C… |
| OpenZeppelin Bug Bounties | OpenZeppelin | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty: critical $5,000-$25,000; high $2,500-$5,000; medium $… |
| Optimism Bug Bounties | Optimism | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | Smart-contract/blockchain critical up to $2,000,042; high $15,000-$50,000; medi… |
| Quant Trading Internship - Summer 2027 | Chicago Trading Company | Internship | open | Not listed | Chicago, United States | no | $14,500/mo salary plus a signing bonus; free housing and meals are listed separ… |
| Quantic - PhD Quantitative Researcher Intern (Summer 2027) | Walleye Capital | Internship | open | Not listed | Boston, United States | no | $20,000/mo expected pay; $10,000 housing stipend; domestic transportation to an… |
| Quantitative Analyst, Ph.D. Intern (New York) – Summer 2027 | The D. E. Shaw Group | Internship | open | Not listed | New York, United States | no | $30,000 sign-on bonus; $3,300 self-study stipend; $4,000 technology stipend |
| Quantitative Research Intern | DRW | Internship | open | Not listed | Singapore | no | Compensation not listed on official page |
| Quantitative Research Intern PhD Summer 2027 | Optiver | Internship | open | Not listed | Chicago or Austin,Chicago,United States,limited,Official Optiver page marks the role as an internship | compensation range | Base salary range $80,000-$100,000; flights living accommodations and commuting… |
| Quantitative Research Internship — PhD: Summer 2027 | Susquehanna International Group (SIG) | Internship | open | Not listed | New York or Philadelphia | no | $8,600/week base salary for 10 weeks; signing bonus housing breakfast lunch and… |
| Quantitative Researcher Intern — Summer 2027 | Arrowstreet Capital | Internship | open | Not listed | Boston, United States | limited | $3,500-$5,000 weekly wage range; additional compensation elements communicated… |
| Sei Bug Bounties | Sei Foundation | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty: critical $50,000-$500,000; high $25,000; medium $5,00… |
| Summer Intern 2027 - Quantitative Researcher (PhD) | Five Rings LLC | Internship | open | Not listed | New York | no | Annual base salary $300,000; sign-on bonus and corporate housing listed; intern… |
| Summer Intern 2027 - Quantitative Trader | Five Rings LLC | Internship | open | Not listed | New York | no | Annual base salary $300,000; sign-on bonus and corporate housing listed; intern… |
| Threshold Network Bug Bounties | Threshold Network | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty: critical $10,000-$150,000; high $10,000; medium $2,00… |
| Wormhole Bug Bounties | Wormhole | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | Critical: up to $1,000,000; Tier 1 extract all chains TVL up to $1,000,000; Tie… |
| Cosmos Bug Bounties | Cosmos Labs | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | $50,000/$12,500/$2,500/$1,000 by severity |
| Numerai Crypto | Numerai | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Optional NMR staking; positive signal performance can earn NMR and negative per… |
| QuantFest 2026 | IICPC | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | India/APAC; regional hosts in India; finals at IIT Madras Research Park | limited | ₹8L+ total pool distributed among overall and sponsor contest winners |
| Quantitative Analyst Intern (New York) - Summer 2027 | The D. E. Shaw Group | Internship | open | Not listed | New York, NY, USA | no | $25,000 sign-on bonus; $3,300 self-study stipend; $4,000 technology stipend |
| Sky Bug Bounties | Sky, formerly MakerDAO | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | Severity-based personal bounty up to $10,000,000; website/app critical up to $1… |
| Summer 2027 Quantitative Researcher Internship | Point72 / Cubist Systematic Strategies (KEPL) | Internship | open | Not listed | New York, NY, USA | no | $240,000-$300,000 annual base, prorated for internship |
| Synthetix Bug Bounties | Synthetix | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | $100,000/$50,000/$30,000/$10,000/$1,000 by severity |
| Veda Bug Bounties | Veda | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / no fixed location | yes | Critical $100,000-$1,000,000 variable; High $10,000-$25,000 |
| Agora Arena — Trading Arena | Agora Arena | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | $100 Trading Arena prize pool |
| AI4Finance Open Trading Challenge - Season 1 Pilot Quarter | AI4Finance Foundation | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online via Alpaca Paper Trading and GitHub | yes | Grand Prize $3,500; Second Place $1,000; Third Place $500 scholarships/research… |
| Base Bug Bounty Program | Base / Coinbase | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Program pools; per-report reward follows HackerOne or Cantina terms |
| BNB Hack: Online Edition (AI-Driven Trading on BNB Chain) | BNB Chain / Solidus AI Tech | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | $10,500 Solidus sponsor prize; BNB Chain main-track prizes of $10,000/$7,000/$3… |
| Coinbase Onchain Bug Bounty | Coinbase | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Program pool up to $5M USDC; per-report reward follows Cantina terms |
| DataCrunch Equity Market Neutral #2 | CrunchDAO | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Performance-based USDC rewards; current official listing states $1,000 USDC per… |
| Dune Bug Bounty | Dune | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty; informational reports receive no bounty |
| dYdX Bug Bounty | dYdX Trading Inc. | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Per-vulnerability severity-based bounty |
| HYPE Singapore 2026: Hyperliquid Hackathon & Conference | Hype Global | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | In person | no | $50,000+ combined cash and credits |
| Injective Community BuyBack | Injective | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Remote | yes | Variable pro-rata revenue share in USDT and other tokens; participant commits I… |
| Moomoo Student Stock Showdown 2026–2027 | Moomoo Technologies Inc. | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online paper trading | yes | $2,500/$1,000/$250 student prizes; $10,000/$2,000/$2,000 school grants; educato… |
| Numerai Signals | Numerai | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Optional NMR staking; performance-based NMR payout or burn; variable, not guara… |
| Numerai Tournament | Numerai | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Optional NMR staking; positive scores earn NMR and negative scores burn part of… |
| Rotman International Trading Competition 2027 | University of Toronto Rotman School of Management | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada | no | 2027-specific prize not yet listed on official page |
| Sui Protocol Bug Bounty Program | Sui Foundation / HackenProof | Bounty | open | Not listed | Remote vulnerability reporting | yes | Per-vulnerability bounty up to $500,000 |
| Synth: Synthetic Price Data | CrunchDAO / Synth | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | $30,000 USDC fixed pool for the initial live phase |
| UChicago Trading Competition 2027 | University of Chicago Financial Markets Program | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States | no | 2027 prize amount not listed on current official schedule |
| Virtuals Protocol AI Agent Arena | Virtuals Protocol | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | Up to $200,000 copy-trading pot for 7 days |
| XRPLiquid | Botcamp / Hummingbot | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | $100,000 initial treasury / Season 1 reward pool |
| BitGo Bug Bounty | BitGo | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / Cantina | yes | Critical $75,000; high $37,500; medium $2,500; low $1,500 |
| Paxos Bug Bounty | Paxos | Bounty | open | Not listed | Online / Cantina | yes | Critical 1,000,000 USDG; high 250,000 USDG; medium 25,000 USDG; low 5,000 USDG |
| Algothon 2026 | UNSW FinTech Society / Susquehanna International Group | Prize / Competition | watch | 2026-07-08 | Online; finalist presentations at Susquehanna Barangaroo office | limited | $5,000 first; $2,500 second; $1,000 third per person |
| ACM Student Research Competition — ICSE 2027 | ACM / ICSE 2027 | Prize / Competition | watch | 2026-11-13 | ICSE 2027, Dublin, Ireland | limited | $500 first; $300 second; $200 third per category |
| UPS George D. Smith Prize — 2027 | INFORMS / UPS | Prize / Competition | watch | 2026-11-23 | Online nomination | limited | Trophy + $10,000 cash award |
| First Time Researcher Fellowship (FTR) — Spring 2027 | Purdue University College of Engineering | Fellowship | watch | 2026-11-30 | Purdue University, West Lafayette | no | $500 student research stipend |
| INFORMS Prize — 2027 | INFORMS | Prize / Competition | watch | 2026-12-15 | Online nomination; 2027 award venue not stated | limited | Organizational INFORMS Prize recognition; no cash amount stated on the current… |
| Villanova Undergraduate Research Fellows Summer Program — 2027 | Villanova University | Grant / Funding | watch | 2027-03-01 | Villanova University campus | limited | $4,000 student research stipend |
| Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award — 2027 | INFORMS | Prize / Competition | watch | 2027-03-30 | INFORMS Annual Meeting | limited | $2,000 honorarium + $5,000 travel fund |
| Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student — 2027 | American Mathematical Society / Mathematical Association of America / Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Prize / Competition | watch | Not listed | Joint Mathematics Meeting; exact 2027 city not stated | limited | $1,200 monetary award |
| MSCF Fellowship Award — Fall 2027 class | Carnegie Mellon University MSCF | Grant / Funding | watch | Not listed | Carnegie Mellon University | limited | Up to $50,000 MSCF Fellowship |
| SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering Conference Paper Prize — 2027 | SIAM | Prize / Competition | watch | Not listed | 2027 SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering | limited | $200 |
| SIAM Student Paper Prize — 2027 award | SIAM | Prize / Competition | watch | Not listed | SIAM Annual Meeting | limited | $1,000 award; travel reimbursement separate |
| SIAM-Simons Undergraduate Summer Research Program — Summer 2027 | SIAM / Simons Foundation | Fellowship | watch | Not listed | Five U.S. research sites | limited | Weekly stipend; lodging meals and travel covered; support to present at the fol… |
| International Quant Championship 2026 | WorldQuant | Prize / Competition | closed | 2026-05-13 | Online; possible in-person global final | hybrid | Stage 2 team prizes: $3,000/$2,000/$1,000; Stage 3 team prizes: $20,000/$12,000… |
| Forecasting the Future: A Modern Economics Challenge 2026 | Bridgewater Associates / Global Citizen | Prize / Competition | closed | 2026-08-01 | Global | yes | $25,000 per winner |
NetMind.AI / Arena42
Agent-operated long-only paper portfolio of 12 US AI and technology stocks
Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC)
Eight-stage online financial-modeling competition with case studies, rankings, and stage prizes
Tickmill Ltd
Real-money ROI leaderboard across forex, indices, commodities, crypto, and stocks
Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) / C:\>DIR
Global virtual hackathon for agentic AI prototypes in financial advice payments market infrastructure and market-manipulation oversight
CME Group
Risk-free simulated futures trading across multiple asset classes
Society of Algorithmic Intelligence
AI-driven algorithmic trading strategies evaluated in a standardized simulation
TradingView
Futures paper-trading contest with virtual $100,000 account and P/L leaderboard
Deribit by Coinbase and SignalPlus
Retail options and futures volume competition with solo team daily and weekly reward rounds
NetMind.AI / Arena42
AI agent long-only paper portfolio of 10 US financial stocks
Asia Quant Academy
Two-stage online quantitative investment challenge: Quant/Python/Logic MCQ followed by a Python prediction-model build
ETH Lima
DeFi Arbitrum financial infrastructure and dApp hackathon
amber.ac / OpenArena.to
Global AI-crypto startup competition covering autonomous agents sovereignty Agent Commerce and AI-native businesses
Questflow
Online human-vs-AI trader arena
Kraken
Kraken Pro PROS spot-trading volume leaderboard with tiered token rewards; no strategy-code requirement
ATFX Global
Live-account ROI leaderboard with regional qualifiers and world finals
Metaculus
Fully automated probabilistic forecasting bot tournament using 60 automated real-world questions
Botcamp / Hummingbot
Condor/Hummingbot AI trading-agent hackathon with a 48-hour live race across crypto venues
Risk.net
Single-paper quantitative-finance research judged on originality correctness relevance and applicability
xPortal Equity AG
Four-week xPortal challenge using qualified spot volume referrals and weekly leaderboards
Bybit
Derivatives spot and TradFi volume and P&L competition on Bybit UTA
BlackRock
PhD job-market paper in financial markets, economics, investment management or risk management
Datarails / FinanceOS
Build a solo AI workflow app agent or simulator on a three-year Northwind Financial sample dataset
VALR
Perpetuals trading competition with dynamic USDC rewards and randomized winners
Lumiwealth / BotSpot
Autonomous systems for options, futures, commodities, crypto, and prediction markets
University of Chicago / Alex Cha
Student teams analyze financial news and models and build investment recommendations with AI tools
Kraken
Kraken Pro QUID spot-trading leaderboard with tiered token rewards; no strategy-code requirement
Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
Simulated JSE equity and ETF/ETN portfolios
LiquidityTech / LTP
Live dual-track AI quantitative trading championship with sandbox and live API trading
Kraken
Kraken Pro CSPR spot-trading volume leaderboard with tiered CSPR rewards; no strategy-code requirement
Kraken
Kraken Derivatives CSPR perpetual-futures realized-PnL leaderboard with tiered CSPR rewards; no strategy-code requirement
Phyntex Markets
MT5 live-account trading contest ranked by percentage PnL
Bybit
US-stock spot, derivatives, TradFi and Alpha trading with points leaderboard plus daily stock-perpetual prediction
CGS International
Live equity portfolio challenge using the UP investment platform
CFA Societies (CFA Institute)
Quantitative finance research paper competition
Reinforce.fi
Market-action prediction from market-state data
OQtima
MT4/MT5 live-account CFD competition ranked by Final Rate of Return
Algorand Foundation
Competitive builder challenge for paid x402 endpoints, agentic payments, and on-chain API monetization
Metaculus
Open forecasting tournament with question leaderboard and fixed prize pool
CFA Institute / CFA Society Istanbul
Student team public-company analysis valuation research report and presentation
Kraken
Kraken futures leaderboard for XAU and XAG perpetual contracts with USDG rewards; no strategy-code requirement
European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) / CEPS
Original unpublished capital-markets research, including market structure, liquidity, market makers, digital assets, AI, and platform finance
Metaculus
Bot-based probabilistic forecasting tournament with seasonal questions and leaderboard
ETHGlobal
Async online hackathon with onchain finance, DeFi, trading and market-making-compatible builds
Telegraph Protocol
On-chain intelligence challenge covering crypto-price data, financial signals, on-chain analytics, and trading/arbitrage agents
dreamDEX / Somnia Network
On-chain spot trading competition for humans, algo traders, and dreamBots
Financial Security Institute (FSEC)
AI financial services, anomaly/fraud detection, investment matching and web-service prototype
BNB Chain
Agent marketplace with grid trading yield optimisation and health-factor monitoring
University of Waterloo
16-week full-time undergraduate mathematics/computer science research; on-campus or remote
HTX
API spot and futures trading with trading-volume PnL and PnL-percentage leaderboards
M&SOM Journal / INFORMS
Unpublished practice-based research paper competition with practitioner judges finalist presentation and journal publication
Metaculus
Market forecasting tournament in Economy & Business
Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Science
Faculty-led social-science research internship using data analysis and collection; up to 8 hours per week
Optiver
Five-day in-person trading education and simulated trading program
ETHGlobal
In-person hackathon with DeFi, onchain liquidity and crypto infrastructure
WorldQuant University
Online graduate program in financial engineering, econometrics, ML and capstone
Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)
Student research award on pension-fund investment, asset allocation, financial engineering, machine learning, and AI for investment
INFORMS Practice Section
Career-long applied analytics/OR/MS thought-leadership nomination
Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc.
Prediction-market taker-volume rewards with daily USD rates and monthly bonuses
FIAM / McGill Desautels Faculty of Management
ML/NLP/AI portfolio construction using alternative data on global stocks
ADIA Lab / CrunchDAO
Code competition for structural-break detection in univariate time series with rolling quarterly out-of-sample evaluation
Federal Reserve Board / Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Team forecast of near-term economic and financial conditions plus monetary-policy recommendation
Quantiacs
Long-only algorithmic crypto strategy evaluated on the top-10 crypto universe
INFORMS / Practice Section
Implemented analytical application competition with summary, verification, finalist paper, and presentation
Good Judgment Open
14-question forecast tournament on FRED financial and economic time series
Wharton Impact / University of Pennsylvania
Graduate-student portfolio construction challenge balancing financial returns and social/environmental impact
Bloomberg for Education
University team investment challenge using Bloomberg Terminal; strategy development and execution against Bloomberg WLS benchmark
Citadel
Firm-sponsored in-person research-conference travel grant for NeurIPS 2026
University of Minnesota Office of Undergraduate Research
120-hour faculty-mentored undergraduate research project with public presentation
Good Judgment Open / The Economist
Forecasting political economic market and cultural outcomes
SIAM
Applied mathematical sciences research with industrial impact
INFORMS / OR/MS Tomorrow
One-page blind research poster submitted as a PDF
SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering
Mathematical modeling of financial markets and peer-reviewed research award
GLEE Competition / IAB Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026
Online benchmark and competition for AI agents and humans in bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion
Voloridge Investment Management
Four-day in-person quantitative research exposure, mentorship, technical sessions, and team-based competition
Tradants GmbH
Open live tournament; discretionary, systematic, and fully automated strategies; global equity-growth leaderboard
Metaculus
Public probabilistic forecasting tournament on US midterm election questions
G-Research
Online individual logic and mathematics puzzles
Qminers
24-hour autonomous algorithmic trading challenge on a simulated limit-order-book exchange
GeoInvesting / MS Microcaps
Three independent microcap stock-picking contests tied to 2026 conferences; five starter plus two bench stocks; passive peak-return scoring
QIE
Mainnet hackathon with DeFi and financial-infrastructure track
MacroNations LLC
Macroeconomic policy simulation tournament with crisis rounds live rankings and a global championship
Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy (EMP) / Lancaster University Management School
Research paper conference with Lancaster Financial Econometrics Prize
CMT Association
Technical analysis and quantitative financial-markets research paper award
Folks Finance
Security research for Folks Finance lending and digital-asset management protocol
Good Judgment Open
Weekly forecasting questions on finance, economic indicators, and economic policy
Good Judgment Open
Central-bank rates bond yields spreads and monetary-policy forecast questions
Good Judgment Open
Forecasting tariffs trade policy shipping commodities and production
Good Judgment Open
Forecasting oil gas energy security production and price outcomes
Ivey Business School / Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing
MBA team stock research and valuation reports followed by finalist presentations
Good Judgment Open
Probabilistic forecasting challenge on AI-driven economy, finance, markets and economic indicators
USA Economics and Business Olympiad
Individual two-round economics and business competition covering macroeconomics, finance, and investment
LUISS Guido Carli University
Team simulated-market trading competition using the RIT Market Simulator with electronic and outcry cases
Good Judgment Open
Weekly forecasting questions on finance, economic indicators, and economic policy
Good Judgment Open
Forecasting PMI values across global economies
Metaculus
Public probabilistic forecasting tournament covering U.S. policy, tariffs, government outlays, manufacturing, markets, and economic impacts
Metaculus
Probabilistic forecasts on AI-driven employment, wages, occupations, productivity, and workforce outcomes
Bucket Protocol / HackenProof
Move smart-contract bounty for Sui DeFi stablecoin, CDP, PSM, and oracle infrastructure
Injective
Onchain orderbook market-making incentive program with 28-day epochs and INJ rewards
Kamino / Immunefi
Rolling vulnerability bounty for Kamino lending, liquidity, leverage, oracle, and application assets on Solana
Pendle Finance / Cantina
Smart-contract bounty for Boros onchain interest-rate swap markets using CLOB and AMM
Allora Foundation
Online ML competition for BTC/USD, ETH/USD, SOL/USD and other crypto prediction topics
NAVI Protocol
Sui perp-vault smart-contract vulnerability research
Bluefin
Sui spot and derivatives exchange smart-contract vulnerability research
idOS Network
Web, API, enclave, identity, and smart-contract vulnerability research
Momentum
Sui smart-contract vulnerability research for crypto and real-world asset infrastructure
Prizefight
Rolling weekly agentic stock-trading seasons on dedicated Robinhood Agentic accounts; P&L by weight class
Scallop
Sui money-market smart-contract vulnerability research
Kuru
Bracket tournament for AI agents in live market conditions
BlockPI Network
Multichain RPC and acceleration-layer vulnerability disclosure
Cronos
Cronos EVM and DeFi smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
Unitus
Multichain money-market and lending smart-contract research
1inch
DEX liquidity-position smart-contract vulnerability research
ADI Foundation
Airbender prover and zkEVM verifier soundness research
Ample
DeFi smart-contract vulnerability research for Ample Earn, factories, perspectives, and cross-chain routers
Dexalot / HackenProof
Non-custodial CLOB DEX smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
DeXe Protocol
DAO governance, treasury, NFT, and DeXe protocol smart-contract vulnerability research
Ember Protocol / HackenProof
Ember EVM vault smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
FlowX Finance / HackenProof
Sui concentrated-liquidity market-maker smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
Haedal
Sui liquid staking, LST liquidity, and market-maker protocol smart-contract vulnerability research
Layer3
Omnichain distribution, identity, incentive, and staking smart-contract vulnerability research
Multipli
ZK yield protocol smart-contract vulnerability research
NAVI Protocol
Smart-contract and web vulnerability research for NAVI Protocol
NEAR
NEAR Intents MPC network, Omni Bridge, BTC bridge SDK, and relayer security
Raydium
Smart-contract vulnerability research for Raydium Solana on-chain programs
Turbos Finance / HackenProof
Sui concentrated-liquidity market-maker smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
WorldQuant BRAIN
Online alpha research and merit-based consultant onboarding on the WorldQuant BRAIN simulation platform
0x
0x DEX aggregation APIs web mobile frontends and settlement smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
Arcadia Finance / HackenProof
Smart-contract vulnerability disclosure for Arcadia margin and leveraged-yield protocol
Cetus / HackenProof
Cetus web and mobile vulnerability disclosure for the Sui DEX and liquidity network
Citrea / HackenProof
Citrea rollup, Clementine bridge, protocol and smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
Ethena
Ethena USDe synthetic-dollar smart-contract and application vulnerability research
Exactly
Exactly fixed- and variable-rate Optimism lending protocol smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
Hedera
Hedera and Hiero blockchain DLT smart-contract and network vulnerability research
Solv Protocol / HackenProof
SolvBTC Solana smart-contract vulnerability disclosure for Bitcoin-native DeFi
SSV Network
SSV Network Ethereum validator DVT smart-contract vulnerability research
Stargate Foundation / StargateDAO
Stargate native-asset bridge and cross-chain liquidity smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
Starknet / HackenProof
Starknet OS, L1 core contracts, protocol and blockchain vulnerability disclosure
Term Structure Labs / TermMax
TermMax fixed-rate lending and customizable AMM pricing-curve smart-contract and web-app vulnerability disclosure
The Graph Foundation
The Graph indexing protocol smart-contract blockchain and indexer vulnerability disclosure
Treehouse Finance / HackenProof
Smart-contract vulnerability disclosure for Treehouse fixed-income and DOR protocol
NetMind.AI / Arena42
Agent-operated long-only paper portfolio of 12 US high-growth stocks
Wilmott
Continuous-time model or simulation reproducing the Q-variance relationship in asset-price paths
Zynk / HackenProof
Solana smart-contract vulnerability disclosure for liquidity and settlement infrastructure
Beanstalk
Beanstalk Basin and Pipeline smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
Decentraland
Decentraland smart-contract and application vulnerability disclosure
Derive / Lyra V2 / Immunefi
Options perpetuals and spot protocol smart-contract vulnerability research
ENS
ENS smart-contract and web application vulnerability disclosure
TechZap
Online 36-hour finance and trading hackathon covering algo/HFT market signals portfolio optimization and DeFi execution
Horizen
Smart-contract and staking web vulnerability disclosure
Warden Protocol
Perpetual trading leaderboard and AI Trading Terminal
Monad Foundation / Cantina
Monad consensus execution networking and node vulnerability disclosure
Morpho / Cantina
Live Cantina-triaged vulnerability bounty across Morpho web apps and smart contracts
PancakeSwap / Cantina
PancakeSwap Infinity core contracts and router vulnerability disclosure
Symbiotic / Cantina
Shared-security protocol vulnerability disclosure
42project
Responsible disclosure for crypto trading terminal web app, API, open-source repositories and mobile apps
ADI Foundation / HackenProof
Prediction-market smart-contract vulnerability bounty for the FIFA World Cup 2026 partner
Centrifuge / Cantina
Rolling Cantina-triaged bounty for Centrifuge V3.1 on-chain asset-management protocol
Cetus / HackenProof
Live HackenProof bounty for Cetus DEX and aggregator smart contracts on Sui
Chainlink Labs
Rolling vulnerability disclosure for Chainlink oracle, infrastructure, smart-contract and web applications
FISG
Monthly Non-Farm Payrolls forecast challenge with accuracy tiers and leaderboard
Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc.
Prediction-market liquidity provision via resting limit orders
Hyperbridge / HackenProof
Cross-chain bridge runtime pallet and smart-contract bounty
Kiln / Cantina
Rolling Cantina-triaged bounty for OmniVault EVM smart contracts and connectors
Kuru Labs
Rolling vulnerability disclosure for Kuru on-chain order-book DEX and CLOB-AMM liquidity infrastructure on Monad
Midas.app / Cantina
Rolling Cantina-triaged bounty for composable on-chain investment products
CrunchDAO
AI agent predicts binary event probabilities and is scored against real-world outcomes in the Signal track
RedStone
Rolling vulnerability disclosure for RedStone oracle infrastructure serving lending and DeFi protocols
RootstockLabs
Rolling vulnerability disclosure for Rootstock Bitcoin DeFi blockchain, smart contracts and applications
Starknet / HackenProof
Starknet staking smart-contract vulnerability bounty
Starknet / HackenProof
StarkGate smart-contract and web vulnerability bounty
OKX Labs
Onchain smart-contract vulnerability research across EVM Solana Sui and Aptos
Ondo Global (Panama) Inc.
Rolling Cantina-triaged vulnerability disclosure for perpetual-futures trading infrastructure
Polygon
Rolling smart-contract and blockchain vulnerability disclosure program
Reserve Protocol
Rolling Cantina-triaged vulnerability disclosure for Reserve stable-asset infrastructure
TradeWars
Weekly MT5 demo trading contest with automated strategies allowed and public rankings
Uniswap Labs
Rolling Cantina-triaged vulnerability disclosure for Uniswap protocol, infrastructure, and web applications
Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc.
Online prediction-market liquidity provision
NexVerse-IITM
36-hour AI hackathon with FinTech & Payments track covering payments credit scoring wealth management and inclusive banking
1inch
DEX aggregator web and application vulnerability reports
Compound DAO
Security research for Ethereum money markets and Compound III
Gearbox / Immunefi
Smart-contract vulnerability disclosure for a DeFi leverage protocol
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
Algorithmic trading challenge with paper evaluation and funded live-capital pathway
Stacks Endowment (Stacks)
Bitcoin-backed asset bridge blockchain and smart-contract vulnerability reports
Velodrome Finance / Optimism Foundation / Immunefi
Smart-contract bug bounty for an Optimism AMM/DEX liquidity hub
Balancer Foundation
Smart-contract and protocol vulnerability bounty
G-Research
Monthly application for research-support grant in quantitative disciplines
GMTrade
Smart-contract and protocol vulnerability bounty
Intuition
Smart-contract and protocol vulnerability bounty
Lista DAO
BNB Chain liquid staking lisUSD CDP and smart-contract vulnerability research
Lombard Finance
LBTC Bitcoin DeFi cross-chain liquidity and smart-contract vulnerability research
NextWise / Paris Dauphine–PSL University
Student virtual stock and ETF portfolio-management competition with individual and club rankings
Origin Protocol
OUSD DeFi yield smart-contract and web/app vulnerability research
Polymarket
Prediction-market liquidity provision via resting limit orders
Recall
Continuous simulated crypto spot-trading competitions for registered AI agents
Spark
Smart-contract and web/application vulnerability bounty
Zest Protocol
Bitcoin lending protocol on Stacks; Clarity smart-contract vulnerability research
ZKsync
Blockchain, smart-contract, and web/application vulnerability bounty
BNB Chain / BNB Foundation
Responsible-disclosure bounty for blockchain, cryptography, smart contracts, clients, SDKs, and cross-chain components
Ethereum Foundation
Bug bounty for Ethereum protocol, client, and language compiler bugs
Jane Street
Machine learning, applied mathematics, programmable hardware, systems, compilers, hardware, and networking relevant to electronic trading
Parallel
Smart-contract and web/app vulnerability disclosure for the Parallel stablecoin protocol
Polymarket
Bug bounty for prediction-market smart contracts, oracle resolution, order matching, fees, and web application
0x Labs
EVM smart contracts and vulnerability research
Virtu Financial
10-week quantitative research internship improving market-making algorithms with large trading datasets
Aave
Aave v2/v3 pools, governance, safety module, GHO and related smart-contract vulnerability disclosure
MERGE
48-hour hackathon for agent commerce and stablecoin micropayments
Man Group / Man Central Trading
Two-year graduate rotation across systematic/discretionary trading, execution research, alpha research, portfolio construction and risk
Walleye Capital
10-week quantitative research internship on single-stock and index volatility strategies and options datasets
G-Research
10-week quantitative research internship: financial time-series signals, mathematical modelling, machine learning, optimisation, backtesting and portfolio simulation
GMX
GMX smart contracts and app for spot/perpetual trading, GLP liquidity, fees, liquidations and governance
3Red Partners
Graduate quantitative research role testing alphas and improving production trading systems
MUX Protocol
Smart-contract and critical-frontend vulnerability disclosure for a decentralized leveraged trading protocol
OpenZeppelin
Solidity OpenZeppelin Contracts library and vulnerability research
Optimism
OP Stack, OP Mainnet, bridge, governance-proposal, op-node and op-geth vulnerability disclosure
Chicago Trading Company
8-week quantitative trading internship with options, market-making and quant-framework training
Walleye Capital
10-week quantitative research internship designing predictive signals and systematic trading strategies for equities, options and futures
The D. E. Shaw Group
12-week quantitative research internship with statistical modeling, financial-data analysis, Python and a mentored research project
DRW
Quantitative research internship using statistical algorithms machine learning derivatives pricing and trading data
Optiver
PhD quantitative research internship applying machine learning and statistical models to live-market strategies
Susquehanna International Group (SIG)
10-week quantitative research internship in market modeling backtesting machine learning and strategy research
Arrowstreet Capital
Quantitative investment-research internship: signal research, statistical analysis, portfolio construction, backtesting and trading-cost forecasts
Sei Foundation
Sei chain bridge validator and network security vulnerability research
Five Rings LLC
9-week quantitative research internship with strategy games and hands-on trading research
Five Rings LLC
9-week quantitative trading internship with mock trading and research/development projects
Threshold Network
tBTC threshold cryptography bridges and smart-contract vulnerability research
Wormhole
Cross-chain messaging, guardian, Portal Token Bridge, Native Token Transfer smart-contract and infrastructure disclosure
Cosmos Labs
Cosmos protocol, module, consensus, validator, wallet and infrastructure bounty
Numerai
Bring-your-own-data crypto market signal competition with NMR staking
IICPC
Three-stage quantitative challenge: probability, combinatorics and coding; in-person probability round; trading and market-making finals
The D. E. Shaw Group
Quantitative research internship with statistical modeling, financial data, and Python
Sky, formerly MakerDAO
Stablecoin, CDP, lending, staking, smart-contract and web/app bounty
Point72 / Cubist Systematic Strategies (KEPL)
Quantitative research internship using statistical modeling, financial data, and Python/C/C++
Synthetix
Perpetual-futures on-chain custody smart-contract and application bounty
Veda
DeFi vault smart-contract vulnerability bounty
Agora Arena
Live BTC/USDT five-minute trading showdown and skill-based trading leagues
AI4Finance Foundation
Online paper trading with FinRL-Trading and Alpaca Paper Trading
Base / Coinbase
Base network, infrastructure and deployed smart-contract vulnerability reports
BNB Chain / Solidus AI Tech
Continuous online hackathon for AI-powered trading bots, portfolio management and on-chain execution
Coinbase
Responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in Coinbase-deployed smart contracts
CrunchDAO
Weekly cross-sectional forecast of expected returns for 3000 liquid US equities
Dune
Responsible disclosure for Dune application and API vulnerabilities
dYdX Trading Inc.
Protocol, indexer, web client and SDK vulnerability disclosure
Hype Global
Hyperliquid hackathon for trading tools bots and autonomous AI trading agents
Injective
Monthly INJ commitment, burn and pro-rata ecosystem revenue distribution
Moomoo Technologies Inc.
High-school U.S. stock and ETF paper-trading competition with virtual $100,000 accounts
Numerai
Bring-your-own-data stock signals scored for originality and performance
Numerai
Machine-learning stock-return prediction tournament with recurring submission rounds
University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
University teams compete in real-time simulated market cases on the Rotman Interactive Trader platform
Sui Foundation / HackenProof
Move VM validator consensus network and protocol vulnerability research
CrunchDAO / Synth
Real-time probabilistic forecasting of crypto and tokenized-equity prices at 1-hour and 24-hour horizons
University of Chicago Financial Markets Program
Team algorithmic trading competition with simulated cases including market making options and time-series analysis
Virtuals Protocol
AI-agent leaderboard trading Hyperliquid perpetuals and trade.xyz HIP-3 assets
Botcamp / Hummingbot
Rolling XRP Ledger liquidity program for AMM liquidity providers and automated Hummingbot market makers
BitGo
Responsible disclosure for BitGo Ethereum multisig wallet protocol
Paxos
Responsible disclosure for Paxos stablecoin, gold-token, bridge contracts and production APIs
UNSW FinTech Society / Susquehanna International Group
Multi-round simulated-market algorithmic trading challenge with risk-adjusted scoring
ACM / ICSE 2027
800-word research abstract poster round and presentation round at ICSE 2027
INFORMS / UPS
Academic department or program competition for OR/MS analytics and data-science practitioner preparation
Purdue University College of Engineering
Introductory undergraduate engineering research fellowship with ENGR 296 course and research showcase
INFORMS
Organization-level nomination for repeated pioneering OR/MS and advanced-analytics impact
Villanova University
10-week full-time undergraduate independent research with faculty mentor
INFORMS
Lectureship for substantial scholarly and applied operations-research contributions
American Mathematical Society / Mathematical Association of America / Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Undergraduate mathematics research paper award
Carnegie Mellon University MSCF
Graduate computational-finance program with automatic fellowship consideration
SIAM
Student/postdoc financial mathematics paper presented at the 2027 SIAM FME Conference
SIAM
Nominated student paper accepted by a SIAM journal; nomination letter CV and paper PDF
SIAM / Simons Foundation
8-week applied mathematics computational science and data science research at five U.S. sites
WorldQuant
Team alpha-model competition using WorldQuant BRAIN simulated equity positions
Bridgewater Associates / Global Citizen
Global research competition on AI, modern mercantilism, macroeconomics and forecasting
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