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Kaya AI India Hackathon 2026
Kaya AI / Devpost
AI/IoT/enterprise hackathon for construction supply-chain and procurement problems
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Slack Agent Builder Challenge
Slack / Salesforce / Devpost
Build AI-powered Slack agents using Slack AI, MCP integrations and real-time search
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Questflow Trader Arena Season 1
Questflow
Performance-ranked crypto trader arena competing against a Questflow AI
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OKX.AI Genesis Hackathon
OKX Web3 / X Layer
Online AI-agent service competition including finance-copilot and crypto-native use cases
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TxODDS World Cup Hackathon
TxODDS / Superteam / Solana
Solana hackathon using live football odds and scores for prediction markets, trading tools and autonomous agents
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WeAreDevelopers x402 Hackathon
Algorand Foundation
x402-powered agentic payments, API monetization, and on-chain settlement prototypes
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AI-Quantum Challenge 2026
Academy of Finance (Vietnam)
AI/quantum prototypes for macro, stock-market, credit, fraud, portfolio optimization and financial forecasting
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AlphaNova Competition 5
AlphaNova Capital
Pure-Python walk-forward signal forecasting competition for AI/ML trading models on obfuscated market data
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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
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2026 KB AI Challenge
KB Kookmin Bank
AI-powered financial service prototype using organizer topics or a free finance topic
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Backblaze Generative Media Hackathon
Backblaze / Devpost
Build generative media apps using Genblaze on Backblaze B2 and related cloud/media pipelines
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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
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BUIDL_QUESTS 2026
amber.ac / OpenArena.to
AI-agent and AI+Crypto startup competition covering agent commerce, payments, settlement, identity, and sovereignty
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Arm Create: AI Optimization Challenge
Arm / Devpost
Optimize AI for Arm-powered cloud, edge and physical AI platforms
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Build with Gemini XPRIZE
Google Cloud / XPRIZE / Devpost
Global challenge for Gemini-powered AI applications with humanitarian/social-impact focus
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CockroachDB x AWS Hackathon - Build with Agentic Memory
Cockroach Labs / AWS / Devpost
Build agentic applications with persistent memory using CockroachDB and AWS
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Alpha Hackathon
Alpha Hackathon / BotSpot by Lumiwealth
Autonomous agents for options, futures, commodities, crypto and prediction markets, followed by a hands-off trading window
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Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026
Africa Deep Tech Foundation / Devpost
Laptop LLM challenge for on-device, local-inference AI on 8GB commodity laptops
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Metaculus Cup Summer 2026
Metaculus
Open probabilistic forecasting tournament with 44 questions
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BNB Chain Hackvolution
BNB Chain
Build dApps on opBNB or BNB Greenfield in Infrastructure, DeFi, Gaming or AI categories
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Summer 2026 FutureEval Bot Tournament
Metaculus / FutureEval
Bot-only AI forecasting tournament with no human-in-the-loop
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2026 Financial AI Challenge
Financial Security Institute / DAKER
Build an AI financial-service MVP or web app
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Market Pulse Challenge 26Q3
Metaculus
Online market and economic forecasting tournament with eight questions
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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
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Structural Break Challenge: Real-Time Edition
ADIA Lab / Crunch
Real-time structural-break detection challenge for data scientists and ML researchers
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Global x402 Challenge
Algorand Foundation
Deploy a paid x402 API endpoint on Algorand Mainnet for agentic commerce
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GLEE Competition - Games in Language-based Economic Environments
GLEE
Build REST-API AI agents for bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion games
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Labor Automation Tournament
Metaculus
Forecasting labor automation and future economic outcomes
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AgentIQ Arena Beta — Crypto
AgentIQ Arena
24/7 crypto spot paper trading for AI agents
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ClawStreet AI Trading Competition — Season 2
ClawStreet
API-based AI-agent paper trading competition
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Otter Trade AI Agent Trading Arenas
Otter Trade
Rolling 24-hour simulated crypto, commodity, and stock arenas for humans and AI agents
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Synth: Synthetic Price Data
CrunchDAO / Synth
Probabilistic forecasting of synthetic crypto and tokenized-equity prices with warmup and live evaluation
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World Cup Agent Arena
Stair AI
39-day live competition of AI agents on prediction markets with P&L and reasoning leaderboards
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Agora Arena
Agora Arena
API/SDK agent leagues including live BTC trading and performance-ranked prize pools
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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
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EVA Agent Arena
Next Labs
On-chain SOL dominance/trading arena with staged autonomous-agent rollout
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NetMind Agent Arena / Arena42
NetMind.AI
Time-limited AI-agent campaigns covering crypto and stock prediction plus other real-world challenges
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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
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SUI AGENT Last Agent Standing Arena
SUI AGENT
On-chain AI-vs-AI trading arena on Sui; Eliza agents trade $AGENT
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Virtuals Arena
Virtuals Protocol / Arena
On-chain AI-agent trading arena with AI Council selection and seven-day copy-trading pot
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Agent Pay MERGE Hackathon 2026
MERGE
48-hour in-person hackathon for autonomous agent commerce and agent micropayments using stablecoins
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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
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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
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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
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Recall AI Agent Competitions
Recall
Continuous paper, spot, and perpetual-futures AI-agent trading competitions with API or wallet execution
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Telegraph Hackathon Season I 2026
Telegraph Protocol
Three-part Web3/decentralized-intelligence hackathon for miners, evaluation scripts, APIs, models, tools, applications, and agents
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Agenthon 2026
Alphathon / SQA / CEWIT / Stony Brook University
Four-track AI-agent competition covering quant coding, forecasting, market simulation and evidence-grounded prediction
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DataCrunch Competition
CrunchDAO / DataCrunch
Weekly cross-sectional ranking of future returns for 3,000 liquid US equities used in a systematic market-neutral portfolio
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Numerai Crypto
Numerai
Own crypto market features and token-level signals ranked by originality and predictive performance
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WEMIX Spot Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro WEMIX spot-volume ranking challenge
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ADIA Lab Structural Break Open Benchmark Challenge
ADIA Lab / CrunchDAO
Long-lived public benchmark for structural-break detection in economic and financial time series
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BNB Hack Online Edition - AI Trading Bots
BNB Chain / Solidus AI Tech
Ongoing on-chain AI and automated-trading builder track
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Sui Overflow 2026
Sui Foundation
Global online hackathon covering Agentic Web, DeFi & Payments, and DeepBook trading/liquidity
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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
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AI Forecasting Benchmark / FutureEval Bot Tournament
Metaculus / FutureEval
Bot-only AI forecasting tournament on Metaculus with seasonal and MiniBench prize series
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Creek Labs AI Trading Sandbox Challenge Round 2
Creek Labs / SAIF Partners
Agent and strategy sandbox with live-capital testing pathway
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Liquidity Arena 2026 AI Quant Trading Competition
LiquidityTech / Kaggle
AI quant trading Kaggle competition for market prediction and liquidity/market-making style strategies
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Metaculus Forecasting Tournaments
Metaculus
Forecasting tournaments on AI, markets, geopolitics, biosecurity and public-interest questions
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Sorin AI Paper Trading Competition
Sahara AI / Sorin
AI-assisted crypto paper-trading tournament
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AI4Finance Open Trading Challenge
AI4Finance Foundation
Continuous FinRL + Alpaca Paper Trading strategy challenge
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AIcrowd AI Challenges
AIcrowd
AI, LLM, reinforcement learning, game-agent and research challenges with cash and compute prizes
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AIMO Prize
XTX Markets / AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
AI mathematical reasoning prize for publicly shared models reaching IMO-gold level, with progress prizes
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AMD Developer Hackathon ACT II
AMD / lablab.ai
AI developer hackathon using AMD stack and agent/application builders
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ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize Foundation
Open-source AGI reasoning competition across ARC-AGI-3 agents, ARC-AGI-2, and paper track
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CrunchDAO ML Competitions
CrunchDAO / Crunch Lab
Open ML competitions for financial, scientific, biomedical and industrial prediction problems
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DrivenData Prize Competitions
DrivenData
Social-impact AI/data science competitions for education, climate, health, science and public-interest problems
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Kaggle Money Competitions
Kaggle / Google
AI/ML competitions and hackathons with money-prize filter and public leaderboards
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Mantle Turing Test Hackathon 2026
Mantle / Tencent Cloud / DoraHacks
AI agent/persona hackathon on DoraHacks around Turing-test-style applications
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Numerai Tournament
Numerai
Ongoing data science tournament to predict the stock market with ML models on obfuscated financial data
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Qwen Cloud Global AI Hackathon
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen / Devpost
Global hackathon for Qwen-powered AI applications using Alibaba Cloud services
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Vesuvius Challenge Open Prizes
Vesuvius Challenge
Machine learning, computer vision and geometry challenge to read Herculaneum scrolls from 3D scans
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Zindi Prize Challenges
Zindi
Real-world AI/data science challenges, often focused on Africa and global development
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Casper Agentic Buildathon 2026
Casper Association
AI-native on-chain applications, autonomous systems, x402 payments, DeFi/RWA, and machine-to-machine economies
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European Quant Awards 2026
CFA Society France / European CFA Societies
5-7 page quantitative finance research paper competition
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Hack the Echo
Warden Protocol
AI agents compete to extract a hidden phrase from a model; winner receives an on-chain crypto prize
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Seeds of Agentic Future: DeFAI & DeSci
AgenticFuture.ai / Seedify
Asynchronous DeFAI and DeSci build track
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Rise of AI Agents Hackathon
AI Week / lablab.ai
AI agents hackathon around agentic applications, automation, and AI Week participation
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The Winton Stock Market Challenge
Winton / Kaggle
Predict intra-day and end-of-day stock returns from historical performance and masked features
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Two Sigma Financial Modeling Challenge
Two Sigma / Kaggle
Kaggle code competition to find predictive signal in time-varying financial instrument data
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Home Credit Default Risk
Home Credit Group
Predict clients' ability to repay a loan
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Two Sigma: Using News to Predict Stock Movements
Two Sigma
Predict ten-day market-adjusted returns from market and news data
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Santander Customer Transaction Prediction
Banco Santander
Predict whether a customer will make a transaction
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American Express - Default Prediction
American Express
Predict credit-default risk from anonymized customer data
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Optiver - Trading at the Close
Optiver / Kaggle
Forecast U.S. stock closing-price movements
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Sonic DeFAI Hackathon
Sonic Labs / DoraHacks / Hey Anon / Zerebro
Build AI-agent and DeFi projects for on-chain actions
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Global AI Agents League
Fetch.ai
Build agents using Agentverse; finance is a listed domain
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Autonomous Apes: AI Agent Trading Hackathon
Recall / Encode Club
Build and optimize agents for simulated trading
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MITSUI&CO. Commodity Prediction Challenge
Mitsui & Co. / Kaggle
Kaggle code competition to predict commodity price movements with stable ranking performance
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AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens
WEEX Labs
Global crypto AI trading-strategy hackathon
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ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026 - Uniswap v4 Agentic Finance
ETHGlobal / Uniswap Foundation
Async hackathon prize track for agent-driven financial systems
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Bridgewater x Metaculus Forecasting Competition 2026
Bridgewater Associates / Metaculus
Forecast real-world macro, AI, policy, and business questions on Metaculus
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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
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Open Agents
ETHGlobal
Async Web3 AI-agent hackathon with agentic-finance and trading integrations
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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
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GRVT: Age of AI Trading
GRVT
14-day volume competition permitting AI agents, bots, APIs, and algorithmic strategies
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Bitget AI x Crypto Hackathon - Genesis Season 1
Bitget
AI trading-agent and trading-infrastructure hackathon with runnable demos or open-source projects
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GRVT x ELFA Agent Arena Trading Competition
GRVT / ELFA
14-day GRVT volume competition with ELFA AI-agent-assisted trading guide
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Forecasting the Upstart Macro Index
Metaculus / Upstart
Forecasting tournament for the Upstart Macro Index and consumer-credit/economic conditions
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MIT Pokerbots 2026
MIT Pokerbots / MIT
Autonomous pokerbot programming using game theory, probability, statistics, and ML
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Good Vibes Only: OpenClaw Edition
BNB Chain / Flap / Surge.XYZ
AI/on-chain hackathon with trading-agent tracks
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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
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Bitget AI Agent Strategy Trading Competition
Bitget
Autonomous AI-agent derivatives trading competition with dedicated subaccount and API execution
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Convergence: A Chainlink Hackathon
Chainlink Foundation
DeFi, tokenization, CRE, AI, and autonomous-agent hackathon tracks
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Market Pulse Challenge 26Q2
Metaculus
Economic and market forecasting tournament
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Agentic Ethereum
ETHGlobal / partner sponsors
Asynchronous hackathon for AI-powered DeFi assistants and skilled agents
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ApeX AI Trading Arena
ApeX
AI perpetual-trading championship via dedicated API vaults
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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
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G-Research Crypto Forecasting Competition
G-Research / Kaggle
Machine-learning forecasting of short-term crypto returns
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JPX Tokyo Stock Exchange Prediction
JPX Market Innovation & Research / Kaggle
Rank stock-return forecasts using Japanese market and options data
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closed
Optiver Realized Volatility Prediction
Optiver / Kaggle
Forecast short-term realized volatility from high-frequency order-book data
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Ubiquant Market Prediction
Ubiquant Investment / Kaggle
Machine-learning models to forecast investment return rates from historical price data
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Agents Assemble - The Healthcare AI Endgame
Prompt Opinion / Darena Health / Devpost
Healthcare AI agent hackathon using MCP, A2A and FHIR for interoperable clinical workflows
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Amazon Nova AI Hackathon
Amazon / AWS / Devpost
Hackathon for applications built with Amazon Nova, including agentic and multimodal tracks
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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
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AWS AI Agent Global Hackathon
AWS / Devpost
Global AI agent hackathon using AWS generative AI services, Bedrock, SageMaker AI and agent frameworks
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DigitalOcean Gradient AI Hackathon
DigitalOcean / Devpost
Full-stack AI application hackathon using DigitalOcean Gradient AI, GPU and deployment workflows
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DRW Crypto Market Prediction
DRW / Kaggle
Predict short-term crypto future price movements from production feature data
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Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon
Elastic / Devpost
Build context-driven agents using Elasticsearch, retrieval and agent-builder workflows
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FIND EVIL! AI Cybersecurity Hackathon
SANS Institute / Devpost
Autonomous AI incident response hackathon for triage, threat hunting and defender workflows
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Gemini 3 Hackathon
Google / Devpost
Gemini-powered AI systems hackathon for planning, execution, multimodal reasoning and self-correction
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Gemini Live Agent Challenge
Google / Devpost
Multimodal real-time agent challenge using Gemini Live API for voice, visual and interactive experiences
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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
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GitLab Transcend Hackathon
GitLab / Devpost
Hackathon around GitLab Orbit, AI-native developer tools, agents, flows and workflow automation
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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
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Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon
Google Cloud / Devpost
Build agents for real-world challenges using Google Cloud and partner MCP/server integrations
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H0: Hack the Zero Stack
Vercel / AWS / Devpost
AI-native full-stack app hackathon using Vercel v0 and AWS Databases
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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
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Jane Street Real-Time Market Data Forecasting
Jane Street / Kaggle
Predict financial market responders using real-world data
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M6 Financial Forecasting Competition
Makridakis Open Forecasting Center / University of Nicosia / IIF
Twelve-month financial forecasting and investment decision competition over stocks and ETFs
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Microsoft Agent Academy Hackathon
Microsoft Open Source
AI agent hackathon for Microsoft Agent Academy builders using Microsoft AI tools
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Microsoft Agents League Hackathon
Microsoft
Esports-inspired hackathon for Creative Apps, Reasoning Agents, and Enterprise Agents using Microsoft AI tooling
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OpenAI GPT-OSS-20B Red Teaming Challenge
OpenAI / Kaggle
Red-team challenge for finding vulnerabilities and failure modes in OpenAI GPT-OSS-20B
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Splunk Agentic Ops Hackathon
Splunk / Devpost
Agentic operations hackathon for observability, security workflows, and developer experience using Splunk AI
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UiPath AgentHack
UiPath / Devpost
Enterprise agentic automation hackathon using UiPath, coding agents, Maestro, BPMN and Test Cloud
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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
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closed
USAII AI NextGen Challenge 2026
United States Artificial Intelligence Institute
U.S. student AI scholarship and national hackathon program culminating in Atlanta
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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
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