Competitions
open
CME Group Trading Challenge
CME Group
Risk-free simulated futures trading challenges using real-time market data
Verified opportunity catalog
Quant trading competitions and market challenges
Discover systematic trading, market-making, forecasting and ML-for-finance competitions.
Browse the catalog
Programs and opportunities
Competitions
open
OKX Build X: Hook x World Cup
OKX Web3 / X Layer
Uniswap v4 Hooks challenge on X Layer with World Cup-themed DeFi deployments and on-chain ranking
Competitions
open
Questflow Trader Arena Season 1
Questflow
Performance-ranked crypto trader arena competing against a Questflow AI
Competitions
open
BILL Spot Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro spot trading competition ranked by trading volume with BILL token rewards
Competitions
open
500,000 NIGHT Spot Trading Challenge
Kraken
Spot trading competition ranked by realized profit over a seven-day promotion
Competitions
open
OKX.AI Genesis Hackathon
OKX Web3 / X Layer
Online AI-agent service competition including finance-copilot and crypto-native use cases
Competitions
open
TxODDS World Cup Hackathon
TxODDS / Superteam / Solana
Solana hackathon using live football odds and scores for prediction markets, trading tools and autonomous agents
Competitions
open
WeAreDevelopers x402 Hackathon
Algorand Foundation
x402-powered agentic payments, API monetization, and on-chain settlement prototypes
Competitions
open
OQtima World Champions Trading Challenge 2026
OQtima / OQTIMA INT. LTD
MT4/MT5 live-account contest ranked by Final Return Rate across forex, bullion, indices, crude oil, and crypto
Competitions
open
AI-Quantum Challenge 2026
Academy of Finance (Vietnam)
AI/quantum prototypes for macro, stock-market, credit, fraud, portfolio optimization and financial forecasting
Competitions
open
HF Markets World Trade Contest 2026
HF Markets (SV) Ltd
MT4/MT5 live-account contest across available instruments; ranking by percentage gain with maximum drawdown as tie-breaker
Competitions
open
UEX Futures League 2026 - CFD Stage
Bitget
July online CFD futures stage covering gold, oil, indices, and forex; individual trading-volume and PnL pools plus team ROI; qualifying teams advance to an in-person final
Competitions
open
China-HK Algo Trading Challenge 2026
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
1-4-person algorithmic trading competition for HK and China A-shares with backtest, paper-trading, and strategy-pitch stages
Competitions
open
AlphaNova Competition 5
AlphaNova Capital
Pure-Python walk-forward signal forecasting competition for AI/ML trading models on obfuscated market data
Competitions
open
Forecasting the Future: A Global Economics Challenge 2026
Global Citizen / Bridgewater Associates
10+ binary macro forecasts plus framework, synthesis, and analytical appendix on AI and Modern Mercantilism
Competitions
open
2026 KB AI Challenge
KB Kookmin Bank
AI-powered financial service prototype using organizer topics or a free finance topic
Competitions
open
Deribit & SignalPlus The Island USDC Trading Competition
Deribit / SignalPlus
35-day options and futures trading-volume competition with solo team daily and weekly reward arenas
Competitions
open
Akuna Capital's 2026 Virtual Quant Trading Challenge
Akuna Capital
Virtual individual Python market-making bots competing on a simulated exchange
Competitions
open
Quant Crown Summer 2026
Asia Quant Academy
Two-stage Python prediction-model challenge
Competitions
open
BUIDL_QUESTS 2026
amber.ac / OpenArena.to
AI-agent and AI+Crypto startup competition covering agent commerce, payments, settlement, identity, and sovereignty
Competitions
open
Build with Gemini XPRIZE
Google Cloud / XPRIZE / Devpost
Global challenge for Gemini-powered AI applications with humanitarian/social-impact focus
Competitions
open
Alpha Hackathon
Alpha Hackathon / BotSpot by Lumiwealth
Autonomous agents for options, futures, commodities, crypto and prediction markets, followed by a hands-off trading window
Competitions
open
ASEAN Investment Challenge (AIC) 2026 — Singapore
CGS International
Live equity portfolio challenge on UP with mandatory financial-literacy training
Competitions
open
Metaculus Cup Summer 2026
Metaculus
Open probabilistic forecasting tournament with 44 questions
Competitions
open
BNB Chain Hackvolution
BNB Chain
Build dApps on opBNB or BNB Greenfield in Infrastructure, DeFi, Gaming or AI categories
Competitions
open
2026 Financial AI Challenge
Financial Security Institute / DAKER
Build an AI financial-service MVP or web app
Competitions
open
2026 Asset Management Hackathon
FIAM / McGill Desautels Faculty of Management
AI/ML portfolio construction using global equities, alternative data and investment strategies
Competitions
open
Market Pulse Challenge 26Q3
Metaculus
Online market and economic forecasting tournament with eight questions
Competitions
open
AI Challenge 2026 — MOEX Price Prediction Track
International Artificial Intelligence Contest / AI Challenge
ML time-series model predicting MOEX price movement over a one-hour horizon with news-text analysis
Competitions
open
Structural Break Challenge: Real-Time Edition
ADIA Lab / Crunch
Real-time structural-break detection challenge for data scientists and ML researchers
Competitions
open
Quantiacs Q25 Crypto Top-10 Long Contest
Quantiacs LLC
Current long-only crypto Top-10 algorithmic strategy contest with backtesting live evaluation and profit-share allocation
Competitions
open
WSOT 2026
WSOT
Global real-money leaderboard using a participant's preferred broker and instruments; monthly statement verification and Calmar-ratio ranking
Competitions
open
TRON Hackathon Season 5
TRON DAO
AI, Web3 and DeFi blockchain buildathon
Competitions
open
Rotman European Trading Competition 2027
LUISS Guido Carli University
Three-day electronic and outcry trading competition using simulated markets
Competitions
open
Labor Automation Tournament
Metaculus
Forecasting labor automation and future economic outcomes
Competitions
open
AgentIQ Arena Beta — Crypto
AgentIQ Arena
24/7 crypto spot paper trading for AI agents
Competitions
open
ClawStreet AI Trading Competition — Season 2
ClawStreet
API-based AI-agent paper trading competition
Competitions
open
Otter Trade AI Agent Trading Arenas
Otter Trade
Rolling 24-hour simulated crypto, commodity, and stock arenas for humans and AI agents
Competitions
open
Synth: Synthetic Price Data
CrunchDAO / Synth
Probabilistic forecasting of synthetic crypto and tokenized-equity prices with warmup and live evaluation
Competitions
open
World Cup Agent Arena
Stair AI
39-day live competition of AI agents on prediction markets with P&L and reasoning leaderboards
Competitions
open
World Cup powered by D.Energy
Myriad
Prediction-market trading and market-making with P&L and maker-volume leaderboards
Competitions
open
Agora Arena
Agora Arena
API/SDK agent leagues including live BTC trading and performance-ranked prize pools
Competitions
open
EVA Agent Arena
Next Labs
On-chain SOL dominance/trading arena with staged autonomous-agent rollout
Competitions
open
NetMind Agent Arena / Arena42
NetMind.AI
Time-limited AI-agent campaigns covering crypto and stock prediction plus other real-world challenges
Competitions
open
Reinforce.fi Challenge: Market-Action Arena
Reinforce.fi / Overnight.fi
Quant and machine-learning challenge selecting the most profitable market action from market-state data
Competitions
open
SUI AGENT Last Agent Standing Arena
SUI AGENT
On-chain AI-vs-AI trading arena on Sui; Eliza agents trade $AGENT
Competitions
open
Virtuals Arena
Virtuals Protocol / Arena
On-chain AI-agent trading arena with AI Council selection and seven-day copy-trading pot
Competitions
open
Agent Pay MERGE Hackathon 2026
MERGE
48-hour in-person hackathon for autonomous agent commerce and agent micropayments using stablecoins
Competitions
open
AGON AI Agent Arena
AGON Markets
External sports and macro prediction bots submitted through the AGON API/SDK and ranked by ELO, accuracy, and P&L
Competitions
open
AlphArena AI Trading Agent Arena
AlphArena
API-submitted stock and options trades paper-traded on live market data and ranked by return, Sharpe, and consistency
Competitions
open
Predictoor Data Farming
Ocean Protocol
AI prediction bots forecast BTC, ETH, and other crypto prices at 5-minute or 1-hour horizons on Predictoor feeds
Competitions
open
Recall AI Agent Competitions
Recall
Continuous paper, spot, and perpetual-futures AI-agent trading competitions with API or wallet execution
Competitions
open
SanDisk Leaderboard
Frontier Traders / Solana Foundation
Solana DeFi spot-trading leaderboard ranked by verified wallet volume and PnL
Competitions
open
Vietnam Quant Challenge 2026
XNOQuant / CTE FTU
Three-stage systematic trading competition using Vietnamese market data, alpha research, backtesting, portfolio optimization, and live simulation
Competitions
open
Agenthon 2026
Alphathon / SQA / CEWIT / Stony Brook University
Four-track AI-agent competition covering quant coding, forecasting, market simulation and evidence-grounded prediction
Competitions
open
DataCrunch Competition
CrunchDAO / DataCrunch
Weekly cross-sectional ranking of future returns for 3,000 liquid US equities used in a systematic market-neutral portfolio
Competitions
open
League of Algo Challenge
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
Code backtest and rank trading algorithms through six-month live paper trading, then seek real-portfolio engagement
Competitions
open
Numerai Crypto
Numerai
Own crypto market features and token-level signals ranked by originality and predictive performance
Competitions
open
WEMIX Spot Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro WEMIX spot-volume ranking challenge
Competitions
open
BNB Hack Online Edition - AI Trading Bots
BNB Chain / Solidus AI Tech
Ongoing on-chain AI and automated-trading builder track
Competitions
open
Global Quant Trading Challenge
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
Algorithm development, paper evaluation and funded real-market trading
Competitions
open
McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC) Fall 2026
McGill University / Desautels Faculty of Management
Buy-side finance case competition on pension funds, portfolio design and institutional asset management; hybrid final
Competitions
open
Sui Overflow 2026
Sui Foundation
Global online hackathon covering Agentic Web, DeFi & Payments, and DeepBook trading/liquidity
Competitions
open
DataCrunch Equity Market Neutral #2
DataCrunch / CrunchDAO
Cross-sectional ML models predicting returns of 3,000 liquid US equities for a systematic market-neutral portfolio
Competitions
open
Creek Labs AI Trading Sandbox Challenge Round 2
Creek Labs / SAIF Partners
Agent and strategy sandbox with live-capital testing pathway
Competitions
open
Liquidity Arena 2026 AI Quant Trading Competition
LiquidityTech / Kaggle
AI quant trading Kaggle competition for market prediction and liquidity/market-making style strategies
Competitions
open
Metaculus Forecasting Tournaments
Metaculus
Forecasting tournaments on AI, markets, geopolitics, biosecurity and public-interest questions
Competitions
open
Sorin AI Paper Trading Competition
Sahara AI / Sorin
AI-assisted crypto paper-trading tournament
Competitions
open
AI4Finance Open Trading Challenge
AI4Finance Foundation
Continuous FinRL + Alpaca Paper Trading strategy challenge
Competitions
open
AIcrowd AI Challenges
AIcrowd
AI, LLM, reinforcement learning, game-agent and research challenges with cash and compute prizes
Competitions
open
AIMO Prize
XTX Markets / AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
AI mathematical reasoning prize for publicly shared models reaching IMO-gold level, with progress prizes
Competitions
open
ALGOGENE Global Algo Challenge
ALGOGENE
Global algorithmic trading competitions for Python strategies on a cloud quant platform
Competitions
open
Citadel Datathons
Citadel / Citadel Securities / Correlation One
Team datathon events using large complex datasets with presentations to judges
Competitions
open
DrivenData Prize Competitions
DrivenData
Social-impact AI/data science competitions for education, climate, health, science and public-interest problems
Competitions
open
Kaggle Money Competitions
Kaggle / Google
AI/ML competitions and hackathons with money-prize filter and public leaderboards
Competitions
open
Numerai Signals
Numerai
Submit original stock market signals and stake on signal performance
Competitions
open
Numerai Tournament
Numerai
Ongoing data science tournament to predict the stock market with ML models on obfuscated financial data
Competitions
open
Quantiacs Contests
Quantiacs
Quant trading contests for futures, crypto and equity strategies using Python/backtesting workflows
Competitions
open
Tradeify World Cup Prediction Market Tournament 2026
Tradeify
Free-to-play prediction market tournament trading 2026 FIFA World Cup knockout outcomes with virtual funds
Competitions
open
Trading.com Forex Paper Trading Competition
Trading.com Markets Inc.
Monthly practice-account forex trading leaderboard ranked by ROI%
Competitions
open
Vesuvius Challenge Open Prizes
Vesuvius Challenge
Machine learning, computer vision and geometry challenge to read Herculaneum scrolls from 3D scans
Competitions
open
WorldQuant BRAIN Consultant Program
WorldQuant BRAIN
Remote alpha-signal research platform where contributors build alphas and may become paid research consultants
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WorldQuant International Quant Championship 2026
WorldQuant BRAIN
Three-stage team quantitative finance competition using BRAIN alpha simulation on historical market data
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Susquehanna Algothon 2026
UNSW FinTech Society / Susquehanna International Group
Student algorithmic-trading hackathon with risk-adjusted simulated-market strategies
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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
Competitions
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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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Quantpedia Awards 2026
Quantpedia / QuantConnect / partners
Research paper or strategy submission judged by quant/academic panel
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CFA Institute Research Challenge
CFA Institute
Team equity research, valuation, written report, and presentation
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Limex Trading Challenge
Lime FinTech, LLC
API-driven demo trading ranked by annualized Sharpe ratio or return
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Gator Quant Hacks 2026
Gator Quant Club
36-hour student quantitative-finance event with research/alpha, quantitative-puzzles, and systematic-trading tracks
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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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JSE Investment Challenge 2026
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Online simulated trading of JSE-listed shares; tertiary teams of 2-4
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QuantConnect Quant League
QuantConnect
Open-source algorithmic trading competition on QuantConnect/LEAN for live and backtested strategies
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Seeds of Agentic Future: DeFAI & DeSci
AgenticFuture.ai / Seedify
Asynchronous DeFAI and DeSci build track
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Citadel Securities Quant Invitational
Citadel Securities
Invite-only team research challenge modeling a market scenario
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Cornell Trading Competition 2026
Cornell Quant Fund
Teams of 4 compete in original trading games and cases
Competitions
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Haskayne bp Canada Trading Competition
University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business / bp Canada
RIT software trading competition using stocks, commodities, futures, derivatives and physical-goods cases
Competitions
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MyntBit Algorithmic Trading Competitions
MyntBit
Planned weekly algorithmic trading competitions, monthly championships and annual World Cup
Competitions
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ROLR $25 Million Free-To-Trade Challenge
High Roller Technologies / ROLR
Eight-week skill-based prediction challenge with weekly leaderboards and cash prizes
Competitions
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Rotman International Trading Competition 2027
Rotman School of Management / BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab
Global university teams compete on decision cases using the RIT Market Simulator
Competitions
closed
The Big Data Combine Engineered by BattleFin
BattleFin / RavenPack / Kaggle
Predict short-term stock-price movements from RavenPack news and sentiment data
Competitions
closed
The Winton Stock Market Challenge
Winton / Kaggle
Predict intra-day and end-of-day stock returns from historical performance and masked features
Competitions
closed
Two Sigma Financial Modeling Challenge
Two Sigma / Kaggle
Kaggle code competition to find predictive signal in time-varying financial instrument data
Competitions
closed
Two Sigma: Using News to Predict Stock Movements
Two Sigma
Predict ten-day market-adjusted returns from market and news data
Competitions
closed
Santander Customer Transaction Prediction
Banco Santander
Predict whether a customer will make a transaction
Competitions
closed
American Express - Default Prediction
American Express
Predict credit-default risk from anonymized customer data
Competitions
closed
Optiver - Trading at the Close
Optiver / Kaggle
Forecast U.S. stock closing-price movements
Competitions
closed
Sonic DeFAI Hackathon
Sonic Labs / DoraHacks / Hey Anon / Zerebro
Build AI-agent and DeFi projects for on-chain actions
Competitions
closed
Global AI Agents League
Fetch.ai
Build agents using Agentverse; finance is a listed domain
Competitions
closed
Autonomous Apes: AI Agent Trading Hackathon
Recall / Encode Club
Build and optimize agents for simulated trading
Competitions
closed
MITSUI&CO. Commodity Prediction Challenge
Mitsui & Co. / Kaggle
Kaggle code competition to predict commodity price movements with stable ranking performance
Competitions
closed
Rotman Portfolio Management Competition 2025-2026
Rotman School of Management / BMO Financial Group Finance Research and Trading Lab
Online team portfolio management competition using Rotman Portfolio Manager powered by StockTrak
Competitions
closed
Arbitrage Arena 2026
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore / Pravega
Build trading models and portfolio-optimization systems from historical market data
Competitions
closed
Algo-Trading 2026 - IIT Jammu
IIT Jammu / Udyamitsav
Online Python-only strategy submission evaluated in QuantConnect with virtual capital and risk limits
Competitions
closed
Quantalytics - Prometeo 2026
IIT Jodhpur / Prometeo
Develop, backtest, and evaluate a quantitative strategy; submit a research report and Python source file, then attend an offline final
Competitions
closed
CUATS Challenge - Coding Competition 2026
Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society
QuantConnect algorithm challenge judged on alpha, Sharpe ratio, profit and drawdown
Competitions
closed
Yale Undergraduate Trading Competition 2026
Yale Undergraduate Trading Competition / Hudson River Trading
Two-day simulated trading competition with sponsor-designed games and recruiting/networking
Competitions
closed
UChicago Trading Competition 2026
University of Chicago Financial Markets Program
Two-day algorithmic trading competition with automated trading case studies and sponsor networking
Competitions
closed
AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens
WEEX Labs
Global crypto AI trading-strategy hackathon
Competitions
closed
Stevens High Frequency Trading Competition 2026
Stevens Institute of Technology
Teams build Python/FIX strategies on SHIFT HFT simulation platform
Competitions
closed
Gemini Collegiate Quantitative Trading Competition
Gemini
University teams trade live Gemini exchange accounts via APIs
Competitions
closed
GWDC 2026 Pharos Prediction Market Challenge
Web3Labs / Pharos / TRON / Conflux
Build a decentralized prediction market, order-book DEX, perpetuals protocol, or other Web3 finance prototype at GWDC 2026
Competitions
closed
Traders at Michigan Spring Trading Competition 2026
Traders at Michigan
Two-day in-person competition with trading games, game theory, market-making scenarios and sponsor networking
Competitions
closed
ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026 - Uniswap v4 Agentic Finance
ETHGlobal / Uniswap Foundation
Async hackathon prize track for agent-driven financial systems
Competitions
closed
ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026 - Yellow Trading & Prediction Markets
ETHGlobal / Yellow Network
Async hackathon prize track for trading or prediction-market applications
Competitions
closed
Texas Energy Trading Case Competition 2026
University of Texas at Austin — Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center
Commodity trading case covering physical trading, logistics, risk management, Kpler data, and industry workshops
Competitions
closed
BNB Chain x YZi Labs Hack Series: Bengaluru
BNB Chain / YZi Labs
In-person Web3 hackathon with prediction market, launchpad, smart collateral and privacy tracks
Competitions
closed
Waterloo Trading Competition 2026
Waterloo Quant Club
International university trading competition hosted at University of Waterloo
Competitions
closed
MIG Quant Conference 2026
Michigan Investment Group
Quant games, workshops and networking conference
Competitions
closed
Bridgewater x Metaculus Forecasting Competition 2026
Bridgewater Associates / Metaculus
Forecast real-world macro, AI, policy, and business questions on Metaculus
Competitions
closed
Algo Trading Sprint by BYTE 2026
MAIT Delhi / BYTE
Two-day offline sprint to build a predictive model, risk logic, and autonomous agent against a live trading simulation API
Competitions
closed
Ordeflow 001
Orderflow Review Panel
48-hour online build sprint for working Polymarket bots, execution engines, signal models, allocators, or backtesting systems
Competitions
closed
Trade the Knight 2026
Rutgers Quantitative Finance Club
One-day custom low-latency exchange where entrants write autonomous Python strategies against each other and liquidity bots
Competitions
closed
2026 UBS Finance Challenge
UBS
Student team long-short equity case pairing two stocks with fundamentals valuation and an AI-assisted analysis module
Competitions
closed
AlgoTrade Hackathon 2026
AlgoTrade / xfer
24-hour simulated-market trading-bot hackathon
Competitions
closed
Market Royale 2026
BITS Pilani / IEEE
Two-day simulated commodity-market bot challenge
Competitions
closed
Optiver & Imperial Trading Academy 2026
Optiver / Imperial College London
Eight-session market-making and algorithmic trading academy ending in an Optibook competition
Competitions
closed
IMC Prosperity 4 Global Trading Challenge
IMC Trading
Five-round virtual manual and algorithmic trading challenge
Competitions
closed
Open Agents
ETHGlobal
Async Web3 AI-agent hackathon with agentic-finance and trading integrations
Competitions
closed
FinMMEval Lab 2026
FinMMEval Lab / CLEF
Multilingual financial AI benchmark with financial Q&A and daily BUY/HOLD/SELL decision-making evaluated by return, Sharpe ratio, and drawdown
Competitions
closed
Top Trader Stock Market Competition 2026
UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management
Online stock and ETF trading simulation with $1M virtual starting balance
Competitions
closed
DSCubed 2026 Kaggle Competition: Stock Market Prediction
DSCubed / University of Melbourne Data Science Student Society
One-day beginner-friendly Kaggle-style stock-market prediction competition scored by prediction score plus simulated trading profit
Competitions
closed
GRVT: Age of AI Trading
GRVT
14-day volume competition permitting AI agents, bots, APIs, and algorithmic strategies
Competitions
closed
Tradeify Grand Cup 2: The Outlaws
Tradeify Holdings Corp.
Free-entry simulated futures tournament with five-day qualifier and head-to-head bracket; personal bots allowed under firm rules
Competitions
closed
Bitget AI x Crypto Hackathon - Genesis Season 1
Bitget
AI trading-agent and trading-infrastructure hackathon with runnable demos or open-source projects
Competitions
closed
National Intelligent Quantitative Trading Challenge 2026
Hebei University of Economics and Business / Yuanda
Online simulated A-share trading using participant-built strategies in the Quantitative King app
Competitions
closed
GRVT x ELFA Agent Arena Trading Competition
GRVT / ELFA
14-day GRVT volume competition with ELFA AI-agent-assisted trading guide
Competitions
closed
PvP Agent Trading Competition - BID Protocol: Beat the House
CreatorBid / DoraHacks
Online testnet competition to build custom Node.js, ethers.js, or Python trading agents against hosted agents
Competitions
closed
BNB Hack: AI Trading Agents
BNB Chain / CoinMarketCap / Trust Wallet
Build autonomous trading agents on BSC or strategy skills from CoinMarketCap data; live PnL and panel judging
Competitions
closed
CROO Agent Hackathon
CROO Network
Thirty-day build sprint for paid callable AI agents using the CROO Agent Protocol, including DeFi and on-chain settlement tracks
Competitions
closed
MIT Pokerbots 2026
MIT Pokerbots / MIT
Autonomous pokerbot programming using game theory, probability, statistics, and ML
Competitions
closed
UC Irvine Stock Market Competition
UC Irvine CIWM / Financial Literacy Association
StockTrak simulated equities portfolio, workshops, strategy paper, presentation, and portfolio return
Competitions
closed
QuantBee 2026 (Susquehanna-sponsored)
Traders at Berkeley / Susquehanna International Group
Tournament-style student quantitative trading event
Competitions
closed
Berkeley Trading Competition 2026
Traders at Berkeley
Individual trading and quantitative research challenges
Competitions
closed
Georgetown Quant Club Trading Competition 2026
Georgetown Quant Club
One-day trading simulation with estimation, live market making, card auction and Black-Scholes rounds
Competitions
closed
Pit Trading Challenge - Quant Community x IMC 2026
Tech@IITB / Quant Community x IMC
In-person pit-style market-making competition for teams of two
Competitions
closed
2026 Market Making Game
Carnegie Mellon MSCF / CMU Quant Club
One-day in-person market-making game with six-person teams, contracts, probability and trading
Competitions
closed
Good Vibes Only: OpenClaw Edition
BNB Chain / Flap / Surge.XYZ
AI/on-chain hackathon with trading-agent tracks
Competitions
closed
lablab.ai AI Trading Agents Hackathon
lablab.ai / Kraken / Surge
Online hackathon to build AI agents that execute strategies with Kraken CLI or trustless ERC-8004 financial agents
Competitions
closed
Bitget AI Agent Strategy Trading Competition
Bitget
Autonomous AI-agent derivatives trading competition with dedicated subaccount and API execution
Competitions
closed
Convergence: A Chainlink Hackathon
Chainlink Foundation
DeFi, tokenization, CRE, AI, and autonomous-agent hackathon tracks
Competitions
closed
Market Pulse Challenge 26Q2
Metaculus
Economic and market forecasting tournament
Competitions
closed
Traders@MIT Trading Competition 2026
Traders@MIT
Two trading cases during in-person MIT competition
Competitions
closed
Agentic Ethereum
ETHGlobal / partner sponsors
Asynchronous hackathon for AI-powered DeFi assistants and skilled agents
Competitions
closed
Alpha Trading Cup 2026
Alpha Tech Lab / Monaxa
Live Expert Advisor (EA) strategy competition
Competitions
closed
ApeX AI Trading Arena
ApeX
AI perpetual-trading championship via dedicated API vaults
Competitions
closed
B@BHacks 2026 - Trading Track by Liquid
Blockchain at Berkeley / Liquid
Online hackathon prize track for trading projects
Competitions
closed
Creek Labs AI Trading Sandbox Challenge - U.S. Market
Creek Labs / SAIF Partners
Online sandbox with Bot, Agent, and Developer tracks for AI-driven U.S. market strategies and custom trading-system integrations
Competitions
closed
G-Research Crypto Forecasting Competition
G-Research / Kaggle
Machine-learning forecasting of short-term crypto returns
Competitions
closed
Jane Street Market Prediction
Jane Street / Kaggle
Train a model against future real market data
Competitions
closed
JPX Tokyo Stock Exchange Prediction
JPX Market Innovation & Research / Kaggle
Rank stock-return forecasts using Japanese market and options data
Competitions
closed
Lindner Investment Challenge
University of Cincinnati / Johnson Investment Institute
Student teams trade US equities and ETFs in a $1M paper portfolio and present an investment thesis
Competitions
closed
NinjaTrader Arena Cup 2026
NinjaTrader
Free simulated futures competition using live CME market data; three qualifier rounds and an invite-only final
Competitions
closed
Optiver Realized Volatility Prediction
Optiver / Kaggle
Forecast short-term realized volatility from high-frequency order-book data
Competitions
closed
TATTVA 2026 Algorithmic Trading Challenge
IISER Mohali / TATTVA
Teams build and deploy trading bots in a controlled market process
Competitions
closed
Tower Limestone Data Challenge
Tower Research Capital / Limestone
Annual quantitative data challenge for IIT Bombay and MIT participants
Competitions
closed
Ubiquant Market Prediction
Ubiquant Investment / Kaggle
Machine-learning models to forecast investment return rates from historical price data
Competitions
closed
Capital Power Energy Trading Competition 2026
University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business / Capital Power
Energy trading simulations with Python integration for an Algo2 case and live RIT-based trading rounds
Competitions
closed
Citadel Fixed Income and Macro Central Bank Challenge 2026
Citadel
Two-day team challenge proposing monetary policy recommendation plus fast-paced trading challenge
Competitions
closed
Citadel Securities Terminal
Citadel Securities
Online algorithmic head-to-head programming tournament
Competitions
closed
Citadel Securities Trading Invitational 2026
Citadel Securities
In-person simulated trading scenario for early undergraduates
Competitions
closed
CMU Quant Club 2026 Market Making Game
CMU Quant Club
Eight-hour in-person simulated market-making event with contracts, play cash and economic/math/trivia information rounds
Competitions
closed
DRW Crypto Market Prediction
DRW / Kaggle
Predict short-term crypto future price movements from production feature data
Competitions
closed
Hull Tactical - Market Prediction
Hull Tactical / Kaggle
Predict S&P 500 excess returns and manage tactical allocation risk
Competitions
closed
Jane Street Real-Time Market Data Forecasting
Jane Street / Kaggle
Predict financial market responders using real-world data
Competitions
closed
M6 Financial Forecasting Competition
Makridakis Open Forecasting Center / University of Nicosia / IIF
Twelve-month financial forecasting and investment decision competition over stocks and ETFs
Competitions
closed
Model to Market: The Quantitative Hack 2026
AIEngine / Syphonix
Solo AI-assisted trading competition across FX, gold, silver and crypto with paper capital and London final
Competitions
closed
Optiver Ready Trader Go
Optiver
Students build and optimize a trading algorithm for Optiver simulated market exchange
Competitions
closed
Quant Tools Hackathon
Devpost / Quant Tools Hackathon
Hackathon for quant tooling and finance-oriented software projects
Competitions
closed
QuantiHack 2026
Quantihack
Online quant competition plus in-person London finals for UK quantitative talent
Competitions
closed
UChicago Digital Assets Trading Competition 2026
University of Chicago Career Advancement / Brevan Howard
Mock digital asset portfolio and cross-exchange arbitrage simulation with Brevan Howard executives
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