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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… |
| 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… |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| Market Pulse Challenge 26Q3 | Metaculus | Prize / Competition | open | 2026-09-16 | Global / online | yes | $7,500 prize pool |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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/$50,000/$… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Injective Open Liquidity Program | Injective | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | Online | yes | 20,000 INJ current epoch 62; 20,000 INJ epoch 63 |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| Agent Pay — MERGE Hackathon 2026 | MERGE | Prize / Competition | open | Not listed | On site; Madrid | no | €25,000+ team/project prize pool |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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… |
Competitions
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Financial Modeling World Cup 2026
Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC)
Eight-stage online financial-modeling competition with case studies, rankings, and stage prizes
Competitions
open
Tickmill Trading Cup 2026
Tickmill Ltd
Real-money ROI leaderboard across forex, indices, commodities, crypto, and stocks
Competitions
open
C:\>DIR Global Agentic Regulator Hackathon
Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) / C:\>DIR
Global virtual hackathon for agentic AI prototypes in financial advice payments market infrastructure and market-manipulation oversight
Competitions
open
CME Group Trading Challenge (August 2026)
CME Group
Risk-free simulated futures trading across multiple asset classes
Competitions
open
SoAI 2026 AI Algorithmic Trading Competition
Society of Algorithmic Intelligence
AI-driven algorithmic trading strategies evaluated in a standardized simulation
Competitions
open
The Leap with TradeStation — July 2026
TradingView
Futures paper-trading contest with virtual $100,000 account and P/L leaderboard
Competitions
open
The Island USDC Trading Competition
Deribit by Coinbase and SignalPlus
Retail options and futures volume competition with solo team daily and weekly reward rounds
Competitions
open
US Financials Portfolio Challenge — week of 2026-08-03
NetMind.AI / Arena42
AI agent long-only paper portfolio of 10 US financial stocks
Competitions
open
Quant Crown — Algorithmic Investment Competition Summer 2026
Asia Quant Academy
Two-stage online quantitative investment challenge: Quant/Python/Logic MCQ followed by a Python prediction-model build
Competitions
open
ETH Lima Hackathon 2026
ETH Lima
DeFi Arbitrum financial infrastructure and dApp hackathon
Competitions
open
BUIDL_QUESTS 2026
amber.ac / OpenArena.to
Global AI-crypto startup competition covering autonomous agents sovereignty Agent Commerce and AI-native businesses
Competitions
open
Trader Arena Season 2
Questflow
Online human-vs-AI trader arena
Competitions
open
PROS Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro PROS spot-trading volume leaderboard with tiered token rewards; no strategy-code requirement
Competitions
open
World Trading Cup 2026
ATFX Global
Live-account ROI leaderboard with regional qualifiers and world finals
Competitions
open
Agent Builders Cup — Series 1
Botcamp / Hummingbot
Condor/Hummingbot AI trading-agent hackathon with a 48-hour live race across crypto venues
Competitions
open
Rising Star in Quant Finance Award — 2027
Risk.net
Single-paper quantitative-finance research judged on originality correctness relevance and applicability
Competitions
open
THE CIPHER
xPortal Equity AG
Four-week xPortal challenge using qualified spot volume referrals and weekly leaderboards
Competitions
open
All-Market Showdown 2026 (Vietnam Exclusive)
Bybit
Derivatives spot and TradFi volume and P&L competition on Bybit UTA
Competitions
open
BlackRock Applied Research Award 2026
BlackRock
PhD job-market paper in financial markets, economics, investment management or risk management
Competitions
open
Datarails AI in Finance Challenge 2026
Datarails / FinanceOS
Build a solo AI workflow app agent or simulator on a three-year Northwind Financial sample dataset
Competitions
open
VALR Perps Trading Competition: Trade the Universe
VALR
Perpetuals trading competition with dynamic USDC rewards and randomized winners
Competitions
open
Alpha Hackathon 2026
Lumiwealth / BotSpot
Autonomous systems for options, futures, commodities, crypto, and prediction markets
Competitions
open
AI-Enabled Investing Competition — September 2026
University of Chicago / Alex Cha
Student teams analyze financial news and models and build investment recommendations with AI tools
Competitions
open
QUID Spot Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro QUID spot-trading leaderboard with tiered token rewards; no strategy-code requirement
Competitions
open
JSE Investment Challenge 2026 – Public Virtual Trading Game
Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
Simulated JSE equity and ETF/ETN portfolios
Competitions
open
Liquidity Arena 2026
LiquidityTech / LTP
Live dual-track AI quantitative trading championship with sandbox and live API trading
Competitions
open
CSPR Spot Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Pro CSPR spot-trading volume leaderboard with tiered CSPR rewards; no strategy-code requirement
Competitions
open
CSPR Perpetual Futures Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken Derivatives CSPR perpetual-futures realized-PnL leaderboard with tiered CSPR rewards; no strategy-code requirement
Competitions
open
The Phyntex Showdown 2026 — Merdeka Traders Cup
Phyntex Markets
MT5 live-account trading contest ranked by percentage PnL
Competitions
open
Stock Earnings Season 2026
Bybit
US-stock spot, derivatives, TradFi and Alpha trading with points leaderboard plus daily stock-perpetual prediction
Competitions
open
ASEAN Investment Challenge 2026 - Singapore
CGS International
Live equity portfolio challenge using the UP investment platform
Competitions
open
CFA European Quant Awards 2026
CFA Societies (CFA Institute)
Quantitative finance research paper competition
Competitions
open
Reinforce.fi Challenge: Market-Action Arena
Reinforce.fi
Market-action prediction from market-state data
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August Trading Competition 2026
OQtima
MT4/MT5 live-account CFD competition ranked by Final Rate of Return
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open
Global x402 Challenge
Algorand Foundation
Competitive builder challenge for paid x402 endpoints, agentic payments, and on-chain API monetization
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open
CFA Institute Research Challenge 2026–2027 — CFA Society Istanbul Local Challenge
CFA Institute / CFA Society Istanbul
Student team public-company analysis valuation research report and presentation
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open
XAU & XAG Perps Trading Challenge 2026
Kraken
Kraken futures leaderboard for XAU and XAG perpetual contracts with USDG rewards; no strategy-code requirement
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2026 ECMI Best Paper Competition
European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) / CEPS
Original unpublished capital-markets research, including market structure, liquidity, market makers, digital assets, AI, and platform finance
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open
ETHOnline 2026
ETHGlobal
Async online hackathon with onchain finance, DeFi, trading and market-making-compatible builds
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open
Telegraph Hackathon — Season I (Hackathon 1), 2026
Telegraph Protocol
On-chain intelligence challenge covering crypto-price data, financial signals, on-chain analytics, and trading/arbitrage agents
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open
dreamDEX Algo Arena
dreamDEX / Somnia Network
On-chain spot trading competition for humans, algo traders, and dreamBots
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open
2026 Finance AI Challenge
Financial Security Institute (FSEC)
AI financial services, anomaly/fraud detection, investment matching and web-service prototype
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open
The Smart Money Era: Build the Era
BNB Chain
Agent marketplace with grid trading yield optimisation and health-factor monitoring
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open
HTX Quantitative Trading Championship #1
HTX
API spot and futures trading with trading-volume PnL and PnL-percentage leaderboards
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Market Pulse Challenge 26Q3
Metaculus
Market forecasting tournament in Economy & Business
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ETHGlobal Tokyo 2026
ETHGlobal
In-person hackathon with DeFi, onchain liquidity and crypto infrastructure
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open
GPIF Finance Awards for Students 2026-2027
Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)
Student research award on pension-fund investment, asset allocation, financial engineering, machine learning, and AI for investment
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open
INFORMS Practice Section Distinguished Practitioner Award — 2026
INFORMS Practice Section
Career-long applied analytics/OR/MS thought-leadership nomination
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open
Gemini Predictions Taker Rewards Program
Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc.
Prediction-market taker-volume rewards with daily USD rates and monthly bonuses
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2026 Asset Management Hackathon
FIAM / McGill Desautels Faculty of Management
ML/NLP/AI portfolio construction using alternative data on global stocks
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open
ADIA Lab Structural Break Open Benchmark Challenge
ADIA Lab / CrunchDAO
Code competition for structural-break detection in univariate time series with rolling quarterly out-of-sample evaluation
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Q25 Crypto Top-10 Long Contest
Quantiacs
Long-only algorithmic crypto strategy evaluated on the top-10 crypto universe
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Right! said FRED: Q3 2026 Finance and Economics Challenge
Good Judgment Open
14-question forecast tournament on FRED financial and economic time series
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Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge 2026
Bloomberg for Education
University team investment challenge using Bloomberg Terminal; strategy development and execution against Bloomberg WLS benchmark
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The Economist: The World Ahead 2026
Good Judgment Open / The Economist
Forecasting political economic market and cultural outcomes
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open
SIAM Industry Prize — 2027
SIAM
Applied mathematical sciences research with industrial impact
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open
OR/MS Tomorrow Mini Poster Competition 2026
INFORMS / OR/MS Tomorrow
One-page blind research poster submitted as a PDF
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SIAG/FME Early Career Prize 2027
SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering
Mathematical modeling of financial markets and peer-reviewed research award
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open
GLEE Competition 2026 — Games in Language-based Economic Environments
GLEE Competition / IAB Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026
Online benchmark and competition for AI agents and humans in bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion
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open
World Series of Trading (WSOT) 2026
Tradants GmbH
Open live tournament; discretionary, systematic, and fully automated strategies; global equity-growth leaderboard
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GRiddles Prize Competition 2026
G-Research
Online individual logic and mathematics puzzles
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Qminers Algo Trade Arena 2026
Qminers
24-hour autonomous algorithmic trading challenge on a simulated limit-order-book exchange
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QIE Blockchain Hackathon 3.0
QIE
Mainnet hackathon with DeFi and financial-infrastructure track
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Financial Econometrics Conference 2027 — Lancaster Financial Econometrics Prize
Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy (EMP) / Lancaster University Management School
Research paper conference with Lancaster Financial Econometrics Prize
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open
Charles H. Dow Award 2027
CMT Association
Technical analysis and quantitative financial-markets research paper award
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In the News 2026
Good Judgment Open
Weekly forecasting questions on finance, economic indicators, and economic policy
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Ben Graham Centre's 2027 International MBA Stock Picking Competition
Ivey Business School / Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing
MBA team stock research and valuation reports followed by finalist presentations
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open
Artificial Intelligence in 2026 and Beyond
Good Judgment Open
Probabilistic forecasting challenge on AI-driven economy, finance, markets and economic indicators
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USA Economics and Business Olympiad 2027
USA Economics and Business Olympiad
Individual two-round economics and business competition covering macroeconomics, finance, and investment
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open
Rotman European Trading Competition 2027
LUISS Guido Carli University
Team simulated-market trading competition using the RIT Market Simulator with electronic and outcry cases
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In the News 2027
Good Judgment Open
Weekly forecasting questions on finance, economic indicators, and economic policy
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open
POTUS Predictions
Metaculus
Public probabilistic forecasting tournament covering U.S. policy, tariffs, government outlays, manufacturing, markets, and economic impacts
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Labor Automation Tournament
Metaculus
Probabilistic forecasts on AI-driven employment, wages, occupations, productivity, and workforce outcomes
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open
Injective Open Liquidity Program
Injective
Onchain orderbook market-making incentive program with 28-day epochs and INJ rewards
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open
Allora Forge — live crypto prediction competitions
Allora Foundation
Online ML competition for BTC/USD, ETH/USD, SOL/USD and other crypto prediction topics
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open
Prizefight — Agentic Trading Competition
Prizefight
Rolling weekly agentic stock-trading seasons on dedicated Robinhood Agentic accounts; P&L by weight class
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open
Agent Trading Tournament
Kuru
Bracket tournament for AI agents in live market conditions
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open
US High-Growth Portfolio Challenge — week of 2026-08-10
NetMind.AI / Arena42
Agent-operated long-only paper portfolio of 12 US high-growth stocks
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Wilmott End-of-year Competition — Q-variance
Wilmott
Continuous-time model or simulation reproducing the Q-variance relationship in asset-price paths
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open
Hefty Hacks 2026
TechZap
Online 36-hour finance and trading hackathon covering algo/HFT market signals portfolio optimization and DeFi execution
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League of Traders — Warden Protocol
Warden Protocol
Perpetual trading leaderboard and AI Trading Terminal
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open
FISG Non-Farm Payrolls Forecast Challenge
FISG
Monthly Non-Farm Payrolls forecast challenge with accuracy tiers and leaderboard
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Gemini Predictions Liquidity Rewards Program
Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc.
Prediction-market liquidity provision via resting limit orders
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open
TradeWars Weekly Trading Contests
TradeWars
Weekly MT5 demo trading contest with automated strategies allowed and public rankings
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open
Gemini Predictions Maker Rebate Program
Gemini Predictions, Gemini Space Station, Inc.
Online prediction-market liquidity provision
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open
NexHack 2.0
NexVerse-IITM
36-hour AI hackathon with FinTech & Payments track covering payments credit scoring wealth management and inclusive banking
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Global Quant Trading Challenge
ALGOGENE FINTECH CO. LTD.
Algorithmic trading challenge with paper evaluation and funded live-capital pathway
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Next Challenge Edition #6 2026-2027
NextWise / Paris Dauphine–PSL University
Student virtual stock and ETF portfolio-management competition with individual and club rankings
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open
Polymarket Liquidity Rewards
Polymarket
Prediction-market liquidity provision via resting limit orders
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open
Recall AI Agent Paper Trading Competitions
Recall
Continuous simulated crypto spot-trading competitions for registered AI agents
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Agent Pay — MERGE Hackathon 2026
MERGE
48-hour hackathon for agent commerce and stablecoin micropayments
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open
Numerai Crypto
Numerai
Bring-your-own-data crypto market signal competition with NMR staking
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QuantFest 2026
IICPC
Three-stage quantitative challenge: probability, combinatorics and coding; in-person probability round; trading and market-making finals
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open
Agora Arena — Trading Arena
Agora Arena
Live BTC/USDT five-minute trading showdown and skill-based trading leagues
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AI4Finance Open Trading Challenge - Season 1 Pilot Quarter
AI4Finance Foundation
Online paper trading with FinRL-Trading and Alpaca Paper Trading
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open
BNB Hack: Online Edition (AI-Driven Trading on BNB Chain)
BNB Chain / Solidus AI Tech
Continuous online hackathon for AI-powered trading bots, portfolio management and on-chain execution
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open
DataCrunch Equity Market Neutral #2
CrunchDAO
Weekly cross-sectional forecast of expected returns for 3000 liquid US equities
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open
HYPE Singapore 2026: Hyperliquid Hackathon & Conference
Hype Global
Hyperliquid hackathon for trading tools bots and autonomous AI trading agents
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open
Injective Community BuyBack
Injective
Monthly INJ commitment, burn and pro-rata ecosystem revenue distribution
Competitions
open
Moomoo Student Stock Showdown 2026–2027
Moomoo Technologies Inc.
High-school U.S. stock and ETF paper-trading competition with virtual $100,000 accounts
Competitions
open
Numerai Signals
Numerai
Bring-your-own-data stock signals scored for originality and performance
Competitions
open
Numerai Tournament
Numerai
Machine-learning stock-return prediction tournament with recurring submission rounds
Competitions
open
Rotman International Trading Competition 2027
University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
University teams compete in real-time simulated market cases on the Rotman Interactive Trader platform
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open
Synth: Synthetic Price Data
CrunchDAO / Synth
Real-time probabilistic forecasting of crypto and tokenized-equity prices at 1-hour and 24-hour horizons
Competitions
open
UChicago Trading Competition 2027
University of Chicago Financial Markets Program
Team algorithmic trading competition with simulated cases including market making options and time-series analysis
Competitions
open
Virtuals Protocol AI Agent Arena
Virtuals Protocol
AI-agent leaderboard trading Hyperliquid perpetuals and trade.xyz HIP-3 assets
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XRPLiquid
Botcamp / Hummingbot
Rolling XRP Ledger liquidity program for AMM liquidity providers and automated Hummingbot market makers
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Algothon 2026
UNSW FinTech Society / Susquehanna International Group
Multi-round simulated-market algorithmic trading challenge with risk-adjusted scoring
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ACM Student Research Competition — ICSE 2027
ACM / ICSE 2027
800-word research abstract poster round and presentation round at ICSE 2027
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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
Undergraduate mathematics research paper award
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SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering Conference Paper Prize — 2027
SIAM
Student/postdoc financial mathematics paper presented at the 2027 SIAM FME Conference
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SIAM Student Paper Prize — 2027 award
SIAM
Nominated student paper accepted by a SIAM journal; nomination letter CV and paper PDF
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closed
International Quant Championship 2026
WorldQuant
Team alpha-model competition using WorldQuant BRAIN simulated equity positions
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