Research, build, and pitch your wildest crypto idea to a panel of industry leaders. Seasoned dev or first hackathon, there’s a place for you here.
Online Nov 13–20 · Finals Nov 21 at UT Austin
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Every project enters exactly one main track. Bounties are open to any track that meets their requirements.
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Give AI agents wallets, budgets, and guardrails so they can pay for APIs, data, and compute.
New financial primitives (exchanges, lending, yield, payments) that compose with what already exists.
$5 🍕
PayPayments, social, gaming, and creator tools where the crypto is invisible and the app just works.
Enter one main track, then add one chain award and any bounties. Every team is also in the running for Official Winner.
Track prizes
Awarded separately in each of the three main tracks.
Track Winner
Chosen by the UBC team in each track.
Chain award · optional, pick one
Best use of Solana
$1,500
per track
Chosen by Solana. For projects built on Solana (devnet is fine).
Best use of Arc
$1,000
per track
Chosen by Circle. For projects built on Arc, Circle's stablecoin-focused Layer-1 (testnet is fine).
Official UBC 2026 Hackathon Winner
Chosen by the UBC team from every submission, across all tracks. 1st place also gets 3 months of ElevenLabs Pro per member.
Enter as many as you qualify for. Each is judged by the sponsor and a UBC team representative.
1st $2,500 · 2nd $1,000 · 3rd $500, for projects built on Gemini's prediction market APIs.
For projects that use QuickNode Streams as a core data source.
ElevenLabs Scale for each member, for projects where voice or audio is central.
Grok BotA mechanical keyboard per member plus swag, for projects where Grok Bot does real work.
For every complete submission
Participation perks
Every team with a complete, working submission gets these.
1 month of CreatorA $49/mo plan*
X Premium (Cursor, Grok, X, and more)** For up to 300 participants.
One project can win across categories and take home several prizes.
$22,000+
In cash prizes, plus sponsor perks
A DeFi prediction market built on Solana with Gemini’s API could win all four of these.
1st overall
$2,500
DeFi Track Winner
$2,000
Best use of Solana
$1,500
Gemini bounty, 1st
$2,500
One team takes home
$8,500
Build from anywhere for a week, then bring it to Austin. Here’s how it looked at MBC ’25.
Nov 12
Kickoff call
6 PM CST · tracks and Q&A with sponsors
RSVP on LumaNov 13
Hacking starts
12 PM CST · build from anywhere
Nov 16–19
Workshops
Nightly office hours with sponsor engineers
Full scheduleNov 20
Submit
12 PM CST on Devpost · finalists told by midnight
Nov 21
Finals at UBC
Up to 13 teams pitch live in Austin
Pick your track, find a team (or go solo), and start building on Nov 13. Questions? Ask in the Telegram or drop into office hours.
