Challenges
Where community work gets judged in the open — hackathon projects today, and the funded tracks below as they come online.
No challenge is open yet, and no funds have been gathered for one — the funded tracks below are in design. Hackathon winners and projects, when an event concludes, appear here.
Where this has happened so far
Photographs from the hackathons and working sessions the community has run and taken part in.
Hack Meridian · ETHGlobal Cannes · Oz City · Shiva Hack · 2025–2026
Four tracks, one rule
Research
In designOpen questions in a scientific field, judged against a published rubric.
Health
In designA class, a squad or a roster measured against each other on verified wearable metrics, not self-reports.
Career
In designA scored technical exercise — a system-design problem or a working build — reviewed against the same rubric every entrant sees.
Reputation
In designA track record built by being reviewed, not by posting volume or reach.
How a challenge works
Whoever funds a challenge sets the question — the specific problem entrants take on.
They never touch the score — the sponsor funds the question, never the score, and every entry is judged against a rubric published before anything opens.
An external programme partner holds and releases any prize end to end — never Vocaid, and entry itself is always free.
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Awards
- Best Data Story — Staging demo award — remove before prod.
- Best Research Tooling — Staging demo award — remove before prod.
Projects
Demo project — panel QA bot · Team Verifier
Staging demo project — remove before prod.
Demo project — forecast dashboard · Team Signal
Staging demo project — remove before prod.
Take part
Fund a track
A sponsor or a deeptech team can put a question behind any of the four tracks above. Nothing is running yet — the conversation starts with our partnerships team.
Talk to partnerships