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Compete. Win. Claim the Prize.

Discover global hackathons & case competitions, find high-caliber teammates with AI skill
matching, and claim rewards instantly through pre-funded on-chain smart escrow.

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$3.4M+Secured in Smart Escrow
42,000+Active Global Builders
100%On-Time Payout Record
< 24hAverage Winner Settlement

Platform lifecycle engine

1. Discover

Search curated, pre-funded events

2. Team Up

AI matching for your preferred skills

3. Compete

Give your 100% best effort

4. Submit

Immutable on-chain timestamps

5. Win

Check out the announcement board

6. Claim Prize

Instant disbursement & soulbound NFT

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Featured Competitions

Browse high-stakes challenges backed with verified, pre-locked prize pools.

OpenAI & Cobalt Registration Open
AI / LLMs15 days left

Autonomous Agents Global Hackathon 2025

Architect and benchmark self-orchestrating, recursive AI agents capable of external tool execution, autonomous financial settlements, and trust-minimized multi-agent consensus. Compete with machine learning engineers and systems architects across the globe.

1,240 participants · 280 teams

Prize vault

$75,000 USDC

Formation

1–5 members
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Arbitrum & Consensys Registration Open
Hackathon15 days left

NextGen DeFi UX & Account Abstraction

Redesign smart contract interactions using ERC-4337, session keys, and frictionless fiat-to-yield ramps.

890 participants · 195 teams

Prize vault

$75,000 USDC

Formation

1–5 members
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MIT Energy Initiative Closing Soon
Hardware & Climate4 days left

BioTech Clean Energy Innovation Cup

Accelerate microbial fuel cell simulation, catalytic carbon capture materials, and edge sensor firmware.

620 participants · 140 teams

Prize vault

$75,000 USDC

Formation

1–5 members
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Institutional Escrow Protocol

Know your prize is ready before you write a single line of code.

Traditional competitions leave winners waiting months with broken promises, arbitrary rubric shifts, and bureaucratic delays. On Cobalt Protocol, every organizer deposits the full prize pool into autonomous escrow before registration ever opens.

  • Zero Payout Delays

    Prize funds are disbursed automatically within seconds of judge consensus finalization.

  • Cryptographically Verifiable Credentials

    Each winner receives an on-chain soulbound badge signed by the competition organizers.

  • Transparent Organizer Track Records

    Public reputation score cards based on historical event completion and community feedback.

Settlement Contract

1
Prize Pool Secured

Organizer deposits $50,000 into multi-sig escrow

Verified
2
Competition Closes

Submissions lock irrevocably at deadline epoch

Immutable
3
Jury Consensus Scoring

Decentralized judges submit cryptographic tallies

Consensus
4
Instant Smart Claim

Direct smart-contract release to winner wallets

Immediate

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01

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02

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03

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