Tracks
AI & Agents
Total Prize Pool
$40,000
This track challenges builders to explore the fusion of AI-driven agents with decentralized infrastructure by creating marketplaces, coordination layers, and tools where autonomous actors can think, transact, and collaborate—leveraging Hedera’s fast, low-cost microtransactions and secure consensus to unlock the rise of transparent, autonomous economies.
Prize Eligibility Rule
You may submit to only one of the following options:
1 main track (no bounty).
1 main track + 1 bounty.
1 bounty only (no main track).
$18,500
$13,500
$8,000
DeFi & Tokenization
Total Prize Pool
$40,000
This track challenges builders to push DeFi beyond standalone protocols by creating interoperable, composable systems—ranging from cross-chain bridges and synthetic assets to tokenized real-world assets and programmable payment rails—leveraging Hedera’s high throughput, low fees, and secure consensus to shape the next generation of decentralized finance.
$18,500
$13,500
$8,000
Sustainability
Total Prize Pool
$40,000
This track empowers builders to create financial systems that promote ecological and social impact—developing incentive mechanisms, on-chain verification tools, community-driven models, and marketplaces that reward regeneration and channel value back to the planet and society—leveraging Hedera’s low-carbon, energy-efficient network to build economies that give more than they take.
$18,500
$13,500
$8,000
Open Track
Total Prize Pool
$40,000
This track invites visionaries to experiment, remix, and innovate with bold ideas that don’t fit traditional categories—building verifiable healthcare systems, transparent supply chains, efficient logistics frameworks, or entirely new DLT use cases—while leveraging Hedera’s efficiency and reliability as a sandbox for solutions that could reshape industries or create new ones.
Extra money for side quest/ prize winners for problem statements.
$18,500
$13,500
$8,000
Legacy Builders
Total Prize Pool
$40,000
For returning participants from past Hedera Hackathons, including Origins, to build on previous ideas or apply their experience to new concepts. This track is for deeper exploration, refinement, or reinvention. Eligibility requires prior participation in a Hedera Hackathon, with improvements made during the Apex period.
$18,500
$13,500
$8,000
Bounty
Utilize the HOL Standards SDK, Official Skill or Hashnet MCP Server to register your Agent. Ensure others can reach your agent via HCS-10, A2A, XMTP or MCP. Ensure users can chat with your agent using natural language and interface with your Apex Hackathon Decentralized Application.
Reward Pool
$8,000
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Participants are challenged to design and implement an MLAT algorithm that determines aircraft positions without relying on broadcast location data, using only Mode-S messages collected from geographically distributed receivers. The system must consume live aviation data from peers on the Neuron network via 4DSky and its SDK, discoverable through Hedera-based peer discovery, and fuse time-correlated observations from multiple sensors to estimate aircraft location.
Reward Pool
$8,000
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DeFi vaults today are efficient but "reactive." They rely on static parameters or simple keepers to harvest rewards and rebalance liquidity ranges. They cannot anticipate market volatility, digest news, or adapt strategies based on off-chain context. We want you to build an Intelligent Keeper Agent using the Hedera Agent Kit. This agent should not just execute transactions but make decisions. By integrating external data (prices, volatility, sentiment) via RAG or Oracle tools, your agent should autonomously interact with Bonzo Vault contracts to maximize returns while minimizing risk for depositors.
Reward Pool
$8,000
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Design and implement a secure key management solution using AWS KMS that enables developers to safely manage cryptographic keys while maintaining compliance and auditability.
Reward Pool
$8,000
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Side Quest
Ask-Mentor-Anything Challenge
Total Prize Pool
$2,000
Prize Eligibility Rule
First 50 registered participants to submit will receive USD $40.
Submit between Feb 17 – Mar 23, 11:59PM ET
Open to individual participants only
Must be a registered Apex hackathon participant:
How to participate?
1. Join the AMA using your StackUp username. Using any other name will disqualify you.
2. Submit at least one question through this form and provide your StackUp username correctly https://go.hellofuturehackathon.dev/apex-AMA
3. Talk to at least one mentor during the AMA or office hours, converse with a mentor and record this interaction in the Side Quest Form. This will be verified by the Organising Team. Failure to do so will disqualify you.
SUBMIT HERE