5 months ago

Winners Announced and What's Next!

Hi everyone,

After 6 exciting weeks, over 15 expert sessions, workshops and presentations, more than 2000 participants, and numerous community meetups across the world - from Vietnam to Texas - the Polkadot Builder Party hackathon is over!

We would like to thank everyone for participating, for the discussions, and for building. It was great to see all the creative projects and ideas from the community, and it was tough for the judges to decide!

Let's give a shoutout to our main prize winners!

Build a Blockchain

1st Prize: Agora

2nd Prize: Polka Blue

3rd Prize: Era and Cloak

User-centric Apps

1st Prize: Nani

2nd Prize: Chopdot

3rd Prize: Ocean Fin and TravelID 2.0

Polkadot Tinkerers

1st Prize: Fangorn

2nd Prize: Ants

3rd Prize: IVF and Polkashield

Join us on our livestream (Polkadot Youtube Channel) on Wednesday, December 10th at 12:30 UTC, where we will talk more about your submissions, winning projects, and next steps.

What's next?

We invite all of you to take part in our next hackathon in Q1 2026 - this time we will only focus on smart contracts on Polkadot.

Build with Solidity, ink!, pure Rust, PolkaVM, native precompiles - and let's deliver even more resilient apps.

We'll share more details soon. Until then, keep building and have a happy new year!

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.