Just announced: Hackathon prize pool! 💰

With the hackathon just 8 DAYS AWAY, we are beyond excited to announce our prizes, community mentor program, and give you a little teaser of what's to come.

But first, thank you to everyone who joined our livestream yesterday for some fresh hackathon knowledge. Missed it? Catch up by watching the recording here.

Curious about the prize pool?

While the full list hasn't been revealed just yet, there’s over 50 awards to be given. Here’s an idea of what you can expect:

• 1st Place ($100k): The most exceptional project of the hackathon. This winner knocked it out of the park across every judging criteria — impact, creativity, technical build, and design polish.

• 2nd–5th Place ($75k-$22k): Incredible projects that delivered powerful ideas and beautiful execution. These teams showed excellence in both innovation and craft.

• 6th–10th Place ($20k-$10k): Strong contenders that built useful, well-designed applications with impressive technical implementation. These projects stood out from thousands of entries.

• Regional-specific $10k prizes for AMER, APAC, and EMEA.

• Additional bonus prizes for categories like Most Viral Project, Most Likely to Get Funded, Most Beautiful UI, and Uniquely Useful Tool.
  

  
  

Challenger Prizes Incoming…

In addition to our global and bonus awards, we’re teaming up with some very special partners to launch exclusive challenge tracks — each with $25,000 up for grabs. The best part? This is open to all participants with no extra signup needed. Official challenges will be revealed soon. Keep your eyes on the announcements, these may be the most fun (and unexpected) ways to win.

Builder Pack Coming Soon

Each participant will be receiving a hackathon-exclusive Builder Pack full of helpful tools in the coming days. AWS credits? Bonus tokens? You’ll see soon 👀

The hype is real, get to a meetup

Meetups are kicking off all around the world, from LA to Vancouver, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Egypt, Taiwan, India, South Africa…find a meetup near you to find your team, ask questions, network, and meet others like you who are gearing up to make something amazing.

Interested in becoming a community mentor to support the hackathon? You’ll:

• Earn the Bolt Mentor badge on Contra

• Work directly with the Bolt team

• Get tapped for future freelance/full-time roles

• Grow your presence in one of tech’s fastest-growing communities

Want to create content instead? Become a Bolt.new creator — learn more here.

If for some reason you haven’t registered for the hackathon yet, you still have just a bit of time, so don’t delay. Simply by participating, you’ll be part of our Guinness World Record attempt for the world’s largest hackathon, and all this cool stuff you’re hearing about.