Hackathon funding

If you’re planning a hackathon that expands what we can do with Dai and MakerDAO, we may be able to help.

Funding for hackathons is currently closed

Apply for funding

Eligible hackathons

• Very conservative sponsorship requirements (under $5,000)

• Located or targeted at Asia-Pacific (APAC), Latin America (LATAM), Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SEEMEA)

• Direct connection to talent and hackathon attendees (chat, forum, github, etc)

• Themes focused on governance, risk management, stability and derivatives, privacy tooling. Current hackathon challenge themes can be found under the "Hackathons" label in the Community-Development Github ↗

Apply to [e-mail]

If your hackathon meets all the above criteria, please send an email that covers the following topics:

Basics

• The name of the event

• The location of the event

• The date of the event

• The number of expected participants

• Links to event details specific to the hackathon

Event details

• The theme of the event, if any

• The amount for the prize pool

• Number of challenges/tracks

• Information about the challenges/tracks

• How the prizes will be distributed

• Number of judges, and their names

• Whether or not the winners will be promoted on social media

• Where the details of the bounty will be hosted (bounties.network, gitcoin, etc.)

• Where participants will be posting information about their hacks (eg. Devpost)

• Information about where we can find media coverage or summaries of the event and the projects after the event is over

Sponsor-specific Information

• Details about sponsorship packages and amounts

• A breakdown of what our sponsorship covers

• Whether or not you will be able to provide us with contact information of hackathon participants

• Whether or not you require us to be physically present for the hackathon

• Whether or not you require us to join as speakers, judges, or mentors

• Whether or not a sponsor table will be available for us if we are physically present

Other ways we help

As well as provide sponsorship, we can help you come up with ideas for hackathon categories and projects or participate as judges and mentors. Just ask us about this in our chat.

Community chat ↗

Development grants

Let your hackers know that they should get on our radar by filling in a development grants application. We often look to award grants to hackathon winners.

Development grants

Hackathon help

We’ve prepared a guide to help first-time hackers understand what to expect. You might want to share this with everyone taking part in your hackathon.

Guide to hacking

If you have some insight you’d like to share, feel free to add to this guide. You can find out how on our content page