Not for beginners. For the top 100 makers at Berkeley. If you make stuff happen, apply! Prizes are from top sponsors.
Form teams before hackathon. If you get in the rest of your team will be auto accepted.
Judges
Saarth Shah
Saarth Shah is the founder and CEO of Sixtyfour, a YC backed startup building AI research agents and a data orchestration platform that runs large scale people and company intelligence workflows for sales, recruiting, and marketing.
Revealed Oct 7th
This judge will also be awesome.
Revealed Oct 8th
This judge will also be equally as awesome as the previous two.
Sponsors
EigenLayer
Supporting builders from idea to scale, empowering founders to move fast.
Polymarket
Supporting builders from idea to scale, empowering founders to move fast.
Merit Systems
Supporting builders from idea to scale, empowering founders to move fast.
NfX
Supporting builders from idea to scale, empowering founders to move fast.
Anthropic
Pushing the boundaries of applied AI and developer tooling. Details to follow.
Cursor
Leading the frontier in AI safety and aligned model research. Full reveal coming soon.
Hyperbolic
Supporting builders from idea to scale, empowering founders to move fast.
Interaction Co Ca
Supporting builders from idea to scale, empowering founders to move fast.
a16z
Supporting builders from idea to scale, empowering founders to move fast.
🏆Tracks🏆
consumer
Consumer apps that delight users and grow fast.
- Demonstrate clear user value and retention loop
- Show a working prototype with at least one core flow
Sponsored by: merit systems
prediction markets
Market-driven products for forecasting and information discovery.
- Functional market mechanics (markets, liquidity, resolution)
- Demonstrate real or simulated activity and outcomes
Sponsored by: polymarket
verifiable agents/systems
Agents/systems with transparent, verifiable execution or proofs.
- Demonstrate verifiability (proofs, attestations, or audits)
- Quantify reliability, reproducibility, or trust improvements
Sponsored by: eigenlayer
best product
Overall best product: polish, usefulness, and execution.
- High-quality UX with a smooth end-to-end demo
- Clear articulation of impact and who benefits
Sponsored by: anthropic credits, a16z prize
benefits while you hack
Perks and credits to accelerate your build during the hack.
- Integrate at least one provided benefit into your workflow
- Show how the benefit concretely improved velocity or quality
Sponsored by: anthropic api credits, cursor model credits, poke at 10$ a month for brainstorming, hyperbolic compute credits