Every week I check Devpost, Superteam Earn and GitHub/Algora bounties for open prize money. Here are the biggest crypto and AI dev hackathons, bounties and grants still open as of mid-October 2026. Always check eligibility and payout terms on the source page.
Big-ticket hackathons
| Event | Prize pool | Window |
|---|---|---|
| Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026 | $1,000,000 | until Nov 18 |
| Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon | $138,000 | until Oct 23 |
| PayPal AI Hackathon | $67,500 | until Nov 12 |
| Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon | $50,000 | until Oct 30 |
| Life After Code (GitLab) | $45,000 | until Oct 27 |
| AWS CDS Agentic AI Partner Hackathon | $40,000 | until Oct 28 |
| Qloo Agentic Hackathon | $25,000 | until Oct 30 |
| OpenCV AI Competition 2026 (AWS) | $20,250 | until Oct 27 |
| EurekaDev 2026 | $19,122 | until Oct 20 |
Crypto bounties and grants (solo-friendly)
- Vaultline Security Audit Grants for Colosseum projects: up to 4,000 USDC each (about $40K total). Closes Oct 31.
- Superteam Earn also lists many smaller Solana bounties ($200 to $2K). These are good for a weekend.
How I track these
I got tired of missing deadlines, so I wrote a small Python scraper. Each day it pulls Devpost, Superteam Earn and Algora GitHub bounties and normalizes them into one JSON feed with these fields: prize in USD, deadline, effort estimate, and whether solo builders can enter. It publishes a static site, so the whole thing costs $0 to run.
The full filterable list (about 70 live listings, roughly $2.1M in prizes) is free and needs no signup: https://moneyupforgrabs.vercel.app
Which sources am I missing? ETHGlobal, Gitcoin and DoraHacks are next on my list. Drop others in the comments.
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