Participants will work in teams to prototype solutions that could define how we live, learn, heal, and connect in an age of sentient technology. From adaptive learning systems to empathetic care networks, from regenerative sustainability tools to mind-body optimization platforms.
Prizes
DevTools - Main Track
1st Place: $2000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd Place: $1000
3rd Place: $500
Healthcare - Main Track
1st Place: $2000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd Place: $1000
3rd Place: $500
Education - Main Track
1st place: $2,000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd place: $1,000
3rd place: $500
General - Main Track
1st place: $2,000 + MLH Winner Pins
2nd place: $1,000
3rd place: $500
The Token Company - Track 1: Alternative Compression Model
1st Place: $1000 + Claude Max 6-month subscriptions
2nd Place: $500 + Claude Max 6-month subscriptions
3rd Place: $500 + Claude Max 6-month subscriptions
The Token Company - Track 2: Innovative Application
1st Place: $1000 + Claude Pro 6-month subscriptions
2nd Place: $500 + Claude Pro 6-month subscriptions
3rd Place: $500 + Claude Pro 6-month subscriptions
Polymarket - Sponsor Track
1st Place: $1250 cash + Apple Airpod Maxes for all
2nd Place: $750 + Internship Interview
3rd Place: $500 + Internship Interview
Kairo - Sponsor Track
1st Place: Apple Watches + Interview Internship + $1000 Kairo Tokens
2nd Place: Nintendo Game Boy + Internship Interview + $1000 Kairo Tokens
3rd Place: Internship Interview + $1000 Kairo Tokens
LiveKit - Sponsor Track
โ1st Place: $750 and Keychron Q3 Max for team mates.
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250
Honorable Mentions: LiveKit-branded Owala water bottles.
Arize - Sponsor Track
Seda - Sponsor Track
1st Most Points Team: $1,000
2nd Most Points Team: $750
Best Debate/Challenge Thread: $250
Most Novel Post: $250
Deepest Researched Chain: $250
Wood Wilde AI - Sponsor Track
1st Place: $750
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250
DevSwarm - Sponsor Track
1st Place: $1,000 + Interview at DevSwarm to join the core product team
2nd Place: $500 + 1-year subscription to an AI coding tool of your choice
3rd Place: $500 + LOFREE Flow 2 84 keyboard or 1-year subscription to an AI coding tool of your choice
All participants: Free Student Plan + invite to the DevSwarm GTM Internship Program
Overshoot - Sponsor Track
Prize Pool: Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, Times Square billboard feature, and Hinge+ subscription and Clash Royale pass for one year.
First place gets first pick, second gets second, and third gets third.
TRAE (ByteDance) - Sponsor Track
1st place: $1000
2nd place: $500
3rd place: $500
Wispr Flow - Add-on Track
1st Place: 1 year free of Wispr Flow Pro, a unique Wispr key, and Wispr swag
LeanMCP - Add-on Track
1st Place: Includes LeanMCP credits (usable across OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs) + Internship and New Grad interviews
2nd Place: Includes LeanMCP credits (usable across OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs) + Internship and New Grad interviews
3rd Place: Includes LeanMCP credits (usable across OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs) + Internship and New Grad interviews
Best UI/UX - Add-on Track
1st place: $1000
Best Technical Difficulty - Add-on Track
1st place: $1000
Most Impactful - Add-on Track
1st place: $1000
Best Solo Hacker - Add-on Track
1st place: $1000
Google Gemini - Add-on Track - MLH
Best Use of Google Gemini API
1st Place: Google Swag Kits
ElevenLabs - Add-on Track - MLH
1st Place: Beats Wireless Earbuds + 6 months of the Scale tier ($330/month value) + Winning project will be featured on the ElevenLabs Showcase.
Solana - Add-on Track - MLH
Best Use of Solana
1st Place: Ledger Nano S Plus
DigitalOcean - Add-on Track - MLH
Best Use of DigitalOcean
1st Place: Retro Wireless Mouse
MongoDB - Add-on Track - MLH
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
1st Place: M5GO IoT Starter Kit
.Tech - Add-on Track - MLH
Best .Tech Domain Name
1st Place: Desktop Microphone + a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years!
Presage - Add-on Track - MLH
Best Use of Presage
1st Place: SenseCAP Watcher + Presage Perks
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Ade Omitowoju
Executive Director at JP Morgan
Alex Denusek
Akash Thakur
YC
Akshat Prakash
Cofounder of CAMB.AI
Akshay Patel
CMU President of Traders
Ali Teshnizi
Founder/Stanford
Alykhan Kora
ex-founder
Ananya Singhal
M&T and Google
Anir Prativadi
YC
Arjun Nargowala
Aryan Sawhney
YC
Bryan Hong
YC
Damian Chng
YC
Daniel Kathein
YC
Daniel Martinez
YC
Eldaniz Babayev
Neuronav (in the Residency)
Erik Vank
YC
Ethan Nlai
Eunice Lai
Ex CMO Series
Fatimah Hussain
George Kalangi
Apple
Jefferson Ding
Clado
Jerry Zhang
YC Founder
Justin Wu
CMU AI Club
Mohan Sankaran
Musa Aqeel
YC
Neha Suresh
YC Founder
Nick Srivastava
Nikhil Devaraj
YC
Philip Ho
YC
Pierre-Louise Soulie
Founder of Fable Engineering
Pietro Demicheli
YC
Ramanpreet
Rushil Saini
Sai Mandhan
Saksham Sood
Cornell/Console
Shaheer Sandhu
Susa
Shamus Madan
Theo Michel
YC founding engineer / judged Calhacks
Tiger Zhang
Antler Founder
Tingyu Su
CMU alum
Toms Ce
Founder of Roam
Uma Venugopal
Prev judge at HackMIT and Berkeley Hackathon
Vatsal Shah
YC
Vivek Alamuri
Waterloo content creator
Vivek Isukapalli
YC
Elly Peng
Youssef
Genesis Fund
Luis Gaspar Schroeder
Founding Member of Technical Staff at Universal AGI
Chetan Gautam
Oliver
V11
Otso
The Token Company
Ahmed
Openai
Ethan Ng
Jack Mcclelland
Afore
Judging Criteria
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Dev Tools - General Track
Ship a developer tool that saves time, reduces mistakes, or improves observability; something youโd genuinely want in your own workflow. -
Healthcare - General Track
Build a solution that improves healthcare experiences by reducing admin burden, improving coordination, or helping people navigate care without requiring medical diagnosis. -
Education - General Track
Create a tool that improves learning outcomes by making education more personalized, accessible, and engaging for students, educators, or self-learners. -
General Track
Build a product that meaningfully improves a real-world workflow for students, creators, or communities in under 48 hours. Prioritize usefulness, clarity, and a tight demo over breadth. -
The Token Company Track
Category 1: Alternative Compression ModelโBuild the most innovative LLM input compression model or algorithm. Category 2: Innovative Application for CompressionโBuild the most creative application using The Token Companyโs bear-1 compression model. -
Polymarket Track
Design and build advanced trading tools for Polymarket that help users better understand, visualize, and manage risk across time, price, and probability. -
LiveKit Track
Use our open-source framework and cloud services to build an agent that embeds into your application (or that your application is built around). -
Kairo Track
Build a blockchain-based application, protocol, or developer tool using Kairo. -
Arize Track
Bring Arize into the mix to help understand what your agent is doing and why, and then use our prompt playground or experiments to get your AI agent from โsort of worksโ to โalways works.โ -
Seda Track
Participants will come together, form teams, and research anything they are interested in or actively working on using the Seda Deep Research Engine. Teams will then post their discoveries to the Seda social media platform. -
Wood Wide AI Track
Build a numeric decision workflow using Wood Wide AI. Using Wood Wide APIs, participants are asked to build an application that reasons over realistic structured data and supports a clear, real-world decision that a person or system would actually make. -
DevSwarm Track
Use DevSwarm to build your NexHacks project. Thatโs it. Download DevSwarm and build your project end to end. Run multiple AI coding assistants in parallel on isolated branches. Ship quality code in half the time and credits. -
Overshoot Track
Participants are encouraged to use their creativity to build anything they are excited aboutโwhether thatโs a UFC live commentator, an AI that watches your pet, or an assistant that monitors your screen while you study. -
LeanMCP Track
Your challenge is to solve a real-world problem using MCP and deploy the MCP on the LeanMCP platform. Participants are encouraged to use the LeanMCP SDK to build their solution. -
Wispr Flow Track
Participants are encouraged to build projects that incorporate speech-to-text technology using Wispr Flow. -
ElevenLabs Track
Build an innovative application that leverages ElevenLabsโ voice AI technology to solve a real problem or create a compelling user experience. Your project should demonstrate creative and effective use of our technology.




































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