Solana Frontier
More than 10,000 builders from 150+ countries submitted 2,857 projects. CrowdBrain won the Grand Champion award for its robotics DePIN.
Hackathon archive · 2020–2026
A history of Solana hackathons
Explore the early online hackathons that brought Solana builders together, then see where the community is building today.
Building now?
Find the next hackathon.
Discover upcoming events, active bounties, and community themes on the dedicated hackathons site.
A builder tradition
Where ideas became projects.
Since 2020, Solana's online hackathons have given builders around the world a place to form teams, test ideas, and launch projects. Follow the completed events and revisit the winners where a Solana news recap is available.
2020–2026
Past hackathons
Browse the events from newest to earliest. Cards link to Solana news recaps where available.
2026
2025
Solana Cypherpunk
Builders submitted 1,576 projects across consumer apps, DeFi, infrastructure, stablecoins, and RWAs. Solana hardware wallet Unruggable took the Grand Champion prize.
Solana Breakout
The 11th Solana Foundation hackathon drew 1,412 final projects from builders in 140+ countries. Decentralized storage network TapeDrive was named Grand Champion.
2024
2023
2022
2021
Building now?
Find the next hackathon.
Discover upcoming events, active bounties, and community themes on the dedicated hackathons site.