Non-custodial real world NFC card peer to peer payments based on PoS terminals.
$15,997 · Aave Grants DAO · 🥇 Aave — Best Use of GHO · +8 more
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Polygon
Also appeared as BUIDL IT, Matic, Matic Network, Polygon - MATIC 💜, Polygon Studios, Polygon Technology, buidlit
Prizes on Devfolio and ETHGlobal
Polygon Labs is a Web3 software company developing Polygon Proof-of-Stake network, the premiere blockchain for payments and RWAs, and Agglayer, a protocol to connect any blockchain or app for a unified cross-chain experience.
- Prize money awarded
- $480,314
- Prizes
- 947
- Winning projects
- 931
- Hackathons
- 54
- Largest prize
- $10,000
- Active
- 2020–2025
What they reward
Tech their winners favour
Share of Polygon's winners using it, against all entries at the same hackathons.
Recurring prizes
Tracks offered at more than one hackathon.
- Polygon10 hackathons · about $15,576 · last 2023
- Open Track5 hackathons · about $1,880 · last 2022
- Polygon Track3 hackathons · about $6,800 · last 2025
- Prize Pool3 hackathons · about $8,667 · last 2022
- Best AI + Onchain App on Polygon2 hackathons · about $4,000 · last 2024
- Best use of Polygon ID to preserve user privacy2 hackathons · about $3,750 · last 2023
- Polygon zkEVM DeFi Challenge2 hackathons · about $5,000 · last 2023
- Ethereum + Polygon Track2 hackathons · about $200 · last 2023
Hackathons
- Buenos Aires Nov 21–23, 2025$10KGold5$10K
- New Delhi Sep 26–28, 2025$10KGold5$10K
- Taipei Apr 4–6, 2025$10KGold5$10K
- DeFy25 Jan 10–15, 2025$200–0–
- ETHIndia 2024 Dec 6–8, 2024$10K–6$10K
- Bangkok Nov 15–17, 2024$20KPresenter15$20K
- San Francisco Oct 18–20, 2024$20KPresenter16$20K
- CryptoShield Hackathon Sep 9–11, 2024$200–0–
- Brussels Jul 12–14, 2024$20KPresenter16$20K
- ETHPrague 2024 May 31 – Jun 2, 2024$5K–2$2K
- ZK Hack Kraków May 17–19, 2024$3K–1$2
- ETHMumbai Mar 29–31, 2024$2.5K–4$2.5K
- ETHDenver 2024 Feb 23 – Mar 2, 2024$17.5K–2$5K
- ETHIndia 2023 Dec 8–10, 2023$20K–17$20K
- ETHIndia 2023 Dec 8–10, 2023$20KPresenter17$20K
- Istanbul Nov 17–19, 2023$20KPresenter8$20K
- ZK Hack Istanbul Nov 10–12, 2023$5.2K–5$5.2K
- ETHOnline 2023 Oct 6–27, 2023$10KPillar10$10K
- New York Sep 22–24, 2023$20KPresenter14$20K
- Paris Jul 21–23, 2023$20KPresenter18$20K
- Waterloo Jun 23–25, 2023$10K–26$10.4K
- Lisbon May 12–14, 2023$20K–46$20.5K
- Tokyo Apr 14–16, 2023$20K–135$34.7K
- Scaling Ethereum 2023 Mar 10–31, 2023$20K–8$20K
- Web3 init Mar 3 – Apr 3, 2023$350–1$200
- Ur-Hackathon 2.0 Feb 17 – Mar 5, 2023$180–0–
- ETHforAll Feb 4–19, 2023$5K–5$5K
- LNMHacks 5.0 Jan 27–29, 2023$350–1$200
- ETHIndia 2022 Dec 2–4, 2022$20K–20$20K
- ETHIndia 2022 Dec 2–4, 2022––20–
- ETHSanFrancisco 2022 Nov 4–6, 2022––10–
- ETHBogotá Oct 7–9, 2022––68–
- ETHOnline 2022 Sep 2–28, 2022––11–
- Unfold 2022 Aug 26–28, 2022$10K–10$8K
- ETHMexico Aug 19–21, 2022––20–
- ETHSeoul Aug 5–13, 2022$10K–5$10K
- Metabolism Aug 4–10, 2022––13–
- HackFS 2022 Jul 8–29, 2022––8–
- ETHNewYork 2022 Jun 24–26, 2022––14–
- ETHAmsterdam Apr 22–24, 2022––4–
- LFGrow Mar 18–30, 2022––8–
- BuildQuest Mar 4–16, 2022––2–
- ETHernals Feb 25 – Apr 3, 2022$10K–18$9.3K
- Road to Web3 Feb 3–8, 2022––206–
- NFTHack 2022 Jan 14–16, 2022––6–
- BUIDL IT Nov 19 – Dec 15, 2021$100KOrganizer59$100K
- ETHOnline 2021 Sep 17 – Oct 14, 2021––3–
- HackFS 2021 Jul 30 – Aug 20, 2021––3–
- ETHOdyssey Jul 2 – Aug 9, 2021$5K–7$5K
- EtherPunk 2021 Jan 22 – Feb 28, 2021$4K–7$3K
- ETHIndia Online: Dapp Jedi Aug 8 – Sep 10, 2020$3K–4$3K
- ETHIndia Online: Chain Runner May 22 – Jun 21, 2020$1.4K–6$1.4K
- Money Legos Mar 31 – Apr 30, 2020$2.5K–5$2.5K
- ETHIndia Online Jan 21 – Feb 29, 2020$2.5K–6$2.5K
Winners
All 931 winning projects →
Cross Chain NFT Bridge For Ethereum <-> Polygon <->BSC <-> Other EVM Compatible Chains😲.
$15,500 · Wormhole · Most Innovative Crosschain Applications - Winner · +3 more
ZKredentials: Decentralized, trustless resume verification for anon devs. Powered by zk-SNARKs, Ethereum & IPFS. Showcase skills, maintain privacy, & prove expertise in a secure ecosystem. Join our mission to revolutionize talent discovery & validation!
$13,760 · Gnosis Chain · 🥇 Gnosis Chain — Best Use · +6 more
NFT Marketplace in an interactive 3D experience
$13,000 · Polygon · 🥇 1st Place · +1 more
HODL your Horses! Own your A-Game like never before. Each win can mint an NFT and tell the story of your triumph for the next eternity!!!
$12,000 · StackOS · First Prize · +1 more
Everything needed to accept crypto payments. Hosted payment pages, Webhook Integration, support for recurring payments with smart invoices, support for one-time charges and best in class security.
$12,000 · Moralis · Winner · +1 more
Instant, tradeable, automated catastrophe bonds to help protect the world from natural disasters
$11,037 · UMA · 🥇 UMA — Best Use · +7 more
A truly decentralized mobile-based NFT Marketplace with minimal UI, seamless transactions, and a web application for effortless generation of randomized NFTs.
$11,000 · Polygon · 🛒 First Mobile NFT Marketplace - Vijay Shekhar Sharma · +3 more
Simple, reliable, open-source contract verification built for an L2 centric Ethereum ecosystem
$10,500 · Gnosis Chain · 🥇 Gnosis Chain — Most Innovative · +2 more
Sarma: simple primitive to achieve private execution on EVM, even cross-chain.
$10,241 + 1,100 FIL · Neon EVM · Best Neon EVM use case · +11 more
Your gateway to web3 gaming. Hassle-free onboarding with email registration and gas-less transactions with Safe and Superfluid. Try out new games today!
$10,037 · Gnosis Chain · 🥈 Gnosis Chain — Best Use · +5 more
zkAlpha connects quant traders and liquidity providers w/o revealing the strategy trustlessly through the use of ZKML.
$9,733 · Filecoin · Filecoin, IPFS & more · +6 more