List of hackathons about fintech in 2018

Fintech dreamers and risk-takers! AngelHack and Money20/20 invite you to participate in the Money20/20 Hackathon. At this event, you'll be challenged to design an innovative fintech solution that will result in a simpler, fairer, faster and more inclusive financial system for business and society as a whole. Put on your creative hats and bring technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, IoT, big data, and more, to the party! You get to choose from challenges posed by financial movers such as PayPal, Synchrony, Visa, andYodlee. The overall winning team will present their solution on the Money20/20 Keynote Stage. Come with your team and compete for $100K in cash prizes and international recognition. But before that, be sure to check out practical advice for hackathon participants!

Please apply via Algothon.org. Open to all university students, post-graduates, recent graduates and academics from any university. Algothon 2018 in partnership with BlackRock is the main event of the 2018/19 academic year organised by the Imperial College Algorithmic Trading Society. We’re excited to bring you 24 hours of intense hacking, bringing 300 of the brightest minds together to produce incredible new financial technology.  The hackathon will be held in the offices of BlackRock, one of the most highly respected financial technology companies operating today. In addition to the main event, we’re delighted to offer several talks from field leading researchers in machine learning, as well as workshops to get you up to speed on some of the most exciting new technologies and practices in the field. This will be an incredible hackathon, producing amazing new technologies, learning from some of the best minds in the machine learning field, and overall having a great time!

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JUNCTIONxBUDAPEST | 19-21.10. 2018. The biggest international hackathon is coming to Hungary! APPLY HERE: https://registration.budapest.hackjunction.com/ WHAT IS JUNCTIONxBUDAPEST? JUNCTIONxBUDAPEST is the most innovative hackathon in Hungary and a melting pot for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs from all around the world. Participants create innovative hands-on solutions to real-life challenges with the help of the latest & most up-to-date technologies.

Join us on for the inaugural Tel Aviv Dappathon (Decentralized Applications Hackathon), a unique day where developers, designers and professionals receive an opportunity to build products based on blockchain protocols. Bringing together the booming Israeli DLT industry's top investors, developers, and thought leaders, the event will be hosting numerous workshops & speeches, alongside the Dappathon.

NaijaHacks kicks off online from October 18-23, 2018 and wraps up with a Demo day and Award ceremony on October 25, 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria. Lots of amazing prizes to be won, plus a full day of networking, learning, great food and lots of fun with our international team of Mentors, Speakers and Judges from the US, UK, Canada and Nigeria.

Blockchain enthusiasts in North America! You're invited to participate in the San Francisco location of The Hedera18 Hackathon—the first global, decentralized hashgraph hackathon. You'll be challenged to use Hedera Hashgraph APIs to build an innovative DApp in your choice of a category such as gaming, supply chain, social causes, micropayments, or IoT. Compete for a $20k local prize pool and the chance to compete for the Global Grand Prize of $50k in Hedera coin and US dollars.

Hedera 18 Hackathon The Hedera18 Hackathon—the first global, decentralized hashgraph hackathon—will gather developers to compete in nine cities around the world: Dallas, Bangalore, London, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tel Aviv. This two-day hackathon will give you an opportunity to build what’s next in fast-moving categories, including gaming, social causes and micro-payments. Start now to envision your next big idea for an entirely new class of applications on the world’s fastest distributed ledger platform. Hackathon Challenge Using Hedera Hashgraph APIs, teams can be inspired to take advantage of the high throughput, low consensus latency, and transaction order fairness to build DApps in categories such as gaming, supply chain, social causes, micropayments, and IoT. Winning teams will earn Hedera tokens and a chance to have your project incubated and deployed on the Hedera hashgraph platform. Prizes 1 Grand Prize winner: 50k3 Local winners per location: 1st: 10k | 2nd: 7k | 3rd: 3k (prizes will be a combination of Hedera coin and USD) Judging Criteria (25% for each) Feasibility - Is the solution possible, or just nice in theory?Innovation - Is the project new and disruptive?Challenge fit - how relevant is the project to the stated challenge?Technical execution - how has the team effectively utilized the available technologies? How easy is the application to use? How advanced is the prototype presented? Global Judges Leemon Baird - Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Hedera Hashgraph Mance Harmon - Co-Founder & CEO and  at Hedera Hashgraph Ken Anderson - Lead Developer Advocate at Hedera Hashgraph Karen Salay - COO & Founder of PlayDFS / Chat Goose Schedule October 15th (all times local) 8am - Check in + Grab breakfast 9am - Kickoff + Opening presentations 10am - Idea pitches 10:30am - Team formation 11am- Hacking begins 1pm - Lunch 6pm - Dinner Overnight coding October 16th (all times local) 8am - Breakfast 9am - Welcome + Final demo tips from BeMyApp 10am - A/V check 1pm - Lunch 2pm - Code freeze 2:30pm - Final demos begin 5pm - Demos end / Judges deliberation 6pm - Local Winners announcement 6:30pm - End October 17th  6pm CT - Global winner announcement from the main stage at the Hedera 18 Conference in Dallas. All Global hackathon participants will tune in to hear the winner announcement over a live-stream via zoom. Resources Learn more about the platform: https://www.hederahashgraph.com/platform What is Hedera Hashgraph?The Hedera hashgraph platform provides a new form of distributed consensus; a way for people who don’t know or trust each other to securely collaborate and transact online without the need for a trusted intermediary. The platform is lightning fast, secure, and fair, and, unlike some blockchain-based platforms, doesn’t require compute-heavy proof-of-work. Hedera enables and empowers developers to build an entirely new class of distributed applications that were never before possible.

Blockchain enthusiasts in France! You're invited to participate in the Paris location of The Hedera18 Hackathon—the first global, decentralized hashgraph hackathon. You'll be challenged to use Hedera Hashgraph APIs to build an innovative DApp in your choice of a category such as gaming, supply chain, social causes, micropayments, or IoT. Compete for a $20k local prize pool and for the chance to compete for the Global Grand Prize of $50k in Hedera coin and US dollars.

Blockchain enthusiasts in France! You're invited to participate in the Paris location of The Hedera18 Hackathon—the first global, decentralized hashgraph hackathon. You'll be challenged to use Hedera Hashgraph APIs to build an innovative DApp in your choice of category such as gaming, supply chain, social causes, micropayments, or IoT. Compete for local prizes and for the chance to compete for the Global Grand Prize of $50k in Hedera coin and US dollars.