Midnight hackathons

Join a Midnight hackathon

Taking part in a Midnight hackathon gives you a unique opportunity to collaborate with others in the community, take on challenges that support Midnight’s growth, and compete to win prizes for solving problems.

Next Hackathon

Midnight Hackathon: May 2026

Get ready for 48 hours of high-impact building. Following our successful hackathon in the fall, we’re back and the stakes are even higher now that Midnight is officially live on mainnet! This is your opportunity to build on a fully launched network designed to solve the internet's biggest privacy challenges. You’ll get hands-on experience with cutting-edge data protection tech to create applications that give users true control over their digital lives. Whether you are brand new to blockchain or web3 veteran, you’ll be building on the ground floor of a rapidly expanding ecosystem that now supports production-ready dApps. Winning teams will receive exclusive prizes, including preferential admission into the Fall 2026 cohort of the MLH Fellowship.

Virtual Hackathon

Starts:

May 15 2026 @ 12:30 UTC

Hosted by:
Major League Hacking

Hackathon Winners

YouTube Interviews with Hackathon Winners

HACKATHON SCHEDULE

Get involved in-person or online

Sign up to a hackathon for the chance to trial new ideas and work with other innovators to bring data protection projects to life.

Hackathon winners

Celebrating innovation on Midnight

Explore stand out projects born from previous Midnight hackathons.

July 08 2025
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Builders rise to the Ecosystem Tooling Challenge

Meet the winners from the Ecosystem Tooling Challenge. Builders created new CLIs, dashboards, and integrations to make building on the ZK ecosystem faster, more powerful, and more accessible for everyone.