Nintendo Switch for each hacker + MLH Winner Pins

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Logitech Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse for each hacker + MLH Winner Pins

Ergonomic Laptop Stand for each hacker

Gaming Light Bar for each hacker

Owala Water Bottle for each hacker

Mini Pacman Arcade machine for each hacker

Cracking the Coding Interview for each hacker

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Our track is The Best Financial Hack! This is your chance to change the game in fintech. Whether it's an innovative payment solution, helping consumers shop smarter, making financing more accessible, or a creative way to improve financial literacy, we want to see your boldest ideas in action. The track is intentionally vague to let you bring your own creativity to it! You can optionally take advantage of Capital One’s Hackathon API, Nessie (api.nessieisreal.com). It provides mock banking/transaction data to help spearhead your idea.
Prize: $250 Amazon gift card per hacker

Echo is the easiest way to build, deploy and monetize an AI application. Build an AI app using the Echo SDK and deploy to Vercel. Use either LLMs or image generation to build the AI app you've always wanted. Echo supports all the top model providers. The app with the best monetization potential wins!

Prize: $1000 Cash + $1,500 Echo credits split among the team!

LLMs are powerful but often unpredictable. Opik is an open-source observability and evaluation tool that helps you track model interactions, compare prompts or models, and design evaluations for accuracy, safety, or user experience.

For this challenge, we’re looking for the most creative and effective use of Opik in your project. Whether it’s debugging an agent, surfacing insights that improve reliability, or making your app more transparent and trustworthy, show us how Opik adds real value.

The prize recognizes the team that makes the most innovative use of LangGraph's orchestration framework for building durable agentic workflows. The winning team will receive $2,000 in LangSmith credits to be split amongst team members.
Prize: $2000 in credits split among team!

Awarded to the team that builds the most creative project using any (or a combination) of the Tavily MCP Server endpoints: Search, Extract, Crawl, and Map.
Prize: $10000 in credits split among team for 1st! $5000 in credits split among team for 2nd!

We want to see your creative ways of using the XRP Ledger! Leverage RLUSD on XRP Ledger testnet to develop real-world financial solutions, from DeFi applications like lending platforms to cross-border payments, micropayments or and digital wallets. Or go beyond DeFi for impactful, on-chain innovation.

The challenge: Demonstrate how the XRPL and RLUSD can drive meaningful change in finance and technology with practical applications.

Eligibility Criteria:
- The solution should produce transactions that can be verified on an explorer.
- Public Github repository with a readme and MIT License.
- Demo video (max 2 min)
- Demonstrates innovation and creativity in addressing the challenge. (alignment)
- The majority of the solution should be developed during the hackathon timeframe.
- Adheres to ethical guidelines and legal requirements.

Prize: $750 split among the team for 1st! $500 split among the team for 2nd!

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Wireless Headphones || Auth0 wants your applications to be secure! Why spend hours building features like social sign-in, Multi-Factor Authentication, and passwordless log-in when you can enable them through Auth0 straight out of the box? Auth0 is free to try, doesn’t require a credit card, and allows for up to 7,000 free active users and unlimited log-ins. Make your new account today and use any of the Auth0 APIs for a chance to win a pair of wireless headphones for you and each member of your team!

Mechanical Keyboards || It’s time to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project? Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

ElevenLabs Airpods || Deploy natural, human-sounding audio with ElevenLabs. Create realistic, dynamic, and emotionally expressive voices for any project, from interactive AI companions to narrated stories and voice-enabled apps. ElevenLabs will empower you to build rich, immersive experiences without the need for actors or complex audio production, using simply the power of AI. Integrate fully autonomous audio experiences into your hack with ElevenLabs and give your project a voice, along with giving your team the chance to win exclusive ElevenLabs branded airpods!

Logitech Webcam & Meeting with the Reach Capital Investors
AI has upended what we can accomplish with technology. Reach Capital invests in the next generation of founders and technical talent, and they want you to use AI to transform the future of learning, health, and work. Build a project that impacts one (or all!) of these areas for a chance to win a Logitech webcam for each member of your team and the exclusive opportunity to discuss your creation with Reach Capital’s team of expert investors.