Mantle Global Hackathon 2025

Watch our quick walkthrough to learn how to register for the Mantle Hackathon and submit your project — step-by-step guidance from signing up to final upload.

The Mantle Global Hackathon 2025 is a new chapter of the Mantle Ecosystem. Spanning October 15 – December 31 (2025), this three-month competition invites developers, founders, and innovators to design, build, and deploy scalable Web3 products on the Mantle Network.

Powered by Mantle’s modular Ethereum stack—combining high performance, low fees, and seamless EVM compatibility—participants will explore how decentralized infrastructure can bring tangible, compliant, and yield-bearing assets on-chain.

💰 Prize Pool & Incentives

• Total Prize Pool: $150,000 (USDT)

• Additional grants & fast-track incubation for top projects

• Media exposure via Mantle and ecosystem partners

• Direct access to exchange and VC partners

🏗 Tracks

• RWA / RealFi (Top Priority)

  • Tokenization of real estate, bonds, invoices, and cash-flow assets

  • KYC flows, custody models, and compliant yield distribution

• DeFi & Composability

  • Lending protocols, collateral strategies, composable yield optimizers

  • Synthetic assets backed by RWA

• AI & Oracles

  • Smart automation using LLMs, AI agents, and oracle data

  • On-chain/off-chain data pipelines for asset management

• ZK & Privacy

  • Privacy-preserving solutions with regulatory compatibility

  • Selective disclosure, ZK-KYC, and yield-proof mechanisms

• Infrastructure & Tooling

  • Developer SDKs, wallet plugins, monitoring dashboards

  • Testing frameworks and DevOps pipelines

• GameFi & Social

  • Consumer-facing apps integrating RWA or yield logic

  • Token incentive design and user retention tools

📋 Eligibility & Submission Requirements

Who can participate:

• Individuals or teams of 2–5 members

• Must submit a working MVP or functional demo (testnet/mainnet)

• Open globally, fully remote with optional Demo Day IRL

Required deliverables:

• GitHub repository with README and deployment instructions

• Demo video (3–5 minutes) or a live demo URL

• One-pager pitch: problem, solution, business model, roadmap

• Team bios and contact info

• Compliance declaration (Projects must disclose whether they involve regulated assets)

⚖️ Judging Criteria

Projects will be evaluated based on a combination of technical excellence, user experience, real-world applicability, Mantle integration, and long-term ecosystem potential.

🪙 About Mantle

Mantle Network is a modular Ethereum Layer 2 optimized for performance and cost-efficiency.
With execution, consensus, and data availability layers decoupled, developers benefit from:

• Low gas fees

• High throughput

• Native EVM compatibility

• Built-in tooling: Mantle DA, Mantle SDK, bridges, and testnets

• Ideal for scaling real-world applications in DeFi, RealFi, and beyond