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August 4 – October 3, 2025

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Overview

Ctrl+Move: A Global Online Hackathon

Aptos wasn’t built to replicate the past. It was built to reimagine what finance could be: composable, lightning-fast, and accessible to anyone, anywhere. With parallel execution, sub-second finality, and low fees at scale, Aptos is infrastructure that works—for developers and for users.

This hackathon is your invitation to build what's missing in DeFi. From liquidity engines to payment rails, from lending protocols to next-gen trading apps—you have the tools. Now it’s time to build something that actually works.

Prize Amounts

$100K Total Prize Pool

Featuring over $100,000 USD in prizes—including core awards and special bounties from ecosystem partners.

Event Timeline

Key dates to remember

  • Aug 4

    Registration Open
  • Oct 3

    Submission Deadline
  • Oct 16

    Winners Announced

What to Expect

How to Join the Hackathon

Project Prompt

Hackathon Project Ideas

This is your sandbox for building next-gen DeFi. There are no rigid rules—just one expectation: build something meaningful. Whether you're experimenting with liquidity design, new asset types, or better user flows, we're looking for projects that rethink how finance works in an open, scalable world. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

  • Trading & Market Infrastructure

    • Push the limits of CLOBs, matching engines, and advanced order types
    • Build vault strategies, analytics dashboards, or custom DeFi tooling
    • Integrate with Aptos-native protocols like Merkle Trade, Hyperion, and Tapp
  • New Financial Products

    • Create RWA markets, prediction games, or options protocols
    • Build trading bots, social investing tools, or mobile-first UIs
    • Experiment with novel vault mechanics or capital coordination strategies
  • Payments & Value Transfer

    • Design real-time remittance, payroll, or treasury systems
    • Launch stablecoin apps that work across borders and devices
    • Bring off-chain users on-chain with clean fiat on/off ramps
    • Leverage Circle's CCTP to build crosschain payroll systems, merchant settlement layers, or subscription-based commerce with USDC natively settled on Aptos
    • Use Circle Wallets for embedding secure, flexible and scalable wallets into your application

Partners

Building With Circle

Hackathon participants can integrate Circle's infrastructure and tools—including Circle Wallets to build flexible, secure and scalable embedded wallets into applications, and CCTP (Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol) to enable native USDC transfers between Aptos and other supported blockchains.

  • Circle
  • Ekiden
  • Hyperion
  • Kana Labs
  • Kofi Finance
  • Merkle Trade
  • Nodit
  • Panora
  • Tapp Exchange

Tools & Docs

Builder Resources

Access beginner guides, advanced tutorials, documentation, and workshops. Whether you're new to Move or expanding your expertise, you'll find the tools and support you need here.

Explore Resources

Build the next big thing in DeFi. Build something that matters.