Competitions

Showcase your skills in blockchain, trading, and Web3 development through our curated project challenges. Open to all students, these competitions offer cash prizes, real-world experience, and recognition within the crypto community. Explore current opportunities, review past winners, and get involved.

Cryptocurrency Trading Bot Competition

Competition Flow:

Develop: fork/clone this repo, craft your own indicators, execution logic, and risk management.
Test: backtest or paper trade; you may generate and fund your own wallet for testing (optional).
Submit: provide your GitHub repository and documentation before the deadline.
Live run: organisers fund approved wallets and run the bots over the holidays.
Winner: decided on both strategy rationale and realised PnL.

Details:

Prize: Nintendo Switch + Mario Kart
Goal: build your own cryptocurrency trading bot and strategy using this repo as your launchpad
Live run: organisers will deploy qualified bots over the Christmas holidays 2025
Judging: weighted between strategy idea quality and the PnL generated during the live run
Deadline: 31 December 2025 @ 23:59 UTC
Submission: share your GitHub repository through the Google Form (link TBA)
Support: weekly workshops plus the Building Division WhatsApp channel
Universe: any Solana-based asset with an available price feed (template defaults to SOL but you may switch to any token)
AI tools: use of AI assistants to understand or extend the codebase is not only allowed but encouraged

Github Link: https://github.com/GlenFilson/strategy-starter

Google Form Upload Link: Coming soon

Cryptocurrency Trading Strategy Project Competition

Compete for a $200 USD prize by building a comprehensive cryptocurrency trading strategy in Python!

Challenge: Develop a strategy (e.g., Mean Reversion with Bollinger Bands & RSI, momentum, arbitrage, or factor-based) using the ccxt library for crypto data.
Improve: Visualise performance (e.g., Streamlit), optimise parameters, and backtest for realism.
Judging: Based on backtest performance, complexity, rationale, and code quality.
Requirements: Submit a .py file with code and a .pdf explaining your strategy.
Deadline: December 1, 2025.
Submissions: Submit your file in the Google form in our description, or email it to either society's email inbox
Questions? Contact the respective Email or Social Media.

Github Link: https://github.com/g-marton/BlockchainWeb3EUFES_Competition/tree/main

Google Form Upload Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScY2PDrTW1uc1neURaMF45BIRlx4rFXIbhl6CyNsIvdO5hUhw/viewform?usp=dialog