Registration Now Open for Sui Overflow 2025, Sui's Premier Global Hackathon

Teams and individuals can register for the eight week hackathon, which runs from April into May.

February 13, 2025

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Sui Overflow, Sui's annual global hackathon, kicks off today, with teams and individuals now able to register. The hackathon officially runs for eight weeks, from April 1 to May 25, with the winners announced late May. Four teams will emerge from each of the competition's nine tracks, winning prizes ranging from $30,000 to $7,500. In addition, 10 university teams will each win $2,500 and the community will vote and award 10 projects $2,500 each.

Last year's Sui Overflow hackathon saw 352 project submissions with a total of 32 winners in its eight tracks. Sui Overflow 2025 offers completely new tracks reflecting the rapid pace of development on Sui and new areas of interest. In addition, the advent of Walrus' decentralized storage adds great new possibilities for projects, and participants are urged to use Sui and Walrus as much as possible. Along with prizes within tracks, Sui Overflow 2025 includes community voting and recognition of university teams.

Tracks

DeFi: Build next generation DeFi protocols leveraging Sui’s unique technology, harnessing the network's performance for lightning fast swaps. Delve into the power strategies such as liquid staking, farming, and bridging.
Infrastructure and Tooling: Create fundamental building blocks and developer tools that empower Sui builders. From IDE plug-ins to no-code platforms, decrease pain points and increase velocity.
AI: Leverage Sui and Walrus to explore the new world of artificial intelligence. Develop smart agents that accomplish tasks no one ever dreamed possible.
Cryptography: Create applications that excel in privacy, security, and performance based on Sui’s suite of native cryptography features including zero knowledge proofs and randomness. Find new ways people can keep their digital assets safe and useful.
Degen: Whether it be bored apes, zoomy dogs, confused cats, or undersea animals, build anything and everything related to memes and viral culture that will delight the Web3 community.
Payments: Create the fundamental payment rails and wallet infrastructure powering the decentralized web and related applications on Sui.
Entertainment and Culture: Create mass consumer facing applications on Sui in domains such as gaming, NFT’s, sports, and media.
Explorations: Explore multi-chain or emergent use cases and verticals using Sui technology, including but not limited to RWA, DePIN, and global coordination.
Programmable Storage: Develop applications that are deeply integrated, and utilize the programmable storage capabilities of Sui and Walrus.

Timeline

Registration is open now, letting teams and individuals add their details and create a profile. Individuals seeking a team can indicate their a reas of interest and participate in matching with a team.

Teams may enter projects to the hackathon with GitHub code dated no earlier than February 5. The Road to Sui Overflow, which features in person and online sessions, runs from now to the end of March. Projects may be submitted for judging from April 1 to mid-May.

On May 20, judges will announce the shortlisted teams, who will be invited to participate in demonstration days from May 23 to 24. Winners will be announced on May 31.