June 2026 Hackathon Radar — Remote-Only Cut
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Two weeks ago I ranked the 16 platforms I'd actually trust to find paid hackathons. This is the follow-through: I opened every one of them and kept only the builds you can enter without booking a flight. One hard filter — remote-only — plus a one-week-minimum runway, stamped as of June 16, 2026 (deadlines move; treat this as a snapshot, not a live feed).
By default the table shows the enterable ones. Flip "Show closed/dead" to see what I cut and why — including a few in-person events left in (greyed, 📍) so you can watch the remote filter do its job.
17shown
$2,519Kprize pool
21caveats
| Location | Theme | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | $10,000 | Jun 29 | 🌍 Remote | ZK · Rust · Noir · Soroban |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | $50,000 | Jun 30, 10:45am | 🌍 Remote | Agent automation |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯🎯 | $150,000 | Jul 1, 2:00pm | 🌍 Remote | Agentic AI · x402 · RWA · DeFi (Rust/WASM) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯🎯 | $70,000 | Jul 10, 4:00am | 🌍 Remote | AI agents — 5 tracks (Memory/Society/Autopilot/Edge) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯🎯 | ~$20K (cash+GPU+credits) | Jul 11 | 🌍 Remote | Agentic AI on AMD cloud |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | $10,200 | Jul 12, 11:00pm | 🌍 Remote | Agent commerce (A2A, callable paid agents) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | $35,000+ | Jul 19 | 🌍 Remote | Global AI hackathon (MIT-affiliated) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | 150K $PROS (token) | Jul 21 | 🌍 Remote | On-chain AI agents (Pharos) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | $10,000 | Aug 2 | 🌍 Remote | CLI / dev-tools on Snowflake |
| ↗ | 🎯 | $8,000 | Aug 15, 6:00am | 🌍 Remote | AI inference optimization (open-source) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | $2,000,000 | Aug 18, 3:00am | 🌍 Remote | Ship a real AI business on Gemini (90-day) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯🎯 | $60,000+ | Sep 2026 | 🌍 Remote | EVM + AI infra (fully online) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | $45,500+ | Nov 2 | 🌍 Remote | AI apps — Gemini / Qdrant / AppliedAI tracks |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯🎯 | Prize TBD | Sep–Nov | 🌍 Remote | Solana flagship (next season) |
| ↗ | 🎯 | $50,000 | Sep 2026 (TBC) | 🌍 Remote | RWA · RegTech · compliance |
| ↗ | 🎯 | Prize TBD | Sep 2026 (TBC) | 🌍 Remote | AI agents · Enterprise AI (Claude/OpenAI) |
| ↗ | 🎯🎯 | ~$10,000 | TBC | 🌍 Remote | AI agentic economy · Web3 payments |
What to double-check before you build (21)
- Casper Agentic Buildathon: DoraHacks blocks automated checks — confirm deadline + eligibility on the live page. Three Casper events exist; this is the $150K Agentic Buildathon.
- ETHOnline 2026: Registration opens closer to the date — verify the exact window on the live page.
- AMD Developer Hackathon: ACT II: Headline ~$20K bundles a GPU + cloud credits; the cash pool (~$10K) is what's counted here.
- Build with Gemini XPRIZE: Not a weekend hack — a 90-day build-a-real-business track. The $2M headline is spread across 25 prizes.
- AI Genesis 2026: Online submission is fully competitive; the Dubai finals are optional/invite-only and not travel-covered.
- Snowflake CoCo CLI: Confirm the exact event URL on Hack2skill before registering.
- CROO Agent Hackathon: DoraHacks — confirm the exact deadline on the live page.
- Stellar Hacks: Real-World ZK: DoraHacks — tight window; confirm the exact deadline on the live page before committing.
- Pharos AI Carnival (Phase 2): Prize is 150K $PROS tokens (USD value uncertain) — counted as $0 in the pool. One phase carries 'University' branding; confirm Phase 2 is open to non-students.
- BLI Legal Tech Hackathon 2: Exact deadline unconfirmed (listed ~99 days out) — verify on the live page.
- MunichTech Innovation 2026: Corporate prize amount unspecified — counted as $0. Pre-registration; confirm details on the live page.
- Hack-Nation Global AI (MIT): Off my 16-platform list (surfaced adjacent) — confirm a registration window is still open.
- Kite AI Global Hackathon: Off my 16-platform list (Encode Club) — confirm dates + prize on the live page.
- Colosseum Q3 Flagship: Registration opens ~late Aug/Sep — watch for the announcement.
- Band of Agents: Closes Jun 19 — inside the 1-week runway cutoff, too soon to start a fresh build.
- QVAC Hackathon I: Closes ~Jun 21 — inside the runway cutoff.
- BNB Hack: AI Trading Agent Edition: Closes ~Jun 21 — inside the runway cutoff.
- Arbitrum Open House Dubai: Postponed 'until further notice' per the Arbitrum Foundation blog (regional security); hoped reschedule ~end of 2026. The NYC/London/India editions have all closed.
- ExecuTorch Hackathon (Qualcomm × Meta): In-person only (San Francisco) — excluded by the remote hard-filter. Left in so you can see the filter working.
- Production Agents Hackathon: In-person only (San Francisco) — excluded by the remote hard-filter.
- Moonshot Hackathon: Students-only — excluded (not a student). Left in to show the eligibility filter, not just the location one.
Verified as of 2026-06-16. Source: My 16-platform sweep — remote-only.
How to read the fit column
"Fit" is a neutral relevance score for a builder working in AI agents, Solana, and EVM — 🎯🎯🎯 sits squarely in that lane, ➖ is off it. It's a lens, not a verdict; a $2M XPRIZE is still a $2M XPRIZE regardless of how many targets it carries.
What jumped out
- The whole board is AI agents. Nearly every live remote hackathon this month is an agent build — memory agents, trading agents, on-chain agents, agent-commerce. If you ship agents, June 2026 is your month.
- Headline ≠ cash. The biggest numbers hide the most asterisks: one "150K" is a token, one "$2M" is a 90-day build-a-business track, and a couple fold GPU/credits into the figure. The prize-pool stat counts cash only.
- Two platforms carry the field. DoraHacks and Devpost host almost everything still open and remote. Colosseum and Superteam are between seasons; Devfolio, TAIKAI, HackerEarth and AKINDO returned nothing remote-and-enterable this pass.
Swept from my own 16-platform ranking on June 16, 2026; every deadline, prize, and eligibility re-checked against each event's page. DoraHacks entries especially: confirm on the live page before you commit.