Build the Future of Finance

Next Hackathon: 16-17 October 2026 – Medellín, Colombia

Overview

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During an Interledger Open Payments Hackathon, you’ll take on a real financial challenge, build a working prototype, and pitch it to a panel of industry leaders, investors and ecosystem partners. You build on Open Payments: an open API standard that lets applications send, receive and manage payments across networks through one interoperable interface.

Registration to our Ecosystem hackathons is open to students, professionals, and hobbyists alike and no prior Interledger experience required. We also support Student Hackathons through our NextGen Higher Education Grantees and partners.

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Open Payments Hackathon 2026

When?

  • Date: October 16 and 17, 2026
  • Time: 2 days

Where?

Location: Medellín, Colombia

Ruta-N, Medellín, Colombia Complejo Ruta N, Calle 67 Nº 52-20, Piso 2, Torre A, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Apply Today!

2 days of experimenting with Open Payments alongside developers, builders and entrepreneurs. Join us to create something worth sharing. The next breakthrough in payments could start with you.

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Why Participate?

Build Something Real

Turn a real financial challenge into a working prototype in 2 days — not an imaginary problem, not a slide deck.

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Find Your People

Connect, collaborate and build with people as passionate about open tech as you!

Prove it to Everyone

Pitch a working prototype to people who build and fund payments technology for a living.

Get Coding Right Away

Learn Open Payments before you set a foot in the door with our course on Platzi and our Open Payments Guide.

Leave with Real Results

Win cash prizes, grab cool swag, and get the opportunity to explore how to take your project beyond the hackathon.

New to Open Payments? Start here.

Complete the free Open Payments course on Platzi

Take our beginner Open Payments course and start the hackathon already knowing the technology.

How to Access the Course

  1. Go to platzi.com and create a free account or log in.
  2. Access the course: Open Payments with Interledger.
  3. Complete the lessons and pass the final exam. (If you fail the exam, you must wait 6 hours before retrying.)
  4. Afterwards, you can join our community on Slack and introduce yourself in the #interledger-platzi channel and share your certificate (optional).

Additional Support

We have a wealth of Open Payments resources, from documentation, to guides, to video series.

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