When
October 16-17
Where
Medellín, Colombia
Interledger Foundation | Hackathons
Build the Future of Finance
Join an Open Payments Hackathon and over 24 hours, you'll tackle real-world challenges, build a working prototype, and pitch your solution to a panel of industry leaders, investors, and ecosystem partners.
Our hackathons are based on Open Payments, an API standard that allows applications to send, receive, and manage payments across different networks through a single, interoperable interface.
Upcoming Hackathons
Why Participate?
- Solve a problem and build something real. In 24 hours. Open technology, a problem worth solving, and competition that makes it fun.
- Prove it in front of people who'd actually know. You pitch a working prototype to people who build and fund payments technology for a living.
- Find your people. A room full of builders who are just as excited as you are to spend an all-nighter coding. Some of them may even become future collaborators.
- Get coding the moment the clock starts. Our free Open Payments course on Platzi and our Open Payments Guide mean you can get straight to coding, not reading docs.
- Leave with more than a prototype. Win cash prizes, grab cool swag, and get the opportunity to explore how to take your project beyond the hackathon.
How we’ll help you succeed:
Tech onboarding
Get comfortable using the Interledger Open Payments API.
Use case support
Access detailed use cases to understand challenges that can be solved with the Open Payments API.
Expert mentorship
Receive insights and guidance from the Interledger team to build your best solution.
Ideation sessions
Participate in a facilitated ideation session to help refine your innovative solutions.
New to Open Payments? Start here.
Complete the free Open Payments course on Plazi
Take our beginners Open Payments course and start the hackathon already knowing the technology. (This course is currently only available in Spanish.)
How to Access the Course
- Go to platzi.com and create a free account or log in.
- Access the course: Open Payments with Interledger.
- Complete the lessons and pass the final exam. (If you fail the exam, you must wait 6 hours before retrying.)
- Afterwards, you can join our community on Slack and introduce yourself in the #interledger-platzi channel and share your certificate (optional).
Additional Support
We also have a wealth of Open Payments resources, from documentation, to guides, to video series.
Participation requirements
- You must be 18 or older to participate
- Teams of 1 to 4 participants can enter
- This hackathon will take place in English and Spanish
- Our hackathons are all in person: no remote participation is possible