Jun 2, 2025

# Hackathon Prizes: Global Glory, Regional Highlights & Bonus Wins

Explore the full prize breakdown for the World’s Largest Hackathon, from global prizes to surprise bonus categories

## Company

With thousands of builders from around the world and over $1,000,000 in prizes, this is more than just a hackathon, it’s a global launchpad for the next generation of products, ideas, and founders. Here’s how the prizes break down:

## **Judging Criteria**

First and foremost, remember that submissions are evaluated based on four key criteria:

- **🌍 Potential Impact**  
  How big of an impact could this project make? Does it solve a meaningful problem or offer viral potential?

- **💡 Quality of the Idea**  
  Is it creative and original? Or does something similar already exist?

- **🛠️ Technological Implementation**  
  How strong is the technical build? Does it use [Bolt.new](/content/site-root.html) in novel or advanced ways?

- **🎨 Design & User Experience**  
  Is it beautifully designed? Is the product intuitive, polished, and well-balanced between frontend and backend?

## **Global Prizes**

The top 10 projects _across the entire hackathon_ will be recognized for their outstanding work across all judging criteria.

- **🥇 Grand Prize (1st Place)**  
  The single most exceptional project — creative, technically solid, impactful, and beautifully executed.

- **🏅 2nd–5th Place**  
  Projects that delivered on both vision and craft. These were powerful ideas, executed with excellence.

- **🎖️ 6th–10th Place**  
  Strong builds that made a mark with thoughtful UX, real-world value, and impressive storytelling.

## **Regional Highlights**

We’re spotlighting one standout project from each region. These aren’t just local winners, they’re global contenders who crushed it on their home turf.

- **🇺🇸 AMER Winner** – North, Central, or South America
- **🌏 APAC Winner** – Asia-Pacific region
- **🇪🇺 EMEA Winner** – Europe, Middle East, or Africa

## **Bonus Awards**

These special categories recognize unique excellence, from inspiring stories to next-level design:

- **Standout Event Hosts** – Community-first IRL leaders
- **Inspirational Story** – Overcoming adversity or building with purpose
- **One-Shot Competition** – Best build from a _single prompt_
- **Uniquely Useful Tool** – “Why didn’t this exist before?” energy
- **Creative Use of AI** – Clever, bold, or unexpected applications
- **Most Beautiful UI** – A project that’s a joy to use and look at
- **Most Viral Project** – The one that broke the internet
- **Future Unicorn** – Most likely to become a billion-dollar startup
- **Sharpest Problem Fit** – Best solution-to-problem alignment
- **Top Build-in-Public Journey** – Shared transparently from start to finish
- **We Didn’t Know We Needed This** – Surprise hit of the hackathon
- **Most Likely to Get Funded** – VC ready builds

## **Challenger Prizes**

Our partners have launched exclusive challenge tracks, each with $25,000 in prize money. Build with these tools and platforms to unlock even more rewards:

- **💸 Make More Money Challenge** – Use RevenueCat for monetization
- **🌐 Custom Domain Challenge** – Launch your app with Entri + IONOS
- **⛓️ Blockchain Challenge** – Build trustless, scalable apps with Algorand
- **📹 Conversational AI Video Challenge** – Integrate Tavus-powered AI agents
- **🎙️ Voice AI Challenge** – Make your app talk with ElevenLabs
- **🚀 Deploy Challenge** – Ship your full-stack app with Netlify
- **🤪 Silly Sh!t Challenge** – Build your weirdest ideas with Reddit x Bolt

👉 [See full challenge resources](https://worldslargesthackathon.devpost.com/resources)

This isn’t just prize money, it’s life changing.

We know this support will help turn ideas into companies, dreams into jobs, and prototypes into real-world tools that touch lives. We’re honored to witness the beginning of what so many of you are building and we can’t wait to see where it takes you.