MetaEarth Hackathon 2026: BEACON
Taiwan
Registration Deadline: November 13, 2026, 15:59 (UTC+0)
Why Participate?
Come with an idea. Leave with a project, feedback, and a chance to win prizes
Reach real users
Integrate with ME ID, ME Pass, ME Network, and Rollapp to bring your project to real users.
Rich rewards and ecosystem opportunities
Outstanding projects can win prizes and showcase at Demo Day, with opportunities for follow-up grants and ecosystem support.
Expert development support
Get up to speed quickly with mentor Q&A, workshops, technical documentation, and examples.
Global developer community
Connect in person in Taiwan and collaborate online worldwide to gain more feedback and partnership opportunities.
For teams that enjoy refining infrastructure and solving problems for developers
- Build developer tools that make it easier to get started
- Power your own use cases with a custom Rollup
- Make on-chain data easier to find and use
Teams exploring AI agents, data, and trust
- Give every person and every AI a verifiable identity
- Own your data and decide how it is fed to AI
- Make AI-generated content verifiable and its provenance traceable
For teams with experience in trading, lending, or market making
- Bring finance on-chain: transparent, real-time, and without relying on trusted intermediaries
- Redefine lending, trading, and market making in new ways
- Turn credit itself into an asset
For product teams that put user experience before architecture
- Build an app so intuitive that no one cares it's on-chain
- Make payments as natural as breathing
- Redesign how people spend, split payments, and subscribe
Participation Requirements
Know the rules and help your project stand out
Apps, games, plugins, developer tools, and custom-built Rollapps are all eligible.
At least one testable core feature must run on ME Network.
Describe the project's existing foundation. Only additions and improvements made during the competition will be judged.
Competition Rewards
All prizes will be paid in the equivalent amount of USDT, based on the exchange rate on the payment date.
First Prize1100,000
Second Prize150,000
Third Prize230,000Competition Schedule
After judging, the results will be reviewed and confirmed, then officially announced at the awards ceremony.
2026/10/20Registration Opens
2026/10/31Workshop2026/11/13Registration Closes2026/12/06Project Submission Deadline2026/12/24Demo DayFAQ
If 50 or more teams participate, the prize pool will be distributed at the full amount of NT$250,000; if fewer than 50 teams participate, the total prize pool will be adjusted to NT$187,500. We aim to get as much reward as possible into developers' hands—the more teams that join, the more everyone can share. Final reward details will be announced based on actual participation.
Each team must have 3–5 members. Solo entries are not accepted.
The team leader and all members must have completed advanced ME ID verification at the time of registration. Registration is complete once the Google registration form has been fully filled out and submitted.
No. Each team may submit only one project.
Yes. Explain the project's existing foundation and the features added or improved in November when entering.
No. Private code repositories are allowed, but judges must be granted access.
Yes. You can edit your registration before the registration deadline (November 13) and your project submission before the submission deadline (December 6). After the deadlines, judging will be based on the final submitted materials and the specified code version.
All prize money will be sent to the MEC wallet address linked to the ME ID of the first member listed on the registration form (the team leader).
Prize money will be distributed within 15 business days after Demo Day on December 24.
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