{"id":"bND1ioWBf3g","title":"NEAR Hackathon: All 13 Tracks Explained (and Where to Start)","description":"The NEAR Hackathon runs Nov 1–14, 2026, with $250K in prizes paid in NEAR. There are 13 build tracks, and this video walks through each one: what it asks for, which docs to open first, and a starter idea you could build in two weeks.\n\nEvery starter idea has a copy-paste prompt for Claude Code, Codex or whatever coding agent you use. The link is below.\n\nHackathon site and submissions: https://nearhackathon.com\nStarter prompts for every track: https://github.com/nearai/near-hackat...\n\nHACKATHON.md (hand this to your agent first): https://nearhackathon.com/HACKATHON.md\nFind teammates:   / discord   https://t.me/neardev\n\n\nSubmissions close Nov 14 at 23:59 UTC. One submission per team, and you can't edit it after you send it.\n\n#NEAR #hackathon #AIagents #web3","channel_name":"NEAR DevHub","published_at":"2026-10-31T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/bND1ioWBf3g/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"Folks, let's take 3 minutes and go over the different tracks here available for the near hackathon. There 13 tracks and I want to show you where we start for all of them. This two weeks is 13 tracks and there's one submission per team, but you can submit to multiple different tracks. Starts on November 1st and submission ends on November 14th. There's 10K first place in every single track with uh 3K and 2K in second and third. And this 55K grand total prize for the best on across all the different tracks. uh judges that are really high-profile that you definitely want reviewing your project and assume that everyone will be building with AI. So before you pick a track, download the hackathon.mmd and add it to your coding agent. Those two things will both give your agent the skills to actually build on top of near really easily, but also two all the different rules around the hackathon, different tracks, all that stuff. So your agent will know what you know as well too. One, unstoppable defi. We decided to go build this. Uh there's a one-click API quick start that you can use for near intense. There's chain signature docs and you can even integrate with rehea whatever you want to do. There's all different ideas here that you can go with. There's also the investment thesis track. So looking at some of the different data and being able to analyze that. You have near's big query data set. You have different data infrastructure. There's also the intense explorer as well. So a lot of different data you can start to leverage here and build something out on top of that. Privacy. Privacy is a huge area and there's tons of different ways you can go about this. But privacy and private AI obviously the near AI cloud has different ways to be private and things like that. Uh there are videos available too about all about private AI and how to build on top of that as well here through Near. Uh this verification talks and verification examples as well for this. The next track is is business. So autonomous business is a great way to go here. Uh this is now an integration maybe of both the financial side as well as the AI side. A lot of different places that you can start both with obviously the AI and the near docs. uh out layer is a thirdparty service you can use as well and then the one click API are great places to get going forms uh many agents one economy kind of thinking of different ways about around that both from a financial standpoint as well as maybe different business opportunities as well security and defense is a really big topic right now uh this is something that is really needed on all fronts this is also both from a financial standpoint as well as just maybe just private information and security from there as well a lot of different paths you can go look at some of the things like access key docs out layer docs your AI verification, things like that are good places to start. Shouldn't track about autonomous business already, but now there's also an agent economy one as well. So giving AI a wallet and having then work from there. So an agent actually doing things on their own. It's a little bit different kind of track from there. World money. So a agents need to be able to actually interact with the real world to really be uh useful for people. And there's a lot of different ways to that. Some of these automations being mixing both the real world as well as the online and onchain and verification. And there's a mill million different paths you can go here, but that's what this track is about. Are you leveraging fiat for things like that or or what would consider standard business cases as of today? And how can you bring that into the current uh setup? Next one is games. Can you actually make games with real economics? Can you actually make it so that the economy is the game play? Uh some places to start here is looking at how tokens are different are made on chain. uh some different dab agent skills uh intents and how to use it to leverage that as well. NFTs as a technology is a track here as well. So more than just the actual trading the picture uh but actually kind of like what can an NFT do. NFT as accounts can actually own money. They can actually have royalties, inventory, a lot of different things you can sort of do with that. Can you get creative and do something really fun uh with that setup? The hackathon is not ignoring the dgens as well here. Memecoin with mechanics is is an opportunity here as well. There's a couple different different ways that you can go about uh punchable tokens and start to explore different things with that. Uh places to start obviously the actual uh token naps. Uh meme.cooking launchpad is a great place to start too. Looking at how they did some things around token launches as well as just smart contracts in general. You need to be able to do really well with that to actually have the token on chain. Had a few tracks already about money and especially around like automations and things like that. Social money is a little bit different. you know, is ways to actually coordinate something together and actually keeping the human in the loop of with all of this. And some of those things that might be involved here are looking at something like a tresu of Dow contract where it is more of a kind of a DAO setup but maybe modified. And so there's some really fun things you could try to iterate on here uh as well. Last one is open innovation. So, if you just have an idea that doesn't fit into any of these tracks, but you think it is novel, you think it is actually really useful, interesting, uh, or you just really want to show off some of the technology, this is the track for you. Uh, so build something that we haven't seen. Uh, you can get really creative with it and kind of go from there and, uh, just have fun with it. Submissions are super easy. You just need two public links before November 14th. Uh, at the end of that day, your public repository, so it has to be public. It has to be able to be read by both a human as well as maybe an AI system. Uh so you just using GitHub and making it public is the easiest way to do about that. You need to post a demo on X. You will need a mainet near account for the prize. Uh but that's all the information you have to put in. It's one submission per team and they can't be edited once you submit them. So make sure you are done before you actually submit all of that stuff. And if you have more questions, you can put in the comments below to start","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T03:45:53.003Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":0,"text":"Folks, let's take 3 minutes and go over the different tracks here available for the near hackathon. There 13 tracks and I want to show you where we start for all of them. This two weeks is 13 tracks","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bND1ioWBf3g&t=0s"},{"start_seconds":8,"text":"and there's one submission per team, but you can submit to multiple different tracks. 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