📅 Jan 16 – Jan 18 | London
📍 Encode Hub, Shoreditch

3 days. London’s best builders. One goal: build the future of on-chain trading with Hyperliquid.

This is a community-organised hackathon bringing together DeFi engineers, trading infra teams, and Hyperliquid ecosystem projects for a weekend of deep technical building.

Whether you’re a DeFi veteran or just curious about high-performance on-chain markets, this is your chance to learn, build, and ship alongside serious operators.

🛠️ Hackathon Overview

3 days of non-stop hacking
Build on Hyperliquid & HyperEVM - check out bounties here
Hands-on workshops from ecosystem partners
Bounties and prizes for top projects
Food, drinks, and late-night hacking at Encode Hub

⚡ What to Expect

Partner-led workshops with practical technical guidance
24/7 hacking in person at Encode Hub
Bounties + prizes for standout builds
Direct access to builders, funds, and protocol teams
A strong focus on shipping real DeFi and trading infrastructure

🧠 Who Should Attend

DeFi and smart contract developers
Trading infra, analytics, and tooling builders
Engineers exploring on-chain orderbooks, derivatives, and markets
Anyone interested in building on Hyperliquid

No prior Hyperliquid experience required, just come ready to learn and build.

🗓 Event Structure & Timings

🛠️ Friday (Jan 16) – Workshops & Hackathon Kickoff

Doors open at 3:00 PM. Workshops begin at 5:00 PM.

Friday evening is all about getting builders up to speed, meeting partners, and forming teams before hacking begins.

Schedule

5:00 PM – Launch Event
Intro to the weekend, format, and how to make the most of the hackathon.

5:15 PM – Pear Protocol 101
Overview of the Pear Execution API and how to build advanced pair and basket trading workflows on Hyperliquid.

5:45 PM – Valantis 101
Introduction to the Valantis ecosystem, what you can build, and what judges are looking for.

6:15 PM – Rysk Finance 101
Learn how Rysk’s on-chain options protocol works and how to integrate risk management and yield strategies into your project.

6:45 PM – Insilico 101
A practical walkthrough of Insilico’s tooling, best practices for standing out, and how to approach hackathon judging criteria.

7:00 PM – Dinner
Food, drinks, and informal networking with builders, partners, and mentors.

8:00 PM – Checkpoint 1: Team Creation & Deadline
Finalize teams, lock in project ideas, and officially kick off hacking.

This is the best time to explore ideas, find teammates, and align with partners before a full weekend of building.

🚀 Saturday (Jan 17) – Full Hack Day

A full day and night dedicated to building.

Encode Hub open 24/7
Non-stop hacking on Hyperliquid & HyperEVM
Mentors and partners available throughout the day
Catered event: Dinner x2, Lunch x2, Breakfast x2

Build, iterate, and push towards a polished submission.

🏆 Sunday (Jan 18) – Submissions & Finale

The final stretch.

Midday – Final submissions due
Early afternoon – Judging begins
16:00 – Hackathon finale
- Project presentations
- Winners announced
- Closing remarks

🏆 Challenges & Bounties

For information on the challenges & prizes check out the Encode Club Platform

🤝 Partners

Rysk Finance
A DeFi protocol for earning yield through on-chain options.
Ideal for builders exploring volatility products and options primitives.

Valantis
A modular DEX built for the HyperEVM ecosystem.
Great for liquidity design, routing, and staking primitives.

Pear Protocol
Decentralised pair trading, go long one token and short another in one click.
Perfect for trading UX, on-chain markets, and quant strategies.

Salt
Robo-custody infrastructure for the human <> machine economy. Salt splits the ownership from the execution, unleashing a marketplace for fintechs, bots & AI quants to do clever things without the regulatory burden of taking asset custody.

Silhouette
A research and engineering studio building decentralised financial infrastructure.
Focused on quantitative research and algorithmic trading systems.

Insilico
A high-performance on-chain trading and analytics terminal.
Built for real-time data, advanced charting, and power-user DeFi tooling.

LI.FI
Cross-chain liquidity and bridging infrastructure for DeFi apps.
Ideal for teams building seamless multi-chain trading and UX.

Halo Capital
A crypto-native venture firm backing DeFi and on-chain market teams.
A strong partner for founders pushing new financial primitives.

📍 Venue

Encode Hub
41 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, London

Take a look at our fabulous venue, Encode Hub at 41 Pitfield Street, in the heart of Shoreditch!

📅 Past events

For partnerships and sponsorships, reach out to katerina@encode.club

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