IOPn · Programme calendar

Six seasons.
Six verticals.

Each season targets a specific ecosystem vertical where IOPn needs builders. Themes focus the hackathon, and the chain confirms the work. Below is the full programme calendar, past, active, and upcoming.

Programme calendar

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01/03

Season 1 · DeFi & Open Finance

The current hackathon window closes in 26 days. Builders, this is where you ship.

Live · Season 1

DeFi & Open Finance

OPN Swap · OPN Locker · PerpDex

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02/03

The full programme calendar.

Each season runs a different theme across its 45-day cycle. Past winners are immortalised on-chain, the active season is live now, upcoming seasons are scheduled and locked.

S1

Season 1

DeFi & Open Finance

Active

OPN Swap · OPN Locker · PerpDex

Permissionless financial protocols and open-access money systems. The vertical covers any infrastructure where the chain itself replaces a traditional financial intermediary, from low-level primitives up through consumer-facing products.

Yield productsLiquidity toolsNovel AMM designsFinancial primitives
Subs May 1, 2026Jun 21, 2026Finale Jul 15, 2026
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S2

Season 2

Identity & Reputation

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NeoID · Nexus NFT · REP System

Cryptographic identity, verifiable credentials, and on-chain reputation. The vertical covers how individuals and organizations prove who they are, what they have done, and what they can be trusted with, without depending on a central authority.

Credential verificationReputation-gated accessOn-chain professional profiles
Subs Feb 1, 2026Feb 22, 2026Finale Mar 18, 2026
S3

Season 3

Real World Assets

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Mosaic · OPN Chain

Off-chain value brought on-chain. The vertical covers the full path from how real-world assets become digital, to how they are priced and made tradeable, to how on-chain settlement enforces their constraints.

Fractional ownership interfacesRWA data oraclesCompliance tooling
Subs Mar 1, 2026Mar 22, 2026Finale Apr 15, 2026
S4

Season 4

AI & Compute

Past

ATLAS · GPU Infrastructure

AI workloads and decentralized compute running on OPN Chain. The vertical spans both the infrastructure that coordinates compute and data flow, and the AI applications built on top of that infrastructure.

On-chain AI inferenceSovereign data pipelinesAI agent frameworks
Subs Apr 1, 2026Apr 22, 2026Finale May 16, 2026
S5

Season 5

Gaming & Ownership

Upcoming

OPN Studios

Player-owned games and digital ownership. The vertical covers in-game economies, asset systems, and the broader question of what real ownership of digital items looks like when settlement happens on-chain instead of inside a publisher's server.

In-game asset protocolsAchievement systemsAvatar tooling
Subs May 1, 2026May 22, 2026Finale Jun 15, 2026
S6

Season 6

Open Track

Upcoming

Any OPN Chain infrastructure

Any product built on OPN Chain. If a build does not fit cleanly into one of the five themed verticals but uses OPN Chain infrastructure as a load-bearing part of the product, this is its hackathon.

Best product on OPN Chain winsNo category restriction
Subs Jun 1, 2026Jun 22, 2026Finale Jul 16, 2026

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Pick a season. Ship a build.

Connect Discord, link a wallet, verify a contract you deployed on OPN Chain inside the active season. Three steps. No paperwork.