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DoraHacks is a decentralized open-source developer incentive platform and a vibrant global community of hackers and blockchain projects. It provides hackathon organization tools, quadratic voting and grant protocols, and BUIDL project showcase/discovery features, enabling developers to launch or join hackathons, receive community grants, and display their open-source work. The platform integrates AI-assisted tools to streamline event creation, project review, and community Q&A.
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About DoraHacks
DoraHacks is a global hackathon community and open-source developer incentive platform. Its core business provides toolkits for anyone to organize hackathons and fund early-stage ecosystem projects, covering areas like Web3, AI, and quantum computing.
The main market pain point it addresses is the inefficiency in connecting developers with blockchain ecosystems: developers struggle to find quality projects and funding, while ecosystems find it costly to source builders. DoraHacks solves this through a standardized hackathon infrastructure, global community reach, and a transparent grant mechanism, having supported over 30,000 early-stage teams with cumulative funding exceeding $92 million.
In the past six months (2026-02-28 to 2026-08-29), DoraHacks launched BUIDL AI 3.0, the first automated agent for hackathon organization, which reduces organizer workload by an estimated 90%. This tool has been adopted by over 30 major Web3 ecosystems including Circle, Stacks, and Aptos. The platform has continued to expand its global hackathon series, with a notable focus on stablecoin infrastructure, programmable wallets, and AI-agent payment use cases.
One observed industry-wide challenge is the increasing homogeneity of hackathon formats, which may reduce participant engagement over time. However, DoraHacks' continuous tooling upgrades and ecosystem partnerships appear to mitigate this risk.
Over the past six months, DoraHacks has centered on the AI+Web3 agentic economy. In August 2026, it hosted DoraHacks 2.0, a 10-day global hackathon spanning 35+ countries, with a ₹2 Crore prize pool and 50+ mentors from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, guiding builders from AI product creation to public launch on Product Hunt and Peerlist (). Meanwhile, multiple AI/Web3 hackathons ran intensively: Turing Test 2026, Skill-to-Agent with OpenAI, BNB Chain AI Trading, Stellar ZK, and more (). The official strategy focuses on the “agentic economy”: using BNB Chain as an example, DoraHacks analyzed agent infrastructure (ElizaOS agents, AGOS cross-agent task markets, agent tokens/NFTs, agentic memes) and proposed the “Agent DAO” concept—10,000 seats, on-chain verified agent identities, DAO autonomy, and mutual economic services (). The community has now funded 30,000+ startup teams with over $92M (). Future priorities: transforming from a tool platform into an AI-native builder ecosystem, supporting four human-agent collaboration modes (replacement, augmentation, service, coordination), maturing the on-chain agent financial and governance layers, and continuing to incubate early teams through hackathons and BUIDL AI.
Eric Zhang (Founder, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiannanzhang/, Twitter: https://x.com/ericzhang90) - Founded DoraHacks in 2014, a global hackathon organizer and Web3 developer incentive platform. Previously studied at Tsinghua University and University of Oxford.
Steve Ngok (Chief Strategy Officer, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevengok/, Twitter: https://x.com/daongok) - Joined DoraHacks in 2018, previously served as COO, now CSO. Holds a background in economics and finance from Tsinghua University.