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About HackQuest
HackQuest is a learning and hackathon platform for Web3 developers that puts courses, quizzes, project work and tournament organization on one site. Learning tracks are organized by ecosystem, covering Ethereum, Solana, Mantle and Injective among others, and run from Solidity and Rust fundamentals to contract deployment, ending in a developer certificate co-issued with the partner ecosystem. Lessons use level-based quizzes and on-chain assignments, so a learner has to submit a contract or call a testnet contract to clear a stage.
The other side of the platform serves ecosystem developer growth: foundations and infrastructure projects supply course budgets and prize pools, HackQuest designs curriculum, handles registration, judging and certification, and hackathon projects flow back into grant programs. Compared with pure video-course sites, it works as a bundle of recruitment, competition and certification, earning from ecosystem sponsors rather than learner subscriptions; co-learning camps and offline events are hosted by local communities, forming a continuous path from study to team formation.
HackQuest fully acquires BuidlBox, the former Gitcoin hackathon platform, integrating hackathon resources to strengthen its Web3 developer education infrastructure.
It completes a $4.1 million Pre-A round led by Animoca Brands and Open Campus, providing capital for sustained growth.
In 2026 HackQuest's co-learning camps grew from one-off courses into an ecosystem-by-ecosystem calendar: Bittensor Africa cohort 10 ran from June 12 to July 2, Injective India cohort 22 from July 21 to August 4, Injective Africa cohort 11 and Indonesia cohort 11 from July 23 to August 10, Bittensor India cohort 23 from August 16, cohort 24 from September 20, and the first Chinese-language Bittensor camp opened in late August.
HackQuest runs each cohort over two to three weeks across five live sessions, moving from chain fundamentals to Solidity and Rust, CosmWasm contracts, SDK integration and testnet deployment, with graduation requiring the full learning track and a project demo, and top builders earning swag and ecosystem referrals. The Solana technical camp run with the Solana Foundation and Solar community earlier in the year proceeded in three seasons with 22 developer communities and 21 university blockchain clubs, using cash incentives and direct hiring to drive retention. Scheduling by ecosystem lets one curriculum and operations template be reused, so marginal cost falls with each cohort.
HackQuest replicates the curriculum template across more ecosystems and regions, turns learning records into verifiable developer credentials through graduation projects and referrals, and sells ecosystems a developer funnel with measurable completion standards.
Harry Zhang — Co-founder & CMO; previously built an English EdTech platform acquired in 2021.
Kevin L. — Co-founder; with Harry and Cameron built a Web3 developer-education and hackathon platform.
Cameron Wang — Co-founder; team spans ~40 people across 8 countries.