TAIKAI Labs

TAIKAI is a hackathon and developer competition platform founded in 2018 and run by a Portuguese team. For organisers it provides the full workflow: event setup, registration, team matchmaking, project submission, judging and leaderboards, with the organiser switching between open voting, organisation-member voting or a selected jury, and submissions accepting images, video and attachments.

For participants the value is project showcase and track record: completing an event yields an on-chain participation credential, voting and reward distribution were originally recorded through EOS smart contracts, and participation badges and project pages are published. In 2026 the event mix shifted towards artificial intelligence, including the European Union space programme's CASSINI hackathons and the European Defence Innovation Scheme defence hackathon, while the separate TAIKAI Garden offers mentoring and partner perks for post-hackathon projects.