The Qwen SKYST Hackathon will be held from 21st to 29th November 2025. Sign up before the 22nd November to get involved, build a project using FLock.io’s API Platform and win up to $5,000!

FLock.io, Base’s largest AI infrastructure protocol, is hosting the hackathon in collaboration with Base and Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen. We invite students, developers, content creators and whoever is interested in developing Base and AI applications.

The demo day will be held in Seoul, South Korea, with online attendance also possible.

It's an opportunity to support app builders and share with the community to invigorate Base's diverse application ecosystem. While the previous Qwen SKYST Hackathon was a datathon focused on creating AI models, this hackathon involves building actual user-ready applications utilising those models in the form of Base Mini Apps.

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There are two tracks. Both use the FLock API Platform, which is similar to the OpenAI API, and build a Base Mini App.

1. Hackathon Track 1: Build an AI Application utilizing FLock.io’s API Platform as a Base Mini App.

2. Hackathon Track 2: Build an AI Application/Agent utilising FLock.io’s API Platform and x402.

The Kickoff Session will have a vibe coding tutorial on both building a Base Mini App and utilising the FLock.io API Platform. See a Vibe Master demo video and the website.

Projects will be judged on the following criteria: application quality (30%), FLock API utilisation (30%), novelty (20%) and practicality (20%). Teams will need to produce a 5-min presentation and demo of the application (video), presentation slides (PDF) and projection details. 

Together, we are allocating $15k USD in prizes with teams of 1-3 people having a shot of winning up to $5,000.

1st place: $5,000

2nd place: $3,000

3rd place: $2,000

Finalists (4-8): $1,000

Registration: 11.13 ~ 11.22

API Distribution: 11.21 ~ 11.23

Kickoff: 11.22 13:00~15:00 UTC+9

• Online (It may be distributed in the form of a pre-recorded video)

Online Hackathon: 11.22~11.28 18:00 UTC+9

Submission Deadline 11.28 18:00 UTC+9

• The hackathon submission platform & communication tool will be announced

Top 8 finalists announcement: 11.28 23:59 UTC+9

Finalists Demo Day: 11.29 14:00~18:00 UTC+9

Finalists will be invited to attend the demo day at Dreamplus Gangnam B1, Seoul, South Korea on 29th November, 14:00~18:00 UTC+9.

Timetable

14:00~14:30 Registration

14:30~14:45 Closing remarks by FLock.io (Jiahao Sun, CEO)

14:45~15:00 Closing remarks by Base (David, Head of East Asia)

15:00~15:15 Closing remarks by Alibaba Cloud (Stone, Head of Business Development)

15:15~16:30 Top 8 Team Presentation

16:30~17:00 Break Time & Top Team Judging

17:00~17:15 Top Finalist Announcement & Award Ceremony

17:15~18:00 Networking

FLock.io is the first decentralized AI training platform combining Federated Learning and blockchain to enable secure, privacy-preserving model training. It empowers communities to collaboratively build and own AI without centralizing data. Powered by the $FLOCK token, FLock drives governance, incentives, and ecosystem growth. Backed by top investors and the Ethereum Foundation, it’s reshaping AI’s future.

Find out more about FLock.io by reading our docs and blogs. See a sneak peak of new launches coming in Q4 2025.

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Qwen is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud. Built to understand and generate both Chinese and English, Qwen is designed for a wide range of applications including natural language processing, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. As an open and scalable AI foundation, Qwen powers chatbots, coding assistants, and enterprise solutions across Alibaba’s ecosystem and beyond.

Follow Qwen on X.

Base is an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain network developed by Coinbase. It is designed to improve scalability, performance, and interoperability while reducing transaction costs and settlement time on the Ethereum network. As a decentralized platform, Base supports a wide range of dApps and smart contracts.

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SKYST is a consortium of computer clubs from four schools: Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University, KAIST. From 2023, they have been organizing annual hackathons of 100~150 participants, with the purpose of revitalizing the student developer ecosystem and strengthening student developers’ engineering capabilities through collaboration between the four schools.

AIKU is a student-led academic society at Korea University where students interested in studying deep learning come together to engage in education, research, applied projects, and discussions. AIKU was founded in the summer of 2022 by students from the Korea University School of Informatics, under the guidance of Professors Kim Byung-woo and Kim Seung-yong from the Department of Computer Science. Today, it includes students from diverse academic backgrounds.

Korea University Computer Club (KUCC) is the oldest and largest computer club within Korea University, being founded in 1973, through various activities related to computers, KUCC focuses on improving the technical capabilities of individuals and exposing them to various experiences with computers.

Yonsei Computer Club (YCC) was founded in 1970 and is the only centralized computer club at Yonsei University. At YCC, students actively participate in full-stack project contests/competitions to gain project experience as it is not only composed of developers but designers and project managers.

Seoul National University AI Club (SNUAI) is both a university based club and an incorporated startup with an investment of an initial valuation of $250K. Being the only club within Seoul National University that deals with AI in a practical way, they focus on researching and commercializing AI through their own corporation.

Waffle Studio is a web/app service development club based in Seoul National University, School of Computer Science, where it aims to build a community of developers within the department. Founded in 2007 and established as the largest development club on campus, WaffleStudio holds various activities related to development such as projects, studies, and coding meetings. Through projects, they produce development results and contribute to people with useful, experimental, and fun services. Currently, they operate a variety of services that have been launched to students at the university, and have several new projects in the works.

Blockchain Valley is a blockchain society based at Korea University. Launched in March 2022, it currently has 54 members active in development, research, security, and validator teams. Centered around product development, research paper publication, zero-day research, core research, and validator operations, the society maintains active engagement through collaborative projects with other societies, corporate partnerships, and participation in ideathons and hackathons.

X: @blockchainkor

BlockBlock is a blockchain club at Yonsei University founded in September 2022 with the hope of bringing together people who want to study blockchain together. We strive to become an ecosystem where people interested in blockchain can gather and grow to positively impact the WEB3 industry. True to the spirit of blockchain, BlockBlock is run by people from various departments who bring diverse perspectives.

X: @ysblockblock

CURG is a blockchain consortium established in 2018, primarily among universities in the Seoul metropolitan area. Composed of tech enthusiasts, CURG conducts blockchain research and Proof of Concept (PoC) projects with a 3T mindset: Trendy, Thoughtful, and Transdisciplinary. Through this, it aims to accelerate the future of blockchain and contribute to the development of its ecosystem.

X: @curg_official