🛠️ ​What is CTRL+MOVE Hackathon?

The CTRL+MOVE Hackathon focuses on driving innovation in DeFi and Payments innovation on the Aptos network, aligned with Aptos' vision of becoming the Global Trading Engine. This event invites builders from around the world to create the next generation of financial infrastructure, applications, and tools that redefine how value moves globally.

Whether you're passionate about cross-border payments, building core DeFi protocols, or building tools that empower other developers, this hackathon is your opportunity to bring impactful ideas to life on Aptos.

✅ Participant Checklist:

• Join the Discord [HERE] to access all updates, workshops, office hours, and connect with the hackathon community
• 'Register as a hacker’ on DoraHacks as soon as possible
• 'Submit BUIDL’ (submit project) by October 3, 2025

📅 Timeline

• Registration Opens: July 28
• Hackathon Kickoff: August 4
• Final Submission Deadline: October 3
• Winners Announced: October 16

🏠 Build the Future of DeFi on Aptos

From high-performance trading infrastructure to real world payments — redefine how finance works in a decentralized world

Aptos was built to power the next generation of decentralized finance. With low fees, lightning-fast finality, and parallel execution, Aptos provides the foundation for scalable and composable DeFi. Builders can leverage native Aptos primitives to create applications that are performant, and ready for mass adoption.

This track invites builders to innovate across the full spectrum of DeFi on Aptos. Whether you're enhancing on-chain liquidity infrastructure, rethinking payments and stablecoin rails, or creating new financial products, this is your playground. Use Aptos primitives to deliver fast, composable, and user-centric solutions.

What should you build?

We’re open to ideas, but here are a couple areas we see the need for further development:

🧩 Trading & Market Infrastructure

• Build with or around Central Limit Order Books (CLOBs)
• On-chain matching engines, analytics dashboards, vault strategies
• Composability with Aptos-native platforms like Merkle Trade, Hyperion, and Tapp

🧩 New Financial Products

• P2P lending, tokenized RWAs, prediction or options markets
• Social trading apps, mobile-first UIs, Telegram trading bots
• Vaults and copy-trading mechanics inspired by leading DeFi platforms

🧩 Payments & Money Movement

• Global remittance and P2P payment apps using stablecoins
• On-chain FOREX, payroll, or treasury management tools
• Fiat on/off-ramps for real-world utility

💰Prizes

Total Pool: $100,000 USD

🏆 Main Track**: Build the Future of DeFi on Aptos $65,000**

• 🥇 1st Place – $30,000
• 🥈 2nd Place – $20,000
• 🥉 3rd Place – $10,000
• 🏅 Honorable Mentions (2 teams): $2,500 each = $5,000

🛠️ Best Tech Implementation — $15,000

Awarded to the team that demonstrates the most advanced, creative, or technically sound use of the Aptos stack. Judges will evaluate innovation, scalability, and engineering excellence

🎓 Top University Team — $10,000

• 🥇 Winner: $7,000
• 🎖️ Runner-Up: $3,000

Celebrating student innovation, this prize recognizes the best-performing university teams. Projects will be judged on originality, execution, and potential impact, with separate awards for the winner and runner-up.

Make sure to provide your student email address when you submit your BUIDL, and include your university name in the Team Information section.

💼 Workshops and Office Hours

August 2025

• August 1 - Hackathon Sneak Peek – Twitter Space
• August 8 – Office Hours Session 1
• August 22 – Technical Workshop 1: Intro to Move & How to Build on Aptos
• August 27 – Office Hours Session 2

September 2025

• September 3 - Technical Workshop 2: Circle Wallet Support/Integration
• September 11 - Office Hours Session 3
• September 24 – TBD

October 2025

• October 1 – TBD

🤝 Support and Partners

📘 Core Resources

• Hackathon Quickstart One Pager
• Developer Tools
  • Developer Documentation - Learn Move, SDKs, and core Aptos concepts
  • Aptos Learn- Guided tutorials for hands-on learning
  • Create Aptos dApp - End-to-end full-stack template
  • Aptos Full-Stack Template - Opinionated starter template for faster development
  • Move by Examples - Side-by-side comparisons with EVM and SVM
  • Build and MCP Tools – Infrastructure and developer tools for building with Aptos