What is it?

The Sonic Summit Jailbreak Hackathon is a global online competition kicking off on May 6, 2025, as part of Sonic Summit 2025 in Vienna.

This is no ordinary hackathon — it’s a high-stakes battle between users and developers to outsmart cutting-edge AI and smart contracts, with a $15,000 prize pot up for grabs.

Participants will compete across two distinct tracks:

• User Track: AI Jailbreak — Extract a secret private key from an AI (Google's Gemini) using prompt engineering.

Rules & Requirements: https://jailbreak.soniclabs.com/docs

• Developer Track: Smart Contract Exploit — Find and exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts designed by Cantina.

Anyone around the world can participate, whether attending Sonic Summit or not!

Head to the MAIN PAGE to take part!

IMPORTANT: Only User Track submissions are taken through this DoraHacks page. All BUIDLs will be kept private while the hackathon is ongoing to prevent plagiarism. Rules & Requirements: https://jailbreak.soniclabs.com/docs

Important Dates

• Launch Date: May 6, 2025 - 13:00 UTC
• Submission Deadline: May 8, 2025 - 23:59 UTC (Or until completed)
• Winner Announcement: Due following the submission deadline. If only one track has a winner, the full prize pot is awarded. If each track has a winner, the prize pot will be split 50:50

Note: The official winner must complete a KYC (Know Your Customer) verification to claim the prize.

Resources

• Google Cloud: Provides Gemini AI, cloud infrastructure, and AI security guidance for the User Track.
• DoraHacks: Manages private key verification and prize distribution for the User Track.
• Cantina: Designs the challenge contracts and oversees verification of submitted exploit reports/proofs for the Developer Track.
• Sonic: Organizes the hackathon, funds the prize pool, develops the UI, and handles marketing.

User Track: AI Jailbreak - CLOSED

• Each prompt submission requires an on-chain fee paid in S, increasing gradually over time.
• Win by successfully extracting the private key, adding it to a BUIDL and submitting through DoraHacks for verification.

To be eligible, you need to include the following in your BUIDL:

• TX hash
• Wallet address
• Private key provided by AI

Developer Track: Smart Contract Exploit

• Access the provided smart contract code (here)
• Analyze and exploit the intentional vulnerabilities in smart contracts crafted by Cantina.
• Earn points by solving challenges provided on the hackathon's Devs page. Points are tracked by the main pot contract.
• The first to accumulate 200 points wins!
• Verification involves submitting proof/reports for the solved challenges via Cantina after reaching the point threshold. It is not about draining the pot directly.

Note: Developer Track submissions are not taken through DoraHacks.

Why Participate?

This hackathon is about more than just winning — it’s about sharpening your security skills in blockchain and AI. By proactively attacking real systems in a safe environment, participants will help strengthen the resilience of decentralized technologies.

Join the jailbreak. Strengthen the future.