All Hackathons
We do not approach hackathons as events to simply attend. We organize them as builder environments: spaces where developers can meet under pressure, form teams quickly, test ambitious ideas, and turn raw technical curiosity into working products.
That is why our hackathons are designed as production spaces, not side activities. Some are tightly focused on a single ecosystem, some are built around a specific technical direction such as interoperability, modular infrastructure, or zero-knowledge, and some are structured to help new developers enter the space through a more guided builder experience. Together, they reflect a broader organizing philosophy: create the right environment, attract the right people, and let strong technical work emerge. This framing is consistent with the broader event history around node101 and ModaPalas, where 210+ developer events, hackathons, conferences, workshops, and hacker houses have been organized, including programs with Celestia Foundation, Sui Foundation, and Aztec.
Lambda Class
Lambda was organized as a high-intensity builder environment focused on zero-knowledge, interoperability, and modular thinking. It brought together developers who were ready to move beyond idea-sharing and into direct experimentation, with a structure designed to reward fast iteration, technical depth, and protocol-level creativity.
node101’s clearest contribution inside Lambda Week was the Cosmos bounty program. The team offered $4,000 in ATOM to projects that combined Cosmos SDK, IBC, and zero knowledge in meaningful ways.
ETHIstanbul
ETHIstanbul is our own conference-and-hackathon format, built to turn local and global builder energy into production. The event begins with a conference layer and then flows directly into a multi-day hackathon, creating a structure where people first gather around ideas, then move immediately into team formation, hacking, and product building. The format was designed exactly this way: conference first, hackathon second, so that conversations could turn into working teams without losing momentum.
The hackathon brought together 300+ dedicated hackers, 60 teams, and 50 submitted projects, with $41,000 distributed to builders through sponsor bounties and ETHIstanbul’s own top-up. node101 designed the process from zero to one.
Mammothon
Mammothon was a global Celestia hackathon that node101 helped turn into a real builder movement in Türkiye. Rather than treating it as a remote online competition, node101 and ModaPalas built local momentum around it through boost days, idea circles, mentoring, workspace support, and team formation processes that gave Turkish builders a much stronger entry point into the event. The result was not just participation, but a visible Turkish presence inside a global modular blockchain competition.
That effort translated into strong outcomes: 2 Turkish winners out of 10 global winners, 4 Turkish runners-up out of 15 global runners-up, and 21 Turkish teams out of 102 global submissions. A more detailed Celestia contribution summary also states that 40+ teams were mobilized across Türkiye, 20 projects submitted demos, and node101 and ModaPalas supported the process with mentoring, UI/UX feedback, roadmap guidance, and product support. In short, node101 did not wait for Turkish builders to find the hackathon on their own; it designed the local pipeline that brought them into it and helped them compete globally.
Sui Hackathons
The Sui Hackathon was organized as a recurring local builder environment to grow product development on Sui in Türkiye. The format was not just a one-off weekend event, but part of a broader developer funnel built around education, local auditions, workshops, partnerships with university blockchain clubs, and then a more focused hacker house or hackathon phase where builders could actually ship. The idea was to make Sui feel reachable and buildable for Turkish developers through a more continuous local process.
The clearest early proof point came from the Sui Overflow Hacker House in Istanbul, where 79 participants submitted 5 projects, with support from partners such as ODTÜ Blockchain and YTÜ Blockchain and mentors from Sui Foundation and node101. The next Sui Connect Istanbul hacker house was planned as a three-day build process with at least 50 developers expected, a $50 participation bounty per developer, and prizes of $1,500 for first place, $1,000 for second, and $500 for third. node101 designed this process as a full local growth engine: not only the event day itself, but the audience funnel, partner structure, mentor layer, reward design, and follow-up path into more sustained Sui development.
Celestia Hackathons
The Celestia Hackathon side of node101’s work was built around modular blockchain thinking and long-term developer onboarding rather than one isolated competition. The model was clear: first reach developers through educational content and community channels, then bring them into physical builder events such as hackathons, bounty days, and hacker houses, and from there push the best teams toward grants and product development. That made the event layer part of a bigger ecosystem strategy around Celestia, not just a short-lived campaign.
On the ground, this translated into real incentives and hands-on builder support. The Celestia Infinite Space Bazaar Hacker House in Istanbul is listed with an example cost of $2,500, while the broader Celestia funnel explicitly includes participation bounties, accommodation support, travel support, and per-hackathon prizes for successful teams. node101 designed this process to reduce friction for builders at every step, from first contact and onboarding to physical participation and post-event continuity, making the hackathon feel like the middle of a journey rather than the whole story.
Base Hyperthons
The Base Hyperthons were organized as fast, one-day mini-app build environments spread across multiple cities in Türkiye. Instead of concentrating all activity in a single hub, node101 designed the format to run simultaneously in Istanbul, Ankara, and Bursa, giving more developers direct access to a focused building day around Base. The goal was speed and accessibility: take participants from idea to deployment in one day and make mini-app development feel immediate and achievable.
The format produced clear results: 102 participants across three cities and 19 mini-apps built in a single day. The event also secured participation from top university students across Türkiye, showing that the format could attract strong technical talent even in a compressed schedule. node101 designed the full experience as a distributed hackathon system, shaping not just the content but the city rollout, builder journey, and execution model that made simultaneous local production possible.
Aligned ModaPalas
Aligned ModaPalas was a builder workshop created to turn interest in zero-knowledge infrastructure into concrete product ideas. Held at ModaPalas in Kadıköy, the event brought local developers together with the Aligned Layer team to explore faster and cheaper proof verification on Ethereum, understand the design space around ZK infrastructure, and discuss what could actually be built on top of it. The format was built around direct interaction, not passive listening, and gave the community a clear entry point into one of the most exciting new infrastructure layers in the ecosystem.
The workshop followed a deliberate flow from introduction to ideation. The evening opened with icebreaking, moved into a dedicated Aligned Layer presentation, and then expanded into pizza-fueled brainstorming and two Campfire Circle sessions where participants refined product ideas for the upcoming hacker house. With 77 attendees, the event showed strong local demand for builder-first technical gatherings, and node101 designed the experience end to end, from venue and pacing to the social structure that turned the workshop into a real pre-hackathon ideation space.
