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โ€‹๐ŸŒ™ Midnight Korea Hackathon 2026

โ€‹9์›” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ, Midnight ์œ„์—์„œ ์ฒซ ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์‹œ DApp์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”

โ€‹๋ธ”๋ก์ฒด์ธ์ด ์‹ค์ œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋กœ ํ™•์žฅ๋ ์ˆ˜๋ก, ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ ์  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฒด์ธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•ด๋ดค์ง€๋งŒ ZK๋‚˜ ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์‹œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์€ ์•„์ง ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค์—์„œ Midnight์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง์ ‘ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

โ€‹Midnight Korea Hackathon 2026์€ 9์›” ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ Midnight ์œ„์—์„œ ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์‹œ ์ค‘์‹ฌ DApp์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿ’ฐ $4,000 Cash Prize
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ $2,000 worth of CertiK AI Auditor Credits
๐ŸŒ Online ยท September 1โ€“27, 2026

โ€‹๐Ÿšฉ Challenge Begins: 2026๋…„ 9์›” 1์ผ
๐Ÿ Submission Due: 2026๋…„ 9์›” 27์ผ



โ€‹๐Ÿ”จ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด ๋˜๋‚˜์š”?

โ€‹์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค์—๋Š” ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ํŠธ๋ž™์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€‹Midnight์˜ ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์‹ค์ œ ์œ ์ฆˆ์ผ€์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” DApp์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€‹Identity, Voting, Finance, Compliance, Data Sharing๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด Consumer App๊นŒ์ง€. ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ธ”๋ก์ฒด์ธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•  ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃฐ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

โ€‹์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด?

  • โ€‹๊ธฐ์กด Midnight ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„์˜ DApp ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Awesome Midnight DApps


โ€‹๐Ÿ™‹ Midnight์ด๋‚˜ ZK๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

โ€‹Midnight์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ ‘ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ Zero-Knowledge์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ง€์‹์ด ์—†์–ด๋„ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๊ฐœ๋… ํ•™์Šต๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊นŒ์ง€ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ณต์‹ ํ•™์Šต ์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ฌธ์„œ, AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐ŸŽ“Learn with Midnight Academy

  • โ€‹Midnight์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐœ๋…๊ณผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„๋กœ ํ•™์Šตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณต์‹ ํ•™์Šต ํฌํ„ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Midnight Academy

โ€‹Midnight Academy ์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ์ฆ ์ œ์ถœ ์‹œ ์ตœ์ข… ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ€์‚ฐ์ ์ด ๋ถ€์—ฌ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿค– Build with Midnight Expert

  • โ€‹Midnight ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” Claude Code ์ „์šฉ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ๊ทธ์ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ Midnight ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , DApp ์„ค๊ณ„์™€ ๊ตฌํ˜„์„ ์ง€์›๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Midnight Expert

โ€‹๐Ÿ“š Build with Korean Docs

  • โ€‹Midnight ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ฌธ์„œ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Midnight Docs KR


โ€‹๐Ÿ† ์ƒ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜์ƒ ํ˜œํƒ

โ€‹์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด $4,000์˜ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์ƒ๊ธˆโ€‹๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ๊ณต์‹ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ CertiK์ด ์šฐ์ˆ˜ ํŒ€์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด $2,000 ์ƒ๋‹น์˜ AI Auditor Creditโ€‹์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿ’ฐ $4,000 Cash Prize

โ€‹์ตœ์ข… ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šฐ์ˆ˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์„ ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด $4,000์˜ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์ƒ๊ธˆโ€‹์„ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿฅ‡ 1์œ„ ยท $2,000
๐Ÿฅˆ 2์œ„ ยท $1,200
๐Ÿฅ‰ 3์œ„ ยท $800

โ€‹๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ $2,000 CertiK AI Auditor Credits

โ€‹ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค ์ƒ์œ„ 3ํŒ€์—๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ ๋ณด์•ˆ์„ ์ ๊ฒ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” CertiK AI Auditor Credit์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿฅ‡ 1์œ„ ยท $1,000 ์ƒ๋‹น
๐Ÿฅˆ 2์œ„ ยท $600 ์ƒ๋‹น
๐Ÿฅ‰ 3์œ„ ยท $400 ์ƒ๋‹น

โ€‹์ด $2,000 ์ƒ๋‹น์˜ Creditโ€‹์ด ์ˆ˜์ƒํŒ€์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐ŸŽค Showcase at Korea Blockchain Week

โ€‹์ƒ์œ„ 3ํŒ€์€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹์ˆ˜์ƒํŒ€์€ 10์›” 2์ผ Korea Blockchain Week 2026 ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” Privacy Night์— ์ดˆ์ฒญ๋˜์–ด ์ง์ ‘ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๋นŒ๋”, ๊ธฐ์—…ยท๊ธฐ๊ด€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž, ํˆฌ์ž์ž, Web3 ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ์•ž์—์„œ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ๊ฐ„ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹Build online. Improve with CertiK. Showcase in Seoul.


โ€‹ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

โ€‹9์›” 1์ผ ยท Challenge Begins

  • โ€‹ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€‹์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒญ ํ›„ Discord์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  Midnight ํ•™์Šต ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

โ€‹September ยท Learn & Build

  • โ€‹Midnight Academy, Expert, ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด Docs๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉด์„œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€‹ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘ ๋””์Šค์ฝ”๋“œ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์„ธ์…˜๊ณผ Q&A๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹9์›” 27์ผ ยท Submission Due

  • โ€‹์™„์„ฑ๋œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ œ์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹Final Judging

  • โ€‹์ œ์ถœ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ์ข… ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜์ƒํŒ€์ด ์„ ์ •๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹10์›” 2์ผ ยท Privacy Night

  • โ€‹์ƒ์œ„ 3ํŒ€์ด Korea Blockchain Week ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” Privacy Night Demo Day ๋ฌด๋Œ€์— ์˜ฌ๋ผ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


โ€‹๐Ÿ“ How to Participate

โ€‹1. Luma์—์„œ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒญ

โ€‹ํ˜„์žฌ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—์„œ Register ๋ฒ„ํŠผ์„ ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

โ€‹2. Discord ์ฐธ์—ฌ

  • โ€‹์‹ ์ฒญ ํ›„์—๋Š” Midnight Discord ์ฑ„๋„ ๋‚ด KR-Chat ์ฑ„ํŒ…๋ฐฉ์— ๊ผญ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

  • โ€‹์ฃผ์š” ๊ณต์ง€, ์ผ์ • ์•ˆ๋‚ด, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์„ธ์…˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐ Q&A๊ฐ€ Discord์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Discord ์ž…์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ

โ€‹3. Hackathon Hub ํ™•์ธ

  • โ€‹์ƒ๊ธˆ ์ƒ์„ธ, ์ „์ฒด ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ, ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€, ํ•™์Šต ์ž๋ฃŒ, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์„ธ์…˜ ๋ฐ ์ œ์ถœ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ์„ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ Hackathon Program Page์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    • โ€‹์ตœ์ข… ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ œ์ถœ ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•ด๋‹น ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Hackathon Program Page


โ€‹๐Ÿค Host & Partner

โ€‹Hosted by Midnight Korea

โ€‹Official Partner ยท CertiK

โ€‹Midnight Korea Hackathon 2026์€ CertiK๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. CertiK์€ ํ•ด์ปคํ†ค ์ƒ์œ„ 3ํŒ€์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด $2,000 ์ƒ๋‹น์˜ AI Auditor Creditโ€‹์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


โ€‹๐ŸŒ™ Midnight Korea Hackathon 2026

โ€‹Build Your First Privacy DApp on Midnight This September

โ€‹As blockchain applications expand into real-world use cases, deciding what data should be public and what should remain private is becoming increasingly important.

โ€‹If you have built on other chains but have not yet explored zero-knowledge or privacy-preserving technologies, this hackathon is your opportunity to get started with Midnight.

โ€‹Midnight Korea Hackathon 2026 is a month-long online hackathon where developers can build privacy-first DApps on Midnight.

โ€‹๐Ÿ’ฐ $4,000 Cash Prize
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ $2,000 worth of CertiK AI Auditor Credits
๐ŸŒ Online ยท September 1โ€“27, 2026

โ€‹๐Ÿšฉ Challenge Begins: September 1, 2026
๐Ÿ Submission Due: September 27, 2026



โ€‹๐Ÿ”จ What Can You Build?

โ€‹There are no predefined tracks for this hackathon.

  • โ€‹Build any DApp that uses Midnightโ€™s privacy features to demonstrate a real-world use case.

  • โ€‹Identity, voting, finance, compliance, data sharing, or entirely new consumer applications โ€” think about how data that would normally need to be public on a traditional blockchain could be handled differently with Midnight.

โ€‹Need inspiration?

โ€‹Explore DApps already being built across the Midnight ecosystem.

โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Awesome Midnight DApps


โ€‹๐Ÿ™‹ New to Midnight or ZK? Thatโ€™s Totally Fine

โ€‹You do not need prior experience with Midnight or Zero-Knowledge technology to participate.

โ€‹Official learning resources, Korean developer documentation, and AI-powered development tools are available to help you go from learning the fundamentals to building your first Midnight application.

โ€‹๐ŸŽ“ Learn with Midnight Academy

  • โ€‹Midnightโ€™s official learning portal, designed to help you understand the core concepts and development environment step by step.

  • โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Midnight Academy

โ€‹Participants who submit a Midnight Academy completion certificate will receive bonus points during the final judging.

โ€‹๐Ÿค– Build with Midnight Expert

  • โ€‹A Claude Code plugin designed specifically for Midnight development. Ask Midnight-related questions and get support with DApp architecture, development, and implementation.

  • โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Midnight Expert

โ€‹๐Ÿ“š Build with Korean Docs

  • โ€‹Access the full Midnight developer documentation in Korean.

  • โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Midnight Docs KR


โ€‹๐Ÿ† Prizes & Winner Benefits

โ€‹This hackathon offers a total of $4,000 in cash prizes, along with $2,000 worth of CertiK AI Auditor Credits for the top teams, provided by our official partner CertiK.

โ€‹๐Ÿ’ฐ $4,000 Cash Prize

โ€‹The top projects will be selected through final judging and awarded a total of $4,000 in cash prizes.

โ€‹๐Ÿฅ‡ 1st Place ยท $2,000
๐Ÿฅˆ 2nd Place ยท $1,200
๐Ÿฅ‰ 3rd Place ยท $800

โ€‹๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ $2,000 CertiK AI Auditor Credits

โ€‹The top three teams will also receive CertiK AI Auditor Credits that can be used to review and improve the security of their projects.

โ€‹๐Ÿฅ‡ 1st Place ยท $1,000 worth of credits
๐Ÿฅˆ 2nd Place ยท $600 worth of credits
๐Ÿฅ‰ 3rd Place ยท $400 worth of credits

โ€‹A total of $2,000 worth of credits will be awarded to the winning teams.

โ€‹๐ŸŽค Showcase at Korea Blockchain Week

โ€‹For the top three teams, the journey does not end with the hackathon.

โ€‹Winning teams will be invited to Privacy Night, held in Seoul on October 2 during Korea Blockchain Week 2026, where they will present their projects and showcase live demos.

โ€‹This is an opportunity to share what you built over the month with builders, companies and institutions, investors, and the broader Web3 community.

โ€‹Build online. Improve with CertiK. Showcase in Seoul.


โ€‹๐Ÿ“… How the Month Will Work

โ€‹September 1 ยท Challenge Begins

  • โ€‹The hackathon officially begins.

  • โ€‹Register for the hackathon, join Discord, and start learning Midnight and building your project.

โ€‹September ยท Learn & Build

  • โ€‹Learn and build with Midnight Academy, Midnight Expert, and the Korean developer documentation.

  • โ€‹Online sessions and Q&A will be held through Discord during the hackathon to support participants throughout the development process.

โ€‹September 27 ยท Submission Due

  • โ€‹Submit your completed project through the Hackathon Program Page.

โ€‹Final Judging

  • โ€‹Submitted projects will go through final judging, and the winning teams will be selected.

โ€‹October 2 ยท Privacy Night

  • โ€‹The top three teams will take the stage at the Privacy Night Demo Day in Seoul during Korea Blockchain Week to showcase their projects.


โ€‹๐Ÿ“ How to Participate

โ€‹1. Register on Luma

โ€‹Click the Register button on this page to complete your registration.

โ€‹2. Join Discord

  • โ€‹After registering, make sure to join the KR-Chat channel in the Midnight Discord.

  • โ€‹Major announcements, schedule updates, online session information, and Q&A will all take place through Discord.

โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Join Discord

โ€‹3. Check the Hackathon Hub

  • โ€‹Detailed information on prizes, the full timeline, judging criteria, learning resources, online sessions, and submission requirements is available on the Hackathon Program Page.

  • โ€‹Final project submissions will also be made through the Program Page.

โ€‹๐Ÿ‘‰ Hackathon Program Page


โ€‹๐Ÿค Host & Partner

โ€‹Hosted by Midnight Korea

โ€‹Official Partner ยท CertiK

โ€‹Midnight Korea Hackathon 2026 is held in partnership with CertiK. CertiK will provide a total of $2,000 worth of AI Auditor Credits to the top three teams.

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