AI x Finance @ Princeton University | by Trade[XYZ]

​Overview

​AI@Princeton is very excited to partner with Trade[XYZ] to host its first-ever AI x Finance Hackathon - in collaboration with Princeton Quant Traders, Princeton E-Club, Gradient, Astro Capital, and Anthropic.

​Finance is one of the last major industries where AI hasn't yet rewritten the rules — but the window is closing fast. The infrastructure is finally here: real-time data pipelines, frontier models that reason about markets, and exchanges moving toward 24/7 global trading. The teams that build at this intersection now will define the next generation of financial products.

​This is Princeton's first Applied AI × Finance Hackathon — a one-day sprint to build something real at the frontier of two fields converging in real time.

​Event Details

​Updated Schedule: Sunday, March 29 · 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM · Friend Center

• ​$10,000 in Cash Prizes + Nintendo Switch 2

• ​FREE Chipotle + boba at the Opening Ceremony at 12:00 PM.

• ​Anthropic credits, merch, and more
  

​Competition Tracks

​Track 1 — Consumer Application

​Build a next-generation consumer finance product — the successor to Robinhood or Bloomberg Terminal, or redefine the concept of trading entirely. Mobile-first apps may be preferable. Focus areas include trading UX, financial data visualization, and fintech tooling for retail and/or institutional users.

​Track 2 — AI/Agentic Tooling

​Apply AI to financial markets, or create the primitives that will be integral to this emerging intersection. Submissions can range from fully autonomous trading systems to broadly applicable agentic tooling for research, execution, or risk management.

​Prizes ($10K total)

• ​1st Place per Track: $2,500

• ​2nd Place per Track: $1,000

• ​1st Place Overall (across both tracks): $2,500

• ​Most Innovative: Nintendo Switch 2

• ​All teams that submit a project are entered into a raffle for a Nintendo Switch 2

​About Trade[XYZ]

​Trade[XYZ] is pioneering the next era of financial markets — perpetual futures on real-world assets for 24/7 permissionless trading. Within six months of launch, their markets across traditional asset classes - including stocks, commodities, and fx - have emerged as a significant unlock in global capital markets, rapidly growing to over $500 billion annualized trading volume. They're actively recruiting top talent in quantitative research, trading, and engineering.

​We are excited to see you there!