Prize Tracks
DeFi & Tokenization
For projects bringing new ideas to DeFi, stablecoins, and onchain finance—whether by extending existing protocols or building entirely new ones. In addition, projects that focus on the tokenization of RWAs, bringing them onchain to enable a better way to do finance.
DeFi Example Ideas:
- Stablecoin issuance
- Tokenized asset servicing and lifecycle management
- Custom Proof of Reserve Data Feed
CRE & AI
For projects that integrate AI into Web3 workflows to assist with decision-making, automation, or execution. This includes AI-assisted workflows, autonomous agents interacting with onchain systems, and AI-in-the-loop applications that combine intelligence with verifiable execution.
Use Cases:
- AI agents consuming CRE workflows with x402 payments
- AI agent blockchain abstraction
- AI-assisted CRE workflow generation
Prediction Markets
For projects building decentralized prediction and forecasting applications that rely on real-world and offchain data for market resolution. This includes systems that enable automated, verifiable settlement of prediction markets based on events, outcomes, or data signals.
Use cases:
- AI-powered prediction market settlement
- Event-driven market resolution using offchain data
- Private Prediction Markets using Chainlink Confidential Compute private transactions
Risk & Compliance
For projects focused on monitoring, safeguards, and automated controls across onchain systems. This includes applications that detect risk, verify reserves or system health, and trigger predefined responses based on real-world or onchain conditions.
Use cases:
- Automated risk monitoring
- Real-time reserve health checks
- Protocol safeguard triggers
Privacy
For projects that use Chainlink Confidential Compute (early access) for private transactions and/or CRE’s Confidential HTTP capability to build privacy-preserving workflows, where API credentials, selected request and response data, and value flows are protected, and sensitive application logic executes offchain.
This track focuses on applications that require secure API connectivity and/or compliant non-public token movement, enabling decentralized workflows without exposing secrets, sensitive inputs or outputs, or internal transaction flows onchain.
Note: Confidential HTTP and Chainlink Confidential Compute (early access) will be available from Feb 16th.
Examples use cases and design patterns could include:
- Sealed-bid auctions & private payments:
- Bidders submit payments via compliant private transactions
- Auction logic runs offchain to determine winners
- Settlement and refunds occur privately
- Private treasury and fund operations: move funds internally without exposing detailed transaction flows, while retaining the ability to withdraw to public token contracts.
- Private governance payouts & incentives:
- Governance or scoring logic runs offchain
- Rewards, grants, or incentives are distributed via compliant private transactions
- Individual recipients and amounts are not publicly visible
- Private rewards & revenue distribution:
- Offchain computation determines allocations
- Payments executed via private transactions
- Supports rebates, revenue shares, bounties, and incentives
- OTC and brokered settlements
- Settle negotiated trades privately between counterparties, with execution coordinated offchain.
- Secure Web2 API integration for decentralized workflows: use external APIs in CRE without exposing API keys or sensitive request & response parameters onchain.
- Protected request–driven automation: trigger offchain or onchain workflows based on API data while keeping credentials and selected request inputs confidential.
- Safe access to regulated or high-risk APIs: interact with APIs where leaked credentials or request parameters could cause financial, security, or compliance risk.
- Credential-secure data ingestion and processing: fetch and process external data offchain using CRE while preventing secrets from being exposed to the blockchain or logs.
- Controlled offchain data handling with auditability: execute API requests offchain with reliable execution guarantees and traceable usage, without writing sensitive inputs onchain.
Top 10 Projects
For the best 10 runner-up projects using Chainlink Runtime Environment
Best use of World ID with CRE
This track is for projects that integrate usage of World ID with CRE. World ID is World’s protocol for privacy-preserving proof of unique humanness, which is extremely useful for sybil resistance.
World ID is natively supported on several blockchains (Ethereum, Optimism, and World Chain), and World ID proofs can also be verified off-chain. This track invites builders to leverage CRE to enable World ID usage on blockchains where it is not natively supported. This can be accomplished with proof verification either on-chain, or off-chain within CRE.
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Best usage of CRE within a World Mini App
This track is for projects that integrate CRE into a World Mini App. Mini Apps are web apps that open in a webview within World App and use the MiniKit SDK to connect the user’s wallet, send gas-free transactions on World Chain, and request World ID proofs.
Mini Apps natively support only World Chain. This track invites builders to use CRE within a Mini App to leverage applications, data, and protocols from other chains or off-chain sources within a Mini App.
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Build CRE workflows with Tenderly Virtual TestNets
This challenge invites builders to showcase innovative workflows using Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) orchestrated and tested on Tenderly Virtual TestNets. By combining CRE's workflow capabilities with Virtual TestNets' real-time mainnet state synchronisation and zero-setup development environments, builders can rapidly develop, test, and validate complex multichain dapps before production deployment.
The CRE enables developers to build and deploy advanced workflows that connect any blockchain, API, Chainlink service, or external system. With built-in tools, CRE enables verifiable execution via decentralised oracle networks. Virtual TestNets complement this by providing instant replacement for public testnets, offering unlimited faucets, customizable network state, and built-in debugging tools - all synced with real mainnet data.
Example projects:
Cross-Chain Bridge Application: Build CRE workflows that orchestrate cross-chain applications using Virtual TestNets forked from multiple EVM chains. Test message passing, asset transfers, and state synchronisation across different networks in a controlled environment with real-time mainnet data, demonstrating secure and verifiable cross-chain execution.
Custom data feeds: Create CRE workflows that bring external data onchain through custom oracle networks. Deploy and test on Virtual TestNets synced with mainnet, demonstrating how real-world data (NAV feeds, Proof of Reserve, market data) can be securely delivered to smart contracts with cryptographic verification.
AI agent orchestration: Build CRE workflows that enable AI agents to trigger verifiable onchain actions. Test autonomous agent interactions on Virtual TestNets with real protocol state, showcasing how CRE can bridge AI automation with blockchain execution while maintaining transparency and auditability.
Submission Requirements:
Projects will be judged based on quality, innovation, and effective use of both Chainlink Runtime Environment and Tenderly Virtual TestNets. All submissions must include:
- Tenderly Virtual TestNet Explorer Link demonstrating deployed smart contracts and transaction history for your CRE workflow
- GitHub repository with source code for CRE workflows, smart contracts, deployment scripts, and comprehensive documentation
- Clear demonstration of CRE workflow execution, showing how Chainlink orchestration integrates with Virtual TestNets for testing and validation
- Documentation explaining the use case, architecture, and how the integration of CRE and Virtual TestNets solve problems
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thirdweb x CRE
Combine web3 development tools from thirdweb with Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for secure, verifiable decentralized workflow orchestration. This track invites builders to create applications beyond traditional smart contracts, integrating real-world data, automated off-chain logic, multi-chain operations, and rich user experiences using thirdweb’s full-stack SDKs and CRE’s capability orchestration layer.
Focus on building production-ready, interoperable apps where CRE handles complex workflow logic (e.g., cross-chain execution, run logic off-chain, trigger on-chain transactions), and thirdweb provides fast development, deployment, user onboarding, transaction handling, and smart contract infrastructure.
Example Projects:
- Build an autonomous agent that can observe real-world or on-chain data, make decisions, and execute transactions without human intervention.
- A prediction market platform with trust-minimized market resolution using verifiable external data.
