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Sligo Fintech Security and Blockchain Hackathon

Sligo Fintech Security and Blockchain Hackathon
Sligo Enterprise and Technology Centre, Strandhill Road F91 YXK4 F91 YXK4 Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland

  15 Jul 2026 07:00 PM

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Compete in an intensive 48-hour development challenge in Sligo to engineer highly secure financial transactions, fraud-detection engines, or decentralized protocols. More

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The Sligo Fintech Security and Blockchain Hackathon calls upon cybersecurity specialists, backend developers, blockchain architects, and financial analysts to unite and build reliable solutions for modern banking infrastructures. Over a high-intensity, continuous 48-hour period, participating teams will ideate, program, and refine prototype systems addressing payment fraud, automated identity verification, secure smart contract execution, and decentralized consensus ledgers. Senior security auditors and financial technology veterans will remain on-site to provide algorithmic guidance, patch architectural security flaws, and ensure solutions are legally aligned with modern fiscal compliance laws. The coding sprint culminates in live, working demonstrations evaluated by venture capital firms, corporate tech executives, and cyber-defense professionals, with substantial cash rewards and incubation sponsorships available.

  1. Test your security engineering and financial programming limits in an intense 48-hour challenge.
  2. Form teams with elite developers, cryptographic experts, and business analysts.
  3. Access exclusive technical mentoring from institutional security officers and architects.
  4. Present your working financial tech software to venture capital firms and tech companies.
  5. Compete for cash prize pools, security gadgets, and commercial startup incubation.