At 8:00 AM in Pune, hundreds of developers sat side by side with open laptops. On the other side of the globe, the clock was still ticking late into the previous night in Bogotá - yet the venue there was just as packed. On Saturday, July 4, 2026, the Monad Foundation hosted two concurrent day-long hackathons across two cities separated by more than 16,000 kilometers, united by a single mission: build something running on the Monad network before sunset.
Not Your Typical Hackathon: Just One Day to Code
Dubbed “Monad Blitz,” the event format is known for its intense time constraints. Participants receive only a quick morning crash course on Monad’s parallel-execution EVM before being thrust straight into a build sprint without extended breaks - with the goal of having a working testnet prototype ready for live stage demos by the end of the day. The Pune edition, titled “V2 - The Agent Economy,” specifically encouraged participants to build AI agents or supporting infrastructure - a theme reflecting how deeply intertwined the AI and crypto narratives have become this year.
Winners are not decided by a panel of judges in suits behind a table, but by direct audience applause following each team’s brief pitch. Monad has intentionally kept this format since its inaugural edition in May 2025 - spanning over 40 events across cities from Shanghai to San Francisco, and now arriving simultaneously in Pune and Bogotá.
Why Two Simultaneous Cities Matter
The strategy of running parallel hackathons across regional hubs serves a straightforward purpose: reaching developers who rarely have the chance to fly out to massive crypto events in Singapore or Dubai. Registrations were approval-based via Luma, and the event explicitly opened its doors to Web2 developers building on Monad for the first time - not just the usual crowd lingering in blockchain forums.
This rapid-fire format has become a common tactic among Layer-1 networks fiercely competing for developer mindshare. Instead of waiting for builders to attend a single flagship conference once a year, Monad chooses to maintain a constant presence in university towns and local developer hubs - an approach that is significantly more cost-effective, though demanding high consistency to cultivate long-term trust.
While official reports on the winning projects in both cities have yet to be released, patterns from previous editions show that several teams from these one-day sprints often evolve into serious ventures that advance to subsequent hackathons - proof that a one-day coding marathon is sometimes enough to spark ideas that endure far beyond the event.
Reported from the official Monad Developer Portal and Luma.
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