AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens, the flagship global AI trading hackathon launched by WEEX Labs, the innovation arm of global crypto exchange WEEX serving more than 6.2 million users in over 150 countries, is currently entering its most intense phase, as a $1.88 million prize pool and a Bentley Bentayga S await the ultimate champion in Dubai.
This isn’t just a hackathon, it’s a global stress test for the future of AI-powered finance.
Preliminaries are in full swing
Global enthusiasm for hackathons is at its peak as the qualifying round enters its final and most intense phase. A total of 788 teams will compete head-to-head on the leaderboard for a limited number of coveted finals spots.
The qualifier, which will run from January 12th to February 2nd, will follow a group-based format, with 8-10 BUIDL teams in each group deploying AI trading strategies using 1,000 USDT in live market conditions over three weeks. Rankings change in real time, so every decision now carries weight. Only the best performers from each group will advance to the finals, where a high-stakes showdown will take place for supremacy in AI trading.
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WEEX Global AI Hackathon Offline Event: Dubai Kickoff, European Tour, Global Impact
Although the competition will take place online, AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens is designed as a hybrid hackathon that combines global digital participation with real-world participation. The finals will kick off in Dubai on January 30, 2026, with an Open Day Workshop Live. Two elite AI trading teams will face off on a single stage, making real-time market decisions without editing or filters, while explaining strategies to both participants and online viewers in live interviews.
Following Dubai, the tour will continue for four weeks across Europe in Germany, Poland, Netherlands, UK, Russia, France and Spain, featuring workshops, university sessions, live finals coverage, on-site trading challenges, human vs. AI trading battles, and more.
These offline events turn AI Wars into a traveling AI trading lab, bridging developers, traders, and institutions as AI strategies move from code to live markets.
AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens is supported by a strong lineup of global sponsors led by Web3 and AI leaders such as Hubble AI, CoinGecko, and Cryptoracle, as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Alibaba Cloud. Partners across cloud, AI tools, and Web3 data provide participants with institutional-grade infrastructure, cloud credits, dedicated APIs, and advanced market intelligence to enable teams to build production-ready AI trading systems.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The AWS Web3 team provides ultra-low-latency infrastructure for top exchanges around the world and access to key underlying models from Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Cohere, and AI21 Labs through Amazon Bedrock, enabling secure, scalable, next-generation trading systems backed by the AWS Startup Program.
As title sponsor, AWS will work with AISANIE to provide $1,000,000 in AWS Activate credits to support AI trading teams with scalable infrastructure, production-ready AI tools, and the ability to build, test, and deploy globally. Each winning team will receive up to $50,000 in AWS support, giving participants the resources to compete, innovate, and showcase their strategies on a global stage.
tencent cloud
Tencent Cloud, the world’s leading cloud company, is driving global digital transformation with innovative cloud, AI, big data, and security solutions. Tencent Cloud consistently serves industries such as gaming, media and entertainment, finance, and healthcare with data centers located in 22 geographic areas across five continents, with 64 availability zones and over 3,200 acceleration nodes worldwide.
Hubble AI
Backed by teams at Point72, Millennium, SBI Group, Tesla, and Coinbase, and with strategic support from YZi Labs and Vernal Group, Hubble AI is building the next generation AI agent trading infrastructure for fully autonomous on-chain financial agents, bringing institutional-level expertise to the AI agent era.
alibaba cloud
As a global leader in cloud and AI, Alibaba Cloud will exclusively provide Qwen large model API support and play a deep role in designing and building the hackathon’s AI trading platform, allowing participants to directly integrate cutting-edge large model capabilities into their real trading systems.
CoinGecko
CoinGecko contributes to the world’s most comprehensive crypto data API, providing real-time and historical data across over 20 million assets, 1,700+ exchanges, and 250+ blockchains, and is trusted by industry leaders such as Coinbase and MetaMask.
Crypto Racle
Cryptoracle powers hackathons with AI-driven private data infrastructure, providing participants with valuable insight into the market’s deepest signals and turning AI Wars into a truly global proving ground for intelligent trading.
In AI Wars, talent meets technology, ambition meets opportunity, and the future of trading is built one line of code at a time.
Why WEEX AI War Matters: Driving innovation and talent discovery in global AI trading
AI Wars: WEEX Alpha Awakens is WEEX’s strategic push into the future of trading, accelerating platform intelligence and discovering top AI strategists. This hackathon gives AI trading and quantitative finance teams a rare opportunity to test their models in real markets with transparency, open development, and real capital.
For the global cryptocurrency community, the AI Wars herald a new era. There, algorithms compete openly, talent is mined from around the world, and AI becomes a primordial element of core trading. Here code is capital, strategy is identity, and the future of trading unfolds in real time.
About WEEX
Founded in 2018, WEEX has grown into a global cryptocurrency exchange with over 6.2 million users in over 150 countries. The platform focuses on security, liquidity, and ease of use, offering over 1,200 spot trading pairs and up to 400x leverage on crypto futures trading.
In addition to traditional spot and derivatives markets, WEEX is rapidly expanding in the AI era, delivering real-time AI news, empowering users with AI trading tools, and exploring innovative trading revenue models that make intelligent trading more accessible to everyone. A 1,000 BTC protection fund further enhances asset safety and transparency, and features such as copy trading and advanced trading tools allow users to follow professional traders and experience more efficient and intelligent trading.
