The Bitcoin Design Community is organising another Designathon! Imagine a traditional hackathon, but primarily focused on design.

Our goal is to motivate designers and builders to get together and collaboratively explore ideas and concepts in and around the bitcoin ecosystem. For updates, join us on Discord, and on Nostr.

Prizes

Major thanks to our amazing sponsors for making these prizes possible. To learn more about how they will be awarded, see the FAQ below. Interested in sponsoring?

Projects

Projects are how we organize and collaborate during the designathon. Anyone can form a project with an idea they would like to work on, independently or with others. More info here.

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Ecash Designs

Creating graphic and web media art designs for Nostr & Ecash projects. Character designs (NUTs,...

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Ideas

It all starts with ideas. In the time leading up to the Designathon, we invited you to submit your ideas. They serve as inspiration for everyone to form teams and collaborate on during the event. Got questions?

Proof of brush

I call my idea proof of brush, 🖌️ Seeing so many AI generated Ghibli posts trending everywhere,...

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ODD: on-chain donations directory

A public donation directory for on-chain donations with silent payments. The directory or...

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Decentralized Design

A marketplace to LICENSE bitcoin designs. There are many great designers of Bitcoin merchandise....

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No User Left Behind

Let’s build accessible Bitcoin tools—together. We'll (we as in the team we gather) kick things...

Projects based on this idea
Playful Gods
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Bitcoin Safe

Looking for design improvements and ideas (not a complete redesign of the entire app) Bitcoin...

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Self-custody guidelines for organizations

This has been brought up in the Bitcoin Design Discord. As more organization (governments,...

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SplitSats - Social Bitcoin Adoption Through Shared Expenses

This idea leverages a common social situation (splitting dinner bills) to drive bitcoin adoption...

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Let's explore Ark UX

Ark is a layer 2 that can complement bitcoin & lightning with convenient onboarding of new users....

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Bitcoin Housie

🎉 Bitcoin Housie: A Game of Sats, Blocks, and Fun! Bitcoin Housie is a fun, educational twist...

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Schedule

The Designathon generally had a loose schedule, with projects deciding their own pace. Important, but still optional, were the kick-off, mid-event check-in, and wrap-up calls.

Sunday, May 4 / Day 1

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Kick-off call 2 @ 15:00 UTC

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Co-mingle

There are several other events around the time of the Designathon. Those are great opportunities to meet others, find interesting projects, help out, etc.

BTC++ Austin Hackathon

If you're in Austin, stop by this in-person hackathon focused on the mempool, organized by BTC++. There will also be a special design price. May 7 to 9.

Bitcoin 2025 Hackathon

Enter your project into this 1.5-month online global tournament and compete for a prize pool of ~$30,000 in bitcoin. Or if you are already part of the hackathon, use the Designathon to get design support. April 7 to May 20.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Let's truly design bitcoin for everyone. We will have a special workshop and prize for this year's accessibility day. May 15.

Questions?