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THE SNAPTRADE EMPLOYEE HACKATHON

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Personal Challenge

Build something people want.
Powered by SnapTrade.

Every SnapTrade employee has until December 31 to build, launch, and grow a real consumer app on SnapTrade Personal, powered by OAuth.

Bring that “what if?” idea. Build anything you want. Find real users, connect their brokerage accounts, and make something worth coming back to.

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Have fun. Try something weird. Ship something real.
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Only legitimate users and activity count. See competition rules

Four ways to win.
Endless bragging rights.

Up to $22,000 USD in prizes.

Each category winner receives $5,000 USD if its own prize minimum is met by December 31. If no app qualifies, that prize is not awarded. Plus, the first app to reach each early milestone earns a $500 USD bonus after verification. Bonus winners can also win the year-end prize.

01 / GROW

Most Connected Users

$5,000 USDYear-end prize

Prize minimum: 500 qualifying connected users by December 31.

$500 USD · First to the milestone

100 qualifying connected users

One bonus per category. Awarded after verification.

Find your people.

Awarded to the app with the greatest number of legitimate users who successfully connect at least one real-money brokerage account through SnapTrade OAuth. Users with only paper connections do not count.

Why it matters

Proves developers can build experiences compelling enough for consumers to connect their financial accounts.

02 / EARN TRUST

Most Assets Connected

$5,000 USDYear-end prize

Prize minimum: $100M USD in qualifying connected assets and at least 100 qualifying connected users by December 31.

$500 USD · First to the milestone

$20M USD in qualifying connected assets and at least 20 qualifying connected users

One bonus per category. Awarded after verification.

Earn a little trust. Or a lot.

Awarded to the app with the highest total value of legitimate assets connected through SnapTrade. Paper accounts do not count toward Connected Assets.

Why it matters

Measures the level of trust consumers place in SnapTrade-powered applications.

03 / MAKE MOVES

Most Trade Flow

$5,000 USDYear-end prize

Prize minimum: $5M USD in executed trade value by December 31.

$500 USD · First to the milestone

$1M USD in executed trade value

One bonus per category. Awarded after verification.

Make your next move.

Awarded to the app with the highest total value of legitimate, executed real-money trades placed through SnapTrade.

Why it matters

Tests whether consumers are willing not only to connect accounts, but actually take financial actions through third-party SnapTrade apps.

04 / CONNECT

Most Multi-Broker Users

$5,000 USDYear-end prize

Prize minimum: 100 qualifying multi-broker users by December 31.

$500 USD · First to the milestone

20 qualifying multi-broker users

One bonus per category. Awarded after verification.

Connect the dots.

Awarded to the app with the greatest number of legitimate users who connect real-money accounts at two or more distinct brokerages. Paper connections do not qualify; multiple accounts at the same brokerage count as one institution.

Why it matters

Validates SnapTrade as a financial connectivity layer across institutions rather than merely a single-broker integration.

BIGGER THAN A HACKATHON

Build the next
reason to connect.

Follow your curiosity. Learn something new. Build something you’re proud to show off.
And along the way, help shape what SnapTrade becomes next.

Built by us.
Made for everyone.
01

Prove OAuth works

Will consumers willingly connect brokerage accounts to third-party apps powered by SnapTrade?

02

Bootstrap the App Directory

Populate SnapTrade’s OAuth ecosystem with useful real-world applications and demonstrate what developers can build.

03

Dogfood the developer experience

Every employee should experience SnapTrade exactly as an external developer would: read the docs, integrate OAuth, debug issues, and launch.

04

Discover new use cases

The most important outcome may be something we haven’t thought of yet.

05

Build the financial identity layer

See whether consumers naturally connect multiple financial institutions and reuse those connections across different applications.

From “what if?” to “it’s live.”

Build, launch, learn, repeat. Enjoy the part in between.

  1. 1

    Build

    Create any useful consumer application powered by SnapTrade OAuth.

    Build an OAuth App
  2. 2

    Launch

    Make it publicly accessible and get it approved for the SnapTrade App Directory.

  3. 3

    Grow

    Find real users and convince them to connect their brokerage accounts.

  4. 4

    Compete

    Watch the live leaderboard evolve through December.

  5. 5

    Win

    Final rankings are calculated at the end of December 31, 2026.

PLAY FAIR. BUILD SOMETHING REAL.

The rules.

A level playing field.
Friendly competition. Real impact.

Closes December 31, 2026
11:59 PM Pacific Time
  1. 01SnapTrade OAuth must be a meaningful part of the product.
  2. 02Apps must be publicly accessible to real users.
  3. 03Employees may submit multiple apps. Each app is judged independently and must meet its own category prize minimums. Metrics are not aggregated across apps submitted by the same person.
  4. 04Only legitimate users count toward competition metrics.
  5. 05Paper connections do not count toward competition metrics. Connected Users requires at least one real-money brokerage connection. Multi-Broker Users requires real-money connections at two or more distinct brokerages. Users with only paper connections are excluded from both user metrics. Paper assets are excluded from Connected Assets, and trades from paper accounts are excluded from Trade Flow.
  6. 06Duplicate accounts controlled by the same user do not count multiple times.
  7. 07Paying or directly incentivizing people purely to connect an account is not allowed.
  8. 08Misleading users or misrepresenting the product is not allowed.
  9. 09Trade Flow counts executed real-money trades placed through the app: stocks and ETFs at executed quantity × execution price; options at executed contracts × execution premium × the contract’s premium multiplier.
  10. 10Buys and sells both count positively. Count each executed leg once. Fees, unfilled orders, paper trades, and exercise or assignment events are excluded from Trade Flow.
  11. 11Artificial or repetitive trading designed primarily to inflate trade volume is excluded.
  12. 12SnapTrade may review metrics for abuse or gaming.
  13. 13Friends and family are allowed as legitimate early users.
  14. 14Competition metrics stop at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 31, 2026.
  15. 15Rewards: $5,000 USD for the winner of each category. Each floor applies only to its own category and must be met by the competition deadline: 500 qualifying connected users; $100M USD in qualifying connected assets and at least 100 qualifying connected users; $5M USD in executed trade value; 100 qualifying multi-broker users. If no app meets a category’s floor, that prize is not awarded.
  16. 16Early milestone bonuses: $500 USD for the first app in each category to reach 100 qualifying connected users; $20M USD in qualifying connected assets and at least 20 qualifying connected users; $1M USD in executed trade value; 20 qualifying multi-broker users. Each milestone must be reached by the competition deadline. One bonus is available per category, awarded after verification of which app reached the milestone first. All existing eligibility and anti-abuse rules apply. Milestones are measured per app, not aggregated by builder. Bonus winners remain eligible for year-end prizes. Up to $2,000 USD in milestone bonuses and $20,000 USD in year-end prizes are available.
  17. 17Connected Assets has no per-user asset cap. Both the asset threshold and its connected-user minimum must be met at the same time: at first qualification for the milestone, and at the competition deadline for the year-end prize. The year-end winner is the app with the most qualifying assets among apps meeting both minimums. Paper accounts are excluded.
  18. 18Milestones are detected from stored observations, not exact crossing times. Apps first observed meeting a milestone within five minutes of each other require review. Trophies indicate pending verification, not an awarded bonus. Later drops below a minimum do not erase a recorded milestone.
  19. 19Rules should remain fixed once the competition begins except where clarification is needed to prevent abuse.
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