The Launch Pad for
Real-Money Apps
An open, month-long competition to build real-money apps on Bankroll. Payments, verified age, and geolocation come with the platform — you build the app and go live to every Bankroll user.
You build the game. Bankroll unlocks the rest.
We supply payments, verified age, and geolocation, so you can focus on the game.
Payments
Bankroll is self-custodial — users hold their own funds, so money moves straight between your app and its users, with Bankroll never in the money path. Nothing can be charged back, and it's free: no processing fees, no revenue share.
Age
Every user's age is verified before they reach your app, and the verified age comes with the session. One person, one account — no multi-accounting.
Geolocation
The user's region comes with the session, so you can enforce eligibility rules without touching a geo provider.
Bankroll + AI makes this easy.
Point your AI coding agent at our docs and it handles the integration. Bankroll supplies payments, verified age, and geolocation; your agent wires them into your app and ships it — often the same day.
Copy this into your coding agent
This is the fastest path — from this prompt to a live app in a day. Full details at docs.joinbankroll.com.
Read the Bankroll developer docs at https://docs.joinbankroll.com, then create the app with "npm create @joinbankroll/app@latest my-app" and help me build a real-money app on Bankroll from there. Its AGENTS.md and the docs are your guide.One winner takes the whole $15,000. Breakdown below — sponsor credits are part of the total.
Partner prizes are being finalized, and amounts may shift before submissions open.
Bankroll seeds your project's treasury with $5,000 in HSUSD — real working capital to pay out winners and run your app from day one.
Credits toward media buying with Playbook Media — put paid marketing behind your app to acquire users and get it in front of players once it's live.
Credits toward a legal opinion for your app — a formal read from counsel.
Backed by people who build
Universal API credits for the first 100 participants.
Discounted plans for winners.
Every Bankroll app runs on Solana.
Legal opinion credit for the winning app.
Media-buying credits for the winning app.
Interested in sponsoring a future hackathon? Reach out at win@joinbankroll.com.
Who's picking the winners
Operators and investors across gaming, fintech, and infrastructure. The panel is being finalized, with announcements rolling out before submissions open.
Greg Dean
CEO, Bankroll
Published up front. No surprises.
Technical implementation
A working app that uses the rails correctly: payments, payouts, verified age.
Design
A complete, coherent product a real user would come back to. Working beats polished; both beats either.
Potential impact
A real audience and real volume. Could this find users and grow?
Quality of idea
Creative and non-obvious. Not the tenth solitaire clone.
One month to ship. Winners at kickoff.
Build as much as you can in one month. Winners are announced with the NFL season opener.
Build on Bankroll Docs Launch
docs.joinbankroll.com. Everything you need to wire up payments, payouts, and verified age. You can start building today.
Submissions open
Submit your live app any time starting August 1st.
Submission deadline
A full month to build and ship. Multiple submissions allowed.
Winners announced
In sync with the NFL season opener.
Second hackathon
Kicks off September 21 and runs to October 19, the day before NBA opening day.
Submit your Bankroll App
Unlimited submissions. Just send us your Bankroll play link.
Questions, including the gotchas
How does Bankroll work?
Bankroll is a self-custody wallet — users hold their own funds. Apps connect to it over open standards, and every financial transaction runs directly between the user and the app that serves them; Bankroll is not a party to any transaction. Bankroll will not endorse or solicit apps that do not comply with the regulations of the jurisdictions they serve.
What can I build?
Skill games, peer-to-peer competition, utility apps — technically anything that takes an entry fee, pays out a winner, or moves money between people. What's permitted depends less on what you build than on where you offer it: real-money apps are regulated in some form in most jurisdictions, games of chance especially. Bankroll is not a regulatory authority — more on where your app can operate below.
Where can my app operate?
You decide which jurisdictions your app serves, and it is your responsibility to offer it only where it is permitted under the rules and regulations that apply there. Bankroll gives you the user's region so you can enforce that, but Bankroll is not a regulatory authority and does not clear apps for lawful operation. If you have questions about your product, seek legal counsel.
Who can enter?
Anyone 18 or older who has reached the age of majority where they live — solo or team, no company required. Bankroll employees, the judges, and their households can't enter, and a number of countries are excluded, including India, Brazil, mainland China, Russia, Belarus, Italy, and Quebec. Check the Official Rules before you start building.
Can I enter something I've already built?
Yes. Existing products are welcome, as long as the Bankroll integration itself is new and real.
Build alongside the Bankroll community
Get help from the Bankroll team and other builders, share what you're shipping, and hear about updates first — all in the Bankroll builder Discord.
The Bankroll Launchpad is sponsored by InPlay Innovation Inc., doing business as Bankroll. No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win: this is a skill-based contest, and the winner is selected by judges applying the published criteria, not by chance. Void where prohibited. Prize values shown are approximate retail values. Partner credits are fulfilled by the relevant partner, subject to that partner's terms, and any prize component may be substituted with one of equal or greater value. This page is a summary — the Official Rules govern.
Every entry is screened before judging. Bankroll may decline to judge, promote, or award a prize to — or remove from the platform — any application that presents legal or compliance concerns, including any application that appears to constitute unlicensed gambling in a jurisdiction it serves, and will not endorse or solicit applications that do not comply with the regulations of the jurisdictions they serve. Winners are subject to identity and sanctions screening before any prize is delivered.
That screening is conducted for Bankroll's own purposes and is not a determination that an application is lawful. Bankroll is not a gaming regulator, and lawful operation of any app built on Bankroll is the builder's responsibility.