CCP Games today announced the EVE Frontier × Sui Hackathon 2026, an online hackathon running 11-31 March 2026, with a $80,000 USD prize pool. The hackathon invites builders to create mods running on Smart Assemblies – configurable in-game structures such as turrets, stargates, and storage units – or outside the game through external applications connected to the same live universe.
EVE Frontier demonstrates the unique power of Sui – supporting galactic-scale battles, true ownership, and persistent worlds through large-scale moddable infrastructure. Designed as a moddable survival universe, players can meaningfully shape their experience as they rebuild civilization from its ashes. Players can change how the world behaves through mods that stay active over time, can be expanded by others, and continue to affect the shared universe across the entire galaxy.
Mods can live inside the EVE Frontier game world by running within Smart Assemblies: player-built, in-game structures such as storage units, gates, and defensive systems. These structures, powered by Sui’s blockchain-enforced modding and co-creation, act as the physical hosts for player creativity, allowing for new logic and behavior to be installed within them, while able to be interacted with, defended or destroyed by other players. Mods can also live outside the game, as external applications that connect to EVE Frontier through an official API. These external tools, such as maps, dashboards, coordination platforms, and analytics services, do not exist as objects in space, but can also read and react to live game data in real time.
With the theme ‘A Toolkit for Civilization’ the 2026 Hackathon asks players to create mods from the supportive to the bizarre. Entries can be deployed into the live server, where players can use them as part of the judging process, and with the community vote playing a key role in deciding the winners.
“EVE Frontier is built on the idea that a virtual world shouldn’t be static,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games. “This is the next step in game modding: where builders aren’t just modding a client or a tool, but modding the server itself in real time, through systems that are designed to be extended. The Hackathon is an invitation to explore what happens when modding becomes part of a live universe.”
“EVE Frontier is designed to be built by players, not just played by them,” said Adeniyi Abiodun, Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, the original contributors to Sui. “Our goal is to provide the infrastructure to build ‘forever games,’ moddable worlds that can keep evolving. While EVE and Sui provide the foundation, it’s the builders who drive innovation. I speak for both CCP and Mysten Labs when I say we can’t wait to see what participants in this hackathon will create.”
