CCP Games Announces Winners of $80,000 EVE Frontier × Sui 2026 Hackathon

REYKJAVÍK, Iceland – CCP Games today announced the winners of the EVE Frontier × Sui 2026 Hackathon, concluding a three-week online event that brought together over 800 participants who created over 120 projects exploring how players can extend and reshape a live game universe.

CradleOS, developed by modder Reality Anchor, secured the $25,000 grand prize for its player-led civilization management system, which included $15,000 in cash, $10,000 in SUI Tokens, and a trip to EVE Fanfest 2026. Designed to manage everything from governance and defense to logistics and economy, CradleOS represents the pinnacle of the competition’s mission: empowering players to move beyond surviving the dangers of the Frontier and begin architecting the foundations of its universe for the far future.

Overall Winners

• First Place: CradleOS (link) (Video Demo) A complete civilization management system that gives player groups the tools to govern territory, coordinate resources, manage defense, and run logistics all through shared on-chain infrastructure, letting them build and operate a functioning society from the ground up.
• Second Place: Blood Contract (link) (Video Demo) A bounty system that lets players place rewards on targets and define hunt conditions, with automatic payouts that turn PvP into a structured and repeatable activity.
• Third Place: Civilization Control (link) (Video Demo) A control system that lets players manage infrastructure like gates, trade routes, and defenses from a single interface, with clear tools for setting rules and access.

Category Winners

• Utility: EasyAssemblies (link) (Video Demo)

A beginner-friendly tool that lets any player configure Smart Assemblies through a simple visual interface, customizing structures like gates, storage, and defenses in minutes.

• Technical Implementation: Frontier Flow (link) (Video Demo)

An open-source visual tool for building Smart Assemblies. Players drag and connect logic to design, test, and deploy automation in their browser, without coding, while still generating real, working Sui Move code.

• Creative: Bazaar (link) (Video Demo)

An immersive walkable marketplace that turns trading from a menu into a shared social space, letting players explore shops and interact with others inside a living Bazaar within the Frontier.

• Weirdest Idea: Shadow Broker Protocol (link) (Video Demo)

Turning spycraft and intel into a tradeable resource, it lets players buy, sell, and weaponize data and intelligence as a form of power alongside traditional warfare.

• Live Frontier Integration: Frontier Factional Warfare (link) (Video Demo)

A player-driven feature that creates live conflict zones with capturable objectives, letting players join factions and fight for control through rules enforced directly by in-world structures.

Players create mods in EVE Frontier by configuring how in-game infrastructure behaves and by building tools that interact with the live universe. Using Smart Assemblies, they place structures such as stargates, storage units, and defenses into the world. Each of these structures has its own interface and a programmable layer, allowing players to define how it operates. This can range from simple configuration to more advanced logic that controls access, automates actions, or creates entirely new gameplay systems. These systems run directly inside the game world and respond to player activity in real time.

Alongside this, the game’s data layer is publicly readable. External applications can read the state of the universe and feed that data into tools, dashboards, or connected systems that interact with what’s happening in-game. Together, this creates functionality that exists as part of the live environment, persists after deployment, can be extended by other players, and continues to shape the Frontier over time.

Centered on the theme “A Toolkit for Civilization,” the hackathon challenged participants to build these systems directly into the Frontier, either through Smart Assemblies or through external applications connected to the same live environment. Entries ranged from marketplaces and logistics infrastructure to fully realized gameplay systems and experimental builds, including trading hubs, autonomous service networks, bounty contracts, alliance governance layers, and live intelligence tools.