The Bitcoin Design Community is hosting its second Designathon on May 4-18, 2025. This global, entirely online event brings together designers, builders, creatives, and bitcoin enthusiasts from around the world to improve bitcoin adoption through thoughtful design solutions.
Unlike traditional hackathons that focus primarily on coding, this two-week collaborative event emphasizes creativity, user experience, and innovative thinking—no formal design background required.
Why Design Matters for Bitcoin
As bitcoin continues to grow globally, intuitive and accessible design has become critical for mainstream adoption. The Designathon creates space for designers to address user experience challenges that may be overlooked in technically-focused events.
For Everyone with Creative Ideas
You don’t need to be a professional designer to participate! If you’re passionate about bitcoin and have creative ideas, artistic skills, or simply a fresh perspective on how to make bitcoin more intuitive and accessible, your contribution is valuable.
The event welcomes diverse backgrounds—whether you’re an illustrator, storyteller, user researcher, product thinker, or just someone who loves to brainstorm solutions.
Design Tracks & Prizes
The event features several prizes:
- Best Overall: Recognizing the most innovative and impactful design.
- Ecash Note Design: Reimagining the visual elements of digital cash.
- Accessibility: Creating Bitcoin interfaces that empower everyone.
- Open Design: For teams making best use of open-source design tools.
Additional tracks to be announced.
How to Participate
Anyone can join the Designathon by:
- Signing up on the website
- Submitting your own project idea
- Joining an existing team project
- Attending workshops and design jams throughout the event
The event follows a flexible schedule with three main touchpoints: kickoff , mid-event check-in, and wrap-up calls. Projects will progress at their own pace throughout the two weeks.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Interested in sponsoring the Designathon? 100% of sponsorship proceeds will go directly to participants as prizes and support. This is a great opportunity to draw attention to your project and attract high-quality contributions and contributors.
Learn more about sponsorship options on the website.
Join Us!
Ready to shape the future of Bitcoin design? Sign up to participate. For questions, join the #designathon channel in the Bitcoin Design Discord.
Looking forward to collaboration and design innovation!
