- Free allowance
- 'No-strings-attached prize money for talented builders, scientists, operators', distributed as '1st prize $100,000', '2nd prize $30,000', '3rd prize $20,000', '4th - 23rd $5,000 ea.', totalling '$250,000' across 23 winners.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gateda one-shot competitive prize decided by three organisers fails first: 23 winners from an unpublished applicant count, in a cycle that closed on 2026-03-31, so there is no open application route today and the odds cannot be computed.
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 'No-strings-attached prize money for talented builders, scientists, operators', distributed as '1st prize $100,000', '2nd prize $30,000', '3rd prize $20,000', '4th - 23rd $5,000 ea.', totalling '$250,000' across 23 winners. Eligibility is the widest found in this class, quoted: 'Anyone who builds things, discovers things, or does things ... There is no limit on age, interest, location, etc.' The conditions are removed explicitly: 'You can spend the money however you want. We take no equity and have zero expectations.' and 'What do I have to do if I win? Nothing!' The application 'is designed to take 5-10 minutes'. The cycle is complete and paid: the site now reads 'The winners have been selected.' unit minutes; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) a one-shot competitive prize decided by three organisers fails first: 23 winners from an unpublished applicant count, in a cycle that closed on 2026-03-31, so there is no open application route today and the odds cannot be computed. source
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| Identity | email an individual of any age in any country. 'There is no limit on age, interest, location, etc.' The first prize went to a recipient outside the United States and without an institutional affiliation. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The USD 5,000 floor for 20 of 23 winners is the part worth planning around, because it is the modal award and it is still five times the typical vendor starter credit. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The best-evidenced award in this class and the one to promote first, because payment is not a claim but a published list of 23 named people with amounts beside them. Two properties make it stronger than the Open Intelligence Foundation offer: the programme page names the removals explicitly ('no equity', 'zero expectations', 'nothing' required after winning), and one winner is observably outside the United States and unaffiliated. The failure mode is that the cycle is closed and the programme is three individuals, not an institution: the prize pool is described as money they pooled, the site is a static page, and the winners page closes with 'See you next time' rather than a date. So the finding is a closed cycle worth watching for the next one, not an open door. A recurring cadence is implied by 'See you next time' and by the Duct Tape Prize predecessor, and by a 'Remind me. We'll email you near the deadline' control, but no next-round date was published on any page read, so treat recurrence as likely rather than promised. Reachability note: eigenprize.build answered through a rendering provider while the origin itself timed out twice, and a mirror at eigen.build served the current content with status 200. |
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