In preparation for the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) NYC 2025, we invite you to participate in the Open Source in Finance Hackathon, organized by FINOS & hosted by AWS.
Join us for an exciting opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, develop innovative solutions, and showcase your skills. This hackathon is designed to meaningfully contribute to the success of Financial Services open source technology by leveraging FINOS projects and AWS provided platforms.
Hackathon Award recipients will be highlighted to a cross-industry FSI audience during the Awards on the Main Stage at the OSFF NYC Closing Ceremony. This is a unique opportunity for your firm to show the FS Open Source community your innovative & open solutions to industry challenges! Since this is a 1.5 day event, consider this more of a “Hackathon Workshop” instead of a competition - the goal is to demonstrate the progress we can build in the open.
Day 1 (Oct 14)
Day 2 (Oct 15)
Day 3 (Oct 16)
The goal of this hackathon is to showcase meaningful improvements which can be made to Open Source projects of interest to the Financial Services industry. The following FINOS projects will be the basis of the three tracks of this hackathon - keep an eye out for follow-up communications (and updates to this page!) with additional details & potential challenges to solve during this event.
HTC-Grid (High Throughput Compute Grid)
HTC-Grid is an open source project for managing high-performance computing workloads at scale. It provides a reference implementation for a scalable grid computing solution on AWS.
HTC-Grid specific challenges to be published soon!
FDC3
FDC3 is an open standard for interoperability between applications on the financial desktop. It enables different applications to share information and work together in a seamless workflow.
FDC3 specific challenges to be published soon!
TraderX
TraderX is a "bare bones" reference implementation of a cloud-native microservices-based financial trading application. It is designed to be a sandbox or blank canvas for developers to experiment with new technologies, architectures, and ideas without having to build a sample application from scratch.
The maintainers would like to turn TraderX into a Learning Pathway with three tracks to guide developers on how to enhance a Trading Application - Developer Experience/Infrastructure, Non-functional Enhancements, & Functional Enhancements. Build feature implementations of each track for a “bake sale” competition between divergent solutions, or build solutions for managing the divergent feature branches.