REYKJAVÍK, Iceland – 24 April 2026 – CCP Games, the pioneering developer behind the legendary EVE universe, today announced the winners of the EVE Frontier × Sui 2026 Hackathon. The successful three-week online event convened a massive community of over 800 participants, resulting in the creation of more than 120 groundbreaking projects designed to answer one core question: How can players extend, control, and reshape a live, persistent game universe?
Grand Prize Winner: CradleOS Lays the Foundation for Player-Led Civilization
CradleOS, engineered by modder Reality Anchor, secured the grand prize, a package totaling $25,000 in value. The winning entry demonstrated a powerful vision for player agency, earning $15,000 in cash, $10,000 in SUI Tokens, and an exclusive trip to EVE Fanfest 2026.
CradleOS is a complete player-led civilization management system. Moving beyond mere survival against the Frontier’s harsh dangers, this toolkit empowers player groups to manage governance, defense, logistics, and territory control. It represents the pinnacle of the hackathon’s mission: providing players with the architectural tools to build society’s foundations for the far future.
EVE Frontier × Sui 2026 Hackathon: Overall Winners
First Place: CradleOS (Video Demo)
A sophisticated civilization management system enabling player groups to govern territory, coordinate resources, and run logistics via shared on-chain infrastructure. It provides the core tools to construct and operate a functional society from the ground up.
Second Place: Blood Contract (Video Demo)
A structured bounty system that transforms PvP into a repeatable, player-driven activity. It allows players to place rewards on targets and define specific hunt conditions, with smart contracts ensuring automatic, trustless payouts upon completion.
Third Place: Civilization Control (Video Demo)
A unified command interface that puts players in control of critical infrastructure like stargates, trade routes, and defensive networks, offering granular tools for setting rules, permissions, and access controls.
Category Winners: Specialized Tools for a New Frontier
Utility: EasyAssemblies (Video Demo)
A beginner-accessible tool that demystifies Smart Assemblies. It provides a clean visual interface allowing any player to configure complex structures—from storage depots to defense grids—in minutes, without specialized coding knowledge.
Technical Implementation: Frontier Flow (Video Demo)
An open-source, browser-based visual programming environment for designing Smart Assemblies. Users can drag, connect, and test logic blocks to build complex automation, with the tool generating authentic, deployable Sui Move code in the background.
Creative: Bazaar (Video Demo)
An immersive, walkable marketplace that evolves trading from a static menu into a shared social experience. Players can explore physical shopfronts and interact within a living, breathing Bazaar, adding a new layer of social depth to the Frontier’s economy.
Weirdest Idea: Shadow Broker Protocol (Video Demo)
An espionage and intelligence network that turns data into a tradeable resource and a weapon. The protocol allows players to buy, sell, and weaponize information, creating a shadow power dynamic that exists alongside traditional warfare.
Live Frontier Integration: Frontier Factional Warfare (Video Demo)
A dynamic feature that generates live conflict zones with capturable objectives. It enables players to join factions and vie for territorial control through rules enforced directly by in-world structures, making the game’s political landscape a direct result of player action.
Empowering a Player-Built Universe
In EVE Frontier, player-created mods are not external add-ons; they are fundamental reconfigurations of the live game’s infrastructure. Using Smart Assemblies, players deploy functional structures like stargates, storage units, and turrets into the persistent world. Each structure features a programmable layer, empowering creators to define complex operational logic—from simple access controls to automated systems that generate entirely new gameplay loops. These player-designed systems run directly in the game world, reacting to player activity in real time and persisting after deployment.
Complementing this, the game’s publicly readable data layer allows external applications to monitor the universe’s state. Developers can build dashboards, intelligence tools, and connected systems that interact with live game data, creating a rich ecosystem of auxiliary functionality that can be extended by other players and will continue to evolve and shape the Frontier over time.
Centered on the theme “A Toolkit for Civilization,” the hackathon challenged its vast community to build these systems directly into the Frontier’s fabric. Entries ranged from autonomous service networks and logistics infrastructure to fully realized governance layers, demonstrating the limitless potential of player creativity when given the right tools.
For more information about EVE Frontier, visit the official website. A comprehensive FAQ is available at www.evefrontier.com/faq. Media assets can be found in the official press kit.
About CCP Games
CCP is a leading, independently operated game developer celebrated for its artistry, technology, and game design that fosters emergent player behavior and meaningful self-expression. Founded in 1997 on the principle of breaking new ground, CCP is on a mission to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life. With the 2003 launch of the award-winning EVE Online, CCP established itself as a pioneer of cutting-edge massively multiplayer games. The company is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, with additional studios in London and Shanghai.
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About Sui Foundation
Sui is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain, engineered as the full stack for a new global economy. Powered by an object-centric data model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data natively onchain, programmable, and user-owned. Its unified stack of protocols and primitives delivers centralized-quality performance on decentralized infrastructure, providing the composable, end-to-end toolkit for market transformation. Learn more at sui.io.
About EVE Frontier®
EVE Frontier is a groundbreaking online space survival game. You awaken from stasis as the last relic of humanity from a lost age. Civilization has decayed amidst the ruins of its ambition, feral drone swarms scour its wastes, and survivors fight for control of dwindling resources. In the shadow of the Trinary, your story of survival, conquest, and societal rebirth begins.
Learn more: www.evefrontier.com.
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