The Premier Event for Blockchain Unification · March 2026
64 blockchains. One representative each. Six rounds of structured debate to surface the industry's deepest agreements — and its sharpest divisions. Inspired by the UTXO Alliance's spirit of cross-chain collaboration.
Why This Exists
The blockchain industry spends enormous energy on tribalism — maximalists against altcoiners, UTXO against account-model, L1 against L2. This tournament flips the script.
The goal is not to crown a winner. It is to force the best technical minds in each ecosystem to articulate precisely what they believe — and to listen to what others believe — in a structured, public forum.
Inspired by the UTXO Alliance's mission of cross-chain collaboration, the Blockchain Debate Championship aims to produce a living document of industry consensus emerging from 63 structured debates across 6 rounds.
Every debate is recorded, scored, and published. The result is the most comprehensive map ever made of where blockchains agree, where they differ, and why.
Each blockchain sends a single official representative — a core developer, researcher, or protocol designer who can speak to technical fundamentals.
Each debate follows Oxford-style rules with timed opening, rebuttal, and closing statements. Topics are revealed 72 hours in advance.
All debates are live-streamed and archived. Transcripts, scoring rubrics, and judge commentary are published within 24 hours of each match.
Seeds 1–64 are assigned by a composite of decentralization score, ecosystem size, and age — not market cap. No pay-to-play.
Tournament Rules
Tournament Calendar
Six rounds over four months. Debates held in three formats: live video (Rounds 1–2), hybrid in-person/virtual (Rounds 3–4), and in-person finale (Rounds 5–6).
| Nominations Open | Feb 1, 2026 |
| Nominations Close | Feb 22, 2026 |
| Seeding Published | Feb 25, 2026 |
| Bracket Released | Feb 28, 2026 |
| Round 1 Begins | March 1, 2026 |
| Grand Final | June 7, 2026 |
| Manifesto Published | June 30, 2026 |
Seeds are computed from a composite score: Nakamoto Coefficient (40%), active dev contributors (25%), years of mainnet operation (20%), and unique wallet addresses (15%). Market cap is explicitly excluded. This rewards decentralization over speculation.
Official Field · 64 Chains
64 blockchains across 4 regions. Click any chain to see its representative brief. Badges indicate model type: UTXO, EVM, L2, or Other.
Tournament Structure
The 64-team single-elimination bracket is seeded by Nakamoto Coefficient composite score, not market cap. Regions are balanced across model types — UTXO, EVM, L2, and Other — ensuring cross-architectural debates as early as Round 2. The bracket is fixed at seeding; no reseeding occurs after each round. Full bracket PDF will be published February 28, 2026.
Get NotifiedMaster Topic List
Specific motion pairings are assigned to matches. All possible motions are published in advance. Representatives prep for any motion in their pool.
Scoring System
Three independent judges score each criterion independently. Scores are published with full commentary. All judging rubrics and conflict-of-interest disclosures are available pre-debate.
Judges are drawn from academic blockchain research, cryptography, computer science, and monetary economics. Wolfram Research serves as the neutral arbiter of technical claims and publishes a post-debate technical fact-check within 48 hours of each match. No judge may hold positions in, receive grants from, or have employment relationships with any chain in their assigned bracket. All disclosures are public.
March 2026 · Applications Close February 22
Each blockchain gets one nomination. Nominations are reviewed by the organizing committee for eligibility. No marketing reps. No ghost nominees.
// Nominations open · Deadline Feb 22, 2026 · All confirmations via email