PHASE 01[PRE-EVENT]
01
Documentation is the pitch
Six weeks out we go through what a builder actually hits: the quickstart, the testnet faucet, the error message on line one.
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Docs
- ▸Quickstart
- ▸Pre-brief
ETHGlobal Mumbai · Nov 6-8, 2026 · Jio World Convention Centre▸ Event in--d·--h·--m·--s
Every team can use three sponsor SDKs. Ten sponsors are competing for them.
ETHGlobal Mumbai puts 800 builders in Bandra Kurla Complex for a weekend with $150,000 in prizes on the table. Sponsorship gets your logo on the wall. FORKOFF gets your SDK into the three slots a team actually spends, through the workshop, the mentor bench and the follow-up that turns a weekend project into a merged pull request.
Nov 6-8, 2026Dates
Jio World Convention Centre, BKCVenue
800+ builders, $150,000 in prizesScale
6 weeks recommendedFORKOFF lead time
The Mumbai problem
A prize pool buys you a slide in the opening ceremony and a table with a banner behind it. A workshop plus two engineers on the mentor bench for forty-eight hours buys you the integration. Only one of those is still in the repository in January.
ETHGlobal Mumbai 2026 prize partners
Protocols the organiser lists as prize partners for Mumbai.
World1inch0GUniswap FoundationArcHederaArkivENSDefinitiveChainlinkWorld1inch0GUniswap FoundationArcHederaArkivENSDefinitiveChainlink
Listed with their prize allocations on the ETHGlobal Mumbai event page, read 2026-09-06. FORKOFF is the activation partner and has no affiliation with any of them.
19Flagship event weeks in 2026
4 layersPre-event, on-site, post-event, distribution
3 tiersPer-event activation band (Lite, Standard, Full)
WeeklyAudit ledger cadence
Why MumbaiFour reasons this weekend repays an
Four reasons this weekend repays an
activation rather than a prize line.
3
The organiser caps it, so attention here is genuinely rivalrous.
800+
The room writes code, which is the only adoption that compounds.
29+
A teaching channel is already built into the schedule.
New
A weekend can add your SDK to a project that already has users.
Event intel
What ETHGlobal Mumbai actually is.
Date and venue
November 6-8, 2026
A Friday to Sunday in-person hackathon at the Jio World Convention Centre in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. Pragma Mumbai, the organiser's conference day, runs on November 5, the day before.
Scale and prizes
$150,000 in prizes
The organiser states 800+ attendees, 10+ protocols and 29+ workshops. Prize allocations are published per partner, from $20,000 down to $5,000, alongside travel scholarships and a staking-based application process.
Published themes
Zero knowledge proofsAI x cryptoDeFi and Layer 2sInteroperability and data availabilityPrivacy, security and TEEsIdentity, public goods and devtools
FORKOFF operating record
42 events run since 2023Curated rooms sized 100 to 2505B+ views processed on the clip network$0.003 per qualified view, 99.71% legitimacy
ETHGlobal Mumbai activation · 4 layers × deliverablesEvery motion
Every motion
across four layers.
PHASE 02[EVENT WEEK]
02
A workshop and a mentor bench
The organiser runs 29+ workshops, so a slot is a real distribution channel rather than a favour.
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Workshop
- ▸Mentors
- ▸Dinner
PHASE 03[ON-SITE]
03
Capture the build, not the banner
Hackathon footage is usually a time-lapse of people typing.
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Interviews
- ▸Teardowns
- ▸Recording
PHASE 04[POST-EVENT]
04
The month after Mumbai
The weekend becomes vertical clip inventory distributed on the qualified-view model, aimed at the developer audience that did not get a ticket.
Deliverables (3)
- ▸Clipping
- ▸Distribution
- ▸Qualified views
Activation timelineSix weeks from brief to Bandra Kurla Complex.
Six weeks from brief to Bandra Kurla Complex.
Operating cadence.
DocsSeedRunDistribute
Event weekend
How the four days run.
| Day | Date | Motion | FORKOFF owns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu | Nov 5 | Pragma Mumbai, the organiser's conference day | Pre-brief, quickstart smoke test, mentor rota confirmed |
| Fri | Nov 6 | Hackathon opens, teams form, workshops begin | Your workshop delivered, bench staffed from hour one |
| Sat | Nov 7 | Peak build day and the deepest technical questions | Bench, builder dinner, first teardowns recorded |
| Sun | Nov 8 | Submissions, judging and closing ceremony | Winner interviews, project teardowns, follow-up list built |
FitBuilt for protocols and developer tools that need integrations,
Built for protocols and developer tools that need integrations,
not impressions.
Who you are
- ›Shipping an SDK, API or protocol that a team can adopt in a weekend
- ›Measuring success in integrations, repositories or contract deployments
- ›Sponsoring a prize track at ETHGlobal Mumbai or considering one
- ›Able to put engineers on a mentor bench, not just marketers
What FORKOFF delivers
- ›An onboarding review before 800 builders find the friction for you
- ›A workshop slot, a staffed mentor bench and a builder dinner
- ›Teardowns and builder interviews captured as projects land
- ›A month of clip distribution priced per qualified view
Not the right fit
- ×Your product cannot be integrated without a sales call
- ×You are measuring the weekend in logo impressions
- ×You cannot send engineers, only a stand
Engagement
Three ways to run Mumbai.
Every tier is scoped to the weekend and priced before it starts. Clip distribution bills per qualified view at $0.003.
3 tiersLite · Standard · Full
5/quarterEngagements per cycle
By applicationSelective on ICP
Bench
Scoped per brief
- Onboarding and quickstart review
- Prize track written for builders
- Mentor rota planned and briefed
- Post-weekend distribution brief
Recommended
Workshop
Scoped per brief
- Everything in Bench
- Workshop built and delivered
- Builder dinner, 100 to 250
- Teardowns and builder interviews recorded
- Follow-up sequence to every integrating team
Weekend
Scoped per brief
- Everything in Workshop
- Presence across Pragma Mumbai and the hackathon
- Indian developer community and creator seeding
- 30 days of qualified-view clip distribution
Also on the roster
Other builder weeks FORKOFF activates.
FAQ · 6 questions
Frequently asked questions
When is ETHGlobal Mumbai 2026?
ETHGlobal Mumbai 2026 runs November 6 to 8, 2026, a Friday to Sunday, at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. Dates confirmed on the organiser's own site: the ETHGlobal events index lists it as November 6 to 8 and the Mumbai event page states November 6 to 8, 2026. Both read on 2026-09-06.
Where does ETHGlobal Mumbai take place?
At the Jio World Convention Centre, Jio World Centre, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai 400098. The organiser publishes the full address on the venue section of the event page. Pragma Mumbai, the conference day, runs on November 5 at the same event.
How big is ETHGlobal Mumbai and what are the prizes?
The organiser states 800+ attendees, 10+ protocols and 29+ workshops, with $150,000 available in prizes. Individual partner allocations are published, ranging from $20,000 down to $5,000. Those figures are the organiser's own, listed on the ETHGlobal Mumbai event page.
Is sponsoring an ETHGlobal hackathon worth it?
It depends entirely on what you staff. The organiser caps teams at three sponsor SDKs, so ten prize partners are competing for a fixed number of slots and a prize line alone does not win one. What wins one is a workshop early on day one, engineers on the mentor bench who can debug rather than demo, and a quickstart that works on conference wifi. If you cannot send engineers, the prize money buys a banner.
What does FORKOFF actually run at ETHGlobal Mumbai?
The onboarding review before the weekend, a workshop and staffed mentor bench during it, a builder dinner, teardown and interview capture as projects land, and a month of vertical clip distribution afterwards priced per qualified view. FORKOFF is the activation partner, not the event organiser: ETHGlobal Mumbai is run by ETHGlobal.
How is the clip distribution priced?
At $0.003 per qualified view. A view counts only once it clears watch-time, policy, geo and traffic-validity checks, measured at 99.71% legitimacy across a network that has processed more than 5 billion views. Raw platform view counts are not billed.
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Where this activation connects.
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Proof · ETHGlobal Mumbai track record
What is an ETHGlobal Mumbai activation?
An ETHGlobal Mumbai activation is a sponsor programme FORKOFF runs for the hackathon at the Jio World Convention Centre on November 6 to 8, 2026. Teams may use only three sponsor SDKs while ten partners compete for them, so the measure is a merged pull request rather than a weekend demo, supported by capture and clip distribution at $0.003 per qualified view.
The record behind a Mumbai activation.
FORKOFF has run activations across 42 events since 2023, per our own operating record, and hackathons are the format where the gap between spending and outcome is widest. ETHGlobal Mumbai runs November 6 to 8 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Bandra Kurla Complex, with the organiser stating 800+ attendees, 29+ workshops and $150,000 in prizes across ten named partners. The number that should shape your budget is not the prize pool, it is three: the organiser caps each team at three sponsor SDKs. Ten partners are competing for three slots per team, and a prize allocation on a webpage does not win one. Our curated rooms run 100 to 250, which at a hackathon means a builder dinner for the teams worth supporting after the weekend.
What the 2026 rule change means for a sponsor.
ETHGlobal has published a change for Mumbai: for the first time, teams may start from a repository they already maintain rather than an empty one, and one of the three published tracks is extending an existing open-source project. For a sponsor that quietly moves the ceiling. Previously the best outcome was a demo built in forty-eight hours by people who had never used your product. Now the best outcome is your SDK merged into a project with existing users and existing maintainers, which is a durable integration rather than a submission. It also raises the bar on documentation, because a maintainer with a real codebase will not tolerate a broken quickstart the way a first-time hacker will.
Where this activation connects.
Mumbai runs on the same operating spine as every week on the roster, tilted towards engineering. The event management service page owns the workshop slot, the builder dinner and the run-of-show. Reddit marketing owns the community half, because the developer communities that seed a hackathon are the same ones that answer questions about your SDK for the following year. The clipping service owns what happens to the footage, priced at $0.003 per qualified view across a network that has processed more than 5 billion, which matters here because India's builder base is far larger than the 800 people who got a wristband. And the events hub lays out the full calendar, so a protocol can see Devcon, Mumbai and ETHIndia together rather than one at a time.
Reviewed by the FORKOFF events team, the operators who run these activations on the ground.
ETHGlobal Mumbai 2026
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Tell us what a team has to do to integrate you in an afternoon, and we will tell you whether your quickstart survives 800 builders trying it at once.
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