Since the beginning of 2026, AdventureX and Injective have hosted a series of Builder Up events across China, creating spaces designed specifically for developers to meet, learn, and build together.
Our journey took us to some of the country’s most innovative and influential cities, inspiring a new generation of young creators to discover Injective and become part of its growing builder community.
After months of workshops, conversations, and local events, everything came together in Hangzhou for five days and four nights of nonstop building at AdventureX 2026.
Held from July 22–26 at the Hupan Innovation Center and Future Sci-Tech City Academic Exchange Center, AdventureX brought together 800 selected builders from more than 9,000 applicants. Their average age was just 21.
The event gave young creators access to more than ¥20 million worth of software and hardware resources, including compute, AI credits, servers, 3D printers, drones, robotic arms, smart glasses, chips, and robot kits. With over $150,000 in prizes, 180+ technology showcases, 20+ public workshops, and tens of thousands of visitors, AdventureX became a meeting point for builders, founders, investors, researchers, and technology communities from across China and beyond.
As AdventureX’s exclusive blockchain technology partner and the major supporter, Injective appeared alongside many established technology companies, financial institutions, media platforms, and innovation communities, including RedNote, China Merchants Bank, miHoYo, Bilibili, and others working across AI, robotics, hardware, consumer technology, and advanced manufacturing.
At the opening ceremony, Injective DevRel Vincent Jin spoke to a packed room of 800 young builders about the role Injective can play in the AI era. The message was simple: blockchain should not limit creativity. It should give developers high-performance infrastructure, programmable assets, open financial rails, and new tools for building products that were not possible before.
On July 25, Injective hosted a hands-on workshop showing participants how to move from an idea to a working onchain application. Builders explored Injective’s AI development stack, including the AI SDK, MCP servers, Agent Skills, and EVM tooling. Instead of spending hours setting up infrastructure, teams could use natural-language prompts and specialized developer tools to scaffold applications, connect wallets, deploy contracts, and test transactions.
What followed went far beyond traditional crypto projects.
Builders connected Injective with AI agents, robotics, games, social products, consumer applications, stablecoins, RWAs, and other emerging technologies. Some arrived with blockchain experience; many did not. What united them was a willingness to experiment, learn quickly, and build something real.
Throughout the event, the Injective team stayed alongside the developers, answering technical questions, helping debug integrations, and supporting teams through five days and four nights of building. 
In the end, Injective received more than 50 project submissions, accounting for roughly 30% of all projects submitted at AdventureX. This made Injective one of the largest technology tracks at the event, even though AdventureX was a broad innovation hackathon rather than a Web3-specific competition.
For Injective, that matters. It means the blockchain was not isolated in its own corner. It was being used by young creators alongside AI, robotics, hardware, gaming, and social technology as part of a much larger creative toolkit.
AdventureX also brought the longer builder journey into focus.
INJPass and MetaLoft, two projects that have continued to receive support from Ninja Labs since previous hackathons, returned to AdventureX to present the products they have kept building.
That same long-term commitment now extends to the new teams joining the Injective ecosystem from AdventureX 2026.
Most of all, thank you to the builders who chose to spend five days creating with Injective.
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
Builders, the future starts here.
About Injective
Injective is the first blockchain purpose-built for finance, enabling users, institutions, and AI agents to trade, tokenize, and transact at scale. Proudly made in America, Injective provides foundational blockchain infrastructure for global markets, with embedded financial primitives spanning stablecoins, real-world assets, payments, and programmable perpetuals through a unified onchain engine. Injective is used by Fortune 500 companies, banks, fintechs, and governments to power an open economy where any asset can be accessed anytime, from anywhere. Builders can deploy across multiple virtual machines like WASM and EVM, connect to native financial modules, and launch markets with deep liquidity from day one. INJ is the native token powering the rapidly growing Injective ecosystem and the new internet economy.
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