Invitation to Participate in ACM ICAIF‘25 Cryptocurrency Forecasting Competition

[Hao Ni]

Dear all,

We hope that this email finds you well. We are excited to announce the launch of our online competition on Cryptocurrency Forecasting as a part of the ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF25, https://icaif25.org/ ). This is an incredible opportunity to showcase your skills and research on cryptocurrency time series analysis.

Crypto trades 24/7 with shallow books, retail-dominant flow, and rapid regime shifts, making short-horizon prediction both hard and essential. In this ICAIF’25 competition, you’ll be challenged to build models to predict the next 10 minutes of log-returns for top-traded cryptocurrencies from historical returns and volumes, advancing methods that are essential for algorithmic trading, risk management, and market transparency. 

🔗 For more details and to participate, please visit: https://hackathon2.deepintomlf.ai/competitions/93/ 

💻 Starter Kit: https://github.com/MilleXi/ICAIF_2025_Cryptocurrency_Forecasting_Starter_Kit  

Key dates (GMT+8 Time):

• Competition launch date: Oct 8, 2025;
• Competition end date: 23:59, Nov 3, 2025;
• Winner announcement: Nov 7, 2025.

Award:

The top two teams will be invited to present their work at the prestigious ICAIF conference in Singapore, taking place on November 15-18, 2025. The travel expenses will be covered up to £1,500 (£750 per team) by the EPSRC DataSig program grant.

Contact 

For any questions about this challenge, please contact us at tsg....@gmail.com. Participants are also welcome to join the discord community for live discussion during the competition.

We are looking forward to your participation in our competition.

Best regards,

Anthony K. H. Tung , Hao Ni , Lukasz Szpruch, Qiang Huang, Yihao Ang, Qiang Wang, Yifan Bao, Xinyu Xi (organizers of the Contest)