The edelkrone MCP Challenge starts October 12. Use edelkrone MCP and the edelkrone SDK to build something new for your edelkrone gear, and compete for up to $50,000 in edelkrone store credit across 12 categories.
Entries are open until November 30, 2026, and the winners are announced in late December. Every accepted entry is listed in the edelkrone App Showroom and earns Lifetime VIP Insider status.
What to build
Anything that takes your gear somewhere no ready-made tool goes. It works both ways: anything can control edelkrone, and edelkrone can control anything. A game controller can drive a slider, a sensor can start a move, and your gear's positions, motor states and accelerometer data can trigger lights, sound or software.
You don't need to be a developer. Connect edelkrone MCP to ChatGPT or Claude, describe your idea, and your assistant writes the app with you on the edelkrone SDK. New to edelkrone MCP? Start with Introducing edelkrone MCP.
12 categories
Each category can crown its own winner.
Defense-industry and medical applications are excluded.
Prizes
| Grand Champion | $10,000 | The best entry across all categories |
| Runner-up | $6,000 | |
| Third place | $4,000 | |
| Category winners | $2,000 each | Up to 12, one per category |
| edelkrone Selection | $500 each | Up to 12 honorable mentions |
| Every accepted entry | Lifetime VIP Insider | Free shipping and always-discounted shopping on edelkrone.com |
All prizes are edelkrone store credit, not cash. The credit is added to your edelkrone.com account, can be spent on any edelkrone product and is valid for 24 months. You can enter as many different apps as you like, and each one is judged on its own; each entrant can win one prize, the highest they are selected for. A category may go without a prize if too few entries meet the quality bar.
How to enter
No website to visit and no form to fill in. Your assistant helps you build the app and sends your entry from the same chat.
What the demo video needs
- Your app working with real edelkrone gear
- A public post on your own Instagram account, kept public until the winners are announced
- @edelkrone tagged and #edelkroneMCPChallenge in the caption
- Your own music, royalty-free music or none. Instagram's music library can't be used in ads.
Without the Instagram link, your app can still go to the Showroom, but it isn't entered in the Challenge. You can add the link any time before entries close. You keep ownership of your app and your video; by entering, you give edelkrone the right to use your demo video in its marketing, credited to you.
Open to entrants 18 and older. Some countries and regions are excluded. The Official Rules have the full terms.
Show us what's possible.
