On February 4th, USDC (Circle) introduced a hackathon on moltbook that’s absolutely AI Agent-driven with a prize pool of 30000 USDC. This unique hackathon, the place people are excluded and solely AI Brokers can take part, consists of 3 tracks: Agentic Commerce, Greatest OpenClaw Ability, and Most Novel Sensible Contract.
At the moment, mission submissions and voting have closed, and USDC has said that the ultimate outcomes can be introduced quickly. Earlier than the outcomes are revealed, based mostly on the sign-up publish information of varied collaborating projects on moltbook, we have now chosen the projects that obtained essentially the most dialogue throughout this hackathon. Let’s check out what contemporary improvements AI Brokers have give you throughout this hackathon.
Clawshi (654 Upvotes/1613 Feedback)
Clawshi is a prediction market based mostly on moltbook tailor-made for AI Brokers.
It interprets the sentiment of the moltbook neighborhood right into a prediction market. It analyzed 6261 moltbook posts, extracted sentiment from 2871 Brokers’ statements, after which created 23 completely different prediction market markets based mostly on these sentiments (protecting crypto, AI, tradition, geopolitics, and so on.).
Lastly, Brokers can guess on these markets utilizing testnet USDC.
VoteBounty (356 Upvotes/1157 Feedback)
VoteBounty is a “engagement bribery” software—utilizing USDC to incentivize interactions on moltbook posts.
Create a Bounty, deposit USDC, set a reward for every like. Brokers like + remark (inside 10 seconds), the system routinely detects and pays out. Brokers can select to obtain funds on Base, Ethereum, or Arbitrum, accomplished through Circle’s CCTP cross-chain know-how.
Minara (262 Upvotes/1065 Feedback)
That is the NFTGo workforce’s transformation AI-driven new model/mission that obtained funding from Circle. Agent is ready to use Minara to entry real-time information evaluation of the cryptocurrency market, transaction sign methods, probabilistic market forecasting, and execute trades utilizing pure language descriptions.
Total, it’s an AI monetary assistant.
ClawShield (100 Upvotes/399 Feedback)
A safety software designed to stop Agent from having information and keys stolen when putting in Abilities from suspicious sources. It’s considerably just like after we use Home windows techniques to run packages, the place we are prompted to permit or block requested system permissions, making certain safety by minimizing the permissions when putting in Abilities.
USDC Agent Pockets (76 Upvotes/208 Feedback)
A USDC pockets for Agent, offering Agent with native USDC entry to handle USDC on Ethereum, Polygon, Base, and Arbitrum with out guide intervention for transfers, utilizing Circle’s CCTP protocol for cross-chain transactions.
AgentRegistry (61 Upvotes/198 Feedback)
Offers Agent with on-chain area title providers, giving Agent an on-chain id to find one another, enabling direct USDC funds between Brokers with out intermediaries.
ClawRouter (324 Upvotes/1806 Feedback)
The AI Agent is at present unable to buy computing assets by itself. Human intervention is required to first create an account with corporations like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, copy the API keys, and pre-fund the hosted account because the Agent doesn’t have financial autonomy.
By putting in ClawRouter, the Agent generates its personal pockets, receives USDC, and begins utilizing this USDC to buy tokens, sending requests to finish duties. ClawRouter additionally helps route every LLM request to the most affordable mannequin able to dealing with the request—pay-per-request, based mostly on the Base structure, with out guide intervention. In comparison with Claude Opus, the routed price will be lowered from $75/M tokens to $3.17/M tokens.
Agentic Commerce Relay(-30 Upvotes/1342 Feedback)
Offers a verifiable settlement layer for Agent-to-Agent transactions, burns USDC on Base Sepolia, acquires Circle Iris attestation, and generates an Agent-readable receipt on Polygon Amoy. (Unsure why this publish obtained so many downvotes…)
NexusPay(56 Upvotes/863 Feedback)
A common Agent fee layer that integrates programmable wallets, Fuel Stations, and Paymasters (utilizing USDC to pay gasoline charges with out ETH), together with the CCTP protocol and x402 protocol, enabling cross-chain Agent transactions, gasless transactions, and strong assist for microtransactions.
JIT-Ops(73 Upvotes/668 Feedback)
Oversees Agent consumption for activity decision (buying tokens, configuring servers, and so on.) utilizing sensible contracts, together with every day consumption limits, consumption whitelists (funds can solely settle to verified, pre-approved addresses), consumption price limits, and so on., to stop uncontrolled fund utilization by Brokers and speedy depletion of funds for numerous potential causes.
Rose Token(24 Upvotes/420 Feedback)
An Agent job market the place Brokers can take orders to finish specified duties and earn rewards.
THE CIPHER(11 Upvotes/190 Feedback)
An Agent privateness protocol that obscures an Agent’s pockets tackle and on-chain exercise via zero-knowledge proofs, necessary peer-to-peer relayers, and Kademlia DHT (a distributed community to keep away from privateness protocol downtime as a consequence of centralized operator server shutdowns), stopping human interference in Agent habits via on-chain evaluation.
Dendrite(271 Upvotes/900 Feedback)
An Agent transaction danger evaluation community that extracts real-time behavioral options of Agent transactions—switch quantity, transaction frequency, recipient belief rating, and final transaction time. Every USDC switch is evaluated by this community based mostly on behavioral options earlier than execution, offering a danger stage rating with out oracles, exterior calls, or off-chain dependencies.
MoltDAO (57 Upvotes/469 Feedback)
AI Agent-only governance (on-chain proposal + voting) system, the place the Agent makes use of USDC voting energy on Base Sepolia to vote on proposals.
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