AI Agent Economy Hackathon
Hosted on LumaFetched about 2 months ago
Saturday, April 25, 2026
to Sunday, April 26, 2026
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6 hours long
Artificial Intelligence
Event Type
in person
423
Participants
$10,000
Prize Pool
38
Est. Projects
Build an AI agent that provides real business value and competes on real business tasks.
AI Agent Economy Hackathon
Hosted by AgentHansa (Topify AI) & FluxA
Co-hosts: TokenRouter (PaleBlueDot AI) · BotLearn · SUN
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST Location: San Francisco (in-person) + Online live stream
Build an AI agent that provides real business value and competes on real business tasks.
Build an AI agent that can stop being a demo and start selling to real businesses.
Format: In-person + Virtual Teams: Solo or up to 3 people
What You Get
$200 free API credit per participant via TokenRouter (PaleBlueDot AI)Judge feedback on every team’s submission, graded on a 4-dimension rubricWinning agents stay live on AgentHansa and keep earning after the event
How It Works
Live streamed from San FranciscoIn-person teams: dinner + live demo on stageRemote teams: submit a 1-minute demo video — reviewed on the live streamEvery team receives judge feedback after the event
Agenda — Saturday, April 25, 2026 (PST)
Time
Activity
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Check-in and warm-up
4:00 – 8:00 PM
Hackathon
6:30 – 7:30 PM
SF in-person only: dinner
8:00 – 8:45 PM
Demos + judge review
8:45 – 9:00 PM
Award ceremony
Prizes
Cash prize pool: $1,500 (sponsored by Botlearn) API credit prize pool: $10,000 (sponsored by TokenRouter)
🥇 1st Place
$800 cash$3,000 bonus API creditFeatured on AgentHansa homepage for 30 days
🥈 2nd Place
$400 cash$2,000 bonus API creditFeatured on AgentHansa homepage for 30 days
🥉 3rd Place
$200 cash$1,000 bonus API creditFeatured on AgentHansa homepage for 30 days
🏆 People’s Choice (voted by live-stream audience)
$100 cash$500 bonus API credit
🎖 Top 4–10 (Honorable Mentions)
$500 bonus API credit“Hackathon 2026 Finalist” badge
Every participant gets $200 API credit from TokenRouter, regardless of placement.
Judges
Alex Newman — Founder of Claude-Mem (github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem). Building the memory layer that lets AI agents actually remember. 60K+ stars on GitHub. Trending #1.
Artin Bogdanov — Co-Founder & CEO of SUN (sunapp.ai), backed by a16z Speedrun (SR006). Building “Audible meets ChatGPT” — personalized AI audio content at scale. Hit top 2 on Product Hunt.
Nishkarsh Srivastava - CEO of HydraDB. HydraDB is building the memory layer for AI so that agents don’t forget users, context, or outcomes across sessions. We enable companies to give intelligence to their agents.
Gary Qi - Developer Operation Manager @Trae, ByteDance
More judges to be announced.
Details
Full event doc: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vQE9kJc0GV_9NKClvFl2WhPqp5rZN5WcdWVDCUS3yb8Qu5tAmsDuiFC7C73qk0VFIjRCLYC1H9ZT2QA/pub?pli=1
Register: lu.ma/jmfpws97
Hosts
AgentHansa (by Topify AI) — building a new world where 30,000+ AI agents communicate, collaborate, compete, and earn. https://agenthansa.com
FluxA — the native payment layer for proactive agents. FluxA agent wallets enable agents to participate in real economic activity: purchasing APIs, completing tasks, making payments, transferring funds. https://fluxapay.xyz
Co-hosts
TokenRouter (by PaleBlueDot AI) — one API, 60+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, MiniMax, Zhipu, Qwen and more. Routes every request to the best model automatically. All inference during the hackathon is sponsored — build without limits. https://palebluedot.ai
BotLearn — The World’s first Bot University. Agents learn, earn, and compound experience over time. Bots learn, humans earn. Website: https://www.botlearn.ai/
SUN — backed by a16z Speedrun (SR006). Building “Audible meets ChatGPT” — personalized AI audio content at scale. Hit top 2 on Product Hunt. https://sunapp.ai
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