👽 Alien.org vs. 🦞 OpenClaw Hackathon by ESI: Build Mobile Mini Apps With Agents
👾 Alien.org vs. 🦞OpenClaw Hackathon by ESI: Build Mobile Mini Apps With Agents
Sunday, February 8th | 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM Frontier Tower, Floor 2 (Spaceship) | San Francisco, CA
Over $3k in Cash Prizes and early exposure to Alien Ecosystem
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Sponsors / Partners
Alien | Frontier Tower | Github | Greptile | Cline | Entrepreneurship Startup Incubator | Kalibr | Dabl Club | One Degree Labs | ACCELR8 | Red Bull | ProxLock | AI Camp
Judges
Kirill Avery | Founder & CEO at Alien
Sergey Belan | CTO at Alien
Shubham Anandani | Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
Shri Lakshmi Rajagopal | Senior Automation QA Engineer @ DHCS | ISTQB Certified | IEEE Senior Member
Kalyan Inturi | Principal Member of Technical Staff | SME in building large-scale distributed systems | Exp in working at SaaS startups
Naga Bharadwaj Bhavikatta | Sr Tech Manager - CSS Global SaaS & Apps Delivery, SaaS Apps || CSCP Fellow
Naman Jain | Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon | Architecture Design, AWS, Information Security
Rohit Alekar | Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Shubham Kumbhalkar | Software Development Engineer at Amazon with expertise in Analytical skills
Kamal Kishore | Sr Software Engineer at Google | Expertise in LLM Applications, Agentic AI Workflows, and Named Entity Recognition | Architecting Robust, Data-Intensive & Distributed Systems | kamalct.substack.com
Suman Debnath | Technical Lead, ML @ Anyscale
Saraswati Mishra | Engineering Large-Scale Data Infrastructure | Distributed Pipelines | Observability | Data Governance
Kushal Khatri | CTO at Feedonomics
Apurv Naman | Product Manager @ Nvidia -Physical AI
Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa | Securing Everything AI | Straiker | OWASP
Apoorv Mehta | Product Security Leader | OWASP Contributor | Application & AI Security
Devon Kelley | Founder @ Kalibr | Autonomous routing that keeps AI agents running in production
Caesar Lastowski | Founding Member @ Operand | xBCG
Neel Makhecha | Software Engineer at Splunk AI
Kim Boher | Machine Learning & Full Stack Engineer | Building Scalable AI Solutions with Deep Tech, LLMs, Vision, Blockchain, Edge | Nvidia Inception Program & Microsoft for Startups member | Nvidia, Harvard & Databricks Trained
Nilesh Agrawal | Engineering Manager at Meta | Stanford GSB LEAD
Youngchul Joo | ML/AI
Abhijit Dhariya | Architect | Machine Identity Security | Backend Engineering | AI/ML Enthusiast | Investor
The Protocol
Alien is a privacy-first identity protocol designed to solve the internet's greatest bottleneck: Trust. In an era of AI-generated noise and Sybil attacks, Alien provides a decentralized "Proof-of-Human" anchor. By building on Alien, your apps gain two immediate, native superpowers:
Verified Unique Identity: Ensure every user is a unique, living human without ever accessing their private biometric data (via Zero-Knowledge Proofs).
Native Payments: Seamlessly accept and send payments using the integrated Alien Wallet, turning your mini-app into a functional economy from day one.
The Vibe
Alien Hack is a one-day, high-intensity vibe-coding sprint. We’re bringing together the boldest builders and prompt engineers to ship the first wave of Alien Mini-Apps.
Forget a week of infrastructure setup. With AI-accelerated dev cycles and the Alien SDK, we are moving from First Prompt to Official App Directory Submission in 10 hours.
The Challenge
Build a mini-app that leverages Human Identity and Native Payments to solve real problems. For example:
Sybil-Resistant Social: Community voting where "one person = one vote" is the law.
Integrated Economies: Marketplace apps with human-verified reviews and instant payments.
Verified Rewards: Gated airdrops and incentives that bots literally cannot touch.
Frontier Access: Digital/physical gating for the Frontier Tower community.
The Schedule
10:00 AM: Doors Open | Coffee & prompt-crafting.
10:30 AM: Opening Keynote | A rapid Welcome and All-You-Need intro from Alien CEO Kirill Avery and other hosts
Workshop by Mansi More on "Building Reliable AI: Fundamentals, Security & Eval Engineering"
10:50 AM: Hacking Starts & Networking Event | Build phase begins with technical support on-site to help unblock. 🚀
1:00 PM: Working Lunch | Collaborative fuel for the afternoon sprint.
1:30 PM: Mid-Day Judging Checkpoint | Teams meet with judges to share their idea, current progress, and receive feedback on whether they’re on track for final submission.
4:00 PM: The Hardening Shift | Moving from local dev to Production URLs.
5:30 PM: The Submission Window | Final manifest checks and portal submissions.
6:00 PM: Dinner & Code Freeze | Submissions close. Prep for the main stage. 🍱
6:45 PM: Live Mobile Demos | All projects shown on-device inside the Alien App.
7:45 PM: Awards | Crowning the "Most Human App."
Why Join?
Exclusive Tech: Get first-access documentation for the Alien L1 Network.
The Venue: Build from Floor 2 of the legendary Frontier Tower, the vertical village of SF’s frontier tech scene.
Fast-Tracked Listings: Winning apps are fast-tracked for the official Alien App Store.
Prizes: Over $3k in cash prizes and other sponsor rewards.
Event FAQs
How do "Mini-Apps" work? They are web apps (HTML/JS) hosted on your server but rendered inside the Alien app's secure WebView. They use a JS Bridge to call identity and payment functions.
What if I'm not a "Pro" coder? This is a vibe-coding event! If you can use AI tools (Cursor, Claude, Gemini) to build a web stack and call an API, you’re ready.
Do I need an Alien ID? Yes. Your Alien ID is your ticket and your developer credentials. We will have verification support on-site if you aren't yet verified.
What should I bring? Your laptop, a charger, and your most ambitious prompts.
More detail at https://alien.org/dev
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Sponsored and Partnered By
E.S.I. — Entrepreneur & Startup Incubator
Empowering founders to build, launch, and scale with purpose.
Special thank you to Santa Cruz Works & CIED for supporting the E.S.I. founders' community!
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This event is hosted at the Frontier Tower:
We are transforming a 16-floor tower in San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village—a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Tier-one labs presenting AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, human flourishing, and arts & music. These floors will house innovators and creators pushing the boundaries of human potential in a post-AI-singularity world.
Apply here for founding citizenship: https://frontiertower.io/apply
Why should I become a citizen?
Be part of creating the first self-governed vertical village
Connect with the most creative people in the city
Get access to all floors, free event space & movement floor
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