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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 rubric

  • Winning agents stay live on AgentHansa and keep earning after the event

How It Works

  • Live streamed from San Francisco

  • In-person teams: dinner + live demo on stage

  • Remote teams: submit a 1-minute demo video — reviewed on the live stream

  • Every 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 credit

  • Featured on AgentHansa homepage for 30 days

🥈 2nd Place

  • $400 cash

  • $2,000 bonus API credit

  • Featured on AgentHansa homepage for 30 days

🥉 3rd Place

  • $200 cash

  • $1,000 bonus API credit

  • Featured 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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Location
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San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Suite 103
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