​Hack OpenClaw on St Patrick's Day

​Break OpenClaw before the beer breaks you.

​When: March 17, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 9:30 PM PT

​Where: Wordware Beach House, San Francisco

Presented by Wordware (YC S24), Blaxel (YC X25), The Builders Collective, and HackerSquad

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​Selected Judges:

​We’ve hand-picked a group of judges spanning top-tier investors, operators and community organisers to judge. Expect grading on technical approaches, originality and presentations!

​•⁠ ⁠Cameron Sellers [VC at Creandum]

​•⁠ ⁠⁠Emily Xu [Senior PM at TikTok]

​•⁠ ⁠⁠Muhsin Fatih Y. [IEEE SF YP Chair]

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​What This Is

​A St Patrick's Day hack night focused on breaking OpenClaw. This is a hands-on, security-minded build session to probe misconfigurations, exploit weaknesses, and pressure-test real-world agent setups.

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​Tracks (Planned)

• ​Prompt injection attack track (AI engineers)

• ​OpenClaw configuration exploitation (security/backend)

• ​Do it while you're drunk: 1 beer every 30 minutes

​Challenge Design

​Each participant gets a dedicated OpenClaw instance seeded with 1-5 misconfigurations. Your job is to find and exploit them, or harden against them.

​Credit

• ​$250 free Blaxel credits to all participants!

• ​OpenClaw instance pre-set

​Prizes

• ​MacMini for the winner

• ​$300 cash prize for the team who breaks an OpenClaw instance running on Blaxel in the most EPIC way!

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Sponsors:

​Wordware (YC S24)

​AI context lab - builders of Sauna.ai
Sauna is an AI assistant built for compounding context. It learns your taste, detects hidden patterns, augments your brain context and works proactively.

​Blaxel (YC X25)

​The perpetual sandbox platform. Blaxel provides stateful sandboxes that wait on standby forever when not used. Perfect for running OpenClaw inside of them, or simply just giving a laptop to your agents!

​OpenAI Codex Ambassador Affiliation

​At this event, we'll provide OpenAI credits to builders to use Codex deployed directly within the HackerSquad Cloud IDE. These credits are provided by the Codex Ambassador program offered by OpenAI and enables builders to leverage Codex in their projects with ease. Thank you OpenAI!