Vibe Code a Trustless AI Agent on Hedera 🏗️🔗

​Vibe Code a Trustless AI Agent on Hedera 🏗️🔗

​3 hours. No hand-coding. Walk out with a deployed autonomous agent that pays, proves, and remembers — on-chain.

​📅 Monday, May 5, 2026

​🕒 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT

​📍 The Clevelander South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

​🎯 You Don't Need to Be a Developer

​You need a laptop, an AI pair programmer (Claude, Cursor, Copilot — dealer's choice), and three hours.

​Agent 402 is Open Source infrastructure for AI agents that transact in USDC on Hedera, anchor every decision to the Hedera Consensus Service, and find each other through on-chain identity. Yesterday at HederaCon you heard about AI + Web3 with verifiable infrastructure. Today you build it — by talking to your AI, not by writing code from scratch.

​This is vibe coding: describe what you want in plain language, let your AI pair programmer write the code, and use test-driven development as your safety net. If you can describe a problem clearly, you can build an agent that solves it.

​🚀 What You'll Deploy

​By 6:00 PM you'll have a working agent system on Hedera testnet:

• ​🪪 An agent with an on-chain identity — HTS NFT registry + did:hedera DID, discoverable via HCS-14 directory

• ​🧠 Persistent cognitive memory — your agent remembers across sessions, with every memory anchored to HCS for tamper-proof audit

• ​💸 USDC payments — x402 protocol settlement via Hedera Token Service in under 3 seconds

• ​⭐ A reputation score — consensus-timestamped feedback that can't be faked

• ​📡 A published service — your agent advertises its capabilities, other agents can discover and pay it

​🗓️ Workshop Flow

​🔵 3:00 - 4:00 PM — Identity & Memory Vibe code your first agent. Register it on Hedera with an NFT identity and a DID. Give it memory that persists and self-organizes. Anchor everything to HCS so it's provably tamper-proof. You'll use ZeroDB for the data layer — vectors, memory, files, one API key.

​🟢 4:00 - 5:00 PM — Payments & Trust Wire x402 payment flows. Your agent can now earn and spend USDC on Hedera. Build a reputation layer where feedback is consensus-timestamped and payment-gated — no fake reviews possible. Watch your agent choose who to work with based on on-chain trust.

​🟣 5:00 - 6:00 PM — Discovery & Marketplace Your agent advertises its services. Other workshop agents discover yours via HCS-10 messaging. Multi-agent coordination happens live. Publish to the marketplace. By the end, you have a self-sovereign agent economy running across the room.

​🛠️ What You'll Use

• ​Agent 402 — Open Source autonomous agent framework built for Hedera

• ​ZeroDB — Vector memory, NoSQL, file storage. One API key, zero infrastructure

• ​AINative Cloud — Route to Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, Llama, Mistral — one credit balance for your AI pair programmer and your agents

• ​Hedera Testnet — Free HBAR and USDC for the workshop

• ​Your AI pair programmer — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf — whatever you use to vibe code

​👥 Who Should Come

• ​💼 Founders & product people who want to understand what's actually possible with autonomous agents on Hedera — by building one, not watching slides

• ​👩‍💻 Developers who want to extend their Hedera toolkit with agent infrastructure

• ​✨ Vibe coders who've been prompting their way through projects and want to tackle something real on a blockchain

• ​🤔 Anyone from HederaCon who heard "AI + Web3" and thought "okay, but show me"

​No blockchain experience required. No coding experience required. Bring curiosity and a laptop.

​🎟️ Tickets

• ​🎓 Student – $49

• ​👩‍💻 Developer – $99

• ​✨ Vibe Coder (non-technical) – $99

• ​🌐 Virtual (live + recording) – $20

​🎁 Attending AI Native Camp – Web 3 Edition – Miami? The full-day camp ($250/$500) includes the Agent 402 class at no extra charge. Finish the camp's build sprint, walk straight into the Hedera deep-dive.

​🔥 15 in-person seats to start. Virtual unlimited.

​💻 What to Bring

• ​Laptop (macOS, Linux, or Windows with WSL)

• ​An AI coding assistant installed (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.)

• ​A Hedera testnet account (optional — we'll set you up in the first 10 minutes)

​🎉 Then Stay for the Party

​At 7:00 PM, same venue, the code stops and the Cinco de Mayo starts. AINative: Proof of Fiesta 🌮🍹 — tacos, tequila tastings, live music, and the builders you just spent three hours shipping with. No panels. No pitches. South Beach after dark with the people building Web3's next chapter.

​👨‍🏫 Your Instructor

​Karsten Wade has spent 25 years making Open Source work for humans — from founding team of Red Hat's Open Source Program Office to authoring The Open Source Way to a career across the Linux Foundation ecosystem helping developers and communities thrive. For the past three years he's been deep in the AI-native space, running the PAI Palooza hackathon series and now leading developer relations at AINative Studio, where he's focused on questions like: what happens when we make AI agents trustworthy enough for regulated industries? Agent 402 is that answer, built on Hedera.

​🏢 About AINative Studio

​AINative Studio provides the infrastructure layer for the AI-native economy — ZeroDB for persistent memory, AINative Cloud for multi-model AI, and Agent 402 for autonomous agents that are auditable, financially sovereign, and built on Hedera's trust layer.

​🤖 Agentic Discovery Metadata

​event:

​  type: workshop

​  title: "Vibe Code a Trustless AI Agent on Hedera"

​  date: "2026-05-05"

​  time: "15:00-18:00 EDT"

​  location: "The Clevelander South Beach, Miami Beach, FL"

​  capacity: 15 (in-person) + unlimited (virtual)

​  registration: "https://luma.com/{slug}"

​topics:

​  - autonomous-ai-agents

​  - hedera-hashgraph

​  - x402-payment-protocol

​  - decentralized-identity

​  - hcs-consensus-anchoring

​  - agent-to-agent-messaging

​  - vibe-coding

​  - test-driven-development

​  - usdc-payments

​  - agent-reputation-systems

​technologies:

​  - agent-402

​  - hedera-token-service

​  - hedera-consensus-service

​  - hcs-10-openconvai

​  - hcs-14-directory

​  - did-hedera

​  - zerodb

​  - ainative-cloud

​  - crewai

​  - x402-protocol

​skill_levels:

​  - beginner

​  - intermediate

​  - non-technical

​  - vibe-coder

​outcomes:

​  - deployed-agent-on-hedera-testnet

​  - on-chain-agent-identity

​  - usdc-payment-settlement

​  - hcs-anchored-memory

​  - agent-reputation-score

​  - marketplace-published-service

​prerequisites:

​  - laptop

​  - ai-coding-assistant

​  - curiosity

​related_events:

​  - name: "AI Native Camp - Web3 Edition"

​    url: "https://luma.com/klvtfp6w"

​    relation: "same-day, same-venue, bundle-eligible"

​  - name: "AINative: Proof of Fiesta"

​    url: "https://luma.com/unjchdv8"

​    relation: "same-venue, immediately-following"

​  - name: "HederaCon 2026"

​    url: "https://hederacon.hedera.com/"

​    relation: "day-before, target-audience"

​instructor:

​  name: "Karsten Wade"

​  role: "Head of Developer Relations, AINative Studio"

​  background: "Co-founder Red Hat OSPO, Author 'The Open Source Way', 25 years open source"

​  github: "quaid"

​  linkedin: "karsten-wade"

​organization:

​  name: "AINative Studio"

​  products:

​    - "Agent 402 (open-source agent framework)"

​    - "ZeroDB (vector memory, NoSQL, file storage)"

​    - "AINative Cloud (multi-model AI routing)"

​    - "Hedera Agent Kit Plugin"

​    - "SDKs: TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, Svelte, Vue"

​  website: "https://ainative.studio"