Big corporations and centralized systems aren’t going to hand us the tools to build a future of decentralized intelligence—one where AI agents act in users’ best interests, not corporate agendas.
The user-owned future isn’t just going to happen. We have to buidl it.
The One Trillion Agents Hackathon is your call to action. This fully online hackathon challenges developers, visionaries, and creators to bring order to chaos by building the next wave of autonomous agents on NEAR Protocol.
Why Join?
Guided by expert mentors and equipped with top AI tech stack, you’ll tackle some of the biggest challenges at the intersection of AI and Web3:
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DeFi Agents: Finance with market-making bots, portfolio managers, AI trading, DCA, AI buying the dip, and more.
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Social Media Agents: Build yapper AI Agents, memecoin bots or communication agents that redefine online interactions.
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Absurd Agents: Push the boundaries with creative, outlandish AI experiments.
This is your chance to create AI products, collaborate with peers, and shape the future of user-owned AI.
And yes, there’s more than glory on the line. With over $100,000 in prizes, your groundbreaking ideas could become reality.
Hackathon Details
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When: January 31 – March 2nd, 2025
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Where: Fully online—connect from anywhere in the world!
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Who Should Join: Students, developers, founders, researchers, and anyone passionate about AI and Web3.
What You’ll Get:
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Mentorship: Work with top-tier mentors to refine your ideas and execution.
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Resources: Access to Near Protocol’s advanced developer tools and documentation.
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Community: Collaborate with like-minded buidlers and innovators.
How to Win:
To win big, your submission should excel in:
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Technological Implementation: Does your project showcase clever integration with Near and solid engineering?
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Design: Is your user experience seamless and your design thoughtfully crafted?
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Potential Impact: How could your project make a meaningful difference for the Near ecosystem and beyond?
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Quality of the Idea: Is your idea creative, fresh, and original?
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Project Sustainability: Can your project stand the test of time with a realistic, well-thought-out plan?
Prizes
With a prize pool of over $100,000, every submission has a shot at glory:
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DeFi Track Winners: $20,000 split between 5 best teams
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Social Media Track Winners: $20,000 split between 5 best teams
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Absurd Agents Track Winners: $10,000 split between 4 best teams
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Sponsored prizes: refer to http://bit.ly/3WBVmve
Ready to Buidl the Resistance?
Step up. Bring your ideas. Tame the Shoggoth. Let’s shape the future of decentralized intelligence—together.
Sign up now and claim your place in the One Trillion Agents Hackathon. The future won’t wait.
Requirements
Project Requirements
(i) What to Create: Entrants must build an app using NEAR technology, NEAR adjacent technology or third party technology provided by one of the Hackathon sponsors (each a “Project”) and submit it for one of the Tracks:
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DeFi Agents: Market-making agents, yield optimization, portfolio management, etc.
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Social Media Agents: Memecoin agents for Twitter and Telegram.
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Absurd Agents: Betting agents, chess AI battles, and more.
(ii) Functionality: The Project must be capable and running consistently on NEAR Testnet or Mainnet. This will include Projects built with adjacent projects such as Aurora and Bitte, and Projects built with third party technology provided by one of the Hackathon sponsors.
(iii) Platforms: A submitted Project must run on the platform for which it is intended and which is specified in the Submission Requirements.
(iv) New & Existing: Projects must be newly created or substantially modified by the Entrant during the hackathon submission period.
(v) Third Party Integrations: If a Project integrates any third-party SDK, APIs and/or data, Entrant must be authorized to use them.
(vi) Testing: The Entrant must make the Project available free of charge and without any restriction, for testing, evaluation and use by the Sponsor, Administrator and Judges until the Judging Period ends.
Entrants must make their Project available in the following method:
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Provide a URL to your open source code repository for judging and testing. Your code must have an open source license like one of the below:
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Apache 2.0 - https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 ;
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3-Clause BSD - https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
Submission Requirements:
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Include a text description that should explain the features, functionality, and Track for your Project. If the Project is being submitted for a Sponsor Prize, the description must include how the Project fulfills the specific Sponsor Requirements listed in Rules: Section 8. Prizes.
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Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the submission:
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(1) should not exceed three (3) minutes
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(2) should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the device for which it was built
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(3) must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, or Youku, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Hackathon Website; and
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(4) must not include third-party trademarks, copyrighted music or other material unless the Entrant has permission to use such material.
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Select the track the Project is being submitted into.
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Be the submitter's original work, be solely owned by the submitter, and not violate the IP rights of any other person or entity.
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Access must be provided to an Entrant’s working Project for judging and testing by providing a link to a website, functioning demo, or a test build. If Entrant’s website is private, Entrant must include login credentials in its testing instructions.
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Multiple Submissions: An Entrant may submit more than one Submission.
Prizes
DeFi Track Winner
Social Media Track Winner
Absurd Agents Track Winner
Aurora: AI Agentic Chains Bounty – 1st place
Spin up a blockchain using Aurora Cloud Console and unleash an AI Agent (or a swarm) to rule, evolve, and define its destiny.
For more info on bounties, please refer to http://bit.ly/3WBVmve
Aurora: AI Agentic Chains Bounty – 2nd place
Aurora: AI Agentic Chains Bounty – 3rd place
Aurora: Wildcard Bounty 1st place
Aurora: Wildcard Bounty 2nd place
Aurora: Wildcard Bounty 3rd place
Proximity Labs: Cross-chain Trading Agents Bounty
Proximity Labs: Bitcoin Agents Bounty
Proximity Labs: Twitter/X Agent Bounty
Bitte: NEAR/EVM Chain Agent Bounty – 1st place
Bitte: NEAR/EVM Chain Agent Bounty – 2nd place
Bitte: NEAR/EVM Chain Agent Bounty – 3rd place
Bitte: NEAR/EVM Chain Agent Bounty – 4th place
Swanchain: Marketing Agents Bounty
A cash prize of $1,500, $1000 Nebula Block Credit, and a feature on Nebula Block's social media channels.
For more info on bounties, please refer to http://bit.ly/3WBVmve
VeaxFlow AI agent - Mission to improve UX
1 winner: $2500
Build VeaxFlow AI agent as an institutional-grade AI liquidity management system.
For more info on bounties, please refer to http://bit.ly/3WBVmve
Frax Finance
Best Frax Finance Integration
$5K Prize Pool
For more info on bounties, please refer to http://bit.ly/3WBVmve
HOT Wallet Bounty
$5K in credits for HOT Wallet ads
for any project, that uses HOT SDK and HOT Omni bridge
For more info on bounties, please refer to http://bit.ly/3WBVmve
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Chainyoda
Therapist, Hadron Founders Club
GM
Partner, Dragonfly
Avichal Garg
Co-founder and General Partner, Electric Capital
Nikhil Raghuveera
Co-founder and CEO, Predicate
Sid Venkateswaran
Protocol Specialist, Electric Capital
Tarun Chitra
Co-founder, Gauntlet
Zaki Manian
Co-founder, Sommelier
Sam Kazemian
Co-founder, Frax
Kendall Cole
Co-founder and CEO, Proximity Labs
Loi Luu
Co-founder, Caliber
Nate Geier
Co-founder and CEO, Bitte
Alex Shevchenko
CEO, Aurora Labs
Lane Rettig
Head of Research, NEAR Foundation
Altan Tutar
Co-founder and CEO, Nuffle Labs
Firat Sertgoz
Co-founder and CTO, Nuffle Labs
Andrei Zhevlakov
CTO, HOT Labs
Slava Karkunov
DevRel, Aurora Labs
Boqian Wang
Director of Engineering, Nebula Block
Charles Cao
Founder and Tech Partner, Swan Chain
Iain Rogers
Head of Growth, VEAX
Tim
Developer Relationship Header, Questflow
Boris Lapouga
Co-Founder & CTO, Primetime AI
Robert Yan
Technical Due Diligence, MetaWeb VC
Garik Besson
NEAR DevHub
Kiskesis
NEAR DevHub
Guillermo Gallardo
NEAR DevHub
Josh Ford
NEAR DevHub
Denbite
NEAR DevHub
Damian Parrino
NEAR DevHub
Judging Criteria
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Technological Implementation
Does the interaction with NEAR demonstrate quality software development? -
Design
Is the user experience and design of the project well thought out? -
Potential Impact
Is the Project Open Source and how big of an impact could the project have on the NEAR ecosystem? -
Quality of the Idea
How creative and unique is the project? -
Project Sustainability
Is the plan for the Project thought out and realistic?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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