AI trading agents with ERC-8004 Hackathon
Build your AI agents with trustless ERC-8004
⏱️ You’ve got 13 days to design, build, and deploy trustless AI financial agents.
📅 March 9–22, 2026
🌐 Build AI agents that access capital, execute on-chain strategies, and earn verifiable trust with ERC-8004.
🤝 Build solo or in teams to create autonomous trading, risk, yield, or protection agents.
💰 $50,000 prize pool, allocated to trading accounts with profits shared via Surge.
Build an AI agent that performs a real financial function (trade, manage risk, optimize yield, or protect capital) and makes its behavior trust-minimized using ERC-8004’s on-chain trust layer.
Your Track Challenge (financial and trading focus)
Build a trustless trading or financial agent that:
1. Registers identity on the ERC-8004 Identity Registry
2. Accumulates measurable reputation from objective outcomes
3. Produces validation artifacts for key actions trade intents, risk checks, strategy checkpoints
The agent must operate through the Hackathon Capital Sandbox provided vault and risk router so performance can be measured on-chain in stablecoin terms.
Rankings are based on risk-adjusted profitability, drawdown control, and validation quality not just raw PnL.
Your mission is to build and launch an AI-native product using X402 Payments - a programmable payments infrastructure designed for the next generation of agentic and automated economies.
In this edition of Launch & Fund Your Startup, you’ll have 6 days to validate an idea, build a working prototype, and present a credible path toward real users and on-chain revenue.
This challenge is open to everyone - from early-stage founders to existing startups looking to expand or pivot their products.
Your submission should clearly show how your solution integrates or reimagines X402 Payments in the context of real-world financial interaction
Tracks
Choose one - or mix and match. Each track explores a core use case of programmable payments in the age of agentic systems:
🤖 Agent-to-Agent Payments
Challenge: Build a system where two or more agents autonomously trigger and settle payments—e.g., for usage-based services, access control, or dynamic pricing. Your product should demonstrate a working agentic payment loop with minimal human input.
🧑💼Consumer AI Payments
Challenge: Develop an AI assistant that can make payments on a user’s behalf—with built-in rules like spending limits, approval checkpoints, or identity verification (KYC/AML). Showcase how your product handles decision-making, compliance, and safeguards.
🏢 B2B FinOps & Compliance
Challenge: Build a tool for businesses to manage real-time payments and financial operations—like tracking cash flow, enforcing policies, or generating audit-ready records. Highlight automation, accuracy, and visibility into payment activity.
🛒 On-chain Commerce Primitives
Challenge: Launch a digital product or service with a built-in revenue model using X402. Think: token-gated access, real-time rev-splits, or instant payouts to contributors. Your prototype should demonstrate seamless, trustless commerce flows.
Technology & Access
Required technology (core)
• ERC-8004 registries Identity, Reputation, Validation deploy on an L2 or testnet mainnet optional
• EIP-712 typed data signatures for trade intents and attestations EIP-1271 support for smart-contract wallets EIP 155 chain-id binding
• A DEX execution path for example Uniswap-style routers through a whitelisted Risk Router contract hackathon-provided
Optional or bonus technology (trust tiering)
• TEE-backed attestations or verifiable execution proofs (e.g., TEE oracle; zkML validation)
• Off-chain indexers/subgraphs for discovery dashboards and leaderboards
• Portfolio risk modules (limits circuit breakers stop-loss policies) enforced on-chain
Access to Technology
Access to Technology (how participants get funds safely)
Step 1: Register agent
Teams mint and register an Agent Identity ERC-721 handle pointing to an Agent Registration JSON capabilities endpoints agent wallet.
Step 2: Claim sandbox capital
Each team receives a funded sub-account in the Hackathon Capital Vault test funds by default optional small real-capital finals pool.
Step 3: Execute via Risk Router
Agents submit signed TradeIntents. The Risk Router enforces limits max position size max leverage whitelisted markets daily loss limit.
Step 4: Record trust signals
Every trade and checkpoint emits events. Validators post a validation score to the Validation Registry. Objective PnL signals and validator scores feed reputation.
Step 5: Leaderboard
LabLab.ai publishes a transparent leaderboard PnL Sharpe drawdown validation score.
Resources & Documentation
• ERC-8004 forum discussion
• Developer walkthrough article (Solidity + JS examples)
• Optional Curated Resources
🎓 Workshops
Get inspired and boost your skills with exclusive sessions from our partners and experts. Watch them anytime!
Topic: ERC‑8004 in 45 minutes — Identity, Reputation, Validation in practice.
Topic: Building a trustless trading agent: TradeIntents, risk limits, and validation hooks.
🔜 More details on prize categories and distribution coming soon — stay tuned!
• Fast-track into the Trading Capital Program
• Trading Capital Program seat
• Mentorship session with ERC-8004 contributors
Profits generated from trading activities are shared with the Surge platform, enabling continued participation beyond the hackathon.
What to submit?
📋 Basic Information
• Project Title
• Short Description
• Long Description
• Technology & Category Tags
📸 Cover Image and Presentation
• Cover Image
• Video Presentation
• Slide Presentation
💻 App Hosting & Code Repository
• Public GitHub Repository
• Demo Application Platform
• Application URL
For further details and guidance, please visit Submission Guidelines
Hackathon Details
Join lablab.ai hackathon and innovate using the latest models in the market. Discover all the relevant details below.
🗓️ Where and when
The start date of the hackathon is mentioned according to the date specified on the hackathon page, cover and schedule. The hackathon will take place on the lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord server.
🦸🏼♂️ Who can join?
Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of previous AI or coding experience! We encourage anyone with a passion for AI or an interest in exploring how it can be used in their field to join.
😅 What about teams?
If you don't have a team, don't worry! You can connect with other participants from all over the world on our dashboard or Discord server. We also recommend checking out our Discord server to find teammates and bounce around ideas. You can join the server here.
🛠️ How to participate
The hackathon will take place online on lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord Server. Please register for both in order to participate. To participate click the "Enroll" button at the bottom of the page and read our Hackathon Guidelines and Getting Started Guide.
🧠 Get prepared / Use Lablab.ai to Learn About AI
To get ready for the hackathon, visit our AI Tech pages and read up on all the available technologies. You can also check out our tutorials page for more information on how to use them. Get a head start on your project by using the resources on lablab.ai!
Speakers, Mentors & Judges
Event Schedule
- To be announced
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