
Next Hackathon
Band of Agents Hackathon
Starts Jun 12, 2026
May 13 – 19: Online Build Phase.
May 19: An exclusive on-site build day at Milan AI Week for selected participants.
May 20: Awards Ceremony.
📍On-site Venue (May 19–20):
Fiera Milano (Rho), Milan, Italy
🤝 Join solo or with a team.
🎟 FREE Milan AI Week conference ticket included for participants.
💰 $32,000+ prize pool
🧑💻 Apply now to turn your autonomous agent into a market-ready enterprise solution.

Our AI hackathon brought together a diverse group of participants, who collaborated to develop a variety of impressive projects based on:
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AI Applications
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Hosted during AI WEEK, Europe’s largest event dedicated to Artificial Intelligence — The AI Agent Olympics Hackathon transforms conversation into creation.
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Choose a track that matches your vision:
🌍 Enterprise Utility Solve a real-world friction point for the managers and entrepreneurs at AI Week.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vultr powers the backend infrastructure for this hackathon.
Teams that deploy on Vultr and use it as the central system of record for planning, coordination, and execution will be eligible for the Vultr Awards.
Challenge:
Build a Web-Based Enterprise Agent Deployed on Vultr
Design and develop a web-based AI agent built for real-world enterprise workflows across operations, sales, marketing, customer support, HR, and beyond.
Projects should demonstrate multi-step agentic workflows, realistic future-of-work use cases, and a production-style web application.
Developer Expectations
Each team must provide:
Technology
⚠️ Note: Vultr GPUs are not available for this event.
Vultr will provide $200 in credits per participant, available to up to 300 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
👉 To activate your access, follow the setup guide below:
🔘 Open Vultr Setup GuideResources
Gemini is Google’s family of next-generation multimodal AI models capable of reasoning across text, images, code, video, and audio.
Google AI Studio is a browser-based environment where developers can easily prototype, test, and iterate with Gemini models before integrating them into production using the Gemini API.
Challenge:
Build intelligent agents or applications using Gemini models and Google AI Studio.
Your project should:
Recommended Gemini Models:
Participants are encouraged to select the Gemini model that best fits their agent use case:
Example Use Cases:
Access to Technology:
Participants can explore Gemini through two main options, both including free access.
🔓 $300 in free Google Cloud credits are available for new Google Cloud accounts and valid for 90 days.
Credits can be used across eligible Google Cloud services, including Gemini API usage.
🔘 Learn More About Google Cloud Free Tier🚀 How to Get Started:
📘 Resources:
Kraken is one of the most established cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, trusted by institutions and individual traders, and known for its deep liquidity and trading infrastructure.
For this hackathon, participants will work with two Kraken products:
Challenge:
Build an autonomous AI agent that trades xStocks, tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, using the Kraken CLI as its execution layer.
Your agent should analyze market signals, form a strategy, and execute trades programmatically without manual intervention. This could include a momentum-based stock picker, portfolio rebalancer, or event-driven trading system.
✅ How Agents Are Ranked:
Agents in the Kraken Challenge are evaluated across two independent categories.
1️⃣ Trading Performance (PnL)
Agents are ranked purely by net PnL, realized plus unrealized, over the competition period.
How it works:
Requirements:
2️⃣ Social Engagement
Build in public. Share your journey. Inspire the community.
Over a 30-day window, participants earn a Social Engagement Score based purely on quantitative metrics from public platforms, including Twitter/X, YouTube, blogs, or other channels.
How winners are determined:
📣 When Posting, Tag:
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🚀 How to Get Started
1. Install the Kraken CLI from the official repository
2. Configure your Kraken API access and connect it to your agent
3. Ensure you have access to the xStocks market
4. Build an autonomous AI trading agent that analyzes signals and trades xStocks through Kraken CLI
5. Share your progress publicly as part of the Social Engagement challenge
Featherless provides serverless inference for 27,000+ open-source models through a single OpenAI-compatible API, with no GPU management. It enables developers to build and deploy specialized AI agents quickly and efficiently.
Challenge:
Build a domain-specialized, open-source AI agent using models from the Featherless catalog.
Instead of building general-purpose assistants, focus on creating an agent that performs one task exceptionally well within a specific domain.
What We’re Looking For:
Access to Technology:
Featherless will provide $25 in credits per participant, available to up to 1,000 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Access is valid for 1 month from activation.
👉 To activate your access, follow the setup guide below:
🔘 Open Featherless Setup Guide (Includes QR & Free Access)🚀 How to Get Started with Featherless:
📘 Resources:
Speechmatics provides highly accurate speech-to-text and conversational AI technology built for AI agents, voice applications, assistants, and real-time workflows.
For this hackathon, participants are encouraged to build AI systems powered by real-time speech understanding using Speechmatics APIs.
Challenge:
Build conversational AI applications, voice-powered agents, or real-time AI systems using Speechmatics speech-to-text technology.
Speechmatics is especially interested in projects leveraging real-time transcription APIs within AI agent workflows, assistants, collaboration tools, accessibility tools, healthcare, customer support, and other voice-first experiences.
Participants are encouraged to build projects involving:
Technology:
Speechmatics provides highly accurate real-time speech-to-text APIs designed for conversational AI, live transcription, and production-grade voice applications.
Key capabilities include:
Access to Technology:
Speechmatics will provide $200 in API credits per participant, available to the first 200 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Access is valid for 1 month.
👉 To activate your access, follow the setup guide below:
🔘 Open Speechmatics Setup GuideParticipants will:
🎥 A step-by-step credit redemption tutorial video can be found in the Workshop section below.
📘 Resources:
Speaker: Sanskriti Harmukh
Junior Developer Relations
Speaker: Isaac Gemal
Developer relations
Speaker: Edgars Adamovics
Developer Relations Lead
Speaker: Sanskriti Harmukh
Junior Developer Relations
Multi-partner rewards across cloud infrastructure, models, trading, voice AI, and deployment.
Multi-partner rewards across cloud infrastructure, models, trading, voice AI, and deployment.
📋 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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Submissions from the teams participating in the AI Agent Olympics Hackathon event and making it to the end 👊
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Next Hackathon
Band of Agents Hackathon
Starts Jun 12, 2026