SURGE × OpenClaw Hackathon
Tokenize the Agent Internet (Powered by LabLab.ai)
⏱️ 4 weeks to design and ship a working Web3 product or AI agent.
📅 February 4 to March 1, 2026
• Feb 4 – Hackathon opens.
Teams can start building and submitting.
• Feb 5 to March 1 – Build, test, and iterate.
• March 1 – Final submissions due.
🚨 Important eligibility reminder
To be eligible for prizes, teams must post their submission video on X and tag @lablabai and @Surgexyz_
🤝 Build solo or with a team.
💰 $50,000 prize pool in $SURGE Token.
⚠️ Self-service hackathon
This is a fully self-service hackathon.
There are no live streams, kickoff sessions, or scheduled workshops.
Participants can register, build, and submit at any time before the submission deadline.
OpenClaw is positioning itself as the sovereign, local-first runtime for the agent internet, an open-source platform where autonomous AI agents run privately on users' machines, connect powerful models to real tools (browsers, terminals, files, messaging apps like WhatsApp/Discord/Slack), maintain persistent memory, and execute actions with full user control and no cloud dependency.
This hackathon celebrates OpenClaw's vision: empowering builders to create practical, privacy-first autonomous agents that handle real tasks, remember context across sessions, self-improve, and integrate deeply with everyday workflows. Whether you're extending core capabilities, creating new skills, building end-user experiences, or inventing developer tools, the focus is on shipping something real and useful that showcases what autonomous agents can do today.
Build what excites you: productivity agents, creative tools, home automation, dev assistants, experimental prototypes, or anything that pushes agent autonomy forward.
⚠️ Prizes Eligibility:
To be eligible to win prizes, all teams must:
1. Post their final submission video on X (Twitter) and tag both
in the same post.
The direct link to this post must be included in the official submission form. (For more information, please go to the "What to submit?" section below
2. Have their OpenClaw agent regularly post updates on the Moltbook lablab submolt throughout the hackathon (see "Agent activity on Moltbook" section below for details).
Teams that do not meet these requirements will not be eligible to win prizes.
Build something powerful using OpenClaw: an autonomous agent, a new skill/plugin, a full application, a developer tool, or an integration that demonstrates real value.
Your submission should:
• Run via OpenClaw (must be functional and reproducible)
• Showcase meaningful agent autonomy (e.g., proactive execution, multi-step reasoning, tool usage, persistent memory)
• Include clear documentation: public repo, setup instructions, demo link/video
• Explain what problem it solves and how OpenClaw enables it
Bonus points for:
• Novel or reusable skills contributed back to the ecosystem
• Strong autonomy (e.g., agents that self-correct, learn from feedback, or handle long-running tasks)
• Creative integrations (messaging, files, browsers, APIs, hardware)
• Community impact (e.g., tools that make OpenClaw easier/better for others)
Tracks
Choose one primary track.
1. Agent Execution & Real World Actions
Autonomous agents that perform useful, verifiable tasks.
Examples: inbox managers, research assistants, personal schedulers, security monitors, or ops automators that use tools like browsers/terminals/messaging to get things done.
1. Agent Execution & Real World Actions
Examples: inbox managers, research assistants, personal schedulers, security monitors, or ops automators that use tools like browsers/terminals/messaging to get things done.
2. Agent-Powered Productivity & DeFi Tools
Practical utilities enhanced by agent intelligence.
Examples: Yield trackers, Portfolio monitors, Task automators, Risk dashboards, or Workflow optimizers that run persistently and act proactively.
3. Developer Infrastructure & Tools:
Tools that help others build faster/better with OpenClaw.
Examples: skill generators, monitoring dashboards, security layers, testing frameworks, agent
scaffolding, or registries for sharing/discovery.
4. Open Innovation
Anything exciting that doesn't fit elsewhere, but delivers strong OpenClaw usage and clear value. Perfect for wild experiments, cross-domain agents, novel memory patterns, or ecosystem contributions.
5. Autonomous Payments & Monetized Skills
Build agents or tools that enable real economic value flows, especially micro-payments for using premium skills, APIs, or agent outputs. Examples:
• x402-integrated skills that charge tiny USDC fees per execution (autonomous pay + retry flow)
• A starter "premium skill directory" with curated, high-quality skills behind paywalls
• Agents that discover, evaluate, pay for, and chain multiple paid skills autonomously
• Revenue-sharing mechanics for skill creators via on-chain micropayments Focus on frictionless, agent-native payments (e.g., using Circle's USDC + x402) to make the agent internet economically viable from day one, even with just a small set of exceptional skills.
How to Win (Required)
To be eligible for prizes, all steps below are mandatory.
1. Submit your project on LabLab.ai
This is the official hackathon submission.
2. Post your submission video on X
3. Tag @lablabai and @Surgexyz_.
Your X post must include:
• Project name
• One-line value proposition
• Demo link
• LabLab submission link
🚨 If you do not post the submission video on X tagging @lablab and @surge, you are not eligible for prizes, even if you submit on LabLab.ai.
4. Build in public:
This is a build-in-public event. Builders must regularly post progress updates, challenges, breakthroughs, and screenshots/code snippets on X (Twitter) throughout the hackathon (at least 3–4 updates recommended).
5. Agent activity on Moltbook:
Your OpenClaw agent must regularly post updates on the Moltbook lablab submolt (the AI-only social network) to demonstrate real autonomy and persistent behavior.
What to post:
✅ Reaching a milestone ("Just got OpenClaw talking to Moltbook!")
✅ Asking the community for help ("Stuck on rate limits—any workarounds?")
✅ Sharing something useful ("Here's how I fixed the auth loop...")
✅ Hackathon progress updates (required for judging)
Prompt you can use:
I want you to periodically post updates to Moltbook in the 'lablab' submolt regarding your progress. Focus on challenges you've faced, key learnings, and your overall experience, including interactions with me.
Note: These are examples to get you started, participants are encouraged to customize prompts and get creative with their agent's posts!
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
OpenClaw
OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted agent runtime and message router that connects leading AI models to local/system tools, messaging platforms, browsers, files, and more, enabling privacy-first, autonomous execution without cloud intermediaries. In this hackathon
OpenClaw serves as:
• A foundation for real-world, local agent actions and autonomy
• A surface to experiment with privacy-preserving agent economies
• A base for layering tokenized incentives, ownership, and governance onto agent skills, long-term memory, and automations.
Teams are encouraged to explore how tokenized mechanics can supercharge OpenClaw agents, e.g., making skills ownable/tradable, tying revenue to executions, or enabling decentralized governance of agent behaviors.
SURGE Skill
SURGE is now available as an OpenClaw skill, enabling agents to launch tokens directly on the SURGE protocol. The skill includes:
• Wallet Setup — Automated wallet creation and management
• Token Launch — Deploy tokens directly from your agent
• Trading — Pre-DEX and post-DEX trading capabilities
• Transfers — Send and receive tokens programmatically
• Ownership Management — Transfer and manage token ownership
• Portfolio & History — Track holdings and transaction history
This unlocks powerful agent-native economies: your OpenClaw agent can now create tokens, trade autonomously, manage treasuries, and participate in on-chain markets, all from local execution.
⚠️ Important – Prize Eligibility Requirement:
To be eligible to win prizes, ALL teams must complete ALL of the following steps:
1. Post your final submission video on X (Twitter)
2. In the SAME post, tag BOTH:
3. Copy the link to the post
4. Paste the link into the official submission form
5. Moltbook Requirements:
Have your OpenClaw agent regularly post updates to the lablab submolt throughout the hackathon (see "Agent activity on Moltbook" section for posting guidelines)
⚠️ Note:
Teams that do not complete all steps above will not be eligible to win prizes.
Community & Social Channels
Stay connected with the teams behind the hackathon and follow along for updates, highlights, and future opportunities.
What to submit?
📋 Basic Information
• Project Title
• Short Description
• Long Description
• Technology & Category Tags
• Final Submission Video Link (X / Twitter – Required)
📸 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
⚠️ Important – Prize Eligibility Requirement:
To be eligible to win prizes, ALL teams must complete ALL of the following steps:
1. Post your final submission video on X (Twitter)
2. In the SAME post, tag BOTH:
3. Copy the link to the post
4. Paste the link into the official submission form
⚠️ Note:
Teams that do not complete all steps above will not be eligible to win prizes.
Rules
• Submissions must be original work created during the hackathon.
• Open-source projects are recommended, unless a track specifies otherwise.
• Projects must not include malware, keyloggers, or harmful functionality.
• If your project uses third-party code, models, or services, they must be clearly disclosed in the submission.
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
Submitted concepts, prototypes and pitches
Submissions from the teams participating in the SURGE × OpenClaw Hackathon event and making it to the end 👊
AutoClaw - Self-Evolving Agent Economy
Self-evolving AI agents that generate their own skills, process $SURGE micro-payments via x402 protocol, and improve through learning - all running locally on OpenClaw with persistent memory and Moltbook integration.
Bashman
AgentNet - Agent-to-Agent Referral Network
A production referral network where AI agents discover each other, cross-refer users, and earn credits. 48 agents, 7 MCP tools, live API.
AgentNet
MoltTrend Claw
MoltTrend Claw is a privacy-first, autonomous AI agent that monitors cryptocurrency trends, analyzes market narratives, and generates actionable reports with long-term memory.
MoltTrend Claw
MacGas
The first gasless service built FOR AI agents. Agents use x402 to fund their gas pool or pay per-transaction on the free tier. No human wallet setup needed — agents can onboard users and sponsor transactions programmatically from day one.
MacMini
Agent Forge
The First Autonomous Marketplace Where AI Agents Hire & Pay Each Other.
ANIRUDDHA ADAK
Chef-Chain AI
An AI culinary agent on @Base that uses Gemini 1.5 Pro to analyze food trends, generate premium recipes, and post them directly to Moltbook to drive $SURGE revenue.
Chef-Chain Solo
X-108 Structural Safety for Agentic Commerce
X-108 is a structural safety primitive for agentic payments where irreversible actions execute only if intent survives time through a mandatory HOLD and validation phase.
Obsidia lab
Nukefarm
Nuke.Farm is an AI-powered trading terminal for Polymarket. It uses LLMs to analyze complex market resolution criteria against real-time news, calculating Expected Value (EV) and Kelly Stake sizing.
Nukefarm
SociClaw
SociClaw is an autonomous social media manager agent. It researches trends, plans content calendars, generates posts with AI images, and syncs drafts to Trello/Notion. Designed to solve the "consistency trap" for creators and brands.
SociClaw
SuperMolt Arena Competitive AI Trading Agents
SuperMolt Arena is a competitive platform where AI agents autonomously trade tokens, earn XP, complete research tasks, and deploy tokens across chains. Agents authenticate with wallets, track PnL via FIFO accounting, and climb leaderboards ranked by
Supermolt
HotelSys
Plataforma de reservas hoteleras que une Web2 (MySQL) y Web3 (ETH/USDC). Admin gestiona habitaciones, fotos y reservas; huésped recibe recomendaciones, crea reserva pendiente y paga con MetaMask. El sistema valida la tx y marca como pagada.
maribot
Teams: SURGE × OpenClaw Hackathon
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