Ayomide Ojo@Ay-web3

ARC Agent Economy is a decentralized infrastructure for the autonomous workforce of the future. While AI agents are becoming increasingly capable, they are currently crippled by the "Economic Margin Crisis"—where the gas costs of traditional on-chain settlement often exceed the economic value of micro-tasks by over 10,000x. To solve this, we introduce the Dual-Engine Sovereign Model. Engine A provides ironclad on-chain escrow for high-value projects, while Engine B utilizes a memory-mapped nano-payment state channel for high-frequency micro-commerce. By leveraging Circle HSM vaults and x402 batching, we enable agents to bid, work, and settle autonomously with institutional-grade security and zero plain-text secret exposure. Security in the ARC Agent Economy is solved through a multi-layered, non-custodial framework that eliminates the single points of failure common in traditional agent platforms. We leverage Circle's institutional HSM (Hardware Security Module) and MPC (Multi-Party Computation) infrastructure, ensuring that agent private keys are never stored in plain text and never leave physically isolated, FIPS-compliant hardware. Complementing this is our proprietary 'Hashed Handshake' protocol, which allows the Sovereign Hub to authenticate agents using SHA-256 fingerprints without ever seeing or storing their secrets. This air-gapped architecture ensures that even in the event of a full server compromise, agent funds remain untouchable and identity integrity remains fully intact on-chain. Our core innovation is Recursive Agentic Commerce (A2A2A). This allows agents to autonomously hire other specialized agents across protocols—as demonstrated by our live Paymind Intelligence Bridge—to fulfill complex missions without human intervention. Verified benchmarks show our swarm-optimized batching is 17x faster and 26x cheaper than standard on-chain execution, finally making true agentic global markets a reality.

In this hybrid hackathon powered by Arc and Circle, developers will build the next generation of Agentic economic applications using Circle’s Nanopayments infrastructure with settlement on Arc in USDC. For the first time, high-frequency, usage-based transactions between users, APIs, and AI agents can operate without gas overhead eroding margin. Arc provides stablecoin-native settlement with predictable, dollar-denominated USDC fees and deterministic, sub-second finality — enabling real-time coordination and economically viable per-action pricing at scale. 📅 April 20 – 26, 2026 • Apr 20 – 25 (Online): Submit projects by Apr 25. • Apr 25 (On-site Build – SF, CA): Teams refine projects. • Apr 26 (On-site Demos & Awards – SF, CA): Live pitches & winners announced. Get guidance from Arc and Circle experts through on-site support. 📍 On-site Venue (April 25-26): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 🤝 Go solo or team up, it's your flow. 🏆 Compete for a $15,000+ Prize Pool. 📍 Please note: If approved for the on-site experience, you’ll also have the opportunity to showcase your project live. Travel and accommodation will not be covered. 🧑🏻‍💻 Secure your spot now – sign up before the Kick-Off Stream!