Thabiso Kgadimonyane@Medusa

The Vision: Agentic Task Swarm is a fully autonomous machine-to-machine economy. We built a system where a Coordinator Agent (Gemini 3.1 Pro) delegates data-gathering tasks to a Worker Agent (Gemini 3 Flash). The Worker locks the data behind an HTTP x402 Paywall, requiring exactly $0.005 USDC to release it. The Margin Explanation (Why Arc?): If our AI agents used traditional payment gateways like Stripe to settle a $0.005 data request, the $0.30 flat fee would instantly destroy our business model. Similarly, traditional Layer-1 gas fees (like Ethereum) would eat the entire margin. Arc and Circle Nanopayments solve this by enabling high-frequency, gas-free, sub-cent USDC settlements. This makes true micro-commerce between AIs mathematically profitable. Architecture & Autonomy: To achieve zero human intervention, our backend utilizes Circle Developer-Controlled Wallets. By leveraging the ENTITY_SECRET, the Coordinator AI autonomously signs and authorizes the $0.005 transactions. Our live demo proves this by generating over 50+ on-chain settled transactions in a continuous loop. Resiliency (Fallback Protocol): We built for production. If the primary Gemini API hits a rate limit, our system's fallback engine instantly routes requests to Featherless AI, ensuring the agentic economy never halts.

Grab your ideas, spin up compute, and start building what’s next! Start with $100 in AMD Developer Cloud credits and begin building right away. Get access to hands-on tutorials, workshops, and curated learning resources to help you build faster and go further. To unlock credits and join the hackathon, sign up for the AMD AI Developer Program. 🤝 Go solo or team up — ship something real. 💰 $21,500+ total prize pool & 1 × AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9700 GPU up for grabs. 📍 On-site Venue (May 9-10): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 📍On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered. 🧑‍💻 Developers, builders, and innovators - bring your boldest ideas and let’s turn them into real AI systems on AMD.

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!