Ken Huang@distributedappsai917

Vantage is a comprehensive AI editorial assistant designed to revolutionize how we interact with documents. While traditional tools focus on grammar, Vantage uses the full spectrum of the Google Gemini API to act as an active, multimodal collaborator. The application integrates directly with Google Drive to solve complex writing challenges through five powerful engines: Deep Polish: Leveraging Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview with "Thinking" enabled, Vantage doesn't just edit; it reasons through your document's structure to provide world-class rewrites and stylistic critiques. Nano Banana (Visual Intelligence): The app analyzes your text context using Gemini 3.0 Pro to suggest relevant visual assets, then instantly generates them using Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, allowing for one-click insertion into the document. Real-time Voice Review: Powered by the Gemini Live API, users can "talk to their document." This low-latency audio interface allows you to brainstorm, summarize, and query your document hands-free, just like speaking to a co-author. Fact Checking: Built-in Google Search Grounding scans the text for factual claims and verifies them against the web, providing citations to ensure accuracy. Smart Collaboration: Vantage proactively resolves existing comments and suggests new improvements for tone and clarity. Vantage demonstrates the future of productivity by seamlessly combining text, image, and audio intelligence into a single, cohesive workspace.

ArcMind Collective is a multi-agent coordination system built on Circle’s Arc Layer 1 blockchain to bring intelligence and transparency to decentralized trading. Traditional DeFi systems execute transactions but lack semantic understanding for matching intents, assessing risks, or verifying off-chain payments. ArcMind Collective solves this by introducing AI-driven agents that analyze, match, and settle trading intents autonomously while maintaining verifiable on-chain workflows. The system includes six specialized agents—Matching, Market, Fraud, Risk, Settlement, and Liquidity—coordinated through a LangGraph state machine. These agents work together to interpret trading intents, detect fraud patterns, evaluate counterparty risks, verify pricing, and manage atomic settlements. The PaymentRouter oracle bridges off-chain fiat payments (via AP2 or Stripe) with on-chain USDC settlement on Arc, enabling seamless fiat-to-crypto coordination. Each agent produces explainable reasoning traces and confidence scores that are visible to users through a real-time dashboard, ensuring clarity and trust at every step. Built with Solidity, FastAPI, LangGraph, and Streamlit, the platform combines smart contracts for escrow and intent registration with asynchronous Python-based orchestration. The system executes matches in under five seconds and maintains full auditability through Arc’s transparent infrastructure. The complete open-source codebase, documentation, and demo are hosted publicly for review and interaction. ArcMind Collective targets developers, traders, and financial institutions that need smarter, safer, and faster coordination of intents and settlements. It offers commercial potential as a developer SDK, matching-as-a-service layer, and risk analytics API for intent-based markets on Circle’s Arc blockchain. Future plans include adding compliance and tax agents, expanding to NFT and multi-token intents, and launching the mainnet version with liquidity partners.

Build solutions that improve how software is built. Work with an AI that understands your codebase, helping you reduce repetitive work and build with real context. ⏳ Build your project in 48 hours. 🚀 Get hands-on with IBM Bob and explore how AI fits into real development workflows before it becomes standard. 💡 Build tools and workflows that developers would actually use. ⭐ Learn directly from experts throughout the event. 🤝 Join a team or build solo. 💰 Prize pool: $10,000 🧑🏻‍💻 Register before the Kick-Off Stream and start building with Bob.

Teams work together with multiple AI agents in shared workspaces to design, build, and launch complete AI products — from initial idea to market-ready app. 📅 February 23– March 1, 2026 ⏱️ 6 days to build and ship an end-to-end agentic AI product 🤝 Work together in shared AI workspaces where your team and AI agents collaborate in real time 🔧 Build with multiple AI agents that handle development, design, testing, and documentation together 🎯 Create everything in one place — from ideation to product to marketing materials, all by prompting and observing 🚀 Focus on real-world products that teams could actually ship and use 🏆 $3,500 in prizes + premium 3-month Complete.dev access for top teams 🧑‍💻 Join your team workspace and start building together

Join our $1,000,000+ startup challenge series powered by Surge 📌 This announcement outlines the launch of a Global Human+AI Exchange — aligning universities, global cities, talent networks, and industry to accelerate human-centered AI innovation, technology transfer, and economic growth. 👉 Read more here ⏱️ 8 days to turn your idea, or existing product, into an investable demo. 📅 February 6 - 15, 2026 • Feb 6 - 14 (Online Phase) - Collaborate and build online with developers and AI innovators from around the world. All projects must be submitted by the end of the online phase on February 14th. 🕙 Doors open at 10:00 AM, first come, first served. • Feb 14 (On‑site Build Day) - Selected participants will be invited to an exclusive in‑person session to refine their projects and connect directly with mentors. • Feb 15 (On‑site Demos & Awards) - Live pitching sessions to a panel of judges and ecosystem partners, followed by the official winner announcement. 🌟 Get feedback from startup mentors and technical experts. 📍 On-site Venue (Feb 14–15): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 📲 Real-time on-site updates (SF) For real-time announcements and information during the on-site portion (Feb 14–15), join the LabLab SF Chapter WhatsApp group: 👉 Join the WhatsApp group 🤝 Join solo or with a team. New founders and existing startups are welcome. 🏆 $1,000,000+ in credits, token prizes, perks and funding opportunity. 📍 On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered. 🧑‍💻 Apply now to build, validate, and pitch with purpose.

In this hybrid hackathon powered by Arc, developers will build the next generation of agentic commerce systems using Arc with USDC. Explore a world where AI agents and web services can pay for APIs, data, compute, and content in dynamic, usage-based ways, while Arc provides stablecoin-native settlement with predictable USDC fees and deterministic, sub-second finality. This hackathon is supported by Google & Google DeepMind, with a dedicated challenge and $40,000 in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) credits awarded for the best use of Gemini models and Google AI Studio. 📅 January 9 – 24, 2026 • Jan 9 – 23 (Online Phase) – Collaborate and build online with developers and AI innovators from around the world. All projects must be submitted by the end of the online phase on January 23rd. • Jan 23 (On‑site Build Day – San Francisco, CA) – Selected participants will be invited to an exclusive in‑person session to refine their projects and connect directly with mentors. • Jan 24 (On‑site Demos & Awards – San Francisco, CA) – Live pitching sessions to a panel of judges and ecosystem partners, followed by the official winner announcement. Get guidance from Arc and Circle experts through on-site support. 📍 On-site Venue (Jan 23–24): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 🤝 Go solo or team up, it's your flow. 🏆Compete for $50,000 in USDC & GCP Credits. 📍 On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered. 🧑🏻‍💻 Secure your spot now - sign up before the Kick-Off Stream!