Emmanuel Akinfulubi@emmanuelakbi

Retail traders face a daily triage problem: which of these ten tickers deserves attention today? Most AI tools answer with a single-shot prompt into a general-purpose model, confident, shallow, indistinguishable across tickers. Real analysts don't work that way. They divide the labour: one reads the news, another digs into financials, another reads charts, another sizes the trade, then a head of strategy synthesises. FinAgent reproduces that division with five CrewAI agents running against ONE locally-hosted Qwen3-14B instance on an AMD Instinct MI300X GPU. Market Scanner, Fundamental Analyst, and Technical Analyst run in parallel; Risk Manager consumes technical output to compute ATR-based position sizing; Chief Strategist synthesises the final signal. Every output is grounded in real yfinance quotes, with sanity guards that clamp runaway stops and re-ground the signal if the LLM drifts from the live price. The entire pipeline is self-hosted inference, no OpenAI, no Claude, no API bills. vLLM 0.17 on ROCm 7.2 exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint; CrewAI agents talk to it through the `hosted_vllm/` litellm provider with native tool-calling. The $100 AMD Developer Cloud credit is the entire compute budget. The frontend is a dark-themed Gradio 5 Space under the hackathon org, with a live agent-activity feed driven by structured callback events. Ten keyless tool functions wrap yfinance, DuckDuckGo news (via ddgs), and pandas-ta — no API keys anywhere in the demo. 309 unit + property-based tests (Hypothesis) pass on every commit, verifying correctness invariants end-to-end. Outcome: institutional-grade research, retail-friendly pricing, 100% open source.

Forge8004 solves a fundamental problem in autonomous DeFi: how do you trust an AI agent with capital? Today, trading agents operate without proving who they are, what rules they follow, or whether their track record is real. There is no standard for agent trust. Forge8004 changes that. Every agent is registered as an ERC-721 token on Base Sepolia, linking its operator, strategy, and wallet to a verifiable on-chain identity. When the agent makes a trading decision, the system produces structured trust artifacts — signed trade intents with side, asset, size, stop-loss, take-profit, and AI reasoning. Every intent passes through a risk router that enforces allocation caps, daily loss limits, duplicate exposure checks, and kill switches before capital moves. The platform supports 8 autonomous trading strategies: range trading, spot grid bot, momentum, mean reversion, arbitrage, yield accumulation, spread trading, and risk-off. Each strategy has tuned decision logic, trailing stops, and reassessment thresholds. A Bybit-style spot grid bot automates buy/sell ladders across configurable price ranges with AI-advised parameters. Performance builds durable reputation: stablecoin-denominated PnL, Sharpe-like scoring, max drawdown tracking, and validation pass rates — all tied to the agent's on-chain identity. Operators see exactly what the agent decided, which checks it passed or failed, and how each outcome affected its trust score. Built with Next.js 15, React 19, Firebase, Groq AI (GPT OSS 120B), and Solidity on Base Sepolia. Live market data from Binance powers real-time multi-timeframe analysis across 12 assets.

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.

⏱️ Design, build, and deploy trustless AI trading agents. 📅 March 30 – April 12, 2026 🌐 Build AI trading agents that execute strategies using ERC-8004 or Kraken CLI. 🤝 Build solo or in teams to create autonomous trading, risk, yield, or protection agents. 💰 $55,000 prize pool, allocated and shared via Surge and Kraken. Your team should have registered project at early.surge.xyz in order to be eligible for the prize. Get access in your team profile or our discord 🔑 Access to early.surge.xyz If prompted for login credentials, use: • Username: admin • Password: JBRv2xWG7AzwVrLz88

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!