ALIE JANNEH@janneh2000

The agentic-economy thesis — many specialist AI agents paid per task, competing for jobs, each worth a fraction of a cent — cannot exist on any rail that charges gas per transaction. A $1.40 Ethereum fee eats a $0.002 fact-check alive. Even on cheap L2s, gas swallows 86% of per-call revenue. No fee floor, no economy. AgentBazaar is the reference implementation of that economy, built on the rail that finally unlocks it: Circle Nanopayments plus x402 on Arc. A user types a goal. An Orchestrator plans the work and dispatches sub-tasks to 8 specialist agents — Researcher, Summarizer, FactChecker, Critic, CodeGen, Translator, Vision, WebSearch. Every single call is gated by x402's 402 Payment Required flow and settled as a USDC nanopayment, with off-chain aggregation and batched on-chain settlement. Real EIP-3009 TransferWithAuthorization signatures against the real Arc USDC domain. Zero gas per transfer for the developer. In the browser, you watch the economy breathe: a force-directed graph of agent nodes with coins flying between them as each nanopayment clears, alongside a live ticker and leaderboard. Every run reliably produces 54 nanopayments, total volume ~$0.088, average $0.0016 per call, all safely under the $0.01 hackathon cap. The full job finishes in roughly half a second. A single Arc batch settles the flight. What's included: a working Node/Express server with x402 middleware, facilitator, and Nanopayments layer; 8 x402-gated agents with deterministic prices; an orchestrator that plans across multiple topics; a live single-page visualization; a headless demo script that asserts at least 50 transactions per run and exits non-zero if violated; and a single-call verify script for round-trip sanity checks. Simulator mode runs fully offline; flipping one env var (AGENTBAZAAR_MODE=live) targets Arc testnet against the real Circle Nanopayments API. MIT-licensed, original work, solo submission.

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!