Martin Nzau@martinnzau

Aegis - Autonomous SRE Guardian is an AI-powered self-healing cloud operations system that monitors infrastructure, detects incidents, diagnoses likely root causes, executes safe remediation actions, and generates post-mortem reports automatically. The project uses a three-agent workflow: a Monitor Agent watches real-time logs and AMD cloud metrics, a Diagnosis Agent compares anomalies with historical incident memory, and a Remediation Agent applies predefined fixes over SSH. A React dashboard shows live logs, system health, agent status, remediation history, and incident timelines through WebSocket updates. The backend is built with FastAPI, Python, Paramiko, ReportLab, Pydantic, and vector-style incident storage. The frontend uses React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and Recharts. Aegis fits the AI Agents & Agentic Workflows track because it demonstrates a real end-to-end agent loop for cloud reliability. For AMD, the system is designed to run against AMD cloud infrastructure today, with a clear path toward ROCm-powered open-source model inference and future fine-tuning on SRE runbooks and incident history.

ArcPay is a per-API monetization engine built on Arc blockchain using Circle USDC and Nanopayments. Every API request costs $0.001 USDC — paid onchain, verified before response, settled in under a second. The system works as follows: a client pays $0.001 USDC to our NanoPayment smart contract on Arc, includes the transaction hash in their API request header, our server verifies the payment onchain, and only then does the Gemini 2.0 Flash AI agent process and return a response. We demonstrated 55+ onchain transactions during our demo, each at $0.001 USDC per call, proving the economic viability of this model. This would be completely impossible on Ethereum where gas fees of $2+ per transaction would make $0.001 pricing economically unviable. On Arc, transaction costs are a fraction of a cent, enabling 98%+ margins on sub-cent pricing. The project targets two tracks: Per-API Monetization Engine and Agent-to-Agent Payment Loop. The Gemini AI agent autonomously processes paid requests, representing a real machine-to-machine commerce flow where intelligence is monetized per query. Technologies used: Arc (settlement), USDC (payment token), Circle Nanopayments, Gemini 2.0 Flash (AI agent), Solidity + Foundry (smart contract), Node.js + Express (API server). Contract deployed at: 0xAfDfc3341fdBec40843eD99633A6cA1B32B0298d on Arc Testnet.

📅 May 11–19, 2026 • May 11 – 19: Online Build Phase. • May 18 (Hybrid Build Day – Online & Onsite) • May 19 (Demos & Awards – Online & Onsite) 🌍 Hybrid event. Join online from anywhere or build onsite at the venue. 🏆 Winners will be announced live on stage at the AI & Big Data Expo North America on May 19 📍 On-site Venue (May 18–19): San Jose McEnery Convention Center, CA, USA 🤝 Join solo or with a team. 🏆Compete for a $10,000 prize pool 🧑‍💻 Apply now to design, prototype, and showcase enterprise-ready innovation.

⏱️ Build the next generation of Autonomous Agents in the heart of Europe’s AI Revolution. 📅 May 13 – 20, 2026 May 13 – 19: Online Build Phase. May 19: Onsite Build Day. May 20: Demo Showcase & Awards Ceremony. 📍On-site Venue (May 19–20): Fiera Milano (Rho), Milan, Italy 🤝 Join solo or with a team. 💰 $28,000+ prize pool 🧑‍💻 Apply now to turn your autonomous agent into a market-ready enterprise solution.

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.

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!