Muhammad Saleem@msaleem_aisci

Trustless AI Agent is a demonstration of agentic commerce, showing how autonomous AI systems can transparently price tasks and settle payments in USDC on the Arc blockchain using Circle’s developer infrastructure. The project addresses a common problem in AI services: pricing trust. Users often do not know how much a task should cost, while developers struggle to implement fair, usage-based billing. This challenge becomes more important in agentic systems, where AI agents act autonomously and interact with financial infrastructure. In this system, a user submits a task through a simple frontend. The backend calls Gemini to analyze the input and classify its complexity as LOW, MEDIUM, or HIGH. Based on this classification, the AI suggests whether the task should be free or paid and proposes a USDC amount. To keep the system trustless, the AI never directly controls payments. The backend enforces deterministic guardrails using a fixed pricing table. Even if the AI output is incorrect or attempts to overcharge, the backend corrects it before any transaction occurs, ensuring predictable and auditable behavior. If payment is required, the backend executes a USDC transfer using Circle Developer-Controlled Wallets, settling the transaction on Arc Testnet. Wallet balances can be queried to verify that funds were transferred correctly, demonstrating real onchain settlement. Circle Product Feedback This project uses Arc Testnet, USDC, and Circle Developer-Controlled Wallets. Circle Wallets enable secure, programmable wallet management suitable for autonomous agents, while USDC provides stable pricing for pay-per-task models. Wallet creation, balance checks, and transfers worked well. The main challenge was limited Arc-specific end-to-end examples. More agent-focused reference implementations would improve the developer experience.

⏱️ Design, build, and deploy trustless AI financial agents. 📅 March 30 – April 12, 2026 🌐 Build AI agents that access capital, execute on-chain strategies, and earn verifiable trust with ERC-8004. 🤝 Build solo or in teams to create autonomous trading, risk, yield, or protection agents. 💰 $50,000 prize pool in $SURGE Tokens, allocated to trading accounts with profits shared via Surge. 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

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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!

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