Muhammad Fakhar ul Hasnain@muhammadfakharulhasnain

AgentMarket is an autonomous agent-to-agent payment marketplace built on Arc blockchain using Circle Nanopayments and USDC. It solves a core problem in the agentic economy: AI agents cannot pay each other on traditional blockchains because gas fees ($2–$5 per transfer on Ethereum) make sub-cent transactions completely unviable. Arc with Circle Nanopayments eliminates this — enabling $0.001 per-job settlements that are profitable at scale. How it works: A user submits a prompt. The Orchestrator agent breaks it into subtasks and autonomously hires three specialists. The ResearchAgent gathers information. The WriterAgent produces polished content. The AnalystAgent scores quality with a structured evaluation. Each hire triggers one Circle Nanopayment on Arc — three on-chain transactions per request at $0.003 USDC total. Every agent has its own Circle wallet on Arc. Payments flow wallet-to-wallet between agents, creating a genuine decentralized agent labor market. All transactions are verifiable on the Arc Block Explorer in real time via Socket.io live feed. Stack: Node.js, Express, React 18, MongoDB, Socket.io — full MERN with MVC architecture. Circle Wallets API provisions one wallet per agent and per user. Circle Nanopayments handles sub-cent USDC transfers. Gemini 1.5 Flash powers agent intelligence. Business model: 10% platform fee on agent payments. At one million jobs per day at $0.001 each, that is $1,000 daily volume generating $100 passive revenue — only possible because Arc makes gas costs negligible. AgentMarket proves the agentic economy is real and it runs on Arc.

Vessel Guard is an AI-assisted maritime safety system designed to prevent human-error-related accidents caused by fatigue, stress, and reduced operational readiness onboard vessels. Life at sea exposes crew members to shift work, sleep fragmentation, vibration, isolation, and high-risk tasks in deck, engine, and bridge operations. While many shipping companies provide access to teletherapy with reactive tools and disconnected from daily operational safety decisions. They do not integrate fatigue thresholds, maritime regulations, or structured escalation to command. Vessel Guard addresses this by combining short daily crew check-ins with a deterministic rules engine based on MLC fatigue standards and wellbeing scales. The system translates human factors into operational risk levels ) and escalates only high-risk cases to the Captain or designated officer. The AI layer does not diagnose or classify risk. It extracts structured data and generates safety-focused summaries, while final decisions remain human-controlled. This human-in-the-loop design ensures regulatory alignment, privacy protection, and institutional credibility. Vessel Guard is designed for maritime sector seeking proactive duty-of-care compliance, improved safety culture, and measurable reduction of fatigue-related incidents—without adding administrative burden to crew.

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.

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!

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!