Robertino Barbuto diel@rober8b

Most people who could benefit from agentic AI today can't access it. Brand managers, e-commerce operators, and marketing leads have real work to ship —but they're stuck on a treadmill of new tools, subscriptions, and paradigms that move faster than anyone can keep up with. And the few teams technically capable of building agent workflows themselves hit a second wall: every subtask gets routed to the most expensive frontier model, and setup costs spiral. NOMOS is a marketplace of AI workforces. Pre-built squads of specialist agents — researchers, analysts, writers, support agents, and more — that anyone can hire in one click to deliver finished business work. No prompts to write, no models to pick, no agents to wire. An optimization engine decomposes each goal into subtasks and routes them to the cheapest capable model, so every run costs a fraction of DIY. The marketplace is two-sided: operators on the demand side, developers and AI builders on the supply side, listing optimized squads and earning every time one is hired. NOMOS becomes the monetization layer for the people who actually build agentic systems — and the place non-AI-native teams come to get work done. For this hackathon, we're integrating Circle's Nanopayments and USDC settlement on Arc as the native economic layer of the platform. Every squad run, every subtask between specialist agents, and every builder payout becomes a sub-cent USDC transaction on Arc. This is exactly the use case nanopayments were built for: high-frequency, micro-value, agent-driven transactions where traditional rails collapse under volume or fees. Arc's predictable, dollar-denominated USDC fees and sub-second finality make per-action metering economically viable for the first time — and unlock NOMOS's broader vision: a marketplace where agents themselves hire squads and pay each other directly. Today: humans hire AI teams. Tomorrow: so do their agents. NOMOS is the marketplace and the payment layer for both.

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.

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!