Music, Blockchain, AI Agents, Digital Commerce & Web3 At the intersection of music, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence, we are shaping a new digital ecosystem that redefines how creative value is produced, distributed, and monetized. This convergence represents a structural shift in the creative economy, moving away from centralized intermediaries toward transparent, programmable, and creator-centric models powered by advanced technologies. Music serves as both a cultural driver and a testing ground for innovation. Through blockchain infrastructure, creative works can be tokenized, timestamped, and distributed with immutable proof of ownership and provenance. This enables fair attribution, automated royalty distribution, and long-term traceability of intellectual property across platforms and markets. Smart contracts replace manual processes with deterministic rules, ensuring that creators, collaborators, and rights holders are compensated accurately and in real time. Artificial intelligence, and more specifically AI agents, plays a central role in automating and augmenting both creative and commercial workflows. On the creative side, AI agents assist in composition, sound design, personalization, and content optimization, allowing artists and producers to scale creativity without compromising artistic intent. On the business side, AI agents manage tasks such as audience analysis, dynamic pricing, marketing automation, customer engagement, and performance forecasting. These agents operate continuously, adapt to market signals, and optimize decisions based on data, significantly reducing operational friction. Web3 technologies provide the foundational layer for decentralization, digital sovereignty, and user empowerment. By leveraging decentralized identities, wallets, and peer-to-peer protocols, creators and users gain direct control over their assets, data, and interactions.

Orchestrator is a next-generation content workflow automation system designed to eliminate the repetitive manual work faced by social media and marketing teams. Built on IBM watsonx Orchestrate, the solution converts Asana task data into ready-to-publish social media content using a simple CSV upload workflow. Why this matters: Asana alone already serves over 169,000 companies in more than 200 countries and yet even with this scale, content teams still face a gap when it comes to executing social-media workflows. Orchestrator fills that gap. How it works: Users export their existing Asana tasks including video links, captions, image links, accounts, deadlines, and statuses. Then, the user uploads the CSV into the Orchestrator webapp. The system interprets each row, validates and enhances the content using watsonx.ai, cleans formatting, and automatically generates structured posting tasks. These tasks are then executed by a custom watsonx Orchestrate agent, which schedules the content directly into Meta Business Suite and updates the task outcome. The business impact: This end-to-end agentic pipeline transforms what was once a manual twenty-minute post preparation into a process that completes in under two minutes for multiple posts. It eliminates error-prone manual actions, reduces scheduling delays, and standardizes workflows across teams. By bridging Asana and Meta Business Suite, two widely used but disconnected tools, Orchestrator delivers practical business value and enables teams to scale content operations with minimal effort.

VitexBrain is an innovative application that leverages cutting-edge AI models Aria and Allegro by Rhymes.ai to generate high-quality answers and videos from text prompts. This tool is designed to empower developers, researchers, and businesses by providing a seamless and efficient way to create multimodal content. Whether you need to generate videos from scratch or enhance existing content, VitexBrain is your go-to solution for AI-driven creativity. Key Features: * AI-Powered Guidance using Aria and Allegro MODELS. * Gives quick, step-by-step instructions in text and video, customized for each task. * Seamless Integration: Processes text and videos with high-quality results. * Prompts suggestions generates from AI on each form submission and recycle button to refresh them. * Customizable: Fully available for developers to modify and extend. * Collaborative: Encourages open-source collaboration and innovation.

We propose using the LLaMA 3.1:1B model as a local proxy server to manage caches with JSON responses. Here's how the llama model can help us do just that: Query analysis and optimization Smart data management in the cache Optimization of communication with API Create intelligent cache management policies. Enrich responses and adding a layer of security and privacy to the application. Understand user behavior and tailor data to their needs. We can also approach the problem using the cloud model, when we do not have enough RAM to be able to run llama 3.1:1B. We can then send queries from time to time to the server, which would decide on the cache hierarchy, which would be the most important, and which items would already have a deletion time.

BlindAssist is a groundbreaking application tailored to empower blind and visually impaired individuals by integrating advanced artificial intelligence technologies. At its core, the application utilizes Falcon AI71 to process and analyze information from the user's surroundings, providing real-time, actionable insights. Through a combination of computer vision and natural language processing, BlindAssist transforms visual data into comprehensible text and audio feedback, enhancing the user’s ability to navigate and interact with their environment. The application aims to bridge accessibility gaps and offer greater independence and confidence to visually impaired users.

Vision Assist AI is a transformative project designed to significantly enhance the independence and quality of life for visually impaired individuals by harnessing cutting-edge AI technology. Utilizing the advanced capabilities of the LLaMA 3 model and GPT-4, this tool integrates sophisticated computer vision and machine learning algorithms to offer a wide range of assistance features, including real-time navigation guidance, text recognition, object identification, and face recognition. The need for such solutions is underscored by the global assistive technology market, which was valued at USD 19.8 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 31.3 billion by 2027. This growth is driven by factors such as the rising prevalence of visual impairments, an aging population, advancements in AI, and supportive government initiatives. Vision Assist AI addresses critical challenges faced by visually impaired individuals, such as navigating unfamiliar environments, reading printed text, recognizing faces and objects, and reducing dependence on others for daily activities. By utilizing GPT-4 for object identification and feeding this information to LLaMA 3 for comprehensive assistance, our solution empowers users to perform daily tasks independently, enhances their personal safety, and significantly improves their overall quality of life. What sets Vision Assist AI apart is its advanced AI capabilities, user-centric design, and commitment to continuous improvement through user feedback. The tool not only promotes inclusivity by making public spaces more accessible but also ensures that visually impaired individuals can participate more fully in social and professional activities. By fostering a more inclusive society, Vision Assist AI is poised to transform the lives of millions, making a substantial impact on the global stage.

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 $10,000 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 $10,000 in USDC & $10,000 in 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!

⌚ Dive into a 48-hour journey of creativity. 🚀 Compete to craft an app supercharged by Llama 3. 🎓 Expert mentors will guide you every step of the way. 🏆 Win an opportunity to participate in the Lablab NEXT acceleration program, exciting cash prizes, credits, and gear from LlamaIndex, Together AI & Zilliz 🧑🏻‍💻 Sign up before the Kick-Off Stream to secure your spot!

🌟 Explore new AI capabilities 🤝 Collaborate and build something extraordinary. 👥 Take part alone or form a team with other participants. 🎓 Receive guidance from expert mentors. 🏆 Compete for $20,000 in Prizes. 🧑🏻‍💻 Sign up before the Kick-Off Stream to secure your spot!

⌚ Take on a 48-hour challenge packed with creativity. 🚀 Build an app powered by Llama 3.2’s capabilities. 🎓 Get advice and support from industry experts along every step of the way. 🏆 Win an opportunity to participate in the Lablab NEXT acceleration program 💰 Stand a chance to win $5,000 in prizes. 🌟 Win the opportunity to be invited, with transport and accommodation covered, to our upcoming Giga Hackathons in Barcelona or Geneva in partnership with UNICEF. 🧑🏻‍💻 Sign up before the Kick-Off Stream to lock in your spot!