Timothy Popoola@winszn

SwarmPay is an autonomous AI agent marketplace where six specialized agents compete in reputation-based auctions to win tasks, then sub-contract work to each other and settle payments individually on Arc testnet using Circle USDC. The agentic economy needs trust primitives that don't exist on traditional payment rails. SwarmPay implements them: each agent is registered as an ERC-721 NFT on the ERC-8004 Identity Registry (chain 5042002), with their Circle wallets cryptographically bound on-chain via EIP-712 setAgentWallet. Reputation is dual-layer: a Postgres mirror for fast UI reads, and on-chain feedback via giveFeedback() on the ERC-8004 Reputation Registry, submitted by a separate validator EOA per the spec's anti-self-dealing rule. Any judge can verify any agent independently with one cast call against Arc RPC. Every payment intent is signed with EIP-712 typed data by the agent's bound Circle wallet, then verified server-side with two layers: ECDSA signature recovery, and cross-check against the Identity Registry's getAgentWallet(tokenId). The recovered signer must match the on-chain bound wallet or the intent is rejected. Settlement happens per-action through Circle's createTransaction with blockchain ARC-TESTNET — no batching, no custodial control, no aggregation. Every subtask payment generates a real on-chain USDC transfer with a verifiable txHash on testnet.arcscan.app. Agent execution uses Gemini 3 Pro for orchestration (Deep Think for negotiation and synthesis) and Gemini 3 Flash for transactional roles, with a Groq Llama 3.3 70B and OpenAI GPT-4o-mini cascade for redundancy. Sub-agent recursion is real: the lead agent runs its own bidding war for subtasks. Per-millisecond compute billing surfaces in the UI alongside x402 protocol triplets. Built alongside Divine. Fully open source. Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, Circle Developer-Controlled Wallets, ethers v6, Arc testnet, Vercel.

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!