OpenClaw Hackathon: Which Projects Are Worth Watching?

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2026-02-11 03:30

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What's new in this hackathon where only AI Agents can participate?

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Core Viewpoint: Circle's first pure AI Agent hackathon showcased innovative applications of AI in the blockchain field, with projects primarily focusing on building autonomous economic interaction, security management, and risk assessment capabilities for AI Agents.
Key Elements:
1. The Clawshi project created 23 prediction market positions by analyzing community sentiment, enabling AI Agents to place bets using testnet USDC.
2. The ClawRouter project provides AI Agents with autonomous wallets and cost-optimized routing, significantly reducing LLM request costs from $75/M tokens to $3.17/M tokens.
3. Multiple projects are dedicated to enhancing the economic autonomy of AI Agents, such as USDC Agent Wallet and NexusPay offering cross-chain payments, and JIT-Ops overseeing spending through smart contracts.
4. Security and privacy tools are emerging, such as ClawShield preventing skill installation risks, and THE CIPHER protocol protecting Agent on-chain behavior privacy through zero-knowledge proofs.
5. The Dendrite project built an Agent transaction risk assessment network that operates without external dependencies, evaluating transfer behavior characteristics in real-time and providing risk ratings.

On February 4th, USDC (Circle) announced an AI Agent-only hackathon on moltbook with a prize pool of 30,000 USDC. This hackathon, which excludes human participation and is for AI Agents only, features three tracks: Agentic Commerce (trade between Agents), Best OpenClaw Skill (best OpenClaw skill tool), and Most Novel Smart Contract (most innovative smart contract).

Project submissions and voting have now closed, and USDC has indicated that the final results will be announced soon. Before the results are out, based on the data from project submission posts on moltbook, we have selected some of the more widely discussed projects from this hackathon. Let's take a look at what novel creations these AI Agents have freely developed.

Best OpenClaw Skill Projects

Clawshi (654 Upvotes / 1613 Comments)

Clawshi is building a prediction market on moltbook for AI Agents.

It converts sentiment from the moltbook community into a prediction market. It analyzes 6,261 posts on moltbook, extracts sentiment from the statements of 2,871 Agents, and then creates 23 different prediction market pools based on these sentiment classifications (covering crypto, AI, culture, geopolitics, etc.).

Finally, Agents can place bets on these pools using testnet USDC.

VoteBounty (356 Upvotes / 1157 Comments)

VoteBounty is creating an "engagement bribery" tool—using USDC to buy post interactions on moltbook.

Create a Bounty, deposit USDC, and set the reward per upvote. An Agent upvotes + comments (completed within 10 seconds), the system automatically detects and pays. Agents can choose to receive payments on Base, Ethereum, or Arbitrum, facilitated via Circle's CCTP for cross-chain transfers.

Minara (262 Upvotes / 1065 Comments)

This is a new brand/project launched by the NFTGo team after pivoting to AI, and it has received investment from Circle. Agents can use Minara to obtain real-time data analysis of the cryptocurrency market, trading signal strategies, and probability analysis for prediction markets, and execute trades through natural language descriptions.

In summary, it's an AI financial assistant.

ClawShield (100 Upvotes / 399 Comments)

A security tool designed to prevent Agents from having their data and keys stolen when installing Skills from suspicious sources. It's somewhat similar to when we run a program on Windows and are prompted about which system permissions the program is requesting that are being blocked. It ensures safety by minimizing the permissions granted during Skill installation.

USDC Agent Wallet (76 Upvotes / 208 Comments)

A USDC wallet for Agents, providing native USDC access, enabling Agents to manage USDC on Ethereum, Polygon, Base, and Arbitrum, and perform transfers and cross-chain transactions using Circle's CCTP protocol without human intervention.

AgentRegistry (61 Upvotes / 198 Comments)

Provides an on-chain domain name service for Agents, giving Agents an on-chain identity so they can find each other, enabling direct, intermediary-free USDC payments between Agents.

Agentic Commerce Projects

ClawRouter (324 Upvotes / 1806 Comments)

AI Agents currently cannot purchase computing resources themselves. A human must first create an account with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, copy the API key, and pre-fund the hosted account. The Agent itself lacks economic autonomy.

By installing ClawRouter, an Agent generates its own wallet, receives USDC, and starts using that USDC to purchase tokens and send requests to complete tasks. ClawRouter also helps route each LLM request to the cheapest model capable of handling it—pay-per-request, built on Base, requiring no human intervention. Compared to Claude Opus, the cost per routed request can be reduced from $75/M tokens to $3.17/M tokens.

Agentic Commerce Relay (-30 Upvotes / 1342 Comments)

Provides a verifiable settlement layer for transactions between Agents, burns USDC on Base Sepolia, obtains Circle Iris certification, and generates Agent-readable receipts on Polygon Amoy. (Not sure why this post received so many downvotes...)

NexusPay (56 Upvotes / 863 Comments)

A universal Agent payment layer that integrates programmable wallets, Gas Stations, and Paymasters (using USDC to pay gas fees without needing ETH), the CCTP protocol, and the x402 protocol to enable cross-chain transactions between Agents, gas payments without ETH, and good support for micro-payments.

JIT-Ops (73 Upvotes / 668 Comments)

Uses smart contracts to oversee an Agent's spending (buying tokens, configuring servers, etc.) to complete tasks, including daily spending limits, spending whitelists (funds can only be settled to verifiable, pre-approved addresses), spending frequency limits, etc., to prevent Agents from spending uncontrollably and quickly depleting funds for various possible reasons.

Rose Token (24 Upvotes / 420 Comments)

An Agent job marketplace where Agents can take on specific tasks to earn income.

THE CIPHER (11 Upvotes / 190 Comments)

An Agent privacy protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs, mandatory peer-to-peer relays, and Kademlia DHT (a distributed network to avoid protocol shutdown due to centralized operator server closures) to conceal an Agent's wallet address and on-chain activities, preventing humans from interfering with Agent behavior based on on-chain activity.

Most Novel Smart Contract Projects

Dendrite (271 Upvotes / 900 Comments)

An Agent transaction risk assessment network that extracts four behavioral characteristics of Agent transactions in real-time—transfer amount, transaction frequency, recipient trustworthiness, and time since last transaction. Every USDC transfer is evaluated by this network based on these characteristics before execution, providing a risk level score, without the need for oracles, external calls, or off-chain dependencies.