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SF Agentic Commerce x402 Hackathon Winners Announcement
Recorded: Feb. 24, 2026 Duration: 0:38:25Space Recording
Full Transcription
Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon, everyone, for joining us around the world.
We are going to be jumping in and talking about the X402 Argentic Commerce Hackathon
and looking at and announcing some of our amazing winners.
We have a stacked panel. It it's gonna be a quick one we have
representatives from Google virtuals coinbase scale and of course we're gonna
be jumping in and looking at the overall winner as well before we jump into all
of that I just want to remind everybody that we had over $50,000 worth of prizes up for grabs.
And we are super, super excited to be breaking it down and showing you guys who has won.
Now, before we jump into all of that, I want to give a massive shout out to all of our builders. We had over 342 hackers, 86 builds submitted,
and it has been a wild, wild ride looking through all of these amazing projects
and builds that have come from the X402 Hackathon.
So, we're just getting everything ready
and then we're going to kick it all off.
And I also want to give a massive shout out
to all the individual people like Kevin from Coinbase, Celeste from Virtuos for joining us.
It's been a fun couple of weeks looking over everything that's been going on.
going on.
But as we get ready to jump into things,
I do just want to give a
small little overview
of how the judging
went forward
for this X-402
hackathon.
I am the hunter!
I really need to turn that off.
God damn it. Yeah, okay. I wouldn't, okay. I am the hunter! I really need to turn that off.
God damn it.
Yeah, okay.
I wouldn't, okay.
So, for those of you who... Ah!
We're okay, actually.
So, I will not be the person that is going to run through everything.
Instead, I am going to bring forth the man, the myth, the legend,
the football Adonis, Mr. Jack O'Holloran. Hey, how's it going? Doing well, doing well. Yourself?
Doing well, doing well. We're ready to kick this thing off? 100% brother, 100%. Well, why don't you give a...
So, why don't you give a little bit of a rundown on exactly...
so hey so let's uh let's kick this bad boy off now are we having uh some people come and announce
winners today yes yes so we have each representative of uh each track who's going to be talking through the projects who they picked,
why they picked them.
Awesome.
Yeah, well, I'll just kick it off with some high level then, correct?
If you look at that link I sent you.
Okay.
A little info.
Okay.
All right, here we go. uh let's just kick it off i just want to why don't you
give the stats ben go for it i'm i'm here to support 100 so yeah as i said we have over 324
hackers registered with 86 builds submitted um we went through a couple of the builds on Decrypted last week showcasing some amazing builds utilizing X402, Byte Protocol and the magic of blockchain.
of code that's been submitted and it's taken the judges a while to go through all the amazing
entrances and projects that have been put forward.
Yeah, I want to say the creativity here of these hacks, it was amazing. So one,
just utilization of agents was so good. I thought it was incredibly impressive.
I thought it was incredibly impressive.
Two, I love that privacy became a key component
to this whole thing.
So there's a ton of privacy hacks using Byte protocol.
We saw a lot of people use Coinbase stack.
We saw a lot of people use Google.
We saw a lot of people use virtuals.
It was exciting.
I think we had some really, really great talent. And if you haven't
had a chance to look through all of these hacks, take a look. I do not envy the judges because
this was what I'd say, it would be so tough to pick a winner. Which. Which I have to say one thing we are thinking about doing is
having a pitch competition for VCs for some of these broader, really great hacks. So that's
being worked on in the backend. And the reason why we want to do that is because right now,
there's two or three winners picked for each track, okay? And there are, I would say, 20 that were really in competition for each one.
So we want to make sure that we can bring more visibility to those builders
and give them more opportunities.
But hey, it was awesome.
I'm excited to hear the winners today, and let's do it, huh?
100%. Before we jump into all of that, I'm going to give us a quick rundown on the judging criteria.
So for AI utility, we had the likes of strong use of LLMs, autonomous agents or other AI capabilities.
Commerce realism as well was a big one. Realistic payments, marketplaces, and commercial flows.
Another one that was super important was making sure that it was polished
and, you know, shipability, if you will.
It had a completeness, the UX, and it had a good readiness
for a real-world user flow.
But to your point, Jack, which we did see a lot of was creativity right we are
still very early in this space uh with regards to x402 and agentic commerce and creativity
is one of them is one of the most important things and i think we saw we saw that above and beyond
um and obviously we also mentioned that currently um anyone anyone who built on scale during the hackathon that wants to continue developing their projects, we do have a $250,000 worth of grants available for builders.
So make sure you are, if you want to continue building,
you're utilizing and signing up to that grant.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Why don't we...
I want to see who the winners are.
I got to tell you,
look through every single hack.
Just amazing work.
And I got to say,
I think a few things to call out, like one,
the quality of talent building here was, it was phenomenal. So, Hey, props, if you're out,
if you're listening, good job. The other thing is I think we're seeing, you know, agents play a role
in multiple ways. One, people are doing hacks with agents, which is just really cool. The other
thing is people are using AI. We got the best AI builders, which means if they really have a force multiplier, if you have someone who can build and get like a 10 or
a hundred X time advantage on their work, that's one of the reasons why we're seeing so such,
I'd say like sophisticated, mature hacks, because we've got people who really know how to use AI
also in the build process, not just in the end product. So excited.
Let's see it. Let's do it. And kick things off. Introducing Kev.
Hey, everybody. Thanks for having me, Scale Team. Thank you, Jack and Ben, for hosting this. What
an awesome event. For background, for people who don't know me, my name is Kevin LeFue. I'm on the go-to-market team for all the AI products at Coinbase, including Agentec wallets,
embedded wallets, and the X402 protocol. We really appreciated everyone's submissions.
We saw a lot of great prizes, and I'm happy to announce the winners for our track. So drumroll.
We need the music. I know. we need the music
I know we need the sound effect
the soundtrack
my sound ball did go off
earlier
Kevin emceed
an event at Cloudflare a while ago
and he was like playing music before each person
came up and we needed that
I needed that vibe I'm here to bring the good vibes and uh i'm so excited to announce the uh winner
of our track uh which is super page so congrats to the super page team
good project um we also have a runner-up uh prize as well, which is the Pinsir project.
And so we'll be reaching out to both teams and we appreciate you both and really everyone
for all the effort around X402.
If anyone's building on X402, by the way, reach out to me directly.
You can find me on X.
It's K-L-E-F-F-E-W-9-4.
I'd love to learn more about
your project, figure out how we can help drive good outcomes for you from the Coinbase developer
platform and hopefully amplify you. So this is just the start. Congrats to two great teams for
submitting and thanks again, everyone. 100%. Thank you, Kev and the coinbase developer platform for you know jumping in helping supporting
these incredible builders and helping you know make this hackathon a success it's really really
appreciated thank you yeah awesome thanks kevin so uh congratulations to to the to those two projects Superpage for winning the Coinbase track.
Next up we have the virtual track winner announcement.
Celeste are you welcome to the stage. How are you doing?
Thank you. I'm doing good. How are you doing? Thank you. I'm doing good.
How about you guys?
Can't complain.
Can't complain.
Good.
Excited.
You know, there are some awesome hacks.
Excited to hear the winners.
Cool.
How are you?
You doing good?
I'm doing good.
I'm doing good.
Thanks for having me.
I think we had a lot of really good submissions,
surprisingly like a large number of submissions of pretty good quality.
We actually took a while to evaluate and judge the results for this hackathon.
So thanks for giving us more time.
Yeah.
So should I go ahead and announce the results?
Yeah, go ahead and announce the results yeah haven't go ahead
so um so for our for our track we had uh defined trading agents um for the first place uh we had
mode bet uh and second place we have legacy. So both of them submitted really good projects
and we'll be reaching out to you guys, to the prizes.
And also, I think actually other than these two teams,
we also saw a lot of really good hackers,
a lot of good projects.
If anyone would like to build with virtuals
or build with ACP after this hackathon, feel free to reach out to me.
I'm always happy to support.
100%.
Moldbet, for those of you who hadn't seen them, is an infrastructure for autonomous AI agents to engage in prediction markets.
So, you know, it allows you to really be able to put a strategy in place and then, you know, turn away and kind of hope for the best.
I like that one.
Yeah, this one, I'm reading it right now.
And yeah, definitely.
I thought they did a great job.
They also pulled a lot of products in, which was cool to see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Utilization of a multitude of different technologies and things like that, which is, you know, what we love to see. Yeah, yeah. Utilization of a multitude of different technologies and things like that,
which is, you know, what we love to see.
Creativity and togetherness with regards to crypto and blockchain.
And, you know, we're all in this together.
Amazing. So congratulations to Maltbet and Legacy for, you know know taking the crown on the virtuals track
well done well done well celeste thank you so much for uh for jumping in letting us know and
once again thank thanks to yourself and virtuals for you know taking part and helping support the X402 hackathon.
For sure. Thanks so much for having us.
And thanks to the hackers for submitting great projects.
Right. Take care.
Thank you. Thanks, Celeste.
Now we get to bring up two faces that are at least one face that we that we know quite well.
Hello, Manel.
Hey, guys.
How are you doing?
Good.
How are you doing?
Great.
Super excited to announce this.
Why don't you give the people a bit of an intro about yourself?
Absolutely.
So for you, for those of you that don't know me i'm manel from portugal um
i work for scale and developer success team and most of you on the developer side i interacted with
you during the echathon helping you to support and to be honest i'm really thrilled to do from what I saw amazing projects amazing developers was an honor to be
honest and alongside me now so yeah how hard was it I'll ask you let's let Sawyer introduce himself
all good everyone knows who I am I think this is my normal, uh, normal teaching session. So probably have a lot of,
a lot of repeats, but for those that don't know me, my name is Sawyer.
I run the skilled developer success team, uh, alongside, uh,
Mr. Menel Bargos, uh, who crushed the journey of the hackathon.
Um, so yeah, thanks for, uh, you know, having me on as always.
So, Hey, I was going to ask you guys,
how hard was it to judge this hackathon there's so
many good hacks like was it was it difficult trying to find winners to be honest was yeah pretty tough
there's like very good developers out there and fortunately they picked us and our acton so it was pretty difficult to pick there are some unique things uh
of course with these um new ai tools it's very easy to build things and on top of that to see
that developers still give the crit he's like the human creativity uh to their projects it's
super cool and we saw a ton of that so yeah what was really tough but we made it
yeah well good that's a good problem to have i like to say 100 100 and like i think from
i guess from my side when you guys were looking at projects and things like that, what was your, a multitude of criteria, right?
But what was kind of your biggest, you know, qualifier that you based your opinion on?
Yeah. Do you want to go, sir?
You take it.
Yeah. It's, yeah, it was on a different go, sir? You take it. Yeah.
It's, yeah, it was on different level, right?
So, of course, we check the X for two pieces, the scale pieces on the bytes, if they are
using byte V2, byte V1, how they are interacting with scale and some other ways, which contracts
they are using.
And of course, like, are they using AI agents? Cause it's always a very important thing right now
to be using.
And then of course, I think one piece that I've touched
before is the creativity, right?
Cause nowadays it's very easy to create something, sure.
But I think creativity is something that AI still cannot
produce or it can mimic, but not curate things, right? creativity is something that AI still cannot produce.
It can mimic, but not curate things, right? So-
It yields bad results.
Exactly.
So I think creativity and new use cases,
things that no one, I didn't see before,
is always a good thing.
Yeah, it was something that I always look. And also, like, I also thought like, can these product or project can be actually a
a company in the future? Right? I think that's also something that we look.
something that will look just because yeah I think it's always good to create
something that can have some repercussion for the future but yeah
that's pretty much it and so guys obviously you're actually gonna be
announcing two winners so why don't we take a look at oh well sorry like two
tracks so four winners.
Sorry, you have to be very, you know, pedantic with Sawyer.
The scale track winner.
Who wants to kick it?
Who wants to take first and take second?
Wrong way.
Other side.
Manel!
Manel!
I can take the scale track.
And to be honest, it was pretty tough.
We have a notion page with the scores of the project.
And it was super tight.
And it was last minute, the decision to understand who would actually win.
Both projects are very, very good.
Super creative. We really want to keep working with them
and signing on scale because we really see a future on this project. And also the devs are
really, really good. It's always great when you are working with great people and great devs.
So it makes our life much easier when they are smarter than us.
First of all, you can learn, and then it's a win-win situation.
They have a great product and scale also win.
And they also, of course, benefit from the incredible technology that scale has.
So I'll stop talking.
And I'll firstly announce the second place, just to
give a bit more suspense on the first one. So on the second place, we have Pixie. It's
an awesome project. I really encourage everyone to try it out. It's a battle of AI agents. So you can pick an AI agent or create
your own AI agent and then just battle against other AI agents. And uses ByteV2, use AMM built by algebra team. It's a real, really good project. It was super tight.
The battle for the first place.
And on the first place, we have World of Geneva.
It's, yeah, what can I say?
It's a game with AI, it also uses ByteV2.
It's a different level of game.
It's something that we wanted to see for a long time.
So again, that also used AI,
and you can create your, you can create agents,
you can create characters and just use the chain
without actually being,
without knowing that you are using the the blockchain so we have that um uh frictionless experience on the blockchain side um so yeah
world of geneva was um the first project i actually saw um during the hackathon and it is what in my opinion a representation of
what on-chain gaming should be right it is the perfect example of actions taken on chain um
bytes enabling the the inability to quote unquote you know front run you'll make adjustments to yourself
um in that playable experience and it was absolutely incredible um i i think it's got a
i think it's got a good shot at doing some awesome things in the future a hundred percent
100%
I 100% agree
I think
one of the reasons why we
picked was the uniqueness
of that project, it's something that
clearly took time
thinking of the world
of the space, of the flow, of the
gaming experience
yeah, everything
on point on that project
just congrats.
I'm really excited to work with the team.
100%.
Yeah, I love this premise of like humans observing agents doing things.
And, you know, right now, most of our interactions with agents is like in a chat bot, you know,
right?
Like I'm just talking on chat GBT.
I'm talking on a panel, but I think it's evolving. Like you can talk and then they actually do stuff and you see them and like, you know, right? Like I'm just talking on chat GBT. I'm talking on a panel, but I think it's
evolving. Like you can talk and then they actually do stuff and you see them and like, you know,
a game's a great proxy for that. You got to see them in this other world. And that's like,
you think about like the future and like, you know, open claw and all these things,
like you talk, but then other stuff happens after. And so anyways, yeah, that was,
that was an eyeopening one. I thought that was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, anything additional to add? Yes and no. I think just probably the most important thing is we're starting to see with both of these projects that have won the scale track, we saw them take privacy to a new level of agents.
And it's really exciting because it's something that I think we've all,
everyone has been asking about for a long time on blockchain and on-chain finance.
And AI has accelerated the desire and the demand for it.
And it's just really exciting to see teams come to this hackathon and kind of take
that and just really run with it and really use byte protocol
and take this on-chain encryption to a whole new level
and embed it so seamlessly within an application.
I think a lot of the privacy primitives we've seen so far
have required users to go all in on like a privacy token,
which we won't talk more about,
or it requires, you know,
these like really bad user experiences.
And when you play World of Geneva, when you use Pixie, it's just seamless.
It works.
And so, yeah, just, you know, props to both teams and all the others who integrated by
V1 and V2, encrypted transactions and conditional transactions because they just
did a fantastic job um really taking agentic privacy um and agentic commerce to a whole new
level 100 100 so before we take a look at and announce the overall winner i just want to give
a small a little kind of update on the Google track. There has been so many participants into the AP2, APA track.
They need a little bit more time to, you know, bring down and categorize these amazing projects.
So that will come very very soon I don't see it being more
than this week but if you are a part of the AP to APA track you will we will announce you guys
very very soon we do apologize for that but there's just so many amazing amazing projects there that it's just taking a little bit more time.
So the big one, the big cannoli, as they say in the United States of America. I don't know, maybe the overall track winner.
Who's going to kick it off for us?
Wrong side. So yeah. who's gonna kick it off for us I run side so yeah it's fun more people up
here so this more up yeah so this was really tough you know I first have to
I have to give I have to give the hats up and the credits of Manel Manel took on
the brunt of the initial reviews and was able to help me distill this down to the most promising projects.
And he put a lot of good options on the table for me.
And so, you know, after we went through the scale track, we got to this track.
We wanted to ensure that we were being fair to all of the teams, right?
Since obviously we can't just select scale teams to win. that we were being fair to all of the all the teams right since obviously
we can't just select scale teams to win and so we made sure we were picking from
the group of the best of the best projects and so very excited to share that well the lobster
the lobster strikes again um molt bet has come in second place for the SF Agentic Commerce Hackathon.
We're really excited to see it.
I mean, lobsters are everywhere.
So you can't run.
You can't run.
You can't hide from them.
So you just have to embrace it.
But really, really incredible team and really incredible build.
One of the things that I was really excited to see with them was the reputation system.
It's really interesting. You know, got to give huge props to the Ethereum Foundation and the individuals,
You know, got to give huge props to the Ethereum Foundation and the individuals, David and Marco and Leonard running the 8004 initiative.
We're seeing a ton of teams recognize the importance of integration with reputation for agents as they're building these on-chain agendistic systems.
as they're building these on-chain agendic systems.
And so we're starting to see these patterns
continue to pop up, which is great
because we have a standard for that.
And you can use that standard across many different chains,
including scale.
Additionally, we have the X402 pieces here, right?
Which is, you know, we talked to Eric from,
the head of Coinbase Engineering a couple of weeks ago, and we were talking about how with X402, we never really anticipated necessarily what it was going to get used for.
He especially, I won't take credit, he said this, I'll paraphrase a little bit, but it's just an open payment protocol.
And it's so cool to see projects using it not just for direct payments, but for just the facilitation of asset movement.
It's really becoming that flexible standard being adopted and we are seeing huge growth on scale.
So, yeah, just props to that team, great product.
just props to that team. Um, great product. Um,
Manel Jack, uh, Mr. Ben Davey, any,
any additional thoughts there before we, uh,
move on to the grand prize winner.
No, let's let's let's jump in.
I've been losing sleep guys, you know, waiting for this.
Through Dora hacks all the time.
Do you have a drum roll for this one? My drums ain't working.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Thank you, Jack.
All right.
So this was a, this was a, this was tough.
This was, this was really tough.
We went back and forth on this for, well, technically only about 48 hours because we
wanted to pull from a bigger pool so
we waited until close to the end to decide this but we went back and forth a lot um and we're
you know what actually i can't do this manel my friend you're here it was it was manel's gut
decision and i trust me even more anticipation more anticipation, people. Even more.
Here we go.
I'll know she passed to someone else, right?
Yeah.
Like Sawyer said, it was pretty tough.
And it's good at info stuff.
It means that, first of all, we had a ton of projects,
and then we also had a lot, a lot of quality.
And, yeah, I'll just say it right the winner was world of Geneva yeah well the Geneva yeah we already said a lot about them
I would like to say one thing about them
because I did not say anything about them before I was waiting for this moment
uh the the game's actually available so if you go on Dora and actually search for world of Geneva
under this hackathon you can actually go play this game and uh the developer let's get the link out
there so someone can play it like on you know yeah please on twitter there there's two really
important things that i think are super relevant about this game the first which is maybe not so
important for everybody but it's important for us is the developer told us, I can't build
this game anymore. He said, I need the cost effectiveness of your chain. And that's really
important for developers coming out of this hackathon because we do have, as Mr. Ben Davey
mentioned, we do have, you know, this, this grant, follow up grant program and a lot of support
available is to get you started,
but to get you started so that once you start to succeed,
you're not prohibited from growth like you are on traditional blockchains.
So it's very important.
You shouldn't be prohibited from growth.
Blockchain shouldn't do that to you.
So come build with us.
Second, and more importantly, at least more importantly for the project,
his use of AI was so seamless. Obviously from the build perspective,
because one person building this in three days
was not fathomable a year or two ago.
But from the actual integration perspective,
most people don't know this,
but building with AI is a lot easier
than building AI projects.
So using agentic coding has gotten way easier,
but actually integrating LLM technology into your builds
and integrating agents is still really hard.
We're essentially, they're building themselves.
So, you know, it takes time.
When you go play this game,
just notice how seamless the interaction is
when you're guiding your agents.
It's so fast, so smooth, and I'm really excited because, you know,
the winners of these tracks get a whole bunch of Google cloud credits.
And so I know that this team is going to make really good use using all the incredible models that the Google team, DeepMind team has developed.
So excited to see this thing get even better.
But yeah, just props to the world of Geneva and props to all the developers.
I think the quality is happening.
I met Kareem actually when he was building.
He showed up in person for the in-person hack day.
So that's awesome.
Shout out to the house for hosting.
Thank you guys.
Guys, you know, it's been a success.
You know, a long months, you know, with getting everything ready,
the builds, the hacks, the shows, the judging, and now the winners.
Anything final you guys want to throw out there before we put a put a bow on it i want to give like a you know just like a macro view here so when i see this like
i didn't know who's gonna win okay i was like on the i like all of you i was on the edge of my seat
like who's winning who's winning i wasn't informed. But this whole premise, like I talked about this earlier, of humans not just talking to
an agent, but then talking to them and then having them do something, like it's going
to be massive in gaming.
I think, but gaming is a good kind of, I'd say, battleground or training ground for the
real world.
So people are going to get comfortable telling their agent to do stuff for them. Oh, buy this in this, you know, game economy, go do this
strategy, do this. And they're going to start getting confidence. You know, we're going to
start, you know, you, you saw probably yesterday, the, the AI researcher at Meta who opened claw,
like, you know, just, just start deleting her whole inbox, you know, like people are going to,
that's, you know, you're going to be much more comfortable after you like gain confidence in a
game, but it's also a different way of, I think like living in the world is we're going to start
living in the world, like, you know, by prompting and acting and coaching your, and games are a
great way to see that happen and develop, to develop that confidence. And I mean, I think
this is the first of probably a lot of games
that are going to be launching with human agent co-interaction.
So cool stuff.
100%.
Guys, it's been an absolute pleasure putting this on with all of you,
as well as the builders and the community members.
And, you know, we also want to, again, give a massive shout out to Google Cloud,
Coinbase developer platform, virtuals, Edge and Node with the house.
And of course, you know, Scale for helping put it all on as well.
It's been a wild ride.
We saw some awesome projects.
And the thing that we're most excited about as well
is to see these projects continue to build, right?
And there are some incredible ones there.
Last note, just a reminder,
Kevin said it if you were here at the beginning,
but in case you weren't, just a reminder,
if you want to build, you didn't hack in a hackathon,
but you're building X402, you're building agents,
you're building anything related to agentic commerce,
AI agents on chain, or just anything on chain,
make sure to reach out to myself, Manel, Jack, or Ben Davey,
or any of the sponsors,
we're all here to help you find success with whatever you're building.
So just don't hesitate to ask for help.
It's one of the hardest things to do,
but we are here to give it.
And just build.
Sometimes you don't get it right at the first time
and just pivot a bit, and then that's the right idea.
So just build build build build
i don't think just do guys pleasure hanging out with you all jack anything further
this was awesome go to go check out these hacks if you're interested in this stuff go like
seriously some hackathon you can read through the list and there's like
a hundred different like almost exactly identical defy hacks there's just like whole you know diaspora of like interesting hacks all over
the place that use agents in different ways it's like it's actually fun it's like really fun to
read this go check it out 100 um and also we did do threads last week as well on every single you know uh the demos of every
single project uh you know so so check it out um and winners guys um representatives will be in
touch with you to discuss um prizing and and things like that and again the google announcement
will come uh sometime this week but until then it's been a pleasure we will be sometime this week. But until then, it's been a pleasure.
We will be back next week for another episode
of Scale School and we will be live tomorrow
for another episode of Decrypted.
But until then, we'll see you next time.
All right.
Bye.
Thanks, everyone.
