Hackathon Overview: 12 Projects Share $3 Million
Pump.fun's official account Spotlight announced today that its 'The Build in Public' hackathon has officially concluded. After evaluating numerous submissions, the program selected 12 winning projects, each receiving a $250,000 grant, totaling $3 million in funding. This initiative aligns with Pump.fun's ongoing strategy to support early-stage projects on Solana, encouraging developers to build future-oriented decentralized applications.
Complete List of 12 Awarded Projects
The winning projects span multiple domains, including AI agents, prediction markets, on-chain data, gaming, and creator economies. Below is the full list:
- zauth: A trust and security layer for the AI agent internet, addressing identity verification and data safety between agents.
- Opal: A real-time AI game companion, providing intelligent NPCs and decision-making assistance for on-chain games.
- Pumpcade: An embedded prediction market that allows users to trade predictions directly within applications.
- BloxAPI: A gaming creator launchpad, lowering the barrier for developing on-chain games.
- ClawPump: An autonomous AI agent financial layer, enabling automated financial operations for AI agents.
- CodecFlow: An open-source platform for building robots and autonomous operators, promoting automation.
- Dexter: A monetary layer for the AI agent economy, optimizing value exchange within AI-driven economies.
- Clude: An AI memory layer providing persistent contextual memory for AI agents.
- SolScanner: An on-chain intelligence platform enhancing data analysis on Solana.
- Collector Group: A digital card collection platform exploring NFT derivative play.
- Daydreams: An AI agent business suite supporting automated commercial activities.
- AgenC: An AI agent work marketplace connecting agents with task requesters.
Ecosystem Analysis: AI Agents Take Center Stage
From the list, AI agents emerge as the dominant theme of this hackathon. Eight out of twelve projects are directly related to AI agents, covering trust layers, memory layers, financial layers, and business suites. This indicates that Pump.fun and its ecosystem are actively investing in the intersection of AI and blockchain, aiming to foster real-world deployment of autonomous agents in decentralized environments. Additionally, traditional DeFi and data tracks like prediction markets and on-chain intelligence also received recognition, reflecting Solana's balanced growth across multiple verticals.