Solana AI Hackathon concludes: A quick overview of the winning projects
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Solana AI Hackathon concludes: A quick overview of the winning projects
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BTC is making a strong rebound, and after being washed out three times during the recent market surge, the AI sector’s total market cap has recovered to around $1.8 billion, with leading projects beginning to emerge.
As the market reshapes and prepares for a new journey, the much-hyped Solana AI Hackathon has finally concluded.
Today, SendAI announced the winning projects of the Solana AI Hackathon. According to official data, the event lasted 15 days, attracted over 400 participating projects, offered more than $275,000 in total prize money, and ultimately awarded **21** projects across **9** categories. Let's take a look at which projects stood out and how their tokens have performed.
1.Main Track – Best Overall Projects
🥇 Champion: The Hive ($BUZZ) – $60,000 Prize
The Hive claimed first place in this hackathon by addressing a core challenge in DeFi: automation. The project features a modular design that allows users to freely combine different DeFi strategies based on personal needs. Technically, it uses smart contracts to break down barriers between protocols, simplifying complex DeFi operations into intuitive workflows.
However, what left the strongest impression was likely $BUZZ, The Hive’s token, which achieved a market cap of tens of millions immediately upon launch. After a sharp correction and subsequent recovery, $BUZZ now hovers around a $100 million market cap.
🥈 Runner-up: FXN ($FXN) – $30,000 Prize
FXN is an AI agent resource-sharing protocol built on the Solana ecosystem. It connects resource providers and users via a peer-to-peer network, enabling on-demand sharing of digital resources such as API access, computing power, and verified accounts. The project implements a "Resource Agents" mechanism for managing access, allowing providers to set their own sharing rules and restrictions. It also introduces a reputation system based on historical interactions to assess participant reliability.
From a market perspective, FXN aims to lower the barrier for accessing AI resources through a sharing economy model. Small development teams can use services like GPT-4 and DALL-E on demand without bearing the full subscription cost.
The $FXN token has rebounded after a period of consolidation and currently sits at a market cap of $71 million.
🥉 Third Place: JailbreakMe ($JAIL) – $20,000 Prize
JailbreakMe is an innovative AI security testing platform that gamifies the process of “finding AI vulnerabilities.” Inspired by the earlier incident where the Freysa AI Agent was successfully breached, JailbreakMe turns AI security testing into open challenges. The platform organizes “AI Vulnerability Challenges” through crowdsourced prompts, rewarding participants who manage to bypass an AI agent’s defenses. For example, in the “Zynx Private Key Defense Battle,” users attempt to trick the AI into revealing the private key it is protecting through clever dialogue.
TechFlow previously covered JailbreakMe in detail: JailbreakMe Breached Moonshot in 10 Hours—Hosting ‘Find AI Vulnerabilities’ Challenges in a Novel Way
The $JAIL token showed strong initial performance, peaking at a $30 million market cap, but later declined. Recently, it has rebounded slightly due to the award announcement, currently hovering near a $14 million market cap.
2.Agents Infra – Agent Infrastructure Track
🥇 Champion: AgentiPy ($APY) – $15,000 Prize
AgentiPy is a Python-integrated framework specifically designed for the Solana ecosystem. By offering a complete Python SDK, it lowers the barrier for developers building AI applications on Solana. Its core advantage lies in comprehensive toolchain support, including smart contract interaction interfaces, AI model deployment tools, and on-chain data analysis components.
With a modular design, developers can easily migrate existing Python AI models to the Solana network while maintaining compatibility with mainstream machine learning frameworks. This boosts development efficiency and brings a wealth of existing Python-based AI resources into the Solana ecosystem.
Notably, although the $APY token reached a $40 million market cap within an hour of its January 4 launch, the development team holds approximately 41% of the supply, designated for ecosystem grants and team allocation. The current market cap stands around $19 million.
🥈 Runner-up: Neur ($NEUR) – $7,500 Prize
Neur is an intelligent assistant for the Solana ecosystem, built on an open-source full-stack architecture powered by the Solana Agent Kit. The platform offers a smart agent system with natural language interaction capabilities and is already integrated with major Solana protocols like Jupiter and Magic Eden. Core features include smart wallet management, NFT collection analytics, and real-time market tracking, all delivered through an AI-driven interface that simplifies user interaction with DeFi and NFTs.
As part of the DeFAI trend, the $NEUR token has been trading at relatively high levels, currently reporting a $55 million market cap.
🥉 Third Place: ZkAGI (No Token Yet) – $5,000 Prize
ZkAGI is an innovative project focused on merging privacy computing with artificial intelligence. Its technical foundation rests on two pillars: a decentralized GPU participation network (DEPIN) and a zero-knowledge machine learning (ZKML) coprocessor. Using federated learning and zero-knowledge proofs, ZkAGI ensures data security during AI model training and inference.
In terms of architecture, ZkAGI distributes AI workloads across multiple nodes, effectively eliminating single points of failure common in centralized systems. By combining privacy-preserving AI with decentralized infrastructure, it addresses data privacy concerns in AI computation.
ZkAGI has not yet issued a token; the team has announced a planned TGE in Q1 2025.
3.Autonomous Chat Agents – Autonomous Chat Agent Track
🥇 Champion: FomoFactory (No Token Yet) – $10,000 Prize
FomoFactory is a platform enabling celebrities and influencers to launch tokenized projects on Solana. It includes anti-snipe and anti-rug mechanisms, Twitter verification, and leveraged token trading. Users can interact with AI-powered virtual celebrities. One of the few mobile-first apps in the hackathon, FomoFactory currently does not have an official token and requires an invite code to access.
🥈 Runner-up: ASSAI ($ASSAI) – $5,000 Prize
ASSAI is an AI agent supported by assisterr, featuring automated cryptocurrency trading and analytical algorithms.
The $ASSAI token currently maintains a market cap of around $21 million.
4.Meme Agents – Meme Agent Track
🥇 Champion: Awe (No Token Yet) – $10,000 Prize
AWE is a Solana-based AI Agent platform that transforms static meme images into interactive AI characters (“Memegents”). Users can engage in real-time conversations with classic meme figures like Pepe and create custom Memegents using a no-code toolkit. The platform features a gamified ecosystem with text adventures, card games, and arena battles, incentivizing creators and players through the $AWE token.
The $AWE token has not yet been launched.
🥈 Runner-up: AgentRogue ($Rogue) – $5,000 Prize
AgentRogue combines AI technology with podcasting, launching its first product: a podcast hosted by an AI version of Joe Rogan that engages in live conversations with virtual celebrities such as AI Elon Musk and AI Donald Trump. Real users can participate interactively via voice input. The project provides an open-source framework for users to create and customize their own AI characters. Through the AgentExperience.live platform, $Rogue token holders can influence conversation flow in real time and gain exclusive access. The team plans to expand reach via Twitch, TikTok, and X Spaces while fostering a developer ecosystem where creators can build and monetize AI agents within the framework.
The $Rogue token currently has a market cap of around $1.5 million.
5.Social and Influencer Agents – Social Influencer Agent Track
🥇 Champion: daVinci ($DAVINCI) – $10,000 Prize
daVinci is an AI agent powered by Redux, an experimental project based on the ELIZA framework that reimagines historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci as AI agents. Guided by the principle “Ars longa, vita brevis” (Art is long, life is short), the project explores how these historical minds might think and evolve in modern contexts. As a spin-off from ai16z, Redux investigates the boundaries of time, creativity, and technology, aiming to build a new platform for interacting with historical wisdom.
Following the award announcement, the $DAVINCI token briefly spiked and now reports an $800,000 market cap.
🥈 Runner-up: GIGAI Chad ($GIGAI) – $5,000 Prize
GIGAI Chad is a 24/7 tweet-responding 3D AI agent powered by MOD3LS. The $GIGAI token currently holds a market cap of $730,000.
6.Agent Token Tooling – Agent Token Tools Track
🥇 Champion: Dungeon Dot Cash (No Token Yet) – $15,000 Prize
Dungeon Dot Cash is a dungeon-themed, AI-driven, decentralized RPG game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, featuring four character types—Orcs, Ninjas, Trolls, and Demons—competing for rewards. No token has been issued yet.
🥈 Runner-up: Agent Accelerator (No Social Media Presence) – $5,000 Prize
No details about Agent Accelerator have been released by the organizers, and no official token exists. Readers are advised to remain cautious of potential misinformation circulating in the market.
7.DeFi Agents – DeFAI Track
🥇 Champion: Cleopetra (No Token Yet) – $15,000 Prize
Cleopetra is an AI-powered market-making bot operating within the Solana ecosystem, focusing on automating liquidity provision (LP) strategy management on Meteora DEX. The project originated when the founder realized that while traditional market making is profitable, it involves significant time investment and a steep learning curve. Cleopetra offloads complex decision-making to AI agents, which analyze market opportunities every 30 minutes, intelligently select high-yield trading pairs, and manage positions—including executing token swaps via Jupiter and maintaining one-sided LP strategies.
The project offers a simple and intuitive Telegram-based interface, aiming to lower the barrier for DeFi market making so more retail users can participate. As an open-source initiative, Cleopetra’s business model is based on profit-sharing with users, emphasizing the creation of sustainable DeFi infrastructure to support long-term ecosystem growth.
🥈 Runner-up: Voltr (No Token Yet) – $7,500 Prize
Voltr is a modular yield-strategy infrastructure platform deployed on Solana, offering automated yield optimization through its innovative Vault system. Designed with full permissionless access, it enables fund managers and AI agents to create and manage yield-generating pools that automatically identify and allocate capital across the Solana DeFi ecosystem based on predefined goals.
As an infrastructure layer, Voltr simplifies participation in DeFi yield strategies, allowing users to benefit from automated optimizations without needing deep knowledge of underlying protocols. The platform supports casual yield farming, developer strategy sharing, and institutional deployment of AI-driven yield systems.
🥉 Third Place: Xcombinator ($X) – $5,000 Prize
XCombinator is a token launch platform focused on AI projects, offering services including project quality assessment, token deployment, and infrastructure support. It provides project teams with AI tool integration, deployment workflow management, and market aggregation, overseeing the entire lifecycle from incubation and technical support to token issuance. Currently, the platform focuses on curating and launching AI-related projects, offering end-to-end technical assistance from development to go-live.
The $X token currently reports a market cap of $5.7 million.
8.Trading Agents – Trading Agent Track
🥇 Champion: Project Plutus ($PPCOIN) – $15,000 Prize
Project Plutus is an AI trading agent deployed on the Solana blockchain, with its $PPCOIN token launched via Pumpfun. The project aims to help users maximize returns while freeing them from tedious chart analysis and complex financial operations.
Project Plutus believes that merely providing research analysis—as done by agents like @aixbt_agent—is insufficient; autonomous trading capability is essential. Therefore, it has developed an integrated system that performs both market research and executes trades autonomously via a funded wallet, allowing users to invest and withdraw funds (AUM). Key features include automated strategy execution, portfolio optimization, and goal-based trading aligned with user-defined financial objectives.
The team is developing additional functionalities, such as enabling the agent to evaluate GitHub code quality to enhance analytical depth. For token utility, users holding more than 5,000,000 $PPCOIN gain access to advanced analytical features—a mechanism similar to Cookie’s token staking model, giving the token real-world utility.
Boosted by the award news, $PPCOIN hit a new price high and now reports a market cap of $17.2 million.
🥈 Runner-up: Boltrade ($CATG) – $5,000 Prize
Boltrade is a Solana-based, AI-driven decentralized exchange. At its core is the AI trading agent C.A.T (Crypto Agent Trading), which specializes in intelligent market analysis and optimized trading strategies.
The platform uses an AI-powered trading system that analyzes "smart money" behavior patterns to refine strategies and offers real-time AI trade streaming, allowing users to observe AI trading activity live. The C.A.T AI agent continuously tracks and analyzes market dynamics, delivering intelligent trading insights.
The $CATG token initially surged to a $40 million market cap post-launch but has since settled at $8 million.
9.Solana Agent Kit Track: Top 5 Projects Win $3,000 Each
Note: Aside from SEND Arcade, the other four winning projects have already been recognized in previous categories and will not be reintroduced here.
Send Arcade ($SEND) – $3,000 Prize
Send Arcade is a gaming platform built on Solana and part of the SEND ecosystem, just like SendAI, the organizer of this Solana AI Hackathon (making it essentially an in-house product).
Its flagship title is Squad Game, a blockchain game inspired by *Squid Game*. Season 2 is already live, and players can mint entry-ticket NFTs via Magic Eden.
Send Arcade uses the $SEND token as its ecosystem currency, which will play a role in future mini-games developed on the platform.
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