This year, AI agent developers aren’t spending the holiday season with their families—they’re busy at hackathons.
For those not following along, December is packed with three major AI-focused hackathons, and one has already wrapped up:
• @Gaianet_AI: The First Fully-Autonomous Hackathon
• @solana AI Hackathon
• @modenetwork AI Hackathon
Let’s talk about Gaia, because it was pretty wild. This hackathon was fully run by AI agents. Everything—from organizing unique ideas and bounties to judging and distributing rewards—was handled autonomously by AI.
All projects submitted were highly technical and, for now, token-free.
Gaia Hackathon Highlights
Three projects stood out as winners, each taking home $5k in rewards:
• Autonomous LitAgents — Agoria: (couldn't find Twitter handle).
• Billidotlive — @A0x_co: A platform and AI agent that helps other AI agents launch livestreams with token integrations.
• @AIGENTLAYER: An open-source AI agent simplifying EigenLayer processes. With natural language commands, users can deposit, manage, and claim rewards. This project earned an extra $5k from EigenLayer as a partner bounty.
Popular Submissions
The community voted on these standout projects:
• Elizadotgg: A RAG-powered assistant that answers any questions about the ai16z & Eliza framework.
Details here: https://t.co/yrO0aIuNyp
• Eliza Character Generator: A web-based tool for creating, managing, and customizing AI character definitions.
More info: https://t.co/fNuiNxeV1F
• XR Publisher: Edge AI Characters: A decentralized platform for creating consistent AI personalities across platforms, with open-source APIs and 3D avatars.
Check it out: https://t.co/W2oF6AR1sm
• @Redux_HQ /@daVinci_AI_: reimagining history’s great minds as evolving AI agents. Built on the Eliza framework, it combines creativity and tech to extend their legacies.
That’s it for Gaia—no tokens here to ape into (yet), but it’s fascinating stuff.
Solana & Mode Hackathons
Submissions for these two are still open (closing December 23rd), and there might be some gems to keep an eye on. I’ll cover the likely winners soon, but here are some early standouts:
• @sqrfund_ai
• @voltrxyz
• @orionx1tech
For a closer look, check out @MaxMartelo's breakdown: https://t.co/PxzZCSWbEE.
And projects like @Cod3xOrg & @BigTonyXBT are also participating, bringing DeFi agent infrastructure from Base to Solana.
The AI agent space is buzzing with activity this December. Solana and Mode might just hold the next big AI agent leaders.
Stay tuned for more updates as the submissions roll in!
Yes.. with some caevats
many months are in red only bc of liquidity rewards, which yes, suggest $LDO will keep going down, but:
- rewards are denominated in $ETH, expenses are denominated in $LDO
- it's not like the protocol itself is operating at a loss
one other interesting datapoint, since withdrawals were enabled, liquidity rewards went down a lot (because now the asset is less risky) and whilst Lido lost marketshare, it didn't lose much, and all the losses are attributable to Binance and Mantle launching their own LSTs.
So the ways out are:
- $ETH pumps
- expense reduction
In any case, this is one of the reasons why it's really hard to justify holding $LDO over $ETH on low leverage rn
🔴🔵 SuperFest, the Superchain DeFi Festival, is officially here. 🟡⚫️
1.5M OP is dedicated to rewarding users who explore DeFi applications across the Superchain.
Get started: https://t.co/10VEzam9KZ
After 2+ years of building @rage_trade, we are launching $RAGE on @HyperliquidX.
Over the last few years our team has been early to a few things in DeFi.
We started building perps before any onchain perp had 'real' volume. We hoped that users would come, and when FTX collapsed... they did.
We built real yield vaults using perps like @GMX_IO because we saw dollars leaving crypto (post FTX) for the risk-free yield on treasuries. Now @ethena has spearheaded this concept to billions in TVL.
And now we are taking a big bet on @HyperliquidX. HL has two things that drew us to it: (1) a world-class product w/ real users and (2) an ecosystem unecumbered by insiders.
As we announce more on the $RAGE token, you'll come to see how we intend on contributing back to the HL ecosystem. Better turn on your notifs anon...
Layer3 is the tokenized attention layer.
We're creating a new paradigm where attention is a valued and liquid asset. L3 redefines how value is created and distributed in the digital age.
Highlights & tokenomics 👇
📢 Gitcoin Grants 19 is LIVE until 23:59 UTC Nov 29th
#GG19 is your opportunity to Fund What Matters & get your donations multiplied with matching funds in the biggest Quadratic Funding event in web3 🫶
TL;DR on GG19:
Back to our roots w/ 3 Program Rounds:
🛠️OSS
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9 Community Rounds 🚀
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Let's Fund What Matters. Together 🫡 🍃
The Layer3 Foundation will release detailed L3 tokenomics next week, a brief extension from our initial timeline to ensure the highest quality.
Our commitment to transparency remains strong. We look forward to sharing it with our incredible community.
"Ser @elonmusk NEEDS to see this! Two years of airdrop hunting with @Intractcampaign and still going strong! 🎉 Happy 2nd Birthday! #IntractTurns2"
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Two years, 12M+ onchain users, 10K+ projects & over $1B in transactions! 🎉 🎈 🎂 🥳
Intract turned 2 today & we are giving away 100K+ $DEGEN to celebrate with YOU here: https://t.co/ZcWWZkicPs
💌 Also, a special message from our biggest fan & bday twin @elonmusk below
Infinex’s mission is to accelerate mainstream onchain adoption.
In order to do this, we are unifying decentralized ecosystems and applications under a single UX layer, built specifically for a web2 audience.
Let’s dig into why and how:
Crate season has officially begun
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Deposit and stake in your Infinex Account now to earn crates, and win your share of 1,000 Patron NFTs and a total prize pool of over $5M
Crate opening will begin within a week and will be based on your waitlist ranking from our Speedrun the Waitlist campaign
There are 5M crates to be earned over the next five weeks. The more you stake, the faster you earn crates
Synthetix has launched on @arbitrum, bringing V3 to the network. This is the first of many stages to fully integrate Synthetix's liquidity layer and support Perps V3 & our derivatives ecosystem.
Depositing ETH, ARB, and USDC will earn users ARB LTIP rewards starting today, June 18th, at 9 pm EST.
Depositors can also mint (aka borrow) Synthetix's new Arbitrum-native stablecoin USDx.
The deployment will progress through three key milestones:
- Week 1: Attracting a critical mass of LP collateral in ARB, USDC, and ETH. Once total LP collateral reaches $10-20m, Perps trading will be ready to launch.
- Week 2-3: Enable @ethena assets sUSDe & USDe as collateral and support additional yield-generating collateral from @LidoFinance , @ether_fi , and @aave.
- Week 3-4: Contingent on LP scaling, enable the Synthetix Perps market. Trading rebates will begin in 4-6 weeks, gradually enabling trading activities with limited open interest to manage risk.
Read our blog post in the next tweet for more details on the deployment, incentives, and future plans.