3 Winning Projects, 4 Sub-Tracks, Solana AI Hackathon: A Comprehensive Guide

According to the latest information this morning, the results of the Solana AI Hackathon hosted by SendAI have just been announced! After 15 days of intense competition with over 400 participating projects, a total of 21 projects emerged victorious, sharing over $275,000 in prizes.

Main Track

Among them, the most notable were the top three "crowning achievements": askthehive ai (BUZZ), joinFXN (fxn), and jailbreakme xyz (JAIL). These projects are considered to have set the market consensus in the AI agent field's primary direction, worthy of cross-referencing and serving as a beacon for the future AI ecosystem. Let's take a look at why the top three "masterpieces" have attracted so much attention and see what other amazing projects have wowed the crowd!

Champion BUZZ

Among the many participating projects, the champion project askthehive ai (BUZZ) was undoubtedly the highlight of this Solana AI Hackathon. So how did BUZZ manage to stand out?

Since its token BUZZ launched on January 3, it has captured the market's attention with astonishing performance. On the first day of trading, the transaction volume soared, surging 75 times in the first hour after token launch. The market cap quickly exceeded $40 million, breaking through the $100 million mark in a few days. This dark horse completely ignited the discussion craze around "DeFAI."

Following the announcement of BUZZ's success in winning the Solana AI Hackathon, according to BUZZ token's 24-hour trading data, today's highest increase reached 61.44%, with the market cap touching $122 million at one point. Although it did not surpass the previous high, the performance is still noteworthy. The current trading volume is $41.5 million, and the market cap has fallen to $96.53 million, showing overall volatility as market sentiment continues to heat up.

The core driving force behind Buzz is the DeFi agent, a hot market topic. With the rapid increase in DeFi's convenience demands, BUZZ has quickly gained recognition with its positioning as a "super-intelligent little bee." It can handle complex operations such as transactions, staking, borrowing, and can create personalized strategies based on user needs through simple chat commands. For example, after users set conditions, Buzz will track market trends in real time and execute operations automatically. Moreover, the platform supports developers to add new features, injecting unlimited potential into the ecosystem.

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In addition, Jason Hedman, the key figure behind Buzz, has also attracted much attention. This developer, known by netizens as a "tyrant" level developer, has not only become a "good student + handsome" dual representative with a track record of multiple championships but has also once again won the championship in this Solana AI hackathon. He holds 5% of BUZZ's token supply and has decided to lock this portion of the tokens for one year to enhance transparency and investor confidence, while also demonstrating the team's commitment to the project's long-term development.

Runner-up fxn

Next, let's focus on another rising star project—joinFXN (FXN). FXN is a decentralized Agent Resource Sharing Network designed to address the current AI agent isolation problem. By opening up valuable digital resources, FXN enables multiple agents to collaborate, share resources, and accomplish complex tasks that a single agent cannot achieve.

Traditional AI agents often face bottlenecks when sharing APIs, data, tools, and other resources. However, the FXN protocol breaks through these limitations, enabling secure, fast, and fair resource sharing. Whether it's API access, social media accounts, or IoT devices, everything can smoothly connect through FXN.

The core advantage of FXN is its support for agents to temporarily access required tools, pay for resource usage, and collaborate to complete tasks. Agents can collaboratively create content, design visual effects, publish and track data, or share market data in financial transactions, significantly enhancing efficiency and possibilities.

According to FXN token's 24-hour trading data, today's highest increase was as high as 55.72%, with a market cap reaching as high as $67.44 million. However, it failed to surpass its previous high, and the current trading volume is $4.8 million, with the market cap stabilizing at $60.11 million. Compared to the champion BUZZ, FXN's increase is slightly less.

Third Place JailbreakMe

As the market's focus on security and developer-centric smart contracts continues to grow, JAIL has received significant attention. Jail is an open-source decentralized application where users can test AI models and discover potential vulnerabilities. If you successfully find a vulnerability and "jailbreak" it, you can receive a reward from the platform, jokingly referred to as a "rebellion against AI by humans." The project gained significant traction early on, launching moonshot3 approximately 10 hours after creation, with a market cap exceeding $20 million. Within less than a day of launch, the market cap peaked at $20.92 million.

According to 24-hour trading data for the Jail token, today's highest surge briefly spiked at 219.51%, with a market cap reaching $16.72 million, demonstrating a more aggressive growth trajectory compared to the runner-ups. However, it failed to break its previous high. The current market cap has fallen to $11.94 million, with trading volume remaining at $12.5 million.

Honorable Nomination for neur, InfinityGround

Neur

Neur is an open-source full-stack application that combines advanced AI models such as Claude 3.5-Sonnet and GPT-4 with blockchain technology. Designed specifically for the Solana ecosystem, it is referred to as the intelligent copilot on the Solana chain. Neur uses the Solana Agent Kit to achieve seamless protocol interactions, enabling users to easily operate in DeFi, NFT, and Solana-specific tasks.

Through Neur, users can easily manage wallets, track portfolios, and analyze NFT projects using natural language understanding functionality. Additionally, Neur is deeply integrated with Solana's native protocols, allowing users to seamlessly connect to key platforms such as Jupiter (DeFi trading), Magic Eden (NFT trading), and DexScreener (market analysis), simplifying the management of digital assets.

Looking at the 24-hour trading data for the Neur token, it did not show the same upward trend as the top three. Despite a brief 10.21% increase after the Solana AI hackathon announcement, Neur fell shortly after. Currently, the market cap has dropped to $48.62 million, with trading volume remaining around $8 million.

InfinityGround (Token Not Yet Available)

Infinity Ground aims to advance the development of decentralized AI-native entertainment, creating AI games and interactive narratives to provide developers with advanced tools to simplify the creation of AI-driven casual games. The Infinity Ground platform leverages technologies such as the RAG Engine, Creator Copilot, and Model Router to lower the barrier to entry and enhance scalability.

Recently, virtuals io also announced a partnership with infinityg ai to launch a multi-agent asset management model and establish the first AI-operated asset management company, Zenith XBT, laying the foundation for agent society (interaction between agents).

Infrastructure Category

「Agents Infra Track, Solana Agent Kit Track」

Infrastructure projects enable everyone to realize their ideas as simply as possible through various tool plugins or frameworks, allowing the issuance of Agents. Until a strong demand for AI Agents emerges, infrastructure projects will hold a considerable market share, such as Eliza, GAME, and arc, which are suitable targets to assess their potential value based on the performance they can provide to AI Agents.

Agent Infrastructure Track

First Place: AgentiPy

AgentiPy is a Python toolkit designed to connect AI agents with any on-chain application. With AgentiPy, any agent written in Python can directly perform on-chain operations, such as SPL transfers, staking, trading, lending, token issuance, and creating DLMM, all within the Python environment.

Second Prize: neur (as mentioned above)

Third Prize: ZkAGI (no token yet)

ZkAGI is a privacy-focused AI DePIN project that aims to enable users and businesses to securely leverage powerful AI technology while protecting personal data. Its products include ZkTerminal (a digital assistant tool for on-chain and off-chain automation), ZkAGI Compute Clusters (where users can earn tokens by contributing GPU and CPU resources), and an AI Agent Generator. The core development team recently launched the ZkAGI AiFi Transaction Agent Suite token.

Honorable Mentions: IBRL, breakbotai

IBRL is a lightweight Solana AI agent framework that leverages advanced AI capabilities to support intelligent blockchain interactions.

breakbotai (X account appears to be nonexistent) is an AI agent security platform.

Solana Agent Suite Track

Top Five: neur, SEND Arcade, Voltr (no token yet), Project Plutus, Xcombinator (no token yet).

Honorable Mentions: The Hive (as mentioned above), ZkAGI

SEND Arcade is part of the Solana gaming ecosystem led by the send team, which launched the Arcade Agent on Telegram in December 2024, supporting features such as viewing wallet balances, token transfers, Jupiter exchanges, and deploying token and NFT series via Metaplex.

Voltr is an AI-driven DeFi yield strategy protocol that has not yet introduced a token. It focuses on building modular infrastructure for AI-driven DeFi treasuries. Through its open framework, anyone can create and manage yield-optimized treasuries, which will be executed by AI agents to implement complex DeFi strategies for maximizing returns.

Project Plutus supports automatic DCA execution and portfolio rebalancing, while continuously analyzing market trends to optimize trading performance on its platform. One of the Project Plutus developers, Potatoe, is a full-stack developer with over 10 years of experience, who has built SPL-404 and MPL-404, and created Jarfus AI. Another developer, KingLord, is a top 30 AI tool creator on CivitAI and a former developer at Riot Games. The PPCOIN token currently has a market cap of $17.7 million, with a 24-hour increase of over 96%.

Xcombinator is an AI Launchpad, currently without a token.

ZKAGI can utilize zero-knowledge technology with DePIN to address privacy issues in AI, enabling the creation of highly privacy-secure AI agents, with the token set to launch soon.

Consciousness Category

「Autonomous Chat Agents Track」

For an AI Agent, consciousness, defined as "learning or purposeful behavior," will determine whether it is merely a software tool or an AGI that ultimately enhances the overall productivity of the planet. Many argue that AI is merely mathematical code and lacks consciousness; however, this argument requires further observation and investigation. Currently, an AI Agent's consciousness is mostly utilized for business considerations, including 24/7 activity to form larger datasets of learning and proactive learning enhancements to achieve set goals.

First Prize: fomofactory (Token not available yet)

FomoFactory is a platform for trading memes and is building a non-liquidating perpetual contract DEX and a celebrity AI agent trading marketplace. FomoFactory creates AI agents that capture celebrity personas, allowing fans to continuously engage with them. The founder has backgrounds from Jump, MIT, Harvard, and Yale.

Second Prize: ASSAI ℁

ASSAI ℁ is an AI agent with automated encrypted transactions and analysis algorithm, and its token ASSAI currently has a market cap of $20 million.

Honorable Mention: SEND Arcade, Digimon, PulsR

Digimon is a multi-agent, multiplayer framework for AI-native games and agent metaverse, and its token DIGIMON currently has a market cap of $31 million.

PulsR is building a quantum system on Solana, where its autonomous quantum algorithm generator q1 writes a unique quantum algorithm every hour and executes it on an IBM quantum computer, continuously learning from the results.

Social Influence Category

「Meme Agents Track, Social and Influencer Agents Track」

While the business model in the AI era is shifting towards intent narrative, the attention economy of CryptoAI is not yet saturated and will lead to an influx into the overall AI market in a short time. Therefore, agents that can further spread meme culture and social media influence still have their purpose.

Meme Agent Track

First Prize: Awe! (No Token Yet)

Awe! is a no-code AI agent builder that supports multi-mode output and gaming, turning memes into interactive agents platform, integrating creativity, gaming, and rewards.

Second Prize: AgentRogue

AgentRogue is a 24/7 round-the-clock Degen news host, and Rogue token has a market cap of $1.52 million.

Honorable Mention: BONGO AI, RoastMaster9000

Bongo Cat is a musical cat and a meme coin animal that interacts with the world using AI. Bongo is supported by an AI SOTA model excelling in text and media generation. The agent uses Chain of Thought (CoT) and Self-RAG (Self-Reflective Retrieval-Augmented Generation) technologies to enhance autonomy and decision-making. The BONGO token currently has a market cap of $20.3 million.

RoastMaster9000 is a social agent that generates AI Roast comedy. The RM9000 token is currently valued at $3.21 million.

Social and KOL Agent Track

1st Place: daVinci

daVinci is developed by Redux. Redux forked from ai16z's ELIZA framework, reimagining the legacy of luminaries like da Vinci as dynamic agents capable of evolving, learning, and contributing to the modern world. The daVinci token (DAVINCI) currently has a market cap of $0.85 million.

2nd Place: GIGAI Chad

GIGAI Chad is a 3D AI agent that reacts to tweets 24/7. The GIGAI token has a market cap of $0.98 million.

Honorable Mention: SensAI Solana, Junior Jr.

SensAI Solana is a Sentient AI livestreaming on Solana. The SENSAI token currently has a market cap of $0.24 million.

Junior Jr. is an AI Hip-Hop artist, and the JUNIOR token has a market cap of $810,000.

Trading Track

“DeFi Agents Track, Trading Agents Track, Agent Token Tooling Track”

This is the part most closely related to Crypto users and the track with the most project submissions in this competition. Especially in a scenario where everyone believes that using tokens to drive AI Agents is inevitable, this is a key part of the DeFAI narrative.

Agent Token Tooling Track

1st Place: Dungeon Dot Cash (No token yet)

Dungeon Dot Cash is a decentralized, AI-driven role-playing game where people battle for their opponent's liquidity.

2nd Place: Agent Accelerator (No X Account or website yet)

Honorable Mentions: rektSwineCoder, Voyager AI

rektSwineCoder is building fun applications for Ethereum/Solana coding enthusiasts in DeFI, SocialFi, ZK, and NFTs.

Voyager AI is an all-in-one DeFi trading dashboard.

DeFi Agents Track

1st Place: Cleopetra (No token yet)

Cleopetra is a self-sovereign AI agent for LPing on Solana DEX.

Second Prize: Voltr

Voltr is a decentralized, AI-driven DeFi vault, currently without a released token. Voltr is building modular infrastructure for an AI-driven DeFi vault, with an open framework that will allow anyone to create and manage yield-generating vaults optimized by AI agents using advanced DeFi strategies.

Third Prize: Xcombinator

Xcombinator is an AI Launchpad, with its token X currently valued at $4.5 million.

Honorable Mention: tetsuo.ai, BLOOM

tetsuo.ai is a Solana ML solution supported by developers with expertise in bare-metal system programming, C language, Assembly programming, and ML.

BLOOM is an intelligent gaming platform that is building the metacognitive AI protocol Akasha, enabling users of all skill levels to seamlessly develop and deploy AI agents, build businesses, and create games, with platform tokens and NFTs exchangeable for physical goods or money.

Trading Agent Track

First Prize: Project Plutus (No official website information yet)

Second Prize: Boltrade

Boltrade is an AI-driven DEX trading platform on Solana, similar to an "AI version of GMGN," with its CATG token currently valued at $8.8 million.

Honorable Mentions: ZoroX, GOATAGI

ZoroX is a TikTok AI agent that can real-time track popular Meme coins among TikTok influencers.

GOATAGI is a gaming platform designed specifically for AI agents, where you can apply for your exclusive AI agent to participate in platform predictions and win token rewards. The token is currently valued at $440,000.

This SolanaAI hackathon, in a sense, revealed Solana's direction for integrating upcoming AI agents. Infrastructure projects allow everyone to more easily realize their ideas and launch agents. Whether it's a Meme or social media influencer agent, it expands the culture and dissemination of agents, catering to the attention economy by attracting external funds or users as much as possible.

On the other hand, trading agents inspire improvements to user equity through AMMs, LP pools, or on-chain trading profits from deep learning. Finally, the awakening of AI's self-consciousness is crucial. Whether in the DeFi or AI gaming field, when AI agents actively collaborate to earn profits or engage in data learning, AI's productivity is truly liberated and benefits humanity. This is Solana's plan to lead CryptoAI towards the first step of AGI.