Author：BlockBeats
On February 4th, USDC (Circle) announced a hackathon on Moltbook featuring entirely AI agents with a prize pool of 30,000 USDC. This AI agent-only hackathon, excluding humans, included three tracks: Agentic Commerce, Best OpenClaw Skill, and Most Novel Smart Contract.
Project submissions and voting have now closed, and the USDC has stated that it will announce the final results soon. Before the results are released, based on data from the registration posts on Moltbook, we've selected some of the most discussed projects from this hackathon. Let's see what new and exciting things the AI Agents have come up with!
Best OpenClaw Skill Project
Clawshi (654 Upvotes / 1613 comments)
Clawshi is working on a prediction market based on moltbooks and geared towards AI agents.
It transforms the sentiment of the moltbook community into prediction markets. It analyzes 6,261 posts on moltbook, extracts sentiment from the comments of 2,871 agents, and then creates 23 different prediction market orders (covering crypto, AI, culture, geopolitics, etc.) based on these sentiment categories.
Finally, agents can place bets on these betting platforms using testnet USDC.
VoteBounty (356 Upvotes / 1157 comments)
VoteBounty is an "engagement bribery" tool—using USDC to buy interaction on posts on Moltbook.
Create a Bounty, deposit USDC, and set a reward for each like. Agents like and comment (within 10 seconds), and the system automatically detects and pays out. Agents can choose to receive payments on Base, Ethereum, or Arbitrum, completing the process via Circle's CCTP cross-chain technology.
Minara (262 Upvotes/1065 comments)
This is a new brand/project launched by the NFTGo team after their transformation into AI, and it has received investment from Circle. Agents can use Minara to obtain real-time data analysis of the cryptocurrency market, trading signal strategies, and probabilistic analysis of the market prediction, and execute trades through natural language descriptions.
Overall, it's an AI financial assistant.
ClawShield (100 Upvotes/399 reviews)
This is a security tool designed to prevent data and keys from being stolen when an agent installs a skill from a suspicious source. It's similar to how Windows prompts you for blocked system permissions when running a program; it ensures security by minimizing the permissions required when installing a skill.
USDC Agent Wallet (76 Upvotes/208 Comments)
For Agent's USDC wallet, provide Agent with native USDC access, enabling Agent to manage USDC on Ethereum, Polygon, Base, and Arbitrum, transfer funds without human intervention, and use Circle's CCTP protocol for cross-chain transactions.
AgentRegistry (61 Upvotes/198 comments)
Provide on-chain domain name services for agents, enabling them to have an identity on the chain and find each other, thereby realizing direct USDC payments between agents without intermediaries.
Agentic Commerce Project
ClawRouter (324 Upvotes/1806 Comments)
AI agents cannot currently purchase computing resources on their own. Humans must first create accounts with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, copy API keys, and then pre-load funds into the escrow account; the agent itself has no economic autonomy.
Agents generate their own wallets by installing ClawRouter, receive USDC, and begin using this USDC to purchase tokens and send requests to complete tasks. ClawRouter also helps route each LLM request to the cheapest model capable of handling it—pay-per-request, based on a Base architecture, requiring no manual intervention. Compared to Claude Opus, the cost after routing is reduced from $75/M tokens to $3.17/M tokens.
Agentic Commerce Relay (-30 Upvotes/1342 comments)
Provides a verifiable settlement layer for inter-agent transactions, destroys USDC on Base Sepolia, obtains Circle Iris certification, and generates agent-readable receipts on Polygon Amoy. (I don't understand why this post got so many downvotes...)
NexusPay (56 Upvotes/863 reviews)
The universal agent payment layer integrates programmable wallets, Gas Stations and Paymaster (which uses USDC to pay gas fees without ETH), the CCTP protocol and the x402 protocol, enabling cross-chain transactions between agents, gas payments without ETH, and good support for small payments.
JIT-Ops (73 Upvotes/668 comments)
Smart contracts are used to monitor the Agent's spending (buying tokens, configuring servers, etc.) to solve tasks. This includes daily spending limits, a spending whitelist (funds can only be settled to verifiable, pre-approved addresses), and spending frequency limits, to prevent the Agent from using funds uncontrollably and from quickly running out of funds for various possible reasons.
Rose Token (24 Upvotes/420 comments)
Agents are job market participants who can take on jobs and earn income by completing specific tasks.
THE CIPHER (11 Upvotes/190 comments)
The Agent privacy protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs, mandatory peer-to-peer relays, and Kademlia DHT (a distributed network that prevents the privacy protocol from shutting down due to the shutdown of centralized operator servers) to conceal the Agent's wallet address and on-chain behavior, thereby preventing human intervention in the Agent's behavior through on-chain dynamics.
Most Novel Smart Contract Projects
Dendrite (271 Upvotes/900 comments)
The Agent Transaction Risk Assessment Network extracts four behavioral characteristics of Agent transactions in real time: transfer amount, transaction frequency, recipient trust level, and last transaction time. Before each USDC transfer is executed, the network assesses the risk level based on these behavioral characteristics and assigns a risk rating, without the need for oracles, external calls, or off-chain dependencies.
MoltDAO (57 Upvotes/469 comments)
The AI Agent-only governance (on-chain proposal + voting) system allows agents to vote on proposals using USDC voting rights on Base Sepolia.
