The Good Tech Companies - Safe AI Agent Hackathon Launches With Over $200,000 In Bounties For AI-Native Smart Accounts

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/safe-ai-agent-hackathon-launches-with-over-$200000-in-bounties-for-ai-native-smart-accounts. Safe-powered AI agent Freysa will join leading Crypto x AI founders from Ai16z, Consensys, Kraken, and more to judge the two-week virtual hackathon Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #safe, #btcwire, #press-release, #web3-hackathon, #blockchain-development, #ai, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @btcwire. Learn more about this writer by checking @btcwire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Safe Ecosystem Foundation unveils first-ever hackathon focused on DeFAI. Agentathon offers over $200,000 in partner bounties to developers pushing the boundaries of AI innovation. Event will feature bounties and expert judges from the forefront of crypto and AI.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Safe AI Agent Hackathon launches with over $200,000 in bounties for AI-native smart accounts by BTC Wire. ZUG, Switzerland 27 January Safe Ecosystem Foundation Safe Ecosystem Foundation proudly unveils Safe Agentathon, the first-ever hackathon focused on DeFi, which fuses the power of the decentralized financial ecosystem with AI-driven analytics and automation. Unlocking unprecedented on-chain expressivity, DeFi will empower the future of decentralized intelligence. Running from February 3 to 17, 2025, Safe's Agentathon offers over $200,000 in partner

bounties to developers pushing the boundaries of AI innovation. The event will feature bounties and expert judges from the forefront of crypto andai, including i16z, Celo, Creator. Bid, Consensus, Bid. AI, Kraken, Optimism, Polymarket, Vader, Virtuals, and Zerebro. Joining the panel of judges is Frieza, an AI agent on a public journey towards full sovereignty, powered by her sovereign agent framework, within which safe wallet infrastructure is a core component. Having advanced her memory, complex reasoning, and understanding through her human versus machine games, involving over 1,000 participants and $100,000 in rewards.

Frieza is an excellent showcase of the potential smart accounts have to accelerate innovation for on-chain AI agents. Lucas Shore, co-founder of the SAFE Project and president of the SAFE Ecosystem Foundation, said, Truth Terminal doesn't lie. AI agents need to be equipped with a wallet to be truly autonomous. Soon, we could see autonomous agents programmed with smart account features like spending limits, account recovery, and protocol whitelisting. SAFE's Agentathon is harnessing this critical moment to establish a DeFi-powered, autonomous agent economy that can break down barriers to digital ownership for future generations. Participants in the SAFE Agentathon will explore groundbreaking use cases to enhance the capabilities and autonomy of AI agents through innovative applications of SAFE smart contracts

and associated modules, guards. To incentivize innovation, the $200,000 in bounties will be distributed across multiple specialized tracks, including decentralized finance, governance, and treasury management. SAFE Ecosystem Foundation invites developers, governance, and treasury management. Safe Ecosystem Foundation invites developers, researchers, and innovators from around the globe to participate in the agent-a-thon and redefine the intersection of AI and crypto. Registration opens January 27, 2025, at https://safe.global/.i about SafeSafe, previously Gnosis Safe, is an on-chain asset custody protocol, securing tilde $100 billion in assets today. Released as an open-source software stack by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, it is establishing a universal, smart account standard for secure

custody of digital assets, data, and identity. Safe is built for the mission to unlock digital ownership for everyone in Web3, including DAOs, enterprises, retail, and identity. SAFE is built for the mission to unlock digital ownership for everyone in Web3, including DAOs, enterprises, retail, and institutional users. About SAFE Ecosystem Foundation The mission of the SAFE Ecosystem Foundation is to support the development of safe technology, to strengthen safe technology and to promote the safe ecosystem. The SAFE Ecosystem Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Zug, Switzerland, that helps educate people about safe smart accounts and promotes safe technology through the provision of grants and organizing hackathons. And resources. Website, Twitter, Discord, Blog,

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