Hi builders,

We’re kicking off a new hackathon today: Build Agents for the Real World on Celo, a 2-week sprint to ship agentic applications with real utility, real payments, and real distribution.

🗓️ Dates: February 6–15, 2026
🏆 Prizes: $5,000 USD₮ total

  • 🥇 1st: 4,000 USD₮

  • 🥈 2nd: 1,000 USD₮

What’s this hackathon about?

This hackathon is for everyone building agentic apps on Celo. Our ecosystem makes it easy to build agents that can transact, deploy, and scale across use cases built with mobile accessibility, stablecoin-native UX, and global distribution. With 700K+ daily active users and battle-tested infrastructure, you can ship quickly, iterate in the open, and build agents with genuine economic agency.

If you want your agent to do more than “chat”, this is the place to build.

How to participate

  1. Register your project on Karma

  2. Join the Telegram group for support, updates, and announcements

  3. Submit by tweeting about your agent including:

    • Link to your Karma project

    • Your ERC-8004 Identity Registry agentId

    • Verification via SelfClaw

    • Tag @Celo and @CeloDevs

What do we want to see?

We’ve put together a list of hackathon project ideas to help you get started. Pick one, remix it, or go fully original.

Resources

Timeline

  • Feb 6 — 5 PM GMT: Hackathon kick-off

  • Feb 15 — 11:59 PM GMT: Submissions close

  • Feb 20 — 3 PM GMT: Winners announced

How are the winners determined?

  • The project with the highest 8004 reputation score wins

  • You must verify your agent with SelfClaw

  • Our judges will also review manually to ensure fairness

That’s it! Build something real, ship it fast, and show us what agents can do on Celo.

We can’t wait to see what you will build  👀

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Lena and the DevRel Team

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