Hey Celo builders:)
In this newsletter, you will find:
🏆 Winners announcements: Build Agents for the Real World V2
⚡ Proof of Ship: New season starts on April 1st. Get ready!
And the winners are...
Between Build Agents for the Real World V2 and the Synthesis hackathons, we've seen a new wave of agentic builders emerge on Celo: building payment agents, DeFi automation tools, no-code deployment platforms, identity-gated workflows, and more. Agents with genuine economic agency, stablecoin-native infrastructure, and mobile-first UX are becoming real.
Before we announce the winners, we want to take a moment to say thank you. To everyone who registered, showed up to Office Hours, pushed through the bugs, and submitted. You made these hackathons what they were, and the bar keeps rising.
The Build Agents for the Real World V2
Track 1: Best Agent on Celo
🥇 1st place — Agentopolis — $3,000 USD₮
🥈 2nd place — SocialClaw — $2,000 USD₮
🥉 3rd place (tied) — Toppa — $1,000 USD₮
🥉 3rd place (tied) — AgentHands — $1,000 USD₮
Track 2: Best Agent Infra on Celo
🥇 Celo8004 — $2,000 USD₮ [One line description of what they built]
Track 3: Highest Rank on Agentscan
🥇 Toppa — $500 USD₮
Congratulations to all the winners and to every builder who submitted. Every project that shipped is proof of agents for the real world, on Celo.
Keep building agents on Celo. Here's what you need:
Celo AI Docs — everything you need to keep going
Self Agent ID — ZK-powered identity for your agents:
ERC-8004: Agent wallet standard
x402 (Thirdweb): Payment protocol for agent transactions
celo/skills: Agent capability framework
agentscan — on-chain scanner for agent activity: agentscan.info
Keep building: Proof of Ship is back on April 1st (it’s true)!
Proof of Ship is Celo’s flagship builder program where your work speaks for itself. This time, we're focused on MiniApps for MiniPay, Opera's self-custodial stablecoin wallet with 14M+ global users.
🗓️ Submission from April 1 to 26
🏆 5,000 USD₮ prize pool every month
🏅 Top 50 projects rewarded
How it works: Every month follows a four-week rhythm — Scope, Ship, Refine, Present — with workshops, office hours, and an active community of builders supporting each other. The leaderboard updates on talent.app weekly, so every transaction counts right up to the last day.
Rewards go to the top 50 projects, ranked by real on-chain impact: transactions, active users, and verifiable activity. Not hype.
🥇 Top 10 (Gold tier): Share 50% of the monthly pool by Celo Public Goods, get featured in the Builder Showcase, and unlock direct feedback from ecosystem leads.
Top 3 get priority 1:1 mentor sessions.
The winner each month gets user incentives and badges from Celo Public Goods
🏗️ Top 11–50 (Builder tier): share the other 50% of the prize pool.
We are so excited about so many awesome projects being built on Celo! Every sprint, every build, every submission. It all adds up to something real.
See you on April 1st ;)
Lena & the Celo DevRel Team