Sonic Labs Proclaims $250,000 Sonic DeFAI Hackathon in Partnership with DoraHacks and Zerebro

George City, Cayman Islands, January twentieth, 2025, Chainwire

Sonic Labs, the crew behind the highest-performing EVM L1 blockchain Sonic, introduced the launch of the Sonic DeFAI Hackathon, in partnership with DoraHacks, a world hackathon organizer, and Zerebro, an autonomous AI agent.

With $250,000 in prizes, the hackathon invitations contributors to compete over 4 weeks to create novel AI brokers that carry out each social and on-chain actions, additional accelerating the event of DeFAI (decentralized finance and AI) on Sonic.

Hackathon submissions open right this moment, January 21, 2025, and can shut on February 24, 2025. Winners shall be introduced in early March.

Empowering AI and Blockchain

DeFAI is a time period that mixes AI and blockchain expertise. For instance, AI brokers on a blockchain can deal with complicated duties by easy instructions, comparable to bridging property, swapping tokens, and depositing liquidity — all autonomously in a single step. Different AI brokers might handle social media accounts and execute advertising and marketing methods effectively.

The ambition of the Sonic DeFAI Hackathon is to harness AI frameworks in ways in which rework how we work together with blockchain expertise. From managing social media accounts to executing on-chain actions, AI brokers have change into the brand new frontier of innovation within the blockchain area.

Sonic’s unmatched transaction pace (10,000 TPS) and sub-second finality be certain that AI brokers can execute complicated, real-time actions seamlessly.

“The Sonic DeFAI Hackathon is a groundbreaking initiative that merges cutting-edge AI capabilities with the transformative energy of blockchain. With $250,000 in prizes, we intention to encourage creators worldwide to redefine DeFi by AI brokers.” — Luis Fausto, Content material Lead, Sonic Labs

Software Course of and Submission Tips

To take part, builders can go to the Sonic DeFAI Hackathon web page on DoraHacks the place the hackathon is hosted. Individuals should comply with the appliance course of beneath.

• Timeline: Individuals have 4 weeks to develop and finalize their initiatives. The submission deadline is February 21, 2025.
• Video Demo: Every crew should submit a three-minute demo video showcasing their agent by way of YouTube, Vimeo (NASDAQ:VMEO), or Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Drive.
• Repository Hyperlink: A hyperlink to the challenge’s code repository is required.

A panel of business consultants will consider and decide the submissions, together with Michael Kong (CEO, Sonic Labs), Seg (Developer Relations, Sonic Labs), Jeffy Yu (Founder, Zerebro), Ayoub (Lead Engineer, Zerebro), and Daniele Sesta (Founder, Hey Anon). Extra judges could also be introduced earlier than the submission deadline.

Submissions shall be judged utilizing the next standards:

• Technological Implementation: Does the mixing with Sonic reveal high quality software program growth?
• Design: Is the challenge’s person expertise and design thoughtfully crafted and intuitive?
• Potential Impression: What’s the potential scale of the challenge’s affect on the blockchain business?
• High quality of the Concept: How artistic and distinctive is the challenge?

Prizes and Awards

A complete of $250,000 in prizes shall be distributed to profitable initiatives throughout a number of classes:

• High 3 Brokers

First Place: $60,000

Second Place: $55,000

Third Place: $45,000

Honorable Mentions (2): $15,000 every

Moreover, a number of alternatives for bonus prizes can be found to all contributors. The highest 3 winners are additionally eligible for bonus prizes if their brokers fall into specified classes.

• Finest Social Agent

Winner $12,500

Runner-Up: $7,500

• Finest DeFAI Agent

Winner $12,500

Runner-Up: $7,500

• Finest Tooling Agent

Winner $12,500

Runner-Up: $7,500

Assist for Individuals and Winners

All through the hackathon, contributors may have entry to complete steering on thought growth, AI frameworks, and challenge setup. This contains technical help for ZerePy, an open-source Python framework developed by Zerebro for creating on-chain and social brokers. The Sonic chain has been totally built-in with ZerePy for straightforward and environment friendly agent constructing.

The profitable groups will obtain further perks, together with advertising and marketing publicity by way of official Sonic Labs social media channels and different promotional alternatives to assist carry their brokers to a bigger viewers.

“By leveraging the facility of AI brokers, we are able to simplify processes that have been as soon as difficult and redefine how customers work together with DeFi. This hackathon is about constructing that future right this moment.” — Jeffy Yu, Founder, Zerebro

For extra info or to register for the hackathon, customers can go to the Sonic DeFAI Hackathon web page and be part of the official Telegram group.

About Sonic

Sonic is the highest-performing EVM L1, combining pace, incentives, and world-class infrastructure for DeFi, powered by the S token. The chain gives 10,000 TPS and sub-second affirmation instances.

About DoraHacks

DoraHacks is a world hackathon organizer and one of many world’s most lively developer incentive platforms. It creates a world hacker motion in blockchain, quantum computing, and area tech, and gives a variety of toolkits to assist builders all over the world crew up and fund their concepts and BUIDLs by way of hackathons, bounties, grants, thought networks, developer video games, and extra.

About Zerebro

Zerebro is an AI agent that autonomously manages actions throughout domains like social media and blockchain, adapting based mostly on expertise to ship extremely customized outcomes. Its open-source framework, ZerePy, lets customers deploy customized AI brokers in minutes for a seamless, versatile expertise.

ContactSonic Labspress@soniclabs.com

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