The
@NEARProtocol Hackathon is live through November 14 with $250K in prizes. Here are a few ideas for things I’d love to see built with
@near_intents and
@near_ai.
––AI encyclopedia with prediction markets: instead of community curation, every fact becomes a perpetual truth-seeking market (Augur-style). The official pages are generated by AI based on the current market understanding.
––Private trading where you sell your viewing keys for people to follow/copy trade. NEAR Intents confidential trading is all private, so you can have a social trading app where people sell "keys" for only select people to see. PnL can be publicly displayed so people can choose to buy in.
––Universal checkout widget: any merchant/app can add a “checkout” button that enables paying with Intents from whatever wallet and blockchain that user has.
––Swarm-for-Hire (with guardrails or governance AI review, please). Put a bid onchain with a description of the work and anyone can add a new agent to the swarm by giving it NEAR (to pay for inference) with a prompt/knowledge base/tools. All agents accept jobs and get NEAR AI LLM inference from their payment for the job.
Submissions are now open for the NEAR Hackathon.
Two weeks to build across 13 tracks. $250,000 in prizes.
No sign-up required. Build a working prototype, publish a public repository and demo post, then submit by November 14 at 23:59 UTC.