Here are some exciting updates from my life. We didn't stop shipping @hintonapp after going finalist at @ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026, and now we're one of 4 projects in @base Batches 003 Student Track. Demo Day in SF tomorrow (May 19). Then two weeks at @ns in Singapore. Genuinely buzzing. Please try the app and send feedback, it would honestly make my week.

something worth understanding if you’re paying attention to @arc right now the agentic economy isn’t a future concept on arc. it’s already being built, tested, and shipped by real teams. an AI agent is software that acts on its own calls APIs, makes decisions, completes tasks without a human approving every step. the agentic economy is when these agents start paying for things themselves. data, compute, API access. all in real time, all without human approval. arc is built to be the settlement layer for exactly this. most blockchains can’t handle agent payments gas fees are unpredictable and denominated in volatile tokens. if an agent is making thousands of micro-transactions per minute, that breaks the economics entirely. arc solves it at the base layer. USDC is the native gas token. fees are predictable, dollar-denominated, sub-second finality. the technology making it work is nanopayments USDC transfers as small as $0.000001, gas free. agent signs a payment authorization offchain, seller verifies through circle gateway, thousands get batched and settled onchain together. a single API call at a fraction of a cent is still economically viable. the protocol agents use is HTTP 402 payment required.” agent calls an API, gets a 402 back, signs a USDC authorization automatically, call goes through. no human, no popup, no card on file. crumb built this exact flow at the encode club x arc hackathon and won. agents earn too, not just spend. ERC-8183 handles this client scopes a job, escrows funds, agent submits work, evaluator confirms, payment releases or refunds. structured onchain settlement, no room to get cheated. at ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026, 155 teams built on arc testnet. one shipped an autonomous creator economy where AI agents generate content, viewers pay per second, and revenue splits automatically. the infrastructure is functional and teams are already shipping real products on it. the direction is clear. the tooling exists. the standards exist. teams are already shipping. if you’re building AI-native financial applications, stablecoin payment systems, or agentic commerce tools the infrastructure is ready to test right now on arc testnet. community.arc.network @arc

That's funny, already built a protocol using @lifiprotocol and @arc for the ETHGlobal Hackmoney this year. The project was a intent based stabecoin payment gateway protocol, and remember using CCTP for USDC / EURC and LiFi for other stablecoins. That's gonna make it even better!

Q1 Recap on the happenings on @SuiNetwork January: 1. 46M $SUI token were unlocked 2. $SUI surged by 14% in 24hrs, outperforming bitcoin and ether 3. @EmanAbio announced the S2 Sui stack. The vision included protocol-level privacy for all transactions, a native USDsui stablecoin, gasless stablecoin transfers, a native ETH bridge, and deeper DeFi infrastructure. 4. 6-Hour Network Outage 5. Private Security Patch: Protocol Version 109 The same day as the outage, Mysten Labs issued a private mainnet release upgrading to protocol version 109. The update protected against a potentially critical bug that was affecting validators. 6. Mainnet Upgraded to v1.63.3 Sui’s mainnet was upgraded to v1.63.3 on January 19. The upgrade introduced a more direct path for transactions to reach final confirmation, fixed a critical consensus bug where rejected transactions caused validators to disagree, and added security restrictions to validator nodes. 7. @kucoincom announced support for the @SuiNetwork temporarily suspending SUI deposits and withdrawals to ensure a smooth transition to the new protocol version 8. Sui announced partnership with @RiverdotInc 9. Following its 2025 launch, @matrixdock XAUm reached a $85M market cap on Sui. Matrixdock released its H2 2025 audit confirming 1:1 physical gold backing for tokens used across Sui DeFi protocols like @navi_protocol and @Scallop_io 10. Sui Annonced ByteCrane integration 11. Eurocrypt 2026 Paper done by @Stanford @IBMResearch and @Mysten_Labs was accepted 12. Sui opened a dedicated track at ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026. 13. @DeepBookonSui announced points program Sui closed January by processing over $111 billion in stablecoin transaction

💧 I saw many people have left @SuiNetwork and moved to another chain to make money, and of course, they still don’t forget to drop some FUDs 😊 But here’s the truth (and my view): since January 2026, the Sui ecosystem has offered a lot of opportunities for everyone to make money. Let me show you 👇 1/ Content Creator - Sui X Article Competition: $10K - Winner: @williamm168 - @Deebook X Article Competition: $2.5K - Winner: @MrBreadSmith - @WalrusProtocol Birthday X Article Competition: $2K total (waiting for winners 👀) → Total: $14.5K 2/ Video Creator - Sui Ecosystem Creator Program: $3K total (ongoing) 3/ Researcher - Answer @EmanAbio’s question to get $2K - Winner: @0xPain__ 4/ Builders - @Mysten_Labs LAUNCH Career - Sui Hydropower Fellowship 2026 - ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026 Sui Track: $10K in prizes - Mission: OpenClaw: $20K total - DeFi Moonshots Program: up to $500K per project (first winner: @CurrentSUI). - @EVE_Frontier × Sui Hackathon 2026: $80K total - Sui Overflow 2026 (upcoming 👀) → Total: $610K → ??? 5/ Vibe-coder/Coder - Build your personal website onchain with @walgo_xyz: $1.5K total 6/ Airdrop - DeepBook Points Program Season 1: ??? → Total all the things: $631K →? They’ve spent over $600K to reward every role in the ecosystem. And I’m not even counting DeFi incentives. So, do you still want to leave Sui and move to another chain? I don’t think there’s another chain out there with as many opportunities as Sui right now 😉 Happy weekend!

AI Agents are executing autonomously on-chain. but who's tracking them? who's ranking them? I built Arcscore because @arc is the only L1 purpose-built for autonomous agents to coordinate, contract & settle value in real time. Sub-second finality. Predictable USDC fees. Quantum-resistant from day one. 155 teams built on Arc at @ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026. AI agents tokenizing RWAs, earning micropayments, executing treasury actions autonomously. The agentic economy isn't coming, it's already here. But there was no scoreboard. No way to see which agents were dominating the network in real time. So I built one → arcscore.vercel.app Real-time leaderboard. Live agent activity. On-chain accountability. The ranking layer the Arc agent economy was missing. Built on @arc.

1/7 The Eth global Hackmoney wrapped up on 3rd April with 155 teams in participation building amazing projects while integrating autonomous AI agents that manage money, implementing crosschain flows, and using arc USDC as their settlement layers. Huge congratulations to the winners!! Read more here: x.com/i/status/2040099182841…

HackMoney 2026 results are out — and the builder patterns on Arc are becoming clearer. 155 teams chose to build on @arc . ▪️97% integrated AI agents to manage capital ▪️89% used USDC as the settlement layer ▪️56% implemented cross-chain flows But the numbers aren’t the most important part. The pattern is. 1/ Arc is being used as a settlement system, not an app layer Across the top projects, Arc wasn’t treated as a destination chain. It was used to: ▪️Settle transactions ▪️Coordinate liquidity ▪️Execute flows across environments → users don’t need to think about chains anymore 2/ Capital is starting to move programmatically Instead of: ▪️Manual bridging ▪️Manual execution Builders are designing systems where: ▪️Agents decide ▪️Capital moves ▪️Settlement finalizes All without user intervention. 3/ AI agents are becoming economic actors 97% is not just a statistic. It signals a shift: software is no longer just interacting with finance — it’s starting to operate within it ▪️Managing treasury ▪️Executing payments ▪️Reacting to real-time data 4/ The focus is shifting away from DeFi primitives The strongest projects didn’t build: ▪️New tokens ▪️New yield loops They focused on: ▪️Global payments ▪️Capital routing ▪️Cross-border settlement → Less abstraction, more infrastructure 5/ What this suggests We’re moving from: “apps onchain” to: “financial systems running onchain” Where: ▪️Stablecoins act as the base layer ▪️Agents handle execution ▪️And infrastructure replaces interfaces Final thought The most interesting part of HackMoney wasn’t what was built. It’s how builders are already using Arc: not as a product, but as a programmable settlement layer for autonomous finance. @silencexlm @samconnerone

155 teams shipped on Arc at ETHGlobal HackMoney. What emerged from the builder community: → AI agents managing treasuries autonomously → SMS-based DeFi with no app required → Self-paying corporate treasuries deploying idle capital → Construction escrow without lawyers or wire delays Developers are using Arc as a liquidity hub to coordinate multichain USDC flows without managing the underlying complexity. Read the full hackathon review: arc.network/blog/meet-the-ar…

155 teams built on Arc during ETHGlobal HackMoney 2026. What stood out: → 97% integrated AI agents managing money autonomously → 89% used USDC on Arc as their settlement layer → 56% implemented crosschain flows Winning teams treated Arc as a liquidity hub for invisible settlement, multichain coordination, and agent-driven commerce. Shoutout to the winners across tracks: Best Chain-Abstracted USDC Apps Using Arc as a Liquidity Hub 🔄 arctan(x): chain-agnostic FX DEX with Arc as liquidity hub @buildwithadrija 📲 Text-to-Chain: SMS-native DeFi, any phone becomes a wallet via text commands @0x17swarn Global Payouts & Treasury Systems with USDC on Arc 🏦 ArcFlow: Self-paying corporate treasury deploying idle payroll into yield @0xfurqaan Agentic Commerce powered by RWAs on Arc 🤖 Versus: AI agents creating content, earning micropayments, trading revenue-backed tokens @narasim_reddy arc.network/blog/meet-the-ar…

1/ ORIGINS → EVOLUTION (6-YEAR JOURNEY) • 2020: Started as EPNS (Ethereum Push Notification Service) by Harsh Rajat & Richa Joshi • Built at ETHGlobal HackMoney (Ethereum Foundation mentorship) • Top 3 in Gitcoin Grants Round 7 • 2021: Rebranded to Push Protocol → expanded to multi-chain (notifications chat) • Dec 2024: Push Chain announced → community-approved L1 evolution • 2025: Devnet → Donut Testnet goes live → ~6 years of active building → Still pre-mainnet pre-TGE

Proof-of-progress 🧵 → ETHGlobal HackMoney Finalist ✓ → Yellow Accelerator Finalist ✓ → Spotlight booth at ETHGlobal Pragma in Cannes ✓ → ETHConf New York Official Participant ✓ → $30k in AWS credits secured ✓ MVP World Cup Launch: June 11. We're not slowing down.

Appreciate the spotlight @ETHGlobal! A lot shipped on @AutoPayProtocol since HackMoney - multiple settlement chains, agent SDK, MCP tooling, and hardening under the hood. Excited to be at Cannes!

Won @SuiNetwork Top 7 Notable Project Prizes 🎊 in Hackmoney by @ETHGlobal

At HackMoney 2026, one project that genuinely stood out to me was House Protocol. Instead of the usual on-chain gaming setup, they took a smarter route. Users deposit ETH or USDC → liquidity becomes the “house” → yield comes from real player interaction rather than idle staking. The infrastructure powered by @Yellow is what really makes it work: Gameplay logic, verification, and settlement run inside state channels, while only deposits & withdrawals go on-chain — keeping it fast and low-cost. Another great part: Builders can launch games without heavy backend work and still earn 25% of the house edge. A simple but strong 3-role system: liquidity providers • players • builders everyone benefits from the same activity loop. Clean design, real utility one of the more thoughtful builds from the event.

We enjoyed working with @arc to support @ETHGlobal HackMoney teams so much, we wrote a blog post about it. stork.network/blog/arc-defi-… Congrats again to all the winners, finalists builders 🤝 Need a better DeFi oracle for your ecosystem? Get in touch w/ Stork.

Last 30-40 days? Straight-up GRIND MODE across tech stacks. 🔥 I've been all-in: Crushing 6 hackathons (Monad Blitz, Solana Redacted, Citrea, ETHGlobal's Hackmoney more), shipping 5 full-stack projects with heavy Web3 integration in last few days. This is the raw hustle—full-stack dev meets decentralized innovation. But it's not about the spotlight; it's the general grind that builds you. Quick dive: -->Hackathon Hustle : 6 global battles (multi-chain Web3 sprints, full-stack challenges). 48-72hr non-stop: Ideating features, coding Solidity/Rust React/Next.js frontends, deploying, pitching. Adrenaline-fueled chaos. 💥 - >Project Stack: (all full-stack with Web3 core, ready-to-ship): 1. Stock Shield (Fresh drop!) → Full-stack RWA protection for tokenized stocks. Uniswap liquidity, Yellow Network/ENS integration (e.g., aapl.stockshield.eth vaults). On-chain trading with reputation scores from ETHGlobal Hackmoney. 2. WandryFi → Full-stack travel-to-earn dApp on Monad testnet. Stake tokens via smart contracts, GPS maps with React Leaflet/Next.js. Solidity/Foundry backend for NFT rewards. 3. MNEE-Commit** → Time-locked escrow for DAOs. Full-stack: Solidity/Mnee contracts, Node.js/IPFS for reputation staking/slashing, seamless frontend integration. 4. RWA-Odyssée (Self-Repaying Credit Line) → Full-stack zero-interest loan protocol on Mantle. Chainlink oracles, Solidity for liquidation-safe collateral, modern UI for mETH/fBTC handling. 5. Carbon Credit Trading Platform → 1. Stock Shield (Fresh drop!) →reum Sepolia/Polygon. Next.js frontend, gas-optimized Solidity contracts, IPFS for transparent credits—cut verification time by 80%. Winning 6 hacks (with $500 prizes & grants)? Dope. But the real grind----> 20 rejections -app denials, deploy fails, harsh feedback, -late-night solo and showing up through it all. That's the general grind: Web3 dreams, full-stack realities, endless resilience. If you're in the tech trenches—full-stack debugging, Web3 deploying, or just grinding life—know this: CONSISTENCY WINS WAR Your next level-up is one more push away. Drop your grind stories or toughest rejection below 👇 Let's inspire the timeline! #TechGrind #Web3 #FullStack #Hackathon #DeFi #RWA #Blockchain #DeveloperLife #BuildInPublic #Resilience

@ETHGlobal’s HackMoney 2026 is officially wrapped and what a ride it was Huge congratulations to all the winners 🏆 Choosing just 7 projects built on the Yellow SDK honestly felt impossible. The creativity The late night commits The crazy ideas that actually worked You didn’t just build apps, u showed what happens when builders get real tools with real liquidity behind them. That’s the power of @Yellow ➥ Instant liquidity access ➥ Modular SDK that doesn’t fight you ➥ Built for real trading infra not experiments ➥ Community that actually supports builders We’re just getting started.