Open Agents Hackathon

Join Akash Network and Venice AI for a one-day hackathon focused on building the next generation of decentralized AI agents and open-source systems.

This hackathon is for developers, researchers, and builders who believe AI should be open, composable, and permissionless — not locked behind centralized APIs.

Participants will build across two core tracks, both centered on decentralized AI agent infrastructure and open systems:

Akash Agent Track:

• Create an autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agent deployed on Akash that continuously operates (not a one-off script) and is capable of task execution, monitoring, orchestration, or decision-making.
  
  
• The agent must take verifiable real-world actions such as authenticated API calls, multi-step tool usage, job scheduling, stateful resource management, or interactive user workflows — beyond simple prompt/response behavior.
  
  
• Demonstrate persistent state, fault tolerance, and compute independence by running the agent entirely on Akash Infrastructure (no fallback to centralized cloud compute), including redeploys or restarts without loss of core functionality.

  Outcome: Must be a working agent hosted on Akash Console and use a hosted model via the akashml API while meeting the criteria above.