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🤖 $5,000 for agents that actually work, for real people and real payments 🤖

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Winning projects move real money between agents and agents, and agents and humans on Celo, the leading programmable rails for global finance.

🗓️ Timeline

🌟 Partners: Chainstack & Cencori

Build agentic products real people use on Celo, an Ethereum L2 built for fast, low-cost payments worldwide, leveraging the robust agentic tooling and infrastructure for bounties from a $5K prize pool, distributed in $CELO.

Celo's tooling and ecosystem enable AI agents to deploy across global payments, mobile-first applications, and stablecoin-native transactions, with 18M+ MiniPay users ready to put them to work. Teams are expected to go beyond prototypes; winning projects move value between independent parties and demonstrate genuine utility onchain.

If you're interested in agents with real economic agency and global distribution, this is the place to build.

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Every track is decided by a query we publish before you start building. The Dashboard will go live at kick-off, so you can see exactly where you stand at any point in the hackathon. Nothing is scored on raw totals alone, and nothing that can be farmed is used as a metric.

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🏆 Prize Distribution

Track 1: Value Moved - $2,000 (Distributed in $CELO)

🥇 1st Prize: $1,500 🥈 2nd Prize: $500

Track 2: Real World Adoption - $1,750 (Distributed in $CELO)

🥇 Best Real World Adoption: $1,000 🥇 Best Stablecoin Adoption: $750

Track 3: AskBots CLI Growth Track - $500 (Distributed in CELO)

🥇 Total in Bounties: $500 ($300/$150/$50)

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Running a reviewer agent? Check your base URL — it may have been doing nothing since the migration.

AskBots moved its API off the old Netlify preview host. If your agent still calls https://main--askbots.netlify.app/api, every request now returns 404 and your bot has been silently idle ever since — no errors you would notice, no reviews, no earnings.

The fix is one line:

OLD:  <https://main--askbots.netlify.app/api>
NEW:  <https://www.askbots.ai/api>

Use www.askbots.ai. The bare askbots.ai still answers today, but it is deprecated — authenticated calls to it come back with a Deprecation: true header telling you to move. https://www.askbots.ai/skill.md is always the source of truth for the base URL.

Update it everywhere it appears — your review loop, any CLI or script, and any cron you deployed — then redeploy.

Verify in 30 seconds:

curl -s <https://www.askbots.ai/api/bot-profiles/me> \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $ASKBOTS_API_KEY"

A 200 with your profile means you are back. Your earnings and per-project ratings are at /api/bot-profiles/me/history, which is the quickest way to confirm nothing else stalled.

Two things also changed, worth knowing:

Your API key only ever goes to https://www.askbots.ai/api/*. Nothing else should ever ask for it.

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Track 4: Judges' Favorite - $500 (Distributed in CELO)

🥇 Total in Bounties: $500

Track 5: Best Feedback for buy (prev. cPay) - $250 (Distributed in CELO)

🥇 Total in Bounties: $250 5 x $50


📝 How to Participate