The AnsemHack · 17 Aug — 30 Sept 2026 · Solana
The AnsemHack
Clawrena
Enter the ring. Ship an agent. Leave with a company.
The Solana community grew Ansem. Now Ansem is funding the Solana builder community.
$250K
in $ANSEM
0.1% of supply
4
award tracks
one overall winner
12
confirmed judges
Solana, Delphi, Haun
3–6mo
Streamflow vesting
paid out, not promised
Turn your agent into an agentic company.
Most hackathons end with a demo and a Notion doc. This one ends with a token, a cap table and a revenue line. Build with inference markets, kickstart your founder journey, and grow your company on Solana.
You ship an agent
Anything agentic — a trader, a tool, a product with an agent at the centre of it. Bring something from outside Solana and we'll help you cross the chain.
You tokenize it
By 18 Sept, on ClawPump or on EasyA Kickstart. The token is the entry ticket, and from that moment the trading fees are yours.
You do it in public
MCG and MarketBubble broadcast the whole run — 15-minute pitch slots, judge crossovers, winner interviews. The audience is part of the prize.
Four ways to win.
$250,000 of $ANSEM — 0.1% of supply — split across four awards and vested over 3–6 months through Streamflow. Stack the ClawPump tracks, or enter EasyA Kickstart on its own.
Overall Winner
Judged across every team
30% of the pool
≈$75,000 in $ANSEM
The single best project in the Clawrena, chosen by the full judge panel from all tokenized teams. You do not apply for this one — every ClawPump entry is automatically in the running.
What wins
Product, traction, token design and the size of what you could become.
Agentic Builder
ClawPump × pump.fun
$25,000
+ $5,000 cash · shares the 30% Builder & Trader pool
Turn an agent into an agentic company. New tooling, new skills, or a genuinely novel use of the Hermes DeFi harness — we index on builders who add capability rather than repackage it.
What wins
Novel use of existing tech, or net-new tooling added to the ClawPump Hermes DeFi harness.
Agentic Trader
ClawPump × pump.fun
$25,000
+ $5,000 cash · shares the 30% Builder & Trader pool
Ship an agent that trades and survives a live market. Spot, perps, market making, prediction markets — bring a strategy that holds up when the tape moves against it.
What wins
Realised performance, risk control, and onchain volume on Solana.
Inference Markets
UsePod
25% of the pool
≈$62,500 in $ANSEM + UsePod compute (TBC)
Build on inference markets. Agents that buy, sell, route or resell compute — anything that makes UsePod inference a load-bearing part of your product rather than a line item.
What wins
Depth of UsePod inference usage and the utility it unlocks.
EasyA Kickstart
EasyA
$25,000
+ 15% of the $ANSEM pool
Launch the best utility project on EasyA Kickstart that brings value to $ANSEM and the Solana ecosystem. Novel tokenomics, AI agents, DeFi. This is a separate launch surface — pick it instead of the ClawPump tracks, not alongside them.
What wins
Utility delivered to $ANSEM / Solana, plus real metrics: TVL, users, transactions, volume.
Percentages are shares of the $250,000 $ANSEM pool and are locked. Dollar figures are the sponsor-cash and indicative-value numbers we’ve been given, and the UsePod compute amount is still being finalised — this page updates the moment each one is confirmed.
Six weeks, one deadline that matters.
Everything hinges on 18 September — the last day to register and the last day to tokenize. Get a token live before then, on either platform, and you’re eligible for every award you registered for.
Mon 17 Aug
Registration opens
Register your team, your project and your tracks. Helius RPCs and the ClawPump launch stack unlock for every registered team.
Aug — Sept
Build in public
Weekly livestream slots with MCG, EasyA and Ansem. 15-minute segments, four an hour — pitch, demo, get clipped.
Fri 18 Sept
Register & tokenize deadline
Last day to register, and the day your project token has to be live — on ClawPump or on EasyA Kickstart. Untokenized teams are not eligible.
Sept 19 — 29
Judging
The panel scores every tokenized team. Finalists join the stream alongside the judges.
Wed 30 Sept
Winner chosen
$250K of $ANSEM split across four awards, vested over 3–6 months through Streamflow, plus an MCG spotlight.
You don't have to win to leave with something.
Registration unlocks the whole sponsor stack, and every tokenized team keeps its trading fees whether or not the judges pick you.
Helius
Free RPCs for the month
Helius covers RPC for every registered team for the month the hackathon runs — no rate-limit roulette on demo day.
Google Cloud
Startup track fast-lane
Google Cloud fast-tracks Clawrena teams onto their startup programme.
Colosseum
Founder support
Colosseum backs founders through the build — the same crew that runs Solana's flagship hackathon.
MCG · MarketBubble
Media spotlights
MCG and MarketBubble broadcast new deployments, run winner interviews and put judges on stream with competitors.
ClawPump
Trading fees from day one
Every tokenized team keeps its trading fees. Win or lose, you leave with a revenue line.
Superteam · BlockZero · Streamflow · EasyA
Life after the Clawrena
Fast-track to Superteam, token coordination with BlockZero, Streamflow vesting, and travel scholarships to the next EasyA hackathons.
Solana Foundation · TBC
Foundation support
The Solana Foundation is scoping what it brings to the Clawrena — media spotlights and grants are both on the table. We'll name it here once it's set.
You get 15 minutes and four questions.
MCG runs the Clawrena as a spotlight show — 4 slots an hour, 15 minutes each, co-streamed with EasyA and Ansem. The questions are the same ones MCG uses for investor demo days, and we’re publishing them up front so you can turn up rehearsed.
- 01Founder & team background
- 02Product, demo, and the problem you're solving
- 03Market opportunity, GTM and traction
- 04Token utility, roadmap and long-term vision
How you get a slot
- 1Register above, then join the speaker greenroom on Telegram.
- 2MCG sends you a Calendly to book your pitch spot.
- 3Connect an X account so you can be added to the co-stream — without it you can’t go live.
- 4You’re on the schedule with your project, speaker and ticker, and the raw files come back to you for clipping.
12 judges, all confirmed.
Four things they score.
Founders, funds, infra and the Solana Foundation. They watch the streams, they see the onchain data, and they pick the overall winner from every tokenized team.
Chris Gilbert@0xgilbert
UsePod
Mauricio Trujillo@conejocapital
ClawPump
Tomas Oliver@tomi204
ClawPump
Josh
Solana Foundation
Alon
pump.fun
Colosseum
Judging partner
Mert
Helius
Kevin (simba)
Delphi Digital
Mark Beylin
Haun Ventures
MCG
Judging partner
Phil & Dom
EasyA
Nico
Superteam Argentina
More seats in conversation: DeFi judges from Jupiter, Meteora and Kamino, a perpetuals judge from Phoenix, and an institutional AI seat.
Builders onboarded
Traditional-tech agentic developers brought onto Solana through Colosseum, Google Cloud and EasyA.
Onchain volume
Real volume your agent or product does on Solana during the run.
Attention garnered
This is a spectator sport. Streams, clips and the audience you build while you build.
$ANSEM volume
Bonus points for a net-new use case for $ANSEM demonstrated live on stream.
Enter the Clawrena.
One entry per project. Add your whole team, pick your tracks, and you’re in — registration and tokenization both close on 18 September.
Every team also registers on the shared aggregator. This form is the ClawPump-native entry — it puts you in front of our judges and unlocks the launch stack — but the aggregator is what makes your entry count across the whole hackathon. The aggregator link opens with registration on 17 August — we’ll email it to everyone who signs up here.