The AnsemHack · 19 Aug — 1 Oct 2026 · Solana
The AnsemHackClawrena
Enter the ring. Ship an agent. Leave with a company.
The Solana community grew Ansem. Now Ansem is funding the Solana builder community.
total prize pool
0.1% of $ANSEM supply, cash & compute
awards
one overall winner
judges
Solana, Delphi, Haun
$ANSEM vesting
cash paid immediately
Two things to do.
Build something, then put a token on it. That's the whole entry.
Step 01
Build an agent
A trader, a tool, or a product with an agent at the centre of it. Coming from outside Solana is fine. We'll help you cross the chain.
Step 02
Tokenize it by 19 Sept
On ClawPump or EasyA Kickstart. The token is your entry. Its trading fees are yours from that day, win or lose.
Three things make you eligible.
Registering is step one, not the finish line. All three have to be done by 19 September. Miss any and the judges can't consider you, however good the build is.
- 1
Register your teamon this page
One entry per project, before 19 September. This is the official registry, the list every judge and partner works from, whichever platform you launch on.
- 2
Post your entry on X and follow @clawpumptechon this page
There is no confirmation email. Your announcement post is the receipt. It's pre-written, it tags us so judges and MCG can find you, and following us is how we reach you about your stream slot.
- 3
Tokenize by 19 September
On ClawPump or on EasyA Kickstart. The token is the entry ticket. No token, no award, however good the build is. Verify it against the same X handle you registered with and it attaches to your entry on its own — there is no key to save and nothing to come back for.
Every ClawPump entry is automatically in the running for the Overall Winner. You don't apply for that one separately.
Six weeks. One ring.
Everyone watching.
Every team tokenizes in the same window, in front of the same judges, on the same streams. No private submissions, no closed-door scoring. The market sees what you ship while you ship it.
Four ways to win.
$320,000 in total: $250,000 of $ANSEM (0.1% of supply) split across four awards, plus $60,000 of sponsor cash and $10,000 of compute on top. The $ANSEM vests linearly over 3 months behind a 1-month cliff. Cash lands the day you win. Stack the ClawPump tracks, or enter EasyA Kickstart on its own.
Overall Winner
25% of $ANSEM
≈$62,500 in $ANSEM
The best project in the Clawrena, picked by the full panel from every tokenized team. You don't apply for this one. Every ClawPump entry is already in.
What wins — Product, traction, token design, and how big this could get.
ClawPump × pump.fun
50% of $ANSEM + $35K cash
≈$125,000 in $ANSEM, plus $35,000 cash, paid immediately
The builder and trader award, judged together. Turn an agent into a company that does real work: new tooling, new skills, a use of the Hermes DeFi harness nobody has tried. Or ship an agent that trades a live market and survives it, across spot, perps, market making and prediction markets. We score what you added, not what you wrapped.
What wins
Novel use of existing tech, or net-new tooling on the Hermes harness. For traders: realised performance, risk control, onchain volume on Solana.
Inference Markets
15% of $ANSEM + $10K compute
≈$37,500 in $ANSEM, plus $10,000 of UsePod Inference Capital Markets compute
Build on inference markets. Agents that buy, sell, route or resell compute. Anything that makes UsePod inference load-bearing in your product instead of a line item. The winner also takes $10,000 of UsePod Inference Capital Markets compute, so what you built keeps running after the Clawrena closes.
What wins
How deep the UsePod inference goes, and what it unlocks.
EasyA Kickstart
EasyA
10% of $ANSEM + $25K cash
≈$25,000 in $ANSEM, plus $25,000 cash from EasyA
Launch the best utility project on EasyA Kickstart that brings value to $ANSEM and Solana. Novel tokenomics, AI agents, DeFi. It's a separate launch surface, so pick it instead of the ClawPump tracks rather than alongside them. You still register here. Only where you tokenize changes.
What wins
Utility delivered to $ANSEM / Solana, plus real metrics: TVL, users, transactions, volume.
$ANSEM amounts are each track's share of the $250,000 pool, vesting linearly over 3 months behind a 1-month cliff through Streamflow. Sponsor cash and compute sit on top and land the day you win. Final token amounts are struck at the $ANSEM price on the day the winners are announced.
Every trade your token does comes back as $CLAW and $ANSEM.
Not a treasury line. A loop: the volume you do pays for buys that reward the next team in, which brings the volume that pays for the next round.
- 01
You trade
Your token launches on ClawPump and the market does what it does.
- 02
Fees accrue
ClawPump keeps 35% of the trading fees. The rest is yours, win or lose.
- 03
Buys go on the book
10% of that share buys $CLAW and $ANSEM on the open market, 50/50.
- 04
Builders get paid
Those buys fund further participant rewards — which brings more teams, and more volume.
The 10% comes out of ClawPump's 35% share, not out of your side of the fees. Applies to teams that deploy on clawpump.tech; EasyA Kickstart entries tokenize on EasyA and sit outside the loop. Live numbers are on the analytics page.
One deadline that matters.
19 September is the last day to register and the last day to tokenize. Get a token live before then, on either platform, and you're in for every award you registered for.
Wed 19 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.
Sat 19 Sept
Register & tokenize deadline
Last day to register, and the day your token has to be live, on ClawPump or on EasyA Kickstart. Untokenized teams are out.
Sept 20 — 30
Judging
The panel scores every tokenized team. Finalists join the stream alongside the judges.
Thu 1 Oct
Winner chosen
$250K of $ANSEM split across four awards, vesting linearly over 3 months behind a 1-month cliff. $70K of sponsor cash and compute lands immediately, plus an MCG spotlight.
What you get for turning up.
Registration unlocks the sponsor stack. Every tokenized team keeps its trading fees whether or not the judges pick you.
Helius
Free Helius RPC credits
Every registered team gets free Helius RPC credits for the run of the hackathon. Build, backtest and demo without metering yourself or hitting a rate limit live on stream.
Colosseum
Founder support
Colosseum backs founders through the build. 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. ClawPump's own share feeds the flywheel: 10% of it buys back $CLAW and $ANSEM, funding the rewards that bring the next teams in.
Superteam · BlockZero · Streamflow · EasyA
Life after the Clawrena
Fast-track to Superteam, token coordination with BlockZero, Streamflow vesting on the $ANSEM, and travel scholarships to the next EasyA hackathons.
Solana Foundation · TBC
Foundation support
The Solana Foundation is still scoping what it brings. Media spotlights and grants are both on the table. We'll name it here once it's set.
14 judges.
Ansem, plus founders, funds, infra and the Solana Foundation. They watch the streams, they see the onchain data, and they pick the overall winner.
UsePod · @0xgilbert
ClawPump · @conejocapital
ClawPump · @tomi204
Solana Foundation · @joshyote
@colosseum
Helius · @mert
Delphi Ventures · @KSimback
Haun Ventures · @Beylin
@MCGlive
EasyA · @kwok_phil
EasyA · @dom_kwok
Superteam Argentina · @f0x1777
What they score
Builders onboarded
Traditional-tech agentic developers brought onto Solana through Colosseum 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.
Deploy early
Projects that go live sooner get reviewed sooner, and the panel watches them for longer. An entry with six weeks of onchain history behind it has more to be judged on than one that lands the week of the deadline, so shipping early is worth real points.
On stream: 15 minutes, 4 questions
- 01Founder & team background
- 02Product, demo, and the problem you're solving
- 03Market opportunity, GTM and traction
- 04Token utility, roadmap and long-term vision
Ship an agent.
Leave with a company.
Registration opens 19 August, 1pm ET. Tokenize by 19 September. Winner chosen 1 October.
Enter the Clawrena.
One entry per project. Add your team, pick your tracks, and you're in. Registration and tokenization both close on 19 September.
No agent yet
Build one first. It takes a few minutes, and it's the thing you'll be registering.
Deploy an agentAlready have a token
Migrate it in first. Point its creator fees at ClawPump, then register it below as your entry.
Migrate a tokenAlready building
Register it below. Four fields and your tracks — the token can come later.
Straight to the formOne registration, whichever platform you launch on. This is the official Clawrena registry, the list every judge and partner works from. There is nowhere else to sign up. EasyA teams register here too. The only thing that changes is where you tokenize.