Kimi, Zhipu, Douban Gather at an Encryption Hackathon: What Did AI Developers Build on Monad?
Monad's "Rebel in Paradise AI" Hackathon, held on March 21, 2026, brought together leading LLM providers like Kimi, Zhipu AI, and Doubao to explore AI agent development on its high-performance parallel EVM blockchain. The event focused on three key areas: Agent Payments, Smart Markets, and Application Innovation, with over $40,000 in prizes and resources.
Winning projects included OpenAlice (Grand Prize), a locally run trading agent with transparent workflows; Orbit AI (NVIDIA Special Award), a decentralized AI cloud using satellite GPU clusters; and Kimi-swarm, an open-source multi-agent IDE. Other notable winners were Libra, a Git-like system for machine-written code, and Anime AI Studio, a one-stop anime short film generation agent.
The hackathon highlights Monad's strategic push into AI, leveraging its high throughput (10,000+ TPS), low latency, and low-cost infrastructure to support autonomous agent economies. Monad's existing initiatives, like the AI Blueprint program and x402 payment guides, further position it as a key infrastructure for AI and DeFi integration, enabling agents to execute transactions, settle payments, and operate as independent economic entities on-chain.
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