🏆 Your BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 Top 10 are officially in. Huge thanks to the 18 judges from @fenbushi, @IOSGVC, @HivemindCap, @vertexventures, @decasonic, @archetypevc, @1kxnetwork, @TheSpartanGroup, @marine_vc, @primitivecrypto, @amber_ac_ , and @ambergroup_io for taking the time to review the teams during our online pitch round and help shape this year's Top 10. Now, the final 10 move forward. 🔹Afu Pocket AI for operators’ decisions, built to help business owners think through day-to-day choices faster. 🔹Alano @leonchen3a Sports understanding + sports-data assets, turning game footage into structured, usable intelligence. 🔹Aria Studio @AriaStudioHQ A one-person media company run by AI Agents, compressing an entire creative workflow into a much smaller team. 🔹Astrail @astrailxyz Turns scattered travel inspiration into routes you can actually take, connecting discovery with planning. 🔹FlowIn AI autocomplete and reply drafts across every Mac app, designed to make everyday communication faster and less fragmented. 🔹Mercatus AI @mercatus_ai An exchange where AI inference tokens are priced, creating a market around the cost and access of compute. 🔹Mercha @MerchaNET A merch Agent for teams, communities and events, handling more of the process from idea to execution. 🔹Pawa Robotics @pawa_sci Wearable pet-health intelligence, combining hardware and data to better understand animal health. 🔹Whale Dance @whaledotdance Trading infrastructure for AI Agents, built for autonomous systems participating in financial markets. 🔹Yarrow @Yarrow_ai A policy simulation and strategic foresight platform using Agents to model scenarios and support better decision-making. 🔒 Next up: an internal Pitch Day, where the teams will make their final case before we head to Singapore. 👉Coming soon: 📍 BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 Final Day 📅 October 6 🏛️ CHIJMES Hall, Singapore 🎤 Final Day will bring together the Top 10, investors, founders and ecosystem partners for a full afternoon of keynotes, panels, final demos and awards. 👀 The Final Day VC panel will be announced soon on @OpenArena_To. 🎟️RSVP for Final Day: luma.com/y9g4tduu?tk=0AcdzN

This summer, we started with one question: What does a company look like in the Agentic era? After 319 projects, weeks of screening, interviews and conversations with founders, we saw many different answers. On October 6, we bring that question back to Singapore. Here’s what you can expect: 🏆 Top 10 Reveal The final 10 teams of BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 are announced. 🎤 Keynotes Speakers from AMBR, Amber Group, amber.ac, MIA, OpenArena.to and across the ecosystem. 🧑‍💻 Founders, Teams & the Agentic Company If agents can build, research and operate workflows, what still needs to be done by a founder — and when do you hire a person versus another agent? 🔐 Agents, Identity & Ownership Who owns an agent’s identity, wallet and keys? And who is responsible when an autonomous agent makes the wrong decision? 💰 Capital & the Agentic Company If agents make smaller teams capable of doing much more, how should investors rethink team size, burn, ownership and what they are actually underwriting? 🚀 Top 5 Final Demos + Awards The final five teams take the stage and close out BUIDL_QUESTS 2026. From who builds the company, to who controls the agent, to how capital evaluates it, Final Day brings the Agentic Company conversation into one room. 📍 CHIJMES Hall, Singapore 📅 October 6 🎟️ Register to join Final Day: openarena.to/en/events/buidl…

Our August 2 Social Dinner hasn’t even been officially announced yet, and it’s already full. Co-hosted by @fenbushi, @PanteraCapital, @allscaleio, @ambergroup_io, and OpenArena.to (@OpenArena_To). In partnership with @JELabs2024, Soma, and @YottaLabs. Just confirmed the menu for our 8/2 Social Dinner: Garden Salad with Grilled Salmon, Hawaiian Garlic Shrimp, Beer-Braised Duck, Stir-Fried Beef with Green Onion and Rice, Vegetarian Sushi Platter, Grilled Lamb Chops, Lobster Noodles, and Choy Sum with Soy Sauce, Mango Pomelo Sago with Coconut Jelly, Mango Milk Pudding, Black Tea Milk Pudding, and Lemon Tarts. Just accepted guests from: Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, AWS, Microsoft, Walmart AI, Samsung NEXT, MIT, UC Berkeley, MBZUAI, IQM, Pantera, Fenbushi Capital, DataTribe, Arrington Capital, and more. The room brings together people working across LLM post-training and RL, mechanistic interpretability, multi-agent cooperation, agent security, evals and observability, AI for science, embodied intelligence, and agent commerce. No panels, no demos, just having dinner and meaningful conversations together.

@amber_ac_'s BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 Is Now Live 🔥 🚀 Building on the momentum of the OPC Hackathon opening ceremony, amber.ac’s global competition for AI-native founders, agent builders, crypto infrastructure teams and solo builders is officially open. AI is moving beyond simple task assistance into perception, reasoning, coordination, and long-horizon execution. Agents can now operate across tools, workflows, and economic systems — enabling one founder, supported by agents, to build and operate like an entire company. Our theme this year is Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty. Builders can submit through OpenArena, build in public, climb the leaderboard, and compete across five tracks: 🔹 Autonomous Agents: Agent applications, multi-agent systems, tooling, security, and workflow automation. 🔹 Sovereignty: Identity, wallets, payments, data ownership, privacy, ZKP, TEE, and governance. 🔹 Agent Commerce: Agent marketplaces, Agent-as-a-Service, agent payments, and autonomous digital businesses. 🔹 AI Hardware & Applications: On-device AI, edge deployment, wearables, smart devices, and physical-digital agent applications. 🔹 OPC / Super Individuals: AI-native solo builders, one-person companies, and personal AI products. Here is what you can expect: 🔹 Build in Public: Share progress, gain community signal, and advance through staged review. 🔹 Ecosystem Access: Connect with mentors, judges, investors, and partners across AI and Crypto. 🔹 Global Visibility: Showcase your project to a growing network of founders and industry leaders. 🔹 Singapore Finals: The Top 10 teams will receive travel support to join Pitch Day, Demo Day, and the AI x Art x Sustainable Exhibition. 🏆 Support and Awards To support exceptional teams throughout the competition, BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 will provide more than US$400,000 in total support, distributed across all awarded teams, including cash prizes, partner credits, ecosystem resources, and travel support. 🔹 US$50,000+ initial cash prize pool 🔹 US$350,000+ in partner credits and resources 🔹 US$2,000 travel support for each Top 10 finalist team 🔹 3-month Notion Business plan for every participating builder 📅 Key Dates and Milestones August 12, 18:00 SGT: Registration closes September 11: Top 20 announced September 24: Top 10 finalists announced October 5: Pitch Day in Singapore October 6: Demo Day in Singapore The next era of AI will be shaped by builders who turn autonomous intelligence into efficient systems, sustainable companies, and new models of human-agent collaboration. Bring your agent to the arena. Build what comes next. Submit your project: 👉 lnkd.in/gjf3qFFH

Today, the Singapore OPC Hackathon officially kicked off BUIDL_QUESTS 2026—and we received 82 project submissions from participating builders. For many participants, today marked the first step from idea to demo. But this is not the finish line. It is the beginning of the journey toward building a real business. OPC, or One Person Company, represents a new way of building: people + AI agents. By creating agentic services that can operate autonomously, one person can achieve the execution power of a team of ten. Every project submitted today on OpenArena.to will automatically advance to the BUIDL_QUESTS OPC Track. Whether or not participants received an award at the Hackathon, all projects will enter a new round of evaluation based on real-world business and startup criteria. Participants can continue updating and improving their projects until August 12. Projects will be evaluated through a comparative judging process involving both human and AI judges. Our AI agent judge, “00,” will also be publicly available on OpenArena.to, where the judging results and related information will be published after the event. If anyone has comments or suggestions regarding our judging criteria, they are welcome to share them directly with our AI agent judge. Every piece of feedback will contribute to its continued learning and evolution, helping us improve the judging process over time. “Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty” is more than the theme of BUIDL_QUESTS 2026. We are also building autonomous agents of our own and continuously exploring new ways to innovate. The participants are building—and so are we. Let’s BUIDL! 🚀 More information: openarena.to/en/events/buidl…

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OpenArena.to Track 1 is a wrap. 🏁101 projects. Nearly 2M GitHub stars. Your top 6 here are👇

Over the past year, one thing has become increasingly clear: AI has made building far more accessible. 🤖⚡ More developers are shipping. More small teams are launching. More individuals are turning ideas into real products. 🚀 But there’s still a gap: a lot of interesting early projects don’t get seen soon enough. 👀 That’s why we’re building OpenArena — to discover, rank, and spread frontier AI projects that just emerged, but deserve to be seen. 🏟️✨ We’re excited to officially announce a long-term collaboration with @NinjaLabsHQ and @OpenBuildxyz to support the next generation of AI builders and entrepreneurs. 🤝 Our first track, OpenClaw, has been live for nearly a week, and we’ve already collected 30+ interesting projects. 📈 Any innovative project built around OpenClaw can be submitted to the leaderboard. 🛠️🔥 Website: openarena.to/ Telegram: @openarenato #Ninjalabs #OpenArena #openbuild #amberac

If you’ve built something interesting on OpenClaw, now’s the time to submit. And even if you’re not a project team — or don’t write code at all — you can still participate as a Hunter by spotting and submitting projects that deserve more attention. Winning Hunters and Project Owners will both be rewarded: $5,000 USD in cash + Claude Max Memberships Nearly half of OpenArena’s first OpenClaw track is already gone. Submit before April 15 on OpenArena.to Join our Telegram community too: @openarenato #OpenClaw #OpenArena

What interesting projects are emerging in OpenArena’s first OpenClaw track? A few more niche ones worth keeping an eye on: #13 DingTalk Workspace CLI [Enterprise] — makes it easier to bring DingTalk into command-line and agent workflows. #17 OpenClaw Zero Token — removes the need for paid API tokens when using major AI models in OpenClaw. #26 OpenClaw Trading Assistant — streamlines the trading workflow by combining research, market signals, and execution. #30 AgentGuard — helps protect AI agents from prompt injection, malicious commands, and other attack patterns. #31 OpenClaw Easy Deploy — simplifies OpenClaw deployment and lowers the setup barrier for new users. Find their GitHub repos on OpenArena.to Join our Telegram community too: @openarenato #OpenArena #OpenClaw #AIAgents