Announcing AI4PG Grants Winners 2026 🥳 supported by @GainForestNow @hypercerts @OctantApp @ethereumfndn @FundingCommons @gitcoin @PL_RnD 135 submissions. 268 participants. 38 countries. 11 winning projects from Harvard to Timor-Leste. We’re excited to announce the winners of the AI4PG 2026 Grants program, supporting research that improves how public goods are funded, evaluated, and governed. A few numbers from this year’s programme: • 135 proposals from 231 unique authors • Applicant teams represented 38 countries • A 35 reviewer team completing 311 human reviews • 85 rebuttals submitted across 41 proposals • 11 projects selected with an 8.1% selection rate • 9 of them with at least one women author • 7 of them working in the Global South • $100,000 awarded directly to winning projects • A further $50,000 supports compensated review work The winning work spans anti-poaching investment, partial lotteries, auditable allocation pipelines, mental-health resource allocation, climate and health resilience, cross-lingual impact verification, citizen participation, and more equitable access to funding. Congratulations to all the authors and institutions, and enormous thanks to the reviewers and wider community who made this possible. Explore the winning projects and abstracts: ai4pg.com/grants/ai4pg-2026

1/ My Hermes agent just bought a real collectible by itself. I approved one email. After that it did everything—paid onchain, drove a checkout, placed the order. ~60 seconds, zero hands on the keyboard after the click. 🎥 piped.video/KPQrGpLi_YI

Ecofrontiers joined the @nvidia connect program. Access to dev resources and preferred pricing on @nvidia hardware & software matters to us at the applied level. #NVIDIAConnect

@ecofrontiers’ co-founder @papa_raw made the final 7 in the PayFi track of the @HSKChain horizon hackathon with Dynamic Checkout — location-aware pricing for merchants using TEE-attested geolocation and oracle-fed FX rates 🦾

@ecofrontiers got 4 hackathon wins in < 1 month. from biome-representing autonomous agents to trustless spatial inference. we're 2 people. we're sharing how: custom claude skills, agent orchestration, ai design pipelines. newsletter in reply (1-2 emails / month, no spam).

From our research lab to a hackathon podium, not bad for a first outing.

Honorable mentions and $100 each go to: - Agent Escrow by @emark2_0 - @_A_polo__ by @_d_arien - Callit by @heywole and enochlee - @ecofrontiers by @papa_raw and @LBorreani - PRISMA by @RG_Ronald_A and @daxkenyi001 Congrats to everyone who shipped on Testnet Bradbury.

5/ Full story on the build, the thinking, and what's next: ecofrontiers.xyz/blog/articl… written by our frens @ecofrontiers 🌍