Elsa's Agentic Hyperthon
This is an application-only event with a tight cap. We're optimizing for a room full of people who will actually ship, not spectate. Apply through Luma, and we'll confirm approvals on a rolling basis. No walk-ins.
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Elsa Hyperthon — Build an AI Agent That Actually Trades, in One Afternoon 📅 Friday, April 17, 2026 · 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM · In person · Application-only 6 hours. 3 tracks. 3 Mac Minis — plus a surprise consolation prize we're not spoiling. The best agent builders don't write theses — they ship. Show up at 11, pick a track, and by 5 PM, you'll have an autonomous agent live on testnet or mainnet. Winners walk out with hardware and a fast-tracked slot into the Elsa Agentic Fellowship. 🏁 The Format 6 hours, heads-down. 11 AM kickoff → 4:30 PM submissions close → 5 PM winners announced Solo or teams up to 3 Starter repos provided for every track — SDKs are wired up, so you spend the day on the actual problem, not on plumbing Submission = GitHub repo + 60-second Loom.** No slide decks. No essays Lunch, coffee, and snacks on us. Bring your laptop, a wallet with some testnet funds, and a willingness to ship messy. The Tracks Track 1 — Hyperliquid Perp Agent ⚡ Build an autonomous perp trading agent on Hyperliquid testnet. Pick your strategy: momentum flip, funding-rate arb, or vault copy-trader. Ship with a working stop-loss that fires on camera. Track 2 — Polymarket Agent 🎲 Build a signal-to-trade agent on Polymarket. Pull from an X list, a news feed, or an on-chain event, then decide, size, bet, and explain. Simulated capital, live markets. Track 3 — Base Auto-Trader (Elsa x402) 🔵 Build an agent on Base that swaps tokens autonomously using the Elsa x402 integration. One trigger, one trade, zero manual clicks. Must include at least one x402-paid call in the execution trace. Full track details, starter repos, and rubrics drop at kickoff. 🧠 About Elsa Elsa is the agentic execution layer for on-chain finance. We give builders an aggregator + reasoning stack that lets agents plan, pay, and trade across protocols without stitching together ten SDKs. Think of it as the brain and wallet for your agent — you bring the strategy, Elsa handles the execution fabric. We're building toward an agent economy where software doesn't just recommend trades, it makes them — with memory, budget discipline, and auditable reasoning. The Hyperthon is one of the first invites we're sending to the builders who'll shape that economy with us. 💸 About x402 x402 is the open protocol that lets agents pay for anything programmatically — APIs, compute, data, execution — using stablecoins over HTTP. No keys to rotate, no subscriptions, no humans in the loop. For builders, it means your agent can call a premium price oracle and pay for the call, spin up on-demand compute and settle in USDC, or route execution through a paid service with the whole cost trail auditable on-chain. Elsa's integration makes x402 plug-and-play — one SDK, and your agent can spend, earn, and settle without you writing payment plumbing. In Track 3, you'll use it to let your Base auto-trader pay for its own tooling as it trades. 🏆 Prizes - Track 1 winner — Mac Mini M4 - Track 2 winner — Mac Mini M4 - Track 3 winner — Mac Mini M4 - One surprise consolation prize — awarded to the entry that made us laugh, cry, or rage-quit in the best way. Not telling you what it is - All winners — Fellowship fast-track with a grant conversation in the same week - Top 5 finalists across tracks — co-marketed across Elsa, Hyperliquid, and Polymarket channels ⏰ Schedule | Time | What's happening | | 11:00 AM | Doors open, coffee, kickoff + track briefings | | 11:30 AM | Build starts | | 1:00 PM | Lunch (keep building) | | 3:30 PM | Mid-afternoon check-in + office hours | | 4:30 PM | Submissions close (GitHub + 60-sec Loom) | | 4:30 – 4:55 PM | Judging | | 5:00 PM | Winners announced, surprise revealed, prizes handed out | ✅ Who Should Come - Agent builders who've shipped something (anything) before - DeFi devs curious about autonomous execution - Traders who can code and want to automate their edge - Anyone who's been waiting for an excuse to finally play with x402 Not a resume event. No AI-tourist talks. If you don't want to build, this isn't your day. 📍 Logistics - Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 - Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM - Venue: (exact address shared with approved attendees) - Entry: Application-only, capped. No walk-ins. - Confirmation: Rolling approvals within 24 hours of applying See you on Friday. Come to build.
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