# Hackathon
# Agent Stack
# Developer
$50,000 bonus.
A bonus prize funded by Circle inside the Build with Gemini XPRIZE, for the startup team that best shows AI agents autonomously making and receiving payments as a working part of a real business. One prize. One winner.
What it is
Software is starting to pay for itself. Agents are beginning to hold funds, buy the services they need, and settle up with other agents on their own. Most of it is still demos.
This prize is for the teams making it real.
We're putting an extra $50,000, funded by Circle, behind the startup team that best shows AI agents autonomously making and receiving payments as a working part of a real business. It sits on top of the prizes already offered in the Build with Gemini XPRIZE. One prize. One winner.
Circle is the issuer of USDC and a sponsor of the Moonshots LIVE award event. This is their prize to award, and it rewards builders who take the agentic-payments frontier from concept to something that actually runs.
Who it's for
Any team already registered in the Build with Gemini XPRIZE is eligible, in any category. This is an opt-in bonus prize — you don't apply separately, and choosing it doesn't affect your category. You opt in on the submission form and build your agentic payments on Circle's Agent Stack.
Because this is part of the main competition, the base rules still apply, including hosting your project on Google Cloud Platform. The Agentic Economy Prize adds one thing on top: your agents move money on their own, built on Circle.
Eligibility requirement
To be eligible, your project must use Circle's Agent Stack to enable AI agents to autonomously make and/or receive payments. Submissions must include:
- A link to a public GitHub repo verifying the integration.
- A recorded demo of the product executing at least one real, verifiable USDC transaction.
- The agent's Circle wallet address and a clickable block-explorer URL (e.g., Basescan, Arbiscan) as proof of the transaction.
