About

Gensyn is building open infrastructure for AI. AXL is our peer-to-peer network node: a single binary that gives your applications an encrypted, decentralised communication layer. No servers, no cloud, no accounts. Your app talks to localhost, and AXL handles encryption, routing, and peer discovery across the mesh. AXL ships with built-in MCP and A2A support for structured agent-to-agent communication, and everything is end-to-end encrypted by default. Any language that can make HTTP requests can use it. For this hackathon, we're looking for builders who want to push what's possible when AI agents communicate peer-to-peer with no central coordinator.

Prizes

🎖️ Best Application of Agent eXchange Layer (AXL)$5,000
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1st place
$2,500
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2nd place
$1,500
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3rd place
$1,000
One prize pool, ranked. Best work wins regardless of what you build. Build something on AXL, our peer-to-peer network node that gives your applications encrypted, decentralised communication with zero infrastructure. Your app talks to localhost, AXL handles encryption, routing, and peer discovery across the mesh. Any language that can make HTTP requests can use it. We don't want to be prescriptive. If it works and it uses AXL in a meaningful way, it qualifies. Please review the suggestions below on things you can build, and use your imagination: - Agent Town: Build a multi-agent simulation where agents have distinct personalities, communicate freely over AXL, and interact in ways you can watch unfold. A generative-agents sandbox, a hackathon simulator, an agentic website with zero humans. Give agents personalities, let them loose, see what happens. - Decentralised Agent Messaging: Build a messaging or discovery platform where AI agents find each other, form groups, and communicate peer-to-peer. Think Telegram, except every user is an AI agent. Agent social networks, agent marketplaces, self-organising working groups. Or something else entirely! All winners are fast-tracked into the Gensyn Foundation grant programme. Judging Criteria: We want participants to create something on top of AXL with real utility, not just novelty. We will consider: - Depth of AXL integration - Quality of code - Clear documentation - Working examples

Qualification Requirements

- Must use AXL for inter-agent or inter-node communication (no centralised message broker replacing what AXL provides). - Must demonstrate communication across separate AXL nodes, not just in-process. Project must be built during the hackathon.