Hackathons And Builders¶
Last updated: 2026-06-28
Hackathons are Cortensor's builder track: they turn decentralized inference into apps, bots, validation utilities, dashboards, and agent workflows. The archive below keeps historical programs readable while making the current agent-app direction easy to find.
Start Here¶
| Page | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Hackathon Apps | Browser apps and Telegram bots built around Cortensor inference. |
| Project Ideas | Builder prompts for bots, agents, public goods, tooling, and stretch integrations. |
| Hackathon #4 | Latest archived agent-app format: delegate, execute, verify, and continue workflows. |
| Contributing To Cortensor | How builders, operators, and community members can contribute. |
Program Timeline¶
Mini Internal Hackathon
Two-week internal round focused on end-to-end flow, usability, bug discovery, lightweight bots, and developer experience.
Hackathon #1
First public hackathon for decentralized inference apps, truth-style oracle demos, community bots, and basic agents.
Hackathon #2
Expanded into agentic applications, app stores, developer SDKs/CLIs, public goods, and observability tools.
Hackathon #3
Added stronger PoI/PoUW validation, attestations, app catalogs, tooling, knowledge layers, and fact-oracle asks.
Hackathon #4
Agent apps planned around delegation, execution, validation, evidence, and continuing useful workflows.
Builder Tracks¶
| Track | Example outputs |
|---|---|
| API apps | Chatbots, copilots, hosted completions, workflow automation, research summarizers, model showcases. |
| Agent apps | Release agents, incident agents, QA agents, support agents, receipt verifiers, governance analysts. |
| Validation apps | Claim checkers, fact oracles, rubric scorers, cross-run evaluators, evidence bundles. |
| Node/operator tools | Router, miner, validator, session, task, reputation, latency, and uptime utilities. |
| Developer tooling | SDKs, wrappers, CLIs, templates, replay runners, evaluation harnesses. |
| Public goods | Documentation, examples, playgrounds, education tools, community support bots. |
Agent-App Emphasis¶
Hackathon #4 maps directly to router, Portal/API gateway, Corgent, Bardiel, and future agent integrations:
- agents call tools and external APIs;
- work is delegated to Cortensor sessions or router endpoints;
- results can be checked with redundancy, rubrics, validators, or fact-check flows;
- outputs should include logs, evidence, replay steps, or visible user-facing explanations.
Archive Pages¶
| Program | Page |
|---|---|
| Mini Internal Hackathon | Mini Internal Hackathon |
| Hackathon #1 | Build The Future Of Decentralized Inference |
| Hackathon #2 | Advancing Agentic Applications |
| Hackathon #3 | Agentic Apps, PoI/PoUW, And Developer Tools |
| Hackathon #3 Asks | Fact-oracle and verifier ideas |
| Hackathon #4 | Agent Apps: Delegate, Execute, Verify |