The Challenge: Hackathons are notoriously operationally heavy, requiring massive human effort to manage registrations, answer questions, and judge submissions. We needed to prove that Gaia’s infrastructure wasn't just theoretical—that it could handle complex, high-stakes coordination.

The Insight: "Code as Coordinator." Instead of a human operations team, we deployed a squad of three specialized AI agents to autonomously manage the entire event lifecycle, proving that decentralized agents can effectively coordinate human activity. 

Execution (The "How"):

• Agentic Architecture: Deployed three distinct agent personas to manage the workflow:

• "HAL" (The Organizer): Trained on developer docs to create unique challenges and bounties.

• "Vital-AI-ik" (The Judge): Analyzed team submissions for traction and viability.

• "Jamie D-AI-Mon" (The Treasurer): Managed the complex process of verifying winners and distributing payouts.

• Content Operations: Produced 14 live streams (webinars, builder interviews) to support the automated agents, resulting in 233,457 minutes watched.

• Ecosystem Scale: Coordinated integration with major partners like Base, Lit Protocol, and ai16z to drive participation

Impact (The Numbers):

• 610 Developer Registrations 

• 532k+ Social Impressions 

• 42 Project Submissions 

• 3 Agents Deployed Autonomously