Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters, the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your product’s utility, get featured on HackerNoon, and compete for $150k+ in prizes. Submit your project to get started! Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters, the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your product’s utility, get featured on HackerNoon, and compete for $150k+ in prizes. Submit your project to get started! Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight , curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters, the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon Proof of Usefulness Hackathon Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your product’s utility, get featured on HackerNoon, and compete for $150k+ $150k+ in prizes. Submit your project to get started Submit your project to get started Submit your project to get started ! Today, we're sitting down with Hack Angel to discuss Spawnr, an innovative new platform that allows anyone to deploy functional, autonomous AI agents on-chain with a simple prompt. Spawnr aims to build the infrastructure for a decentralized workforce by creating a "spawn-to-trade" loop for productive digital labor. Spawnr What does Spawnr do? And why is now the time for it to exist? Spawnr is the "hatchery" for the agentic economy, allowing anyone to deploy functional, autonomous AI agents on-chain with a simple prompt. We’re moving beyond static memecoins by creating a "spawn-to-trade" loop where every token represents a piece of an agent’s productive digital labor and intelligence. It’s essentially the infrastructure for a decentralized workforce where you don't just trade a ticker, you trade a worker. Now’s a good time for Spawnr to exist because the market is rapidly shifting from speculative trading to demanding real, autonomous utility and functional agentic workflows on-chain. What is your traction to date? How many people does Spawnr reach? As a newly rebranded platform for deploying and trading AI agents, our current monthly reach is focused on the on-chain agentic ecosystem and the Web3 developer community. We are scaling our presence through strategic developer outreach and social-driven "Spawn Events," targeting an initial monthly engagement of thousands of users within the decentralized finance and AI sectors. Who does your Spawnr serve? What’s exciting about your users and customers? Spawnr is designed for developers who want to deploy functional AI agents via simple prompts and Web3 traders looking for assets with real, autonomous utility. It also serves automated organizations (DAOs) and businesses that require on-chain "workers" to manage tasks like treasury monitoring or social sentiment analysis. What technologies were used in the making of Spawnr? And why did you choose ones most essential to your techstack? To power this decentralized AI infrastructure, Spawnr relies on a custom blend of emerging Web3 and on-chain technologies. By focusing on specialized smart contracts and LLM integrations tailored for autonomous agents, the platform ensures that each agent can reliably execute tasks and maintain verifiable digital labor on the blockchain. What is traction to date for Spawnr? Around the web, who’s been noticing? Spawnr is currently in an exciting pre-launch phase, building strong community momentum following a strategic rebrand from Moduls. The project has already captured the attention of 1,000 followers on X, and the team is preparing for highly anticipated "Spawn Events" projected to onboard 5,000+ active users shortly after launch. What excites you about this Spawnr's potential usefulness? What’s most compelling about Spawnr is the shift from static speculation to autonomous utility. By allowing anyone to deploy a functional, task-oriented AI agent with a single prompt, we are creating a decentralized workforce where tokens actually represent productive digital labor rather than just community vibes. This "Pump.fun for AI Agents" model democratizes access to agentic workflows, turning on-chain intelligence into a tradable, liquid commodity that can manage treasuries, moderate communities, or execute trades autonomously. Spawnr scored a 49 proof of usefulness score (https://proofofusefulness.com/reports/spawnr) Spawnr scored a 49 proof of usefulness score (https://proofofusefulness.com/reports/spawnr) Spawnr scored a 49 proof of usefulness score ( https://proofofusefulness.com/reports/spawnr) https://proofofusefulness.com/reports/spawnr) Meet our sponsors Meet our sponsors Meet our sponsors Bright Data: Bright Data is the leading web data infrastructure company, empowering over 20,000 organizations with ethical, scalable access to real-time public web information. From startups to industry leaders, we deliver the datasets that fuel AI innovation and real-world impact. Ready to unlock the web? Learn more at brightdata.com. 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