The AnsemHack · 19 Aug — 8 Oct 2026 · Solana
The AnsemHackClawrena
Enter the ring. Ship an agent. Leave with a company.
The Solana community grew Ansem. Now Ansem is funding the Solana builder community.
Meet the winners.
$20K
+ 30% of 0.1% of $ANSEM supply
$20K
+ 30% of 0.1% of $ANSEM supply
$2.5K + $10K inference
+ 15% of 0.1% of $ANSEM supply
$2.5K
+ 15% of 0.1% of $ANSEM supply
total prize pool
0.1% of $ANSEM supply, cash & compute
awards
one overall winner
judges
Solana, Delphi, Haun
$ANSEM vesting
cash paid immediately
The Clawrena in numbers.
Six weeks, from registration opening on 19 August to the tokenize deadline on 1 October. Every figure comes from ClawPump's own records.
- Teams registered
- 300+
- Tokens launched
- 178
- Graduated from the curve
- 32
- Creator fees earned
- 4,966 SOL
- Traded since launch
- $84.1M
ClawPump launches only: EasyA Kickstart entries traded on their own launchpad. Creator fees cover 18 August to 8 October. Traded since launch is the all-time volume of the tokens launched during the Clawrena, as of 19 October 2026.
Two things to do.
Build something, then put a token on it. That's the whole entry.
Step 01
Build an agent
A trader, a tool, or a product with an agent at the centre of it. Coming from outside Solana is fine. We'll help you cross the chain.
Step 02
Tokenize it by 1 Oct
On ClawPump or EasyA Kickstart. The token is your entry. Its trading fees are yours from that day, win or lose.
Six weeks. One ring.
Everyone watching.
Every team tokenizes in the same window, in front of the same judges, on the same streams. No private submissions, no closed-door scoring. The market sees what you ship while you ship it.
Four ways to win.
$350,000 in total: $250,000 of $ANSEM (0.1% of supply) split across four awards, plus $65,000 of sponsor cash and $10,000 of compute on top. The $ANSEM vests linearly over 3 months behind a 1-month cliff. Cash lands the day you win. Stack the ClawPump tracks, or enter EasyA Kickstart on its own.Includes up to $25,000 in Alchemy credits per eligible team; application and approval are handled by Alchemy.
Overall Winner
25% of $ANSEM
≈$62,500 in $ANSEM
The best project in the Clawrena, picked by the full panel from every tokenized team. You don't apply for this one. Every ClawPump entry is already in.
What wins — Product, traction, token design, and how big this could get.
ClawPump × pump.fun
50% of $ANSEM + $40K cash
≈$125,000 in $ANSEM, plus $40,000 cash from ClawPump × pump.fun, including an extra $5,000 from ClawPump, paid immediately
The builder and trader award, judged together. Turn an agent into a company that does real work: new tooling, new skills, a use of the Hermes DeFi harness nobody has tried. Or ship an agent that trades a live market and survives it, across spot, perps, market making and prediction markets. We score what you added, not what you wrapped.
What wins
Novel use of existing tech, or net-new tooling on the Hermes harness. For traders: realised performance, risk control, onchain volume on Solana.
Inference Markets
15% of $ANSEM + $10K compute
≈$37,500 in $ANSEM, plus $10,000 of UsePod Inference Capital Markets compute
Build on inference markets. Agents that buy, sell, route or resell compute. Anything that makes UsePod inference load-bearing in your product instead of a line item. The winner also takes $10,000 of UsePod Inference Capital Markets compute, so what you built keeps running after the Clawrena closes.
What wins
How deep the UsePod inference goes, and what it unlocks.
EasyA Kickstart
EasyA
10% of $ANSEM + $25K cash
≈$25,000 in $ANSEM, plus $25,000 cash from EasyA
Launch the best utility token on EasyA Kickstart. Novel tokenomics, AI agents, DeFi are all welcome. EasyA Kickstart is a separate launchpad, so pick it instead of the ClawPump tracks rather than alongside them. You still register here. Only where you tokenize changes.
What wins
Utility delivered to your token, plus real metrics: TVL, users, transactions, volume.
$ANSEM amounts are each track's share of the $250,000 pool, vesting linearly over 3 months behind a 1-month cliff through Streamflow. Sponsor cash and compute sit on top and land the day you win. Final token amounts are struck at the $ANSEM price on the day the winners are announced.
Every trade your token does comes back as $CLAW and $ANSEM.
Not a treasury line. A loop: the volume you do pays for buys that reward the next team in, which brings the volume that pays for the next round.
- 01
You trade
Your token launches on ClawPump and the market does what it does.
- 02
Fees accrue
ClawPump keeps 25% of the trading fees. The rest is yours, win or lose.
- 03
Buys go on the book
25% of that share buys $CLAW and $ANSEM on the open market, 50/50.
- 04
Builders get paid
Those buys fund further participant rewards — which brings more teams, and more volume.
The 25% comes out of ClawPump's 25% share, not out of your side of the fees. Applies to teams that deploy on clawpump.tech; EasyA Kickstart entries tokenize on EasyA and sit outside the loop. Live numbers are on the analytics page.
One deadline that matters.
1 October is the last day to register and the last day to tokenize. Get a token live before then, on either platform, and you're in for every award you registered for.
Wed 19 Aug
Registration opens
Register your team, your project and your tracks. Helius RPCs and the ClawPump launch stack unlock for every registered team.
Aug — Oct
Build in public
Weekly livestream slots with MCG, EasyA and Ansem. 15-minute segments, four an hour. Pitch, demo, get clipped.
28 Sept — 7 Oct
Judging
The panel scores every tokenized team. Finalists join the stream alongside the judges.
1 Oct24:00 EST (UTC−5)
Register & tokenize deadline
Last day to register, and the day your token has to be live, on ClawPump or on EasyA Kickstart. Untokenized teams are out.
Fri 16 Oct
Winner chosen
$250K of $ANSEM split across four awards, vesting linearly over 3 months behind a 1-month cliff. $75K of sponsor cash and compute lands immediately, plus an MCG spotlight.
15 judges.
Ansem, plus founders, funds, infra and the Solana Foundation. They watch the streams, they see the onchain data, and they pick the overall winner.
UsePod · @0xgilbert
ClawPump · @conejocapital
ClawPump · @tomi204
Solana Foundation · @joshyote
@colosseum
Helius · @mert
Delphi Ventures · @KSimback
Haun Ventures · @Beylin
@MCGlive
EasyA · @kwok_phil
EasyA · @dom_kwok
Superteam Argentina · @f0x1777
What they score
Builders onboarded
Traditional-tech agentic developers brought onto Solana through Colosseum and EasyA.
Onchain volume
Real volume your agent or product does on Solana during the run.
Attention garnered
This is a spectator sport. Streams, clips and the audience you build while you build.
$ANSEM volume
Bonus points for a net-new use case for $ANSEM demonstrated live on stream.
On stream: 15 minutes, 4 questions
- 01Founder & team background
- 02Product, demo, and the problem you're solving
- 03Market opportunity, GTM and traction
- 04Token utility, roadmap and long-term vision
Ship an agent.
Leave with a company.
Over 300 teams entered the ring. Four left with the awards, and every tokenized team kept its trading fees.