AI agents keep hitting paywalls. So we gave one a wallet. Franklin: npm install -g @blockrun/franklin → browses the web → generates images & video → writes & runs code → pays for all of it on-chain 55+ models. <1ms routing. Your budget. Your results.

The Franklin Agent Hackathon: Winners Announcement After a thorough review of the technical submissions, we are excited to announce the top three winners of the Franklin Agent Hackathon. These developers demonstrated exceptional skill in leveraging the @FranklinRun_ harness for autonomous building and smart-routing efficiency.  The Winners: • 1st Place ($500): @OxEmrys  • 2nd Place ($300): @gulerarda808  • 3rd Place ($200): @dreyethh  Prizes will be sent directly to the wallet addresses provided in your official Google Form submissions. All winners should expect to receive their funds within the next 6 hours.  Thank you to everyone who participated and pushed the boundaries of what is possible with decentralized AI infrastructure. We are incredibly impressed by the quality of the projects built over the last seven days.  Congratulations to all! #FranklinAgent# #Hackathon# #AI# #BuildSpace#

our mission continues. across all cycles, real teams keep shipping. today, City Protocol is bringing together projects still building through the market to make one public pledge: we keep building. we keep pushing. we keep bringing the world onchain. now it’s your turn to join the mission. • sign the pledge. • share it on x. let’s tell the world: real builders are still here. real believers are too. join now: built together with @base, @allscaleio, @AssetoFinance, @awenetwork_ai, @axisrobotics, @BasedBrett, @billions_ntwk, @BlockRunAI, @heurist_ai, @OmenX_Official, @pieverse_io, @SatsTerminal, @Sign, @turtledotxyz, @upshot_cards, and @YuzuMoneyX more details 👇

The Franklin Agent Hackathon: Submissions Closed The submission window for the Franklin Agent Hackathon is now officially closed. We would like to thank all the developers who participated and showcased the power of autonomous building with the Franklin harness.  Our team is currently reviewing all entries based on technical execution, innovation, and the efficient use of smart routing.  Stay tuned for the final results. Thank you for being part of the future of autonomous development with Franklin agent

Among the 12 most-frequently-routed models, the top five are free. Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 — typically positioned as the default frontier reasoning model — handles 2.8 percent of all sampled calls. The two largest paid models by share are xai/grok-code-fast-1 ($0.20/$1.50 per million) and moonshot/kimi-k2.5 ($0.60/$3.00 per million).

@FranklinRun_ Agent handled the heavy lifting: > building API routes, > debugging BlockRun x402 payments, > fixing Vercel deployment issues, > polishing the UI, and > shipping the final deployed product. Live app: @BlockRunAI @FranklinRun_ @Cheetah_x0

Introducing Circle Agent Stack: financial infrastructure for the agentic economy. Agent Stack gives agents the tools to: → Hold and move USDC through Agent Wallets → Discover services through Agent Marketplace → Execute repeatable financial actions through Circle CLI All within defined permissions and guardrails. Explore the site: Read the blog:

The pricing model is what got me. Most AI tools charge you for access, whether you use them or not. Pay-per-call tools charge you for every failed attempt too. Franklin charges for the outcome only. Provider cost + 5%. Nothing more. They call it YOPO - You Only Pay Outcome. As someone who has entered contests and walked away with nothing, a system that only charges for results hits different.

Top AI / Robotics Launches This Week 1. @peptai_ - $PEPTAI sale went live and is 13.8x oversubscribed. Building autonomous peptide drug discovery agents with x402 payments. 2. @ClawBankHQ - Manfred formed Aineko LLC in Ohio as the first AI agent to create its own U.S. company. Agent legal formation is now live for all users. 3. @p0 - added x402 support to Parallel, with agent payments starting from $0.01 per call. 4. @OrionX_Robotics - autonomous defense humanoids. ARES Sim v1 passed tests after training across thousands of simulated environments. 5. @shadowcleague - tele-operated humanoid combat. Robotics track demo team is on ground ahead of the May 7 showcase. 6. @caspius_ai - $CAS launched to power its robotics data flywheel through human task data and simulation data. 7. @Wach_AI - ClawLens launched for onchain agent credit scores. 8. @gitlawb - OpenClaude v0.8.0 released with rebuilt provider system. 9. @Shekel_Agentic - launching V3 with credit-based inference powered by @AskVenice and $DIEM staking. 10. @AntSeedAI - launched $DIEM staking with up to 20% APY in USDC from unused inference credits. Daily P2P inference tokens consumed hit 750M ATH. 11. @FranklinRun_ / @BlockRunAI - autonomous USDC agent launched with its own wallet via x402. 12. @GenLayer - launched GenPod, a podcast series on agents, open source, and money. 13. @roarin_ai - Chapter 1 is coming soon, with $ROAR holders getting first access to foundation Monsters, feeding, and arcade rewards. 14. @megapot - lottery for AI agents launched through a single x402 call. 15. @CreatorBid - @Clawlett_wallet opened to all Telegram users for scripted AI trading. 16. @nansen_ai - Virtuals agent launched for smart money and whale tracking. 17. @rye - partnered with AgentCash for native x402 payments across 15,000+ merchants. 18. @Ardinals_AWP by @awp_protocol - Ardinals mint is live with 21,000 inscriptions as the first AI-inscribed dictionary onchain.

@ax1vc @FranklinRun_ Tried @FranklinRun_ with a small USDC budget it’s actually solid 🔥Autonomously researched a Base narrative, ran onchain analysis, handled everything with its own wallet. No API keys needed. This is the kind of agent infrastructure we need. Bullish on @BlockRunAI