SKALE Network, in partnership with Google, Coinbase, Virtuals, Edge & Node, and Pairpoint by Vodafone, has announced that registration is now open for the San Francisco Agentic Commerce x402 Hackathon, a three-day hybrid event taking place from February 11–13, 2026. The hackathon will offer $50,000 in prizes to developers building real-world applications that enable autonomous agents to transact independently. Developers and teams of all experience levels can register via Dorahacks.
As autonomous agents transition from experimental concepts to production-ready systems, the ability to transact seamlessly has become a critical requirement. Agentic commerce relies on software agents that can pay for services, purchase goods, manage subscriptions, and settle value in real time. Emerging standards such as x402 and AP2 are helping to unlock this future by making payments programmable and interoperable across agent systems, enabling use cases such as pay-per-use APIs, automated subscriptions, machine-to-machine micropayments, and agent-driven storefronts.
“Google Cloud has been creating the tools to take agents from prototypes to production, giving teams a path to build, deploy, and operate agent systems,” said Nalin Mittal, Product Manager Web3 at Google Cloud. “We can’t wait to see what builders create when those production-grade agent capabilities are applied to real commerce workflows end-to-end.”
Jack O’Holleran, Co-Founder and CEO of SKALE Labs, emphasized the importance of scalable infrastructure for this emerging model. “Agentic commerce is moving onchain, and for agents to operate in the real world they need private, secure, and scalable ways to transact. This hackathon brings together SKALE and partners across cloud, payments, telecom, and blockchain to give builders a place to experiment and ship.”
Kevin Leffew, GTM Lead at Coinbase Developer Platform, highlighted the role of open payment standards. “We’ve been advancing the agent space by shipping x402—an open payment protocol designed for agent-native, pay-per-use transactions—and developer tooling that helps teams move agentic workflows from experiments to production. We’re excited to see the new business models that emerge when onchain payments become a first-class primitive for autonomous agents.”
Participants in the hackathon will gain access to production-grade infrastructure from across Web3, AI, and payments. This includes SKALE’s gasless, instant transactions with privacy via the BITE protocol; Google Cloud’s A2A and AP2 frameworks for agent interoperability; Coinbase’s x402 payment standard; Virtuals’ Agent Launchpad for creating and deploying agents; Edge & Node’s ampersend wallet and dashboard for managing agent payments; and Vodafone Business’s global connectivity and IoT infrastructure for machine-to-machine transactions.
All project submissions will be accepted online through Dorahacks, with optional in-person participation hosted at Edge & Node’s House of Web3 in the Presidio, San Francisco. Projects will be evaluated by industry leaders in agentic commerce, with prizes awarded across overall categories and sponsor-specific bounties. Additional build tracks and prize details are expected to be announced soon.
