Odaily News, X-Agent recently published a technical article titled "An OPC Is a Stack, Not a Headcount Story," arguing that as AI significantly reduces R&D and operational costs, the competitiveness of a One Person Company (OPC) should no longer be measured by how much work a single person can complete.The article points out that an OPC with true commercial capability needs to establish a complete closed loop spanning demand discovery, AI production, capability infrastructure, distribution, economic systems, and market feedback.And this is precisely the problem X-Agent aims to solve.At the capability layer, X-Agent leverages MCP to help individual developers productize their capabilities, transforming a project into a service that can be discovered, invoked, and verified by Agents. At the commercial layer, X-Agent further connects Agent distribution and payment infrastructure, enabling services to enter real Agent workflows, with usage-based billing, budget management, payment, and settlement.Meanwhile, the X-Agent MCP Hackathon is also driving this model into practice: developers do not need to start by building an "MCP server" from scratch. Instead, they first prove that a real capability can solve a practical problem, then convert it into a production-grade Agent service through standardization, deployment verification, and security checks.Therefore, what X-Agent is building is not just a development tool, but a framework that helps OPCs complete:Demand discovery → Capability building → MCP productization → Agent distribution → Commercial settlement → Market feedbackUltimately forming a self-reinforcing AI business closed loop.The OPC of the future is not one person taking on all the work, but one person using AI and Agents to organize a complete set of company-level capabilities.

Odaily News Bitget Wallet, in collaboration with the Solana Foundation and Trends.fun, is hosting the online Solana Agent Economy Hackathon: Agent Talent Show. The total prize pool is 30,000 USDC, and the event runs from 22:00 Beijing Time on March 11 to 22:00 Beijing Time on March 27.The hackathon is divided into two main tracks: Solana and Bitget Wallet. In the Bitget Wallet track, developers can build Solana Memecoin AI trading Agents based on Bitget Wallet Skill. Awards will be distributed based on the real trading profit rankings of these Agents, with a total of 5,000 USDC in prizes to be shared. Specifically, the first-place winner will receive 2,500 USDC, the second-place winner 1,500 USDC, and the third-place winner 1,000 USDC. Bitget Wallet has also launched the Core Builder program. Outstanding Agents and developers will be recognized as BGW Core Builders, unlocking long-term benefits such as ecosystem co-construction, growth support, and sustainable revenue.Additionally, the Solana track of this hackathon features a $15,000 prize pool, rewarding innovative projects focused on the Agent economy, Solana Mobile applications, automated trading, and other related directions. Participants with high interactive traffic will also receive Qwen credits worth $10,000.

Odaily News BNB Chain has announced the launch of the 8-day Good Vibes Only Hackathon, scheduled to run from January 22 to 29, 2026. This hackathon emphasizes Vibe Coding, allowing even non-senior developers to participate.There are no strict theme requirements for this hackathon. All project ideas, development progress, and demos will be publicly shared on X and GitHub throughout the event. Projects must create X and GitHub accounts during the event period and complete at least one on-chain transaction on BNB Chain (BSC / opBNB). The final selection will be jointly determined by community voting (50%) and sponsor judging (50%). Each winning project will receive a $1,000 reward, and the prize pool will increase with additional sponsorships.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that DoraHacks, the global hackathon platform, has launched a Supervised Fully Autonomous Hackathon (FAH) AI system. This upgrade to the DoraHacks AI platform allows FAH to continuously monitor the hackathon's progress and optimize its direction, providing new capabilities to hackathon organizers, cutting-edge technology platforms, and developer relations (DevRel) organizations. Organizations that subscribe to DoraHacks Premium (formerly BUIDL AI 3.0) will automatically receive FAH.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the Mantle Global Hackathon has attracted over 600 participants worldwide in less than two months since its launch. With the December 31st deadline approaching, the organizers are highlighting their media partners who have facilitated this global event and announcing the full official media lineup covering more than six tracks.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that according to Hackernoon, Web 3 developer education and hackathon platform HackQuest announced the full acquisition of hackathon and bounty platform BuidlBox. BuidlBox evolved from the Gitcoin hackathon platform and has gathered more than 50,000 developer users. It has a solid developer base in the United States and Europe and has hosted world-renowned hackathons such as Permissionless Hackathon and ETH Denver Hackathon. The HackQuest team stated that this acquisition is an important step in building a "global developer network." Leveraging BuidlBox's user base and brand influence, HackQuest will further expand into the European and American developer markets and enhance its global developer ecosystem.

Odaily News According to official news, stablecoin issuer Tether announced its sponsorship of the Thailand Cybersecurity Hackathon. It is reported that the event was co-organized by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and Thailand’s Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB), an agency specializing in combating cybercrime.

Odaily News BNB Chain announced today that it will host a long-term hackathon for global developers, BNB Hack, with four core tracks: AI (artificial intelligence); DeSci (decentralized science); DeSoc (decentralized social); DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure network). There is no deadline, and projects can be submitted at any time. Winners and finalists will be selected every two weeks. During the participation process, mentor guidance, technical support, and project acceleration opportunities will be provided. The finalists will have the opportunity to receive up to $10,000 in rewards, MVB accelerator direct interviews, and the opportunity to showcase their projects on BNB Chain official channels. The participating projects must be deployed on opBNB or BSC mainnet/testnet; must be open source and available to others; the project should be a new project participating in the hackathon for the first time; and must include GitHub links, demo videos, contract addresses, and other submission materials.

Odaily News On March 28, DoraHacks officially launched a new feature, Hackathon Marketing Summary, to help hackathon organizers generate promotional content for event summaries with one click, saving organizers time in organizing winning projects and promotional materials. This function is integrated into the BUIDL AI system. After the organizer publishes the list of winners, the system will automatically generate a draft summary article within 12 hours. The organizer can edit and publish it in Organizer Dashboard > Summary, or share it directly to social media such as X (Twitter).

Odaily News Dora Research Blog recently published an article titled "The Hacker Paradigm", which reconsiders human productivity and production relations in the era of AI with great material abundance, and believes that the social division of labor will evolve from Adam Smith's "needle factory" to "open source entrepreneurship", and in this process humans will inevitably become "hackers" and engage in creative work. Open source platform technology is a necessary guarantee for achieving this transformation, and the global Hackathon community will provide everyone with opportunities for creation.