RGB Protocol Association Announces the Agentic Dollars Hackathon Winners
RGB Protocol Association announces the winners of Agentic Dollars on Bitcoin, the hackathon held on October 17-18, 2026, at BLOX in Turin, Italy, with Tether as main sponsor. Over two days, 24 teams built self-custodial applications for digital dollars on RGB Protocol on Bitcoin, with AI models running locally on the user’s device.
In Brief
- Event: Agentic Dollars on Bitcoin, BLOX, Turin, October 17-18, 2026
- Participation: more than 400 applications, about 70 builders in 24 teams
- First place: Kit+ty, €4,000 and a guaranteed spot in the CypherTank semifinals
- Second place: AIR-GB-LIGHTNING, €1,500
- Third place: Yolki-Palki, €500
- Full recap: projects, judging criteria and winners’ repositories on rgb.info
The Agentic Dollars Hackathon Winners
First Place: Kit+ty
Kit+ty is a shared kitty for group trips, with a personal budget for each traveler in an RGB channel on the Lightning Network. A local AI model reads receipts and proposes the split of each expense, while deterministic code computes the amounts. The team receives €4,000 and a guaranteed spot in the semifinals of CypherTank.
Second Place: AIR-GB-LIGHTNING
AIR-GB-LIGHTNING brings multi-path payments to RGB assets on the Lightning Network, with a local AI model for the choice of the routing strategy. The team receives €1,500.
Third Place: Yolki-Palki
Yolki-Palki presented pálka, a non-custodial exchange for bitcoin and RGB assets, with the settlement of multi-party trades in a single Bitcoin transaction. The team receives €500.
The Ten Finalists
After a round of live demos, the judges selected ten finalists for the final pitches. In alphabetical order:
- AIR-GB-LIGHTNING
- AVL
- BOUNTY HUNTERS
- Coin³
- fork2checkbook
- Inglorious Engineers
- Kit+ty
- QVACache
- Satstride
- Yolki-Palki
Judges and Mentors
Five judges evaluated the projects:
- Walter Maffione, KaleidoSwap
- Renat Skitsan, Utexo
- Zoe Faltibà, RGB Protocol Team from Bitfinex
- Stefano Pellegrini, RGB Protocol Team from Bitfinex
- Giorgio Rasetto, Tether
During both days, mentors from the RGB, KaleidoSwap and Utexo teams supported the participants on site.
Acknowledgments
RGB Protocol Association thanks all 24 teams for their work, the judges and the mentors for their time, Tether as main sponsor and Utexo as co-sponsor for their support, BitPolito and BLOX for the hospitality, and Politecnico di Torino for its support of the initiative and the invitation to its students.
The full recap of the Agentic Dollars hackathon on rgb.info covers each project in detail, with the repositories of the winners.
For Developers and Integrators
Start here: technical docs and guides at docs.rgb.info
Run & build: protocol libraries at github.com/rgb-protocol, wallet and application tooling at github.com/RGB-Tools
Ecosystem & membership: updates and membership at rgbprotocol.org/members
About RGB Protocol Association
RGB Protocol Association is a Swiss non-profit. It supports the development, standardization, and adoption of RGB Protocol on Bitcoin. The protocol enables private and scalable digital assets for Bitcoin and Lightning. Additionally, the Association works through open collaboration with companies, researchers, and the broader free-software community.
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