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🚀 Monetize your AI with Crypto Hackathon: Grindery Edition

Welcome to Monetize your AI with Crypto! This focused, fast-paced sprint is designed to help you turn your AI prototypes into adaptive, revenue-ready products using Grindery's powerful infrastructure for seamless crypto payments.

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👉 Getting Started with Grindery

To successfully integrate crypto payments and focus on your AI solution, you will need to utilize Grindery's tools.

Learn how to integrate Grindery's payment solutions 📚: Read our Docs
Explore Grindery's core components for AI monetization: Grindery Tools

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💡 Why Grindery and Why Now?

Grindery is building the essential infrastructure to connect the power of AI with the efficiency of Web3 payments. We provide the programmable payment layer that sits between your users and your AI models.

Our mission: To make it drastically easier for AI developers to monetize, personalize, and control access to their solutions by charging in Cryptocurrency.

By using Grindery, you can:

1. Meter and charge for AI usage instantly and globally with crypto.

2. Adapt pricing logic and trigger dynamic payments based on context.

3. Turn every user-AI interaction into a verifiable, sustainable revenue stream.

That's the insight driving this hackathon: There’s no product-market fit without revenue, and no revenue without a fast, global, and efficient payment solution like Grindery and Crypto.

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💰 The Main Challenge: The Crypto Monetization Race

The main challenge is simple: Turn your AI prototype into a revenue-generating product that accepts Cryptocurrency.

This hackathon is a Crypto Monetization Race. Your goal is to design and build an AI-powered agent, model, or tool that uses Grindery's payment infrastructure to seamlessly generate real-world revenue paid in crypto.

We want to see systems that not only act intelligently but also sustain themselves through a frictionless, secure, and effective crypto payment model. Each submission must demonstrate how Grindery's payment layers can create a complete, crypto-monetized, real-world application.

💡 Suggested directions include:

1. AI agents that automate user flows and trigger dynamic on-chain crypto payments.

2. AI assistants that connect to external APIs (e.g., GPT, Midjourney, etc.) and monetize access through contextual logic, charged in crypto.

3. End-to-end platforms where user actions transform into sustainable crypto revenue streams (e.g., pay-per-query, subscription, token-gated access).

4. Products that use Grindery to actively track usage and charge real users in Crypto.

Focus on crypto monetization potential, execution quality, and user experience. The best projects will prove how intelligent automation combined with smart crypto revenue design can turn a prototype into a profitable, decentralized product. The more verifiable crypto payments you can show, the better your chances of winning.

This hackathon, Monetize your AI with Crypto, is open to all developers, entrepreneurs, designers, and AI/Web3 enthusiasts from around the world.

Whether you are a solo builder or part of a team, we welcome you to join this global sprint to build the future of AI monetization with Grindery.

· Global Reach: Participants of all backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to join, regardless of geographical location.

· Ages: All participants must be at least 18 years of age or older to register and submit a project.

· Legal Compliance: Participation is void where prohibited by law. By registering, you confirm your eligibility to participate in accordance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

Projects will be evaluated on four pillars, with a primary emphasis on Crypto Monetization and the integration of the Grindery platform.

1. Crypto Monetization & Commercial Viability (Primary Factor): This is a race. We're looking for projects that actually generate revenue or convincingly prove they can using crypto payments via Grindery. This criterion measures the project's ability to create real-world value. Submissions that demonstrate traction (e.g., test users, live crypto transactions, a clear path to profit) will have a significant advantage.

2. Technological Implementation: How well is Grindery's payment infrastructure integrated? The project should demonstrate technical depth, reliability, and purposeful use of Grindery features (e.g., automated crypto payments, wallet connection, payment automation, access control linked to payment status).

3. Design & User Experience: Design is how it works. Each project will be assessed for its clarity, coherence, and ease of use. A simple, effective user flow that makes the crypto payment process frictionless and leads to conversion is key.

4. Creativity: Innovation thrives on originality. Does your project monetize an AI interaction in a new, clever, or unexpected way using the unique capabilities of Web3 and Grindery?