Building Toward Decentralized Cognition: ASI Chain Hackathons Kick Off in New York and Nairobi
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance
Artificial Intelligence must be Open, Decentralized, and Built for the Benefit of all Sentient Beings.
August marks a key moment for the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance as we begin early access to select integrations from ASI Chain; our infrastructure layer for modular, autonomous AI systems. To support this rollout, we're launching two hackathons in partnership with organizations that have been instrumental in growing the decentralized AI movement:
ETHGlobal New York in partnership with Fetch.ai Innovation Lab 15-18 August
Nairobi Hackathon with Wada and BeyondTheCode.ai 9-28 August
Both events open the door to hands-on experimentation with the building blocks of decentralized cognition. This blog will provide you an overview of our developer relations activities set to take place this August. In the next week, we will also be sharing more resources and the hack packs for you to get started.
ETHGlobal New York: Explore ASI Chain’s Early Integrations
Dates: 15th - 18th of August
Prize Money: $10,000
Location: Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011, United States
Event Information: https://ethglobal.com/events/newyork2025/prizes/artificial-superintelligence-alliance
Dev Rel Partners: Fetch.ai Innovation Lab
Build Autonomous AI Agents with the ASI Alliance
The ASI Alliance is developing ASI Chain; a shared substrate for decentralized AI coordination. This infrastructure is designed to support intelligent agents, symbolic reasoning, tokenized memory, and distributed cognition. While the ASI Chain itself is still in progress, builders can already explore key integrations that demonstrate its early shape and potential.
This is your opportunity to develop AI agents that don’t just execute code. They perceive, reason, and act across decentralized systems. The ASI Alliance brings together world-class infrastructure from Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol to support the next generation of modular, autonomous AI systems.
Hosted at one of the most respected events in the Web3 ecosystem, and in partnership with Fetch.ai Innovation Lab, our ETHGlobal New York track invites developers to work with early integrations that reveal the architecture and design principles behind ASI Chain.
“Fetch.ai Innovation Lab is excited to bring Artificial Superintelligence Alliance to ETHGlobal New York. We believe hackathons are where the next generation of decentralized innovation is born. This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to empowering developers, accelerating real-world use cases, and making AI and Web3 more accessible.” — Sana Wajid, SVP @ Fetch.ai Innovation Lab
Use Fetch.ai’s uAgents framework or your preferred agentic stack to build agents that can interpret natural language, make decisions, and trigger real-world actions. Deploy them to Agentverse, the ASI-wide registry and orchestration layer where agents connect, collaborate, and self-organize.
Enhance your agents with structured knowledge from SingularityNET’s MeTTa Knowledge Graph, or ingest dynamic, real-world data using Ocean Protocol’s decentralized data tools. For agent discovery and human interaction, integrate the ASI:One interface to make your agents accessible through a unified, conversational AI layer.
Whether you're building in healthcare, logistics, finance, education, or DeAI-native applications, this is your launchpad. Develop agents that talk to each other. That learn and adapt. That drive real outcomes across sectors.
The future of decentralized AI isn’t siloed. It’s composable, cross-chain, and powered by the ASI Alliance.
Wada in Nairobi: MeTTA Training & Hackathon: The Developer Pathway To AGI
Dates:
Aug 1–8: Onboarding
Aug 9–15: Virtual Teaching (MeTTa) iCog Ethiopia
Aug 15-18: Watch Parties on SingularityNET Youtube Channel
Aug 18–28: In-person Workshop & Hackathon
Location: Part virtual & Local Blockchain Centre, Maralal Oasis, Rose Ave, Nairobi Suite 401
Event Information: https://lu.ma/y5jblri6
Dev Rel Partners: Wada & BeyondTheCode.ai
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Meanwhile in Kenya, ASI Chain’s foundational cognitive layer (MeTTa) takes center stage.
In collaboration with Wada and BeyondTheCode.ai, the Kenya MeTTa Hackathon will offer deep immersion into ASI Chain’s most ambitious capability: supporting decentralized cognitive architectures. This isn't Solidity. It's reasoning over patterns and logic graphs.
This is the cognitive core of the ecosystem. The logic engine that powers Hyperon and underpins ASI’s approach to decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
This event will serve as your entry point into the MeTTaCycle, a developer pathway led by Dr. Ben Goertzel and the core SingularityNET team to train the next generation of logic-first AGI builders.
In Nairobi, we take a deeper dive into symbolic reasoning and logic-first AI. In partnership with Wada and BeyondTheCode.ai, this hackathon focuses on building with MeTTa, the language powering ASI Chain’s cognitive architecture.
Participants will:
Learn to code in MeTTa, the AGI-native language of reasoning and pattern binding
Receive mentorship from core contributors of OpenCog and Hyperon
Develop logic-based AI agents that can reason over structured data
Contribute directly to ASI Chain’s long-term vision of decentralized AGI
This track serves as a technical and educational gateway to the MeTTaCycle, an initiative led by SingularityNET and ASI to train the next generation of AGI-native developers.
Remember: You can join the action from anywhere via our watch parties, just tune in online and be part of the movement!
A Taste of ASI Chain
These integrations are the first taste of what ASI Chain will offer: composable infrastructure built for intelligent, decentralized computation.
As centralized compute becomes bottlenecked and legacy blockchains struggle to support semantic depth, ASI Chain offers a new foundation:
A MeTTa Kernel for graph-structured logic and concurrent reasoning
Sharded execution across multiple consensus protocols
Native support for object capabilities, tokenized access, and AI-first applications
For developers, this means building agents that don’t just automate tasks, but interpret, respond, and evolve. For researchers, it provides a testbed for logic-driven AI with real-world deployment. And for investors, it signals the emergence of a scalable, differentiated infrastructure model aligned with the most ambitious frontier of AI.
What’s Next
In the coming days, we’ll release everything you need to dive in: hack packs for Ocean, uAgents, and MeTTa, quickstart tutorials, judging criteria, prize pool details, and partner resources. If you have some questions about the hackathons in the mean time, please feel free to use our ASI Developer forum.
The foundations of agent economies are already being laid. This is your chance to help shape what comes next. Build with us.
About
About the ASI Alliance
The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance is a global collaboration between SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, Ocean Protocol, and CUDOS. Together, we are building a decentralized infrastructure stack to support the next era of modular AI—combining symbolic reasoning, autonomous agents, privacy-preserving data, and distributed compute. The ASI Alliance’s mission is to accelerate the path toward beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by supporting open ecosystems, shared standards, and inclusive innovation.
About SingularityNET
SingularityNET is a decentralized AI platform, founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel, with the goal of creating decentralized beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It is home to the neural-symbolic-evolutionary Hyperon framework for AGI at the human level and beyond, and the MeTTa language for cognitive computations. SingularityNET pioneers research in neural-symbolic AI, logic-based cognition, and decentralized governance to advance beneficial AGI.
About Fetch.ai
Fetch.ai provides the infrastructure to build and deploy autonomous AI agents that can transact, negotiate, and collaborate on-chain. With its uAgents framework, Agentverse registry, and a full stack for agentic systems, Fetch.ai makes it easy to develop intelligent services and connect them to Web3 ecosystems. The Fetch.ai Innovation Lab is a key partner in the development of ASI Chain.
About Fetch.ai Innovation Lab
The Fetch.ai Innovation Lab is a dedicated initiative focused on accelerating real-world adoption of decentralized AI technologies. Operating independently from the core Fetch.ai product teams, the Lab builds partnerships, incubates developer tools, and drives ecosystem growth across research, education, and applied AI. As a developer relations partner of the ASI Alliance, the Innovation Lab supports outreach, hackathons, and collaboration efforts that help builders explore and adopt agent-based infrastructure worldwide.
About Ocean Protocol
Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data infrastructure platform that enables secure sharing, tokenization, and compute-to-data access to datasets. Designed to unlock data for AI while preserving privacy and control, Ocean powers marketplaces and AI training workflows across industries. Within the ASI Alliance, Ocean provides the foundational layer for tokenized memory and real-time data access for intelligent agents.
About WADA
Wada is a grassroots organization advancing blockchain education, infrastructure, and innovation across Africa. With local hubs in over a dozen countries, Wada connects global partners to African developers and communities, supporting real-world applications of decentralized technology. Wada is an essential contributor to ASI’s mission to build inclusive, globally representative AI ecosystems.
About BeyondTheCode.ai
BeyondTheCode.ai is an immersive AI documentary and developer empowerment project. More than storytelling, it offers cultural scaffolding for technical learning—capturing the journeys of real developers building with MeTTa and ASI infrastructure. As part of the BASIX platform, BeyondTheCode.ai integrates education, credentialing, and visibility to support the next generation of AGI-native builders.