Raingentic Commerce Hackathon NYC

Raingentic Commerce Hackathon NYC

Co-hosted by Rain and Monad Foundation 🌧️💻

Join us for a high-conviction weekend hackathon designed for senior engineers in New York City. This two-day, in-person event focuses on agentic commerce, providing an opportunity to explore how intelligent agents can transact effectively with modern financial infrastructure. You will work on practical use cases with Rain and Monad, connect with their teams, meet leading investors, and collaborate with other experienced engineers across the fintech and technical communities.

What We'll Do:

• Build innovative prototypes in a supportive environment with great food 🍽️
• Attend a technical workshop led by a Rain engineer
• Participate in a technical session on building agentic commerce settlements with Monad
• Receive feedback to refine your projects
• Showcase your work during demos and judging on Sunday

The Challenge:

Create the best use case leveraging Rain and embracing agentic commerce. The challenge is intentionally broad to encourage teams to define high-upside applications while staying aligned with Rain’s platform.

Prizes:

• ⭐️ Michelin Star Dinner with Rain founders + potential hiring opportunities!
• 🖥️ Monad Bounty: Best implementation of Monad - receive a Mac Mini and six months of access to The Studio by Monad Foundation.

Who Should Apply:

• Software engineers with 5+ years of industry experience
• Builders based in New York, ideally with experience in fintech or adjacent tech domains
• Engineers passionate about developer tools, infrastructure, AI, and commerce

Speakers:

• Rob Hadick - General Partner at Dragonfly
• Arnav Bimbhet - Partner at FirstMark
• Charles Yoo-Naut - Co-Founder and CTO of Rain
• Jarrod Watts - AI Engineering Lead at Monad Foundation

Judges:

• Siggy Bilstein - Engineering Manager at Cursor
• Ross Basri - Product Lead at Rain
• Farhan Khwaja - Software Engineer at Rain
• Juan Blanco - Data Engineer at Rain

Weekend Agenda:

Saturday

• 9:00 AM: Doors open + breakfast
• 11:00 AM: Welcome and opening remarks
• 11:15 AM: Rain CTO Keynote
• 11:30 AM: Technical workshop: Building with Rain
• 12:30 PM: Lunch
• 1:00 PM: Hacking begins
• 6:00-8:00 PM: Hometown BBQ dinner!

Sunday

• 9:00 AM: Doors open + breakfast
• 12:00 PM: Project submissions + lunch
• 12:00-2:00 PM: Lazy Sundaes Boba & Matcha Popup
• 3:15 PM: Final Event: Demos & Prize-giving!

About Us:

Rain is your global stablecoin payments platform, while Monad is an EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain that enables high throughput transactions. Join us and be part of this exciting journey in the fintech landscape! 🚀

Register here — the organizer asks for advance RSVP.