Raingentic Commerce Hackathon NYC

Raingentic Commerce Hackathon NYC Co-hosted by Rain and Monad Foundation Build with Rain and Monad at a high-conviction weekend hackathon for senior engineers in New York. This is a two-day, in-person hackathon focused on agentic commerce - an opportunity to explore what becomes possible when intelligent agents can transact more effectively with modern financial infrastructure. You'll spend the weekend building practical use cases with Rain and Monad, meeting the teams behind both platforms, connecting with leading investors, and collaborating with other experienced engineers across fintech and adjacent technical communities. We’re looking for engineers who want to build ambitious, product-minded prototypes in a focused environment with strong technical support, amazing food, and direct access to the Rain and Monad teams. The challenge Build the best use case that uses Rain and involves agentic commerce. We’re intentionally keeping the challenge broad. The goal is to create space for strong teams to define interesting, high-upside applications while still anchoring the weekend around Rain’s platform and product direction.Prizes🥩 ⭐️ michelin star dinner with Rain founders + hiring opportunities! 🖥️ Monad Bounty: Best Implementation of Monad - a Mac Mini and 6 months of access to The Studio by Monad Foundation, a dedicated space in NYC for founders and builders.Do note this bounty is completely optional and will be awarded to one team that best uses Monad as part of their agentic commerce build. What to expect Who should apply Speakers Rob HadickGeneral Partner at Dragonfly, a ~$4B crypto-focused investment firm. Previously invested in crypto and fintech at GoldenTree, Heritage Partners, Goldman Sachs, and PJT. Member of the CFTC Digital Assets Market Subcommittee. Arnav BimbhetPartner at FirstMark, leading growth-stage investing. Previously spent nearly a decade at ICONIQ Growth, investing across software, consumer, and fintech in companies including Datadog, Snowflake, Airbnb, Miro, and Fivetran. Charles Yoo-NautCo-Founder and CTO of Rain, the stablecoin-based card issuing and payments platform operating across 150+ countries. Previously founded PlaybookHR, acquired by Intuit, where he later served as a principal engineer. Jarrod WattsAI Engineering Lead at Monad Foundation, where he builds at the intersection of AI and crypto. His work focuses on AI developer tools, agent orchestration, and exploring new ways for autonomous agents to build, transact, and operate onchain. Judges Siggy BilsteinEngineering Manager at Cursor, where he works on Origin, a git forge for the agentic era. He previously co-founded Maza, served as Director of Engineering at Flex, and was an Engineering Manager at Graphite before its acquisition by Cursor. Ross BasriProduct lead at Rain, where he oversees several product areas and recently led the launch of Rain Rewards. Ross previously co-founded Uptop, an onchain loyalty and rewards company acquired by Rain in 2025. Farhan KhwajaSoftware Engineer at Rain and veteran Web3/backend infrastructure engineer focused on high-throughput transactional systems, developer tooling, and custody infrastructure. Farhan has led projects across Fern Money, Multiplex, Thirdweb Engine, and enterprise NFT projects for brands like MLB and Star Trek. Juan BlancoData Engineer at Rain with experience building infrastructure for financial and blockchain systems. Formerly at Messari, Flipside Crypto, and Santander Bank. Built backtesting systems for Uniswap, founded the Mechanism Institute, and won Ethereum hackathons in Amsterdam and Paris.Jarrod WattsAI Engineering Lead at Monad Foundation, where he builds at the intersection of AI and crypto. His work focuses on AI developer tools, agent orchestration, and exploring new ways for autonomous agents to build, transact, and operate onchain. Weekend Agenda Saturday 9:00 AM - Doors open + breakfast 11:00 AM - Welcome and opening remarks 11:15 AM - Rain CTO Keynote, Investor Keynote 11:30 AM - Technical workshop: building with Rain 12:00 PM - Technical workshop: building on Monad 12:30 PM - Lunch 1:00 PM onward - Hacking begins6:00-8:00 PM - Hometown BBQ special dinner! ~9:00 PM - Wrap up for the day Sunday 9:00 AM - Doors open + breakfast Morning - Final build time 12:00 PM - Project submissions12:00 PM - Lunch 12:00-2:00 PM - Lazy Sundaes Boba & Matcha Popup 12:00–3:00 PM - Judging period 3:15 PM - Final Event: demos & prize-giving!4:30 PM - Wrap up for the day About Rain Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents. Our technology allows partners to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly and compliantly through global payment cards, rewards, on/offramps, stablecoin and fiat wallets, and cross-border rails. As both a Visa and Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards that work at more than 175 million merchant locations in over 220 countries and territories. Built natively for stablecoins and trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain delivers secure, scalable infrastructure that makes money move freely and instantly around the world. About Monad Monad is a highly performant and EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain. Re-inventing from the ground up, the innovations in both consensus and execution make it possible to achieve throughput up to 10,000 transactions per second. Monad Foundation is a member of the x402 Foundation, helping define the open standard for how AI agents discover, authorize, and settle payments on-chain. 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