The agent ecosystem is only getting bigger on @solana 🫡

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on UsePod at $0.08/$0.40—20% below official pricing. Released today by Anthropic, Haiku 5.5 is their fastest model to date, optimized for high-volume tasks: summaries, classification, database queries, and live customer support.

Next up in the AnsemHack Spotlight: Byte Arena @bytearenafun ships games and their agents are already in it, playing it, testing it and narrating it live to Twitch, X and pump.fun. Solana Survivors Season 2 has landed: Heaven or Hell.

Today we're spotlighting a late-comer to the hackathon: ForgeBench. @ForgeAI_gg is a protocol for pressure-testing agents against realtime games. Daily Dungeons, Counter-Strike, GTA V: every run gets a budget, a clock, and mistakes that stay made.

What happens when the fastest way to pay someone on Solana meets the fastest way to pay for inference?

Today’s AnsemHack highlight is on SelfMade by SP3ND @SP3NDdotshop isa tokenized agent that uses creator fees to buy GPUs. It has earned and transferred 938 SOL, roughly $106K, with $40K spent so far on machines through SP3ND’s own stablecoin shopping platform.

This afternoon’s project spotlight: MONARK @usemonark is building from the ground up a novel approach to AI in finance: one engine, two sides. For AI agents, a gate that decides if a decision can be trusted: go, wait, or don't. For DeFi, apps build on that same engine.

Today’s AnsemHack Spotlight is covering Market Bubble Search @mbubbleSearch is a search engine for crypto podcasts/broadcast. 679 episodes and 1,134 hours: Market Bubble, MCG Live, Elon's interviews. Ask in plain english, get the quote and the second it was said in ranked order.

This afternoon, we're spotlighting Corine @corinedotin is an agentic finance network on Solana where users can deploy autonomous financial agents from a prompt. Agents can monitor markets, execute onchain, remember outcomes and improve over time without users needing to write code.

This morning's AnsemHack spotlight is on ANSEM.TIPS ANSEM.TIPS (@tipansem) is a social tipping layer on Solana that lets anyone send crypto and tokenized stocks directly on X. No wallet address needed--your X username acts as your social address.

This afternoon's AnsemHack spotlight is on BUZZ @eienel_eth is a survival-pot game where humans and AI agents play the same hidden board: the comb with the fewest players is the one that dies, and half the pot pays out on prediction skill. 200 finished games on devnet.