BNB Chain Launches “Build the Era” Hackathon to Find the Official BNB Agent Studio Marketplace

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, August 5th, 2026] BNB Chain, one of the most active blockchain ecosystems worldwide, today announced Build the Era, an open hackathon challenging builders to create the definitive AI agent marketplace on BNB Smart Chain (BSC). The winning submission will have the opportunity to become the officially adopted BNB Agent Studio marketplace, backed by BNB Chain as a standalone product with its own brand and team. The hackathon addresses a discoverability gap that has emerged as agent activity on BSC has scaled. More than 200,000 AI agents are now registered on BSC under ERC-8004, the standard for onchain agent identity — roughly 60% of all registered agents across 26 networks. Participants are asked to build the marketplace itself, not a portfolio of individual agents, and submissions will be judged primarily on how easily someone can discover and hire an agent through the platform. Agents registered under ERC-8004 already carry onchain identity and a track record other software can query; the core task for builders is making that data legible to a person deciding who to hire. The hackathon has no fixed tracks for the main prize; allowing teams to compete ac...