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Arkiv Ethns Builder Challenge — AI skill for Claude Code

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Arkiv × ETHNS Builder Challenge — Genesis Block Month, May 2026 (Network School).

How to install Arkiv Ethns Builder Challenge

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Arkiv-Network/arkiv-ethns-builder-challenge and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Arkiv Ethns Builder Challenge does

Arkiv × ETHNS Builder Challenge — Genesis Block Month, May 2026 (Network School). Two winners each receive a $1,500 USDC stipend toward a one-month stay at Network School, building on AI / Privacy / DePIN themes. If a winner can't attend, they keep the stipend.

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README

Arkiv × ETHNS Builder Challenge

[!IMPORTANT] **This challenge has ended.** 36 teams submitted across the AI, Privacy, and DePIN themes. Thanks to everyone who built with us. See the [winners](#winners) and [all submissions](#submissions) below.

Winners

Two winning teams, each receiving a **$1,500 USDC** stipend toward a one-month stay at Network School.

Cortex

An AI that remembers and forgets the way people do — fresh thoughts stay short-lived and fade for free on Arkiv, while the memories you actually use in decisions graduate into lasting rules. Memory is wallet-owned and RaBitQ-compressed, with an MCP server and Claude plugin bundled so any agent gets a portable digital twin instead of amnesia every session.

**Theme:** AI · Privacy [GitHub](https://github.com/LingSiewWin/Cortex) · [Demo](https://cortex-arkiv.vercel.app/) · [Video](https://www.loom.com/share/68178caad4034e8282ac412a440e0738)

Ark Hive

Makes agent memory a first-class, portable asset on Arkiv. Mint an ERC-8004 agent, then every session, message, scoped memory and hash-chained snapshot is written to Arkiv — signed by your own wallet, not theirs. Ships `arkiv-agent-sdk` on npm so any app can read another agent's memory and keep writing to it.

**Theme:** AI · Privacy · Hybrid [GitHub](https://github.com/Philotheephilix/ark-hive) · [Demo](https://ark-hive-network.vercel.app) · [Video](https://canva.link/eosghvj0gql6eec)

**Stop 1 of the [ ARKIV ] Web3 Database Bus Tour.**

We're partnering with [Network School](https://ns.com) for the first Ethereum-focused month at NS — Genesis Block Month — and we're bringing a Builder Challenge with us. Two winners each get a **$1,500 USDC stipend** toward a one-month stay at Network School, in the month of their choice.

The Challenge is hybrid: build IRL on the NS campus in Forest City, Malaysia, or