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| With Rob Hadick (General Partner, Dragonfly), Arnav Bimbhet (Partner, FirstMark), Charles Yoo-Naut (Founder/CTO, Rain). |
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Aug 08 (Sat) @ 09:00 AM
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| | Rain Office, 11 E 26th St
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Raingentic Commerce Hackathon NYC
Co-hosted by Rain & Monad Foundation
Build with Rain & 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 & Monad, meeting the teams behind both platforms, connecting with leading investors, & collaborating with other experienced engineers across fintech & 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, & direct access to the Rain & Monad teams.
The challenge
Build the best use case that uses Rain & 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 & product direction.
Prizes
michelin star dinner with Rain founders.
Monad Bounty: Best Implementation of Monad - a Mac Mini & 6 months of access to The Studio by Monad Foundation, a dedicated space in NYC for founders & builders.
Do note this bounty is completely optional & will be awarded to one team that best uses Monad as part of their agentic commerce build.
What to expect
In-person weekend build session in New York
Opening remarks from the Rain team
Technical workshop led by a Rain engineer
Technical session on building agentic commerce settlement with Monad
Time to build, get feedback, & refine your project
Judging, demos, & closing session on Sunday
Crazy good food throughout the weekend
A chance to meet Rain & Monad teams
Who should apply
Software engineers with 5+ years of industry experience
Builders based in New York
Ideally experience in fintech or adjacent technical domains
Engineers excited by developer tools, infrastructure, AI, & commerce
Speakers
Rob Hadick
General Partner at Dragonfly, a ~$4B crypto-focused investment firm. Previously invested in crypto & fintech at GoldenTree, Heritage Partners, Goldman Sachs, & PJT. Member of the CFTC Digital Assets Market Subcommittee.
Arnav Bimbhet
Partner at FirstMark, leading growth-stage investing. Previously spent nearly a decade at ICONIQ Growth, investing across software, consumer, & fintech in companies including Datadog, Snowflake, Airbnb, Miro, & Fivetran.
Charles Yoo-Naut
Co-Founder & CTO of Rain, the stablecoin-based card issuing & payments platform operating across 150+ countries. Previously founded PlaybookHR, acquired by Intuit, where he later served as a principal engineer.
Judges
Siggy Bilstein
Engineering 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, & was an Engineering Manager at Graphite before its acquisition by Cursor.
Ross Basri
Product lead at Rain, where he oversees several product areas & recently led the launch of Rain Rewards. Ross previously co-founded Uptop, an onchain loyalty & rewards company acquired by Rain in 2025.
Farhan Khwaja
Software Engineer at Rain & veteran Web3/backend infrastructure engineer focused on high-throughput transactional systems, developer tooling, & custody infrastructure. Farhan has led projects across Fern Money, Multiplex, Thirdweb Engine, & enterprise NFT projects for brands like MLB & Star Trek.
Juan Blanco
Data Engineer at Rain with experience building infrastructure for financial & blockchain systems. Formerly at Messari, Flipside Crypto, & Santander Bank. Built backtesting systems for Uniswap, founded the Mechanism Institute, & won Ethereum hackathons in Amsterdam & Paris.
Weekend Agenda
Saturday
9:00 AM - Doors open + breakfast
11:00 AM - Welcome & 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 - Team formation + lunch
1:00 PM onward - Hacking begins
Afternoon / evening - Build time, mentor support, office hours, food & drinks
~9:00 PM - Wrap for the day
Sunday
9:00 AM - Doors open + breakfast
Morning - Final build time
12:00 PM - Project submissions
12:00-3:00 PM - Judging
Afternoon - Final demos + closing
About Rain
Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, & AI agents. Our technology allows partners to move, store, & use stablecoins instantly & compliantly through global payment cards, rewards, on/offramps, stablecoin & fiat wallets, & cross-border rails. As both a Visa & Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards that work at more than 175 million merchant locations in over 220 countries & territories. Built natively for stablecoins & trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain delivers secure, scalable infrastructure that makes money move freely & instantly around the world.
About Monad
Monad is a highly performant & EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain. Re-inventing from the ground up, the innovations in both consensus & 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, & settle payments on-chain.
About Encode
A global developer community empowering builders through hackathons, accelerators, & educational programmes. They also offer a vibrant coworking space in the heart of Shoreditch, London!
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