Nearly 1,000 Developers Converged on Consensus Miami to Build AI-Agent Startups — and the Results Were Wild!

The EasyA Hackathon at Consensus Miami 2026 drew nearly 1,000 developers from crypto ecosystems including Base and Solana, alongside engineers from Microsoft and Google, all converging around a single theme: AI agents. Projects spanned autonomous drone intelligence, hardware generation from text prompts, AI-native prediction markets, and agent-to-agent payment infrastructure — a scope that felt less like a coding competition and more like a live audition for the next wave of venture-scale companies.

EasyA co-founders Dom and Philip Kwok are explicit about their ambitions. "We want billion-dollar companies coming out of EasyA," Dom told CoinDesk on the hackathon floor, pointing to a Harvard alumni team that founded Permission AI — now valued at roughly $10 billion — as proof the pipeline is real. Other alumni have passed through Y Combinator, raised from top-tier venture firms, and…