July 18, 2025

Agent 101 Recap: How Builders Took on the Nosana Challenge

Agent 101 was our second Builders’ Challenge, a call to action for devs to build smart, scalable AI agents that run on Nosana’s decentralized GPU network. And the community more than delivered.

The second edition of the Nosana Builders Challenge is complete and once again, our community showed up in full force. This round was all about building AI agents that leverage Nosana’s decentralized GPU power .

Over the course of a few weeks, we watched builders dive into our open-source repos, ask brilliant questions, create unique solutions, and ship some seriously impressive projects. From productivity bots to creative AI assistants, the results speak for themselves and so do the numbers.

Agent 101 Snapshot

Here’s a quick look at the impact and activity from this second edition:

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Meet the Winners: What They Built

1st Place: MastraBolt AI Agent (@SOgunmusire )

What it does: A complete visual development platform that allows users to build, test, and deploy AI agents across multiple platforms through a browser-based IDE without coding.
Why it stood out: Transformed a simple agent challenge into comprehensive infrastructure, featuring multi-LLM provider support, real-time preview, and one-click deployment to Nosana, Vercel, or Netlify.

2nd Place: Meta-Deployment (@biellonuhu)

What it does: A groundbreaking agent deployment system that enables agents to deploy and manage other agents on the Nosana platform, creating a self-improving AI infrastructure.
Why it stood out: Revolutionary meta-deployment approach with sophisticated automation, perfect Nosana integration, and the ability to create an ecosystem where agents can spawn and manage other agents autonomously.

3rd Place: Comprehensive DeFi Suite (@thecorgod1234)

What it does: An extensive DeFi toolkit that integrates multiple protocols for trading, liquidity management, and yield optimization across various decentralized finance platforms.
Why it stood out: Excellent multi-tool architecture with 8 specialized DeFi tools, strong technical implementation using Ollama, and practical value for automating complex DeFi operations and strategies.

"🤖 What if AI agents could discover and deploy OTHER AI agents automatically? I built an advanced agent ecosystem for @nosana_ai 's Builders Challenge that does exactly that! Meet the Deploy Manager Agent - finds, analyzes, and deploys any agent in the system through conversation" -- @biellonuhu

Explore Winners

If you would like to see more, you can explore all 10 winners on the official Superteam listing page.

Trends We’re Seeing

We noticed a few exciting trends across this round’s entries:

Practical Agent Use Cases - Builders focused on agents that solve real problems, from content generation, developer tooling, automated trading, market analysis, healthcare, entertainment, and many more.
Agent Frameworks - Developers are eager to learn how to use agents to adopt them to solve their problems
CLI-first Development - Many submissions built directly on top of the nosana-cli, showing just how accessible decentralized compute has become.
MCP Usage - Some developers took the extra step of integrating their agent with MCP capabilities, making their agent even more extensible.
Diverse Usecase - There is a wide range of usecase participants tried to tackle, devtooling, DeFi Tooling, productivity agents, healthcare, entertainment, supply chain, real estate.

This shows the growing depth and diversity of the Nosana builder community.

Community Energy: More Than Just Code

Beyond the GitHub stars and submissions, what really made this edition shine was the community interaction:

1,000+ Discord messages
Builders helping each other debug, deploy, and demo
Dozens of devs sharing their builds on X and tagging others to join

2 Down. 2 To Go. And Then?

With two Builders Challenges behind us, we’re entering the second half of this journey and trust us, it’s not just about challenges.

We’re halfway through the Builders Challenge series, but this is just the beginning. Something bigger is brewing. A new chapter for builders is on the way. And if you’ve been paying attention, you may have already caught the first hints. Challenge 3 might just reveal a little more.

Huge thanks to our partners at Superteam for supporting creators across the ecosystem. And shout-out to our judges, community moderators, and all the builders who submitted projects.

Whether you were deep in GPU tuning or just lurking in #challenges-chat , the challenge created real buzz and we’re grateful for everyone of you who joined the ride.

Challenge 3 Is Coming. Are You In?

Follow @nosana on X , jump into the Discord and star us on GitHub to be the first to know when the next challenge drops.

The foundations of tomorrow’s AI infrastructure are being laid today. Those who build now lead later.