Introducing Agent Competitions: Build, Launch, and Compete for Real Prizes

Introduction

Building a good agent and getting anyone to notice it are two different problems. The marketplace has thousands of agents, prompts, and tools on it, and the honest truth is that shipping something excellent is not the same as shipping something people find.

Competitions are our answer to the second problem. Every week we put a real prize pool on a specific, measurable goal, and every agent that qualifies is entered automatically. There is no application, no submission form, and no judging panel deciding whose work they liked best. A number decides, the number is public, and you can watch it move.

The competitions live at swarms.world/competitions. That page lists everything currently open, everything coming up, and everything that has finished, with the prize pool, the window, and a live countdown on each.

The competition running right now

The first one is the Frenzy Volume Championship, and it is open as you read this.

Prize pool: $1,000, paid in SOL.

It runs from midnight Tuesday 28 July to midnight Wednesday 5 August, UTC. The three agents with the most trading volume when the countdown hits zero take the pool, paid to the wallet on the winning creator's account.

Who is eligible: any agent or prompt launched in Frenzy Mode inside that window. Launch during the week and you are on the board — there is nothing else to do. Products launched before the window opened do not qualify; this is a competition for new work, not a ranking of the back catalogue.

How you win: by trading volume. Every buy and every sell on your agent's token counts toward your total, and the leaderboard is ordered by that total. It refreshes every 30 seconds while the competition is open.

How volume is actually measured

This part is worth being precise about, because it changes how you should think about the week.

We are not ranking on a rolling 24-hour figure. Most market APIs only report trailing windows, which would mean volume you generated on Tuesday quietly stops counting by Thursday, and the whole thing collapses into a race decided on the final day.

Instead, the leaderboard reconstructs your total from raw on-chain transactions — every buy and every sell your token has seen since it launched, summed for the whole window. Volume you earn on day one counts exactly as much as volume you earn on day seven. Build early, and the work keeps counting.

Two consequences worth internalising:

• A strong launch day is worth as much as a strong final day. There is no advantage to waiting.
• Wash trading will not work. Volume looped between the same wallets is grounds for disqualification, and every trade is on a public ledger with the wallet addresses attached. It is the easiest kind of fraud to spot after the fact.

Reading the leaderboard

The competition page shows the full field, not just the winners. The top three carry medal borders and their prize badge; everyone else follows in rank order. Entrants that have not traded yet still appear — you will always be able to find your own launch on the board, even at zero.

There are two ways to look at it. Gallery is the default: each entrant as a card with its artwork, ticker, volume, market cap, contract address, and creator. Scroll and it keeps loading more. Table is the dense view — rank, volume, market cap, type, launch time, creator, and prize in one row each — for when you want to scan quickly rather than browse.

Every week, and every month

This is a recurring program, not a one-off promotion.

There will be a new competition every week, and larger ones running monthly. They will not all be volume competitions. Volume is a good first metric because it is unambiguous and impossible to fake without leaving evidence, but it rewards one particular kind of success. Future competitions will measure different things — and different metrics will reward different builders. Something that would never win on trading volume may well win on a metric chosen the following week.

Each competition gets its own page, its own rules, and its own prize pool, and they all stay listed at swarms.world/competitions after they close, so the results remain public.

How to enter

If you want in on the one currently running:

1. Publish an agent or prompt on the marketplace, or open one you have been meaning to ship.
2. Choose Frenzy Mode when you tokenize it. This is what puts you on the board. It also pays you 1% of every trade on your token, in both directions, for as long as it trades — double the standard creator fee.
3. Drive volume. Share it, post it, get people using and trading it. Everything counts, from the first minute.

That is the entire process. No form, no waiting for approval.

We would genuinely like you to enter. A competition with three entrants is not much of a competition — the prize pool is real money, and right now the field is small enough that a solid launch has a serious chance at it. If you have been sitting on an agent you have not published, this is the week.

FAQ

Do I need to sign up for the competition? No. Launch an agent or prompt in Frenzy Mode during the competition window and you are entered automatically. There is no form and no approval step.

Do prompts count, or only agents? Both. Any agent or prompt launched in Frenzy Mode inside the window is eligible for this competition.

Does my existing agent qualify if I turn on Frenzy Mode now? This competition is scored on products created inside the window, so a product launched before it opened does not qualify. Future competitions may be scored differently.

Is volume measured in USD or SOL? The leaderboard ranks in USD, converted from the SOL and stablecoin amounts that actually changed hands.

What stops someone from trading with themselves to win? Wash trading, self-dealing, and volume looped between the same wallets are grounds for disqualification. Every trade is public and permanently attached to the wallets that made it, so this is unusually easy to audit after the fact.

When are prizes paid, and how? In SOL, at the USD value listed, to the wallet connected to the winning creator's account, after the competition closes.

What happens if I am in second place when the countdown ends? The board when the countdown reaches zero is the final board. Positions move right up until then, which is the point.

Do I need an account to look at the leaderboard? No. The competitions pages are public. You only need an account and a connected wallet to launch something and enter.

Conclusion

Competitions exist to make good work findable. The marketplace rewards agents people actually use, and a weekly prize pool with a public, live leaderboard is a way of pointing attention at the builders producing that work right now, rather than whoever published earliest.

The Frenzy Volume Championship closes at midnight Wednesday 5 August, UTC, with $1,000 in SOL on the table. After that, another one starts, measuring something else.

Launch something this week and see where you land.

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