GoBTC Pay backs the Agnic.AI hackathon with a track for Bitcoin payments between AI agents

Limassol, Cyprus, September 25th, 2026, Chainwire

Teams at Agentic Commerce Pioneers Edition II have built working prototypes on the GoBTC Pay protocol.

GoBTC Pay, the Bitcoin payment protocol built by GoMining, has joined Agentic Commerce Pioneers Edition II: The Shopping Agent Challenge as a Diamond Sponsor, with a dedicated branded track and a seat on the judging panel. The hackathon, hosted by Agnic.AI, ran as a remote build sprint from September 10 to 20, 2026 and closed with a hybrid Demo Day in Toronto, Canada, on September 21.

The brief set by the organizers is to build an AI agent that can buy from almost any merchant. Teams on the GoBTC Pay track work from a specific GoBTC Pay case study and ship a functional prototype on the protocol rather than a concept deck. The field includes student developers, machine learning engineers, independent specialists and corporate teams.

The track exists because agent-driven commerce breaks an assumption built into card rails: that a person is standing at the checkout to approve the payment. It also creates a transaction type that barely exists today, one agent paying another for a service it has just performed. Those payments are small, frequent, often cross-border, and they have no cardholder, no shared banking hours and no dispute desk to fall back on.