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Aug 6, 2026

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BNB Chain Build the Era (BNB Agent Studio Marketplace) — build Aug 5–Sep 9, submit by 2026-09-09$40k+ ($30k USDT main + $10k TermiX + 1,000 CAKE + Altana XP; winner may be adopted as official BNB Agent Studio marketplace) — online/global, solo OK — top fit: crypto × AI agents, remote, cash USDT, official adoption upside; India-friendly. Platforms: BNB.org (canonical) + X @BNBCHAIN. bnbchain.org/en/hackathons/smart-money-era · blog bnbchain.org/en/blog/build-the-era-build-the-official-bnb-ag

Gray Swan Arena — Indirect Prompt Injection August (IPI-Aug-2026)live as of 2026-08-05; ~1 week per co-promote (exact end not on X text) — $30konline, free — strong AI-security/bounty-style fit for solo; text-only injections (tool/repo/computer-use), not classic product ship. Platforms: Gray Swan X (canonical) + Arena. app.grayswan.ai/arena/challenge/ipi-aug-2026 · x.com/GraySwanAI/status/2085052279309115756

Re-verify tracked (no deadline change → not in DEADLINES_JSON): AMD still Aug 6 (Luma); Snowflake CoCo prototype end still Aug 6 (hack2skill); Push to Prod still Aug 8 BLR IRL (Devfolio); BasePaint still Aug 8 23:59 UTC; Arc Programmable Money still final submit Sun Aug 9 midnight AoE + reg closes Aug 8 (Encode page crawl); Cleanverse still hack/submit window ends Aug 9 23:59 UTC (reg ends Aug 7); Solana Blitz V7 still 3–9 Aug; DataHub still Aug 10 5pm EDT. Raingentic/Sarvam pages thin but no change signal.

Listing sweep noise (not ranked): ETHGlobal upcoming unchanged (ETHOnline / Tokyo / Mumbai known). Devpost online still dominated by known (Gemini XPRIZE, Shipaton, DataHub, Cockroach, Arm). Dora: Research Agents Hack IIT Madras only $100, skip. Akindo SPA shell, no new wave confirmed. No new OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/xAI flagship challenge in window (only IRL London/SF Codex side-events).