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.
Roman Yermoshin, General Manager at GoBTC Pay and a judge at the Agnic.AI hackathon, emphasized the importance of the hackathon’s topic:
“Before long, people will stop placing orders themselves. Their AI agents will take that routine over: the agents will choose the products and pay for the orders on our behalf. Agents will also start settling up with each other for the services they provide to one another, and they will do it in Bitcoin, a genuinely independent international currency. GoBTC Pay gives agents a way to make those payments instantly and at minimal cost, with no banks or intermediaries in between. The hackathon with Agnic.AI is a demonstration of how that will work in practice.”
GoBTC Pay settles directly on the Bitcoin base layer instead of converting to fiat currency by default. Payments are free for the payer, and merchants pay a 0.2% fee that is split between the wallet provider and the miners that process the settlement. The protocol uses a 2-of-3 multi-signature setup shared between the user, GoMining and a regulated third-party custodian, so the payer holds a key throughout the transaction. Transactions are routed through GoMining’s private mempool, built on the Stratum V2 mining protocol, which gives them priority inside GoMining’s own pool.
About GoBTC Pay
GoBTC Pay is a Layer-1 Bitcoin payment protocol developed by GoMining, a bitcoin mining company serving over 5.5 million users and running its own mining pool and data center capacity. The product launched in May 2026 and opened to third parties in June 2026 with the Gen1 SDK and API, moving it from a closed demonstration into open infrastructure that merchants, wallet providers and ecosystem partners can integrate.
https://gobtcpay.com/
About Agnic.AI
Agnic.AI builds the identity, authorization and payment layer for AI agents: a wallet that gives an agent a verifiable identity and a cardholder-signed spending mandate, and completes checkout at merchants with no integration on their side. It implements open standards including AP2, x402 and MCP, and runs the Agentic Commerce Pioneers hackathon series in Toronto.
https://www.agnic.ai/