Runtime Agent Week demo day carries $20,000 Bankr grand prize
Runtime Agent Week runs in New York and online through Saturday, September 19, closing with Build and Demo Day at Fonzi HQ; submissions shut at 4 PM Eastern with a $20,000 Bankr grand prize and four opt-in sponsor tracks.
By Agent Wire 2026-09-17 3 min read
Submissions close Saturday at 4 PM Eastern, and every entry competes for the grand prize by default.
Runtime Agent Week is running in New York City and online, with scheduled events from Monday, September 14 through Saturday, September 19. The week is organized around what its handbook calls the point where AI agents meet crypto rails. Runtime Build and Demo Day closes it out on Saturday at Fonzi HQ, running 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM Eastern.
Bankr funds the grand prize, listed as “The New Bankrs” at $20,000 in participant prizes. Every submission is eligible automatically, with no opt-in step.
Four sponsor tracks carry separate pools and are opt-in at submission. Dynamic offers $2,000 for the best agentic wallet or payment experience. Blackbird offers $2,500 in $FLY for the best use of Flynet. Definitive Flash offers $1,000 for the best social trading build, and Uniswap offers $1,000 under the heading “New Assets, New Agents.” Teams can enter several tracks with one project.
Submissions close at 4 PM Eastern on Saturday and demos begin at 5 PM. Online entries require a recorded demo, and the organizers encourage recordings from in-person teams as well.
The side events track the sponsor list closely. A kick-off happy hour opened the week on Monday, and Strobe Ventures ran a padel session on Tuesday. Wednesday carried two: office hours with Base, and Grok Bot Together NYC. Thursday carries another pair, an agentic payments meetup with Merit and Blackbird, and Storage is a Skill, a Filecoin salon in Brooklyn on agents and decentralized storage. Flynet runs its Flycrawl on Friday. Several of these require host approval through Luma rather than open registration, and each has its own capacity limit.
The builder supporter list reads as a full stack for the kind of project these prizes reward. Privy and Turnkey sell embedded wallet and signing infrastructure. Base supplies the L2 and Filecoin the storage. Anchorage covers custody, and Fonzi is providing the room for demo day. A team can ship an agent that holds keys, signs transactions and settles on chain without building any of that plumbing itself.
Bankr’s position as grand prize sponsor fits its recent product work. Agent Wire covered the company’s natural-language liquidity provision for tokenized stocks in August.
Demo day registration runs through Luma, where the listing is currently full with a waitlist open. Runtime publishes a builder handbook, a project submission form and a Discord at runtime.nyc.