Hey Builders 👋

Your resident web3 internet nerd is back with another edition of Happy Hacking! It’s been a wild few weeks in the Lab—collaborations, chain releases, building out our dApp Metrics & Insights API, exploring AI agents, and so much more. Let's crack on shall we?

We’ve been following the AI Agent hype for a while and figured it was time to dive in. Naturally, this led to several rabbit holes. Izzy has been experimenting with Eliza, while Dan spent last weekend building everything from a GitHub agent that decides whether it “likes” a project (and stars it) to a team of content agents—a researcher, project manager, critic, and writer. It’s genuinely mind-blowing what’s possible.

All this AI tinkering got us thinking: as builders, we love building cool shit but rarely talk about it. That is, until someone from marketing drops by and says, “Do you know how cool this is? Why aren’t you shouting about it?” Sound familiar?

So, we’ve decided to tackle the problem head-on in the best way we know how. By building an AI agent to handle all our marketing of course. We’ll give it the tools, content, and (very important) guardrails it needs, then let it loose. Best-case scenario, we’ve just created Open Format’s first cohort of AI-powered Ambassadors. Worst case? At least we’ll have some entertaining stories to share.

We’ll stream the whole process and share how it’s done. Keep an eye on our Discord for updates.

Our Dashboard is getting an overhaul. It’s overdue. So, we’re turning the process into a live workshop of sorts.

Next week, we’ll start streaming the entire build process. You’ll get to see how we build using our own tools, and it’s a good excuse to show you how to build your own dashboard too.

We’ll announce in Discord when we kick off. Here is some UI to give you an idea of what to expect.

Imagine this: you’re an independent artist, your latest banger is out, and you want to promote it. How great would it be to have your own digital street team—your most loyal fans—sharing it with the world?

We’ve been working on exactly that: a way for artists to directly reward their fans for supporting them. It’s been a really fun collaboration, and we look forward to sharing more about this soon.

George has been tinkering with a metrics dashboard for Open Format. It’s got all the essentials: transactions, active dApps, points, badges—you name it. You can even filter by app, user, date, or duration. Handy, right?

If you’re feeling curious, you can have a play with our metrics subgraph for Arbitrum Sepolia here.

Also, Dan's been building some UI components, which you'll soon be able to see in our dashboard. Here is a taster of what's to come:

• 🚀 Deployed contracts to Base – All our contracts are now available on Base and Base Sepolia - #144

• 🏆 Deployed points contract – Implemented an ERC-20 contract tailored for on-chain points and reputation systems - #145

• 📊 Metrics dashboard upgrade – Try it out!

And that’s all for this week!

Happy Hacking,

Andy and the Open Format team

Psst 👋 New to Open Format? Did you know you can use our API to generate leaderboard data for any ERC20 token rewarded or transferred via our contracts? Simply rank users by the number of tokens they hold. What a time to be alive!

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.openformat.tech/v1/leaderboard?app_id=0x9716fb655f2a72b1fc1b4db02b8ad20b6747442a&chain=base&token_id=0xb3caca9c5cead35754d693072edeb5baf7ad7e56' \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: <YOUR_API_KEY>'