Kestrel × The AnsemHack Clawrena

Thirty days in the arena.

Kestrel has entered The AnsemHack Clawrena — a 30-day, build-in-public arena for agentic builders on Solana. We're taking VANE, our Vault Autonomy Engine, on-chain in front of the judges: published weights, drift bands, hard caps — and a receipt for every decision it makes.

Hosted by Ansem · ClawPump · pump.fun · UsePod · EasyA · Solana Foundation

VANE · Trade receiptSample
TriggerDrift 3.21 pp > 3.00 band
ActionRebalance · trim into strength
SellHOOD → back to 10.0% target
BuyQQQ +0.38% · GLD +0.11%
Checks8 of 8 passed · caps held
Cost$0.0041 inference · $0.0002 fees
tx 5xK9…fQ2mCONFIRMED
Illustrative sample — live receipts publish here once VANE trades on-chain.
$345Kprize pool
4awards
15judges
30days · built in public
Tokenize deadline · Sep 19

Everyone ships an agent that trades. We're shipping the agent you'd let hold your money.

ProjectKestrelthe agentic advisor
What we're shippingVANEVault Autonomy Engine
TracksClawPump × pump.fun+ Inference Markets · + Overall
StatusRegisteredSep 1, 2026 · building in public

What goes on-chain

The same engine that runs Kestrel's tracked portfolios — competing where everyone can watch it work.

Autonomy, on-chain

Hourly marks, drift checks against published bands, rebalance and DCA orders executed non-custodially on Solana — with hard caps and a kill switch in front of every trade.

A receipt for every decision

Every action recorded with its rationale and transaction signature. The agent argues from evidence, in public — no screenshots, no trust required.

Metered inference

VANE's decision layer buys its own compute on the inference market and reports cost-per-decision like any other portfolio expense.

Watched for thirty days

No private submissions — judges watch the chain and the streams while we build. Discipline is the spectacle.

The board

Four awards. One build competes for three of them — the ClawPump tracks stack, and every entry is automatically in for Overall.

Entered

ClawPump × pump.fun

$125Kin $ANSEM · + $35K cash

The builder & trader award — net-new tooling on the Hermes harness, realised performance, risk control.

Automatic

Overall Winner

$62.5Kin $ANSEM

The best project in the Clawrena, picked by the full panel — product, traction, token design.

Entered

Inference Markets

$37.5Kin $ANSEM · + $10K compute

For builds where UsePod inference is load-bearing — like an agent that budgets its own compute.

Not entered

EasyA Kickstart

$25Kin $ANSEM · + $25K cash

A separate launch surface — it can't be combined with the ClawPump tracks, so we chose our lane.

Figures are the organizers' published award totals; $ANSEM awards vest linearly over 3 months behind a 1-month cliff and are struck at announcement-day price.

Run of show

One deadline that matters, then ten days under the lights.

Sep 1

Entered

Registered in the official Clawrena registry. The build starts now.

Sep 19

Tokenize deadline

Registration and tokenization both close. Untokenized teams are out.

Sep 20–30

Judging

On-chain history, live streams, finalist pitches in front of the full panel.

Oct 1

Winners

$345K across four awards — and the work keeps running either way.

Follow the run on @KestrelInvest — daily receipts once VANE is live on-chain. The Clawrena build is open source in the build repo.