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      <title>Runtime Agent Week demo day carries $20,000 Bankr grand prize</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[# Runtime Agent Week demo day carries $20,000 Bankr grand prize

*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.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Bankr launches natural-language liquidity provision for Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Aerodrome</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>New product lets users become liquidity providers through natural-language commands, with AI agents managing positions 24/7.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[# Bankr launches natural-language liquidity provision for Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Aerodrome

*New product lets users become liquidity providers through natural-language commands with AI agents managing positions 24/7.*

Bankr, the financial infrastructure platform for AI agents, launched the first natural-language liquidity provision product for tokenized stocks, built on Aerodrome, the leading decentralized exchange on Base. Users can now buy supported Coinbase Tokenized Stocks and deploy them as liquidity with a single typed command — participating in value that has historically accrued to a small number of professional market-making firms.

The launch coincides with Coinbase Tokenized Stocks going live natively on Base under the B20 standard, with Aerodrome serving as a primary liquidity venue for assets including tokenized Apple and NVIDIA shares.

Providing liquidity for equities has long been the domain of specialized trading firms with proprietary infrastructure and privileged market access. In 2025, the largest US market maker posted a record $12.2 billion in trading revenue. Tokenized stocks are opening that role for the first time: onchain tokenized equity volume has grown roughly 800% this year, and 55% of that trading now happens outside traditional US market hours — when no traditional market maker is quoting.

Bankr's product is built for exactly that gap. Users create and manage concentrated liquidity positions on Aerodrome without configuring price ranges manually. Bankr's agent monitors and rebalances positions continuously as prices move — including overnight, on weekends, and whenever traditional markets are closed. Users initiate and control all positions; the agent operates within parameters the user has approved.

Since tokenized stocks went live on Base on Monday, Aerodrome has facilitated $103M in tokenized stock trading volume across four pools, proving 24/7 liquidity for stock trading.

"Market making stocks has been a closed club for thirty years. Coinbase and Aerodrome made it permissionless and onchain. We just made it a sentence you type," said 0xDeployer, founder of Bankr.

Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are onchain certificates backed by underlying shares held in segregated custody with regulated custodians. Full details on the token structure, eligibility, and redemption are available in [Coinbase's announcement](https://blog.base.org/tokenized-stocks).

Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are available only in eligible jurisdictions outside the United States and may be subject to identity verification and other eligibility requirements. Liquidity provision carries risks including price movement, impermanent loss, adverse selection, and smart contract risk.

"Liquidity providers are the backbone of deep, functional onchain liquidity. Lowering the barrier to providing this is essential to keeping markets healthy as onchain finance grows," said Alex Cutler, CEO and Cofounder of Dromos Labs and Core Contributor to Aerodrome.

## About Bankr

Bankr is the financial OS for the agent economy. It pairs a natural-language agentic terminal — trading, automation, and wallet functionality — with a builder platform for launching and monetizing AI agents onchain. Bankr operates on Base and Robinhood Chain. Learn more at [bankr.bot](https://bankr.bot).

## About Aerodrome

Aerodrome is the essential trading and liquidity hub of Base. As the network's leading decentralized exchange (DEX), Aerodrome unlocks high-efficiency execution for traders and sustainable rewards for liquidity providers. For builders and issuers, Aerodrome is the DEX of choice for launching, bootstrapping, and growing liquid markets for new and existing tokens. Since launching in August 2023, the protocol has processed over $430B in cumulative trading volume and distributed over $488M in revenue to token holders. Learn more at [aerodrome.finance](https://aerodrome.finance).

## Contact

Danny Brown Wolf — danny@bankr.bot

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