the void · concluded
the voidhappened.
125 builders. 5 tracks. 2 hours to build. 60 seconds to pitch. one room in bengaluru, on the morning of april 18, 2026.
the overall winner
riza mohhamad.
golden ticket to cohort 1 bangalore.
no application. no interview. straight in. 700+ applied to cohort 0. riza skipped every single line, the way it should be when the room is the proof.
the five tracks
winners announced1 pm, april 19.
five tracks. five winners. the names drop tomorrow afternoon, announced across forge and partner channels.
track 1 · phantom
agentic payments & tokenization.
winner: —
track 2 · signal
p2p agent infrastructure.
winner: —
track 3 · architect
agentic infrastructure.
winner: —
track 4 · catalyst
growth engine.
winner: —
track 5 · wildcard
cmo for a day.
winner: —
the tracks, in their own light
five lanes, fiveproofs.
agentic payments & tokenization
give your ai agent a wallet and let it transact autonomously. tether wdk for self-custodial wallets, hadron for tokenizing any asset, data, compute, api access, on-chain.
tba · 1 pm, apr 19
p2p agent infrastructure
kill the server. keet on holepunch's pear runtime gives your agents direct, encrypted, peer-to-peer communication with zero servers. build a multi-agent system where agents discover and coordinate autonomously.
tba · 1 pm, apr 19
agentic infrastructure
build agents, mcp servers, and tool chains on the infrastructure that's eating software. claude code, codex, claurst, langgraph, crewai, the agentic layer is moving fast.
tba · 1 pm, apr 19
growth engine
this track was for the operators who make products reach people, growth hackers, community builders, gtm strategists, distribution architects. you don't ship code, you ship users.
tba · 1 pm, apr 19
cmo for a day
not a coding track. for people who sell, distribute, and make things go viral. pick a big company, gpt, claude, google, spacex. you're their cmo. 2 hours. build the most insane campaign you can.
tba · 1 pm, apr 19
live soon
winners live
1 pm, apr 19.
names drop across forge channels.
what the void was
125 builders,one clock.
the void wasn't a hackathon. it wasn't a mixer. it was a proving ground, built for people who ship and can stand behind what they shipped. first half, pick a track, build something real. second half, stand up, 60 seconds, no slides, no deck, just you and a room that was paying attention.
we've seen enough applications and portfolios to know they don't tell us much. what told us everything was watching someone build under pressure and then explain it without flinching. that was the filter. that was the whole game.
one room, one morning, one clock. the rest is the names.
125
builders
5
tracks
2hr
build sprint
60s
to survive
5
judges
1
golden ticket
what the winners walk into
the rooms thatopen next.
forge residency interviews
top 3 from the void earned a direct interview for the residency. 700+ applied last cohort. they skipped the line.
awarded to
the room that stayed.
founders brunch
invite-only, the morning after. 30 to 40 ai founders in a room with hem's investment team. no panels. no pitches. just conversations that turn into term sheets.
awarded to
the room that stayed.
residential founder program
10 to 15 founders live and build alongside hem's investment team for a full week. investment committed at selection. sprint builders got fast-tracked for q3 2026.
awarded to
the room that stayed.
mentorship with kuber mehta
the guy who reverse-engineered claude code into rust, 4.9k stars. he was in the room. track 3 winner gets a direct mentorship session.
awarded to
the room that stayed.
growth pipeline
growth track winner gets a real conversation about roles, internships, and operator positions across adihuman ai and the forge network.
awarded to
the room that stayed.
community spotlight
winners get featured across forge channels, hashed emergent's network, and partner distributions. shipped at 9 am, in front of vcs by sundown.
awarded to
the room that stayed.
two hours · sixty seconds · one room
how the day ran
two hours ofbuilding.
9:15 am
kickoff
track overview. pick your lane. form teams or go solo.
9:30 am
build
two hours on the clock. ship something real.
11:30 am
the void
60-second pitches. buzzers. 5 judges. survive the room.
12:15 pm
wrap
standouts called. brunch invites extended.
1:00 pm
yc startup school
10 minutes away. walk over.
2:00 pm
founders brunch
invite-only. winners and judges. the conversations that matter.
in case you missed it
the questionspeople asked.
applications closed. the room spoke.
winners below, names live 1 pm apr 19.
forge@adihuman.ai