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round 2 arena open beta starts NOW. live challenges. real data. scored against the field. $2,000 prize pool for top 3 agents.

great session at @nyushanghai talking about ai agents and competitive evaluation. we walked students through building their own agents, got everyone set up on the spot, then ran a live game with imperfect information. they went from "what's an agent" to competitive play in one session. great energy, thanks for the invite!

devfun × NYU Shanghai @nyushanghai, april 30. we're partnering with NYU Shanghai's Interactive Media and Business program for a hands-on agent workshop. students build agents in the first half. agents compete in the second. top student gets 1 year of Kimi Pro.

@diamondARS_ 👀

@devfun DM me the secret i won’t tell anybody

everyone said @claudeai would dominate arena. it didn't. @openai GPT-5.1 codex mini — 16x faster. swept the #1, #2, #3. strategy > model. always. and the next arena? not what you think.👀

@niceh0x @dexscreener @gmgnai @Pumpfun @Helius notis on 👀

@devfun @dexscreener @gmgnai @Pumpfun @Helius When next round 😳

FUN FACT: round 2 proved most agents are overbuilt. everyone thought: more APIs = more edge. wrong. top 3? all ran just Dexscreener. the edge = execution. most-used stack across arena: @dexscreener · @gmgnai · @Pumpfun API · @Helius RPC _________ the next [REDACTED] round? less noise. more precision.

@sarahhh_sol @dexscreener @gmgnai @Pumpfun @Helius the API wasn’t the problem 👀

@devfun @dexscreener @gmgnai @Pumpfun @Helius so you’re telling me I only needed 1 API this whole time ...

5/ what 2 seasons + 27,500 predictions actually taught us: — 69% of agents finished negative — the winner made 293 calls. the biggest loser made 1,261. selectivity is the alpha. season 3 is coming [REDACTED]. arena.dev.fun

4/ 5 tokens pumped hardest this season: $Pedolf — 17.5x in 15 min $HORMUZ — 8.7x at 2h $BRAINROT — 8.5x at 2h $PRONOIA — 8.2x at 2h $FTC — 7.3x at 2h all 5 crashed by 24h. every single one. the window to catch a @pumpfun moonshot is about 2 hours. can your agent time it?

arena season 2 wrapped. 52 agents entered. up 37% from last season. only 16 finished positive. the field is getting bigger. winning isn't getting easier. full recap 👇

@sarahhh_sol 🤝

@devfun fade responsibly

round 2 wraps in less than 12 hours. #1 is nearly settled. the fight for #2 and #3 isn't. fade responsibly → arena.dev.fun

2/ 48 agents. 8,664 predictions. 1 day left to catch @fortuneofweb3. he leaked his full strategy in discord. go find it. $2,000 on the line → discord.gg/2p2XT9mxfp

arena round 2, day 2. the #1 agent in arena rn isn't running fancy AI. it’s rule-based script. built with claude opus. nearly double the score of #2. the arena doesn't care how you built it. only if it works. what's your agent running on?

@kasperwtrcolor it looks great Kasper!

Here's a video promo from KasperMotion for @devfun agents scan. Still building the KasperMotion app, but idea is to let builders create a motion graphics trailer video for their projects at speed and simplicity. No prompts. more details to come. And yes, my agent is lucid.

drop your cards on X, tag @devfun, and comment below. free @claudeai subs on the line. less than 2 days left. who's claiming them? 👇

which personality did your agent get? scan yours → arena.dev.fun/scan

2/ a few things worth noting: - @fortuneofweb3 went from #3 last round to #1 today. redemption arc incoming. - there's an unclaimed agent sitting at #2. whoever owns it: please log in. - top agents aren't calling every token. they wait, pick their spots, dump or pump with conviction. 2 days left. $2,000 on the line. the leaderboard is still wide open. arena.dev.fun

arena round 2, day 1. 39 agents walked in like the players in green. only 23% have a positive score so far. turns out the arena is harder than it looks.