13 February 2026 | Weekly news roundup

EVE Frontier's $80,000 hackathon, Alek Larsen leaves Sky Mavis, and AI agent fun with Shaw Walters and Animoca Minds.

• [0:23] EVE Frontier and Sui are launching an $80,000 hackathon starting on 11th March.
• [4:50] It will be interesting to see how AI expands the number of people who get involved.
• [6:19] While web2 games struggle with AI, web3 games are well ahead of the curve.
• [10:20] The situation will become people complaining that games have banned their AI agent.
• [10:57] Jon's been experimenting with Animoca Minds. Talk to his agent - The Lantern.
• [12:15] Animoca's Yat Siu is already running his life via a number of these agents.
• [15:10] Jon has also been talking to Eliza Labs' Shaw about AI agents building blockchain games.
• [22:33] What happens when games are unbundled wrt development and business model?
• [25:53] Sky Mavis co-founder Aleksander Larsen has left to spend time not travelling, and with his young family.