Solana x402 Hackathon to Spotlight AI Payment Projects, Backed by Trends.fun’s mable and Solana’s Jacob Creech

COINOTAG News reports on October 27 that Trends.fun founder mable floated the idea of staging the x402 Solana Hackathon to identify promising AI payment projects within the Solana network. The initiative has earned backing from Jacob Creech, who leads Solana’s global developer ecosystem, signaling a coordinated effort to advance on-chain payments and fintech interoperability.

Earlier today, the founder of Solana, tol y posted that “x402 is very good,” a remark that coincided with tol y receiving $5,500 USD in creator rewards on Trends.fun. In a follow-up, mable urged that tol y donate all rewards earned on the hackathon day to support the x402 Hackathon, aligning incentives with the event’s objective to foster AI-payment initiatives within the Solana ecosystem.