January 5, 2026 – Singapore, Singapore
BNB Chain Hack Abu Dhabi became ground zero for the next era of AI innovation as hundreds of global builders converged to create the future of on-chain intelligence.
This year, ChatAndBuild powered a dedicated challenge track focused on one mission build the most compelling AI agent or AI-powered platform using NFAs (non-fungible agents) on BNB Chain.
The result was an explosion of creativity across DeFi, energy, agriculture, data infrastructure and developer onboarding proof that the agentic economy has officially arrived.
A year of building together and the launch of NFAs
2025 marks a breakthrough year for ChatAndBuild and BNB Chain. Together, the teams advanced the shared vision for AI agents in Web 3.0 through the following.
That vision is now live.
NFAs have officially been deployed on BNB Smart Chain mainnet, giving builders the first true identity layer for AI agents anywhere in the world.
Abu Dhabi became the stage where this milestone met real builders with real ambition.
Walter Lee, business development at BNB Chain, said,
“BNB Chain is becoming the home for AI-powered innovation, and we are delighted to work with ChatAndBuild to accelerate the future and empower builders worldwide.”
On December 5, 2025, ChatAndBuild founder and CEO Christel Buchanan delivered a keynote address immediately before Yi He, co-founder and co-CEO of Binance, setting the tone for two days of high-velocity building, collaboration and experimentation.
In front of a global audience of developers, founders and students, Buchanan positioned NFAs as the beginning of a new chapter for AI ownership.
Buchanan said,
“ChatAndBuild lets anyone create AI apps. [NFAs] let you own your AI identity. This is where the future of intelligence becomes something you can mint, shape and trade.”
The message became the heartbeat of the event a world where anyone can build, launch and own intelligent agents.
Hosted at the iconic 42 Abu Dhabi campus, the hackathon brought together builders from across MENA, Asia, Europe and beyond.
The energy was electric eaturing AMAs with BNB Chain co-contributor Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao, mentorship from Binance leadership and hands-on guidance from the ChatAndBuild team.
Developers used ChatAndBuild’s AI Super App and NFA agent infrastructure to build products tackling real markets, real users and real economic challenges.
The ChatAndBuild track alone delivered visions across five foundational pillars finance, energy, data, developer onboarding and the future of agent launchpads.
Phunks.ai is a self-learning, DeFi-native AI agent launchpad built on BSC by a young team of entrepreneurs with deep DeFi and BNB ecosystem experience.
They even contributed back to the ecosystem with an open-source pull request to ChatAndBuild’s NFA repository.
The team shared that they are excited to explore the idea of NFAs and build around it, as they see enormous potential in NFAs and are eager to test, ship fast and keep building.
Oil.fun is a decentralized prediction market for crude oil prices and energy events, allowing users to bet on WTI/Brent fluctuations, geopolitical triggers or supply shocks using on-chain oracles.
Built by Steve, a student at 42 Abu Dhabi coding school, and Kingsley, an engineer with RWA experience, oil.fun bridges traditional finance and Web 3.0.
They’ve integrated a real-time NFA agent on their site and are preparing to scale the platform further.
Addressing a $250 billion global financing gap, AHAN enables stablecoins to support smallholder farmers who often face interest rates exceeding 24%.
Built by an MIT FinTech–certified founder, AHAN leveraged ChatAndBuild to rapidly generate the full application and frontend.
Satheesh Kumar, founder of AHAN, said,
“Our vision is to democratize access to agricultural credit through stablecoin-based liquid staking.”
BlockchainHQ Earn is a nine-person veteran team created a learn-and-earn platform enabling anyone to contribute to the BNB ecosystem using technical or non-technical skills.
Practical, scalable and designed for mass adoption.
Getcontext is powering the agentic economy by turning raw data into yield-bearing assets.
Built by an ex-NEAR Protocol and Shell team, Getcontext combines MCP context data for developers with live datastream tokenization, creating a marketplace where data becomes tradeable infrastructure.
The diversity of projects at the hackathon reflects a simple truth hen builders get access to the right tools, intelligence becomes a global canvas.’
From DeFi builders in Asia, to energy innovators in the Gulf, to data engineers from Europe, the ChatAndBuild plus BNB Chain ecosystem empowers anyone even non-coders to create, deploy and own intelligent agents.
This is the beginning of a world where intelligence is not a corporate product it’s a user-owned asset class.
As the year closes, the collaboration between ChatAndBuild and BNB Chain is accelerating fast.
For the hundreds who flew to Abu Dhabi, the hackathon proved one thing he future of AI is being built by a global community united by the belief that anyone should be able to create and own intelligence.
Create personalized AI agents here.
Join the next builder event here.
ChatAndBuild is an AI super app that lets anyone build, launch and own intelligent applications without code.
Supporting over 40 languages and integrating tools from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Deepseek, the platform serves over 140,000 users across 111 countries.
The company pioneered NFAs using the BAP-578 token standard, enabling users to build, trade and manage intelligent digital assets on BNB Chain.
For more information, users can visit the website.
Chelsea Li, ChatAndBuild Limited
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