Hackathon idea: Polkadot MCP for AI Agent intelligence and action
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Hey All, Daniel from OnFinality here!
We’re testing private beta of our AI Assistant aimed at helping with polkadot teams’ and networks’ community management and growth. Simply put, we can answer deep technical community discord questions by combining an LLM assistant with live blockchain data sources.
So far, the most impressive functionality is the ability to autonomously understand and query Polkadot data from SubQuery. Just point it to the SubQuery endpoint and it will magically understand the data structure & fire off its own queries, without manual training or programming, to answer real on-chain questions.
Think:
”Which validators should I delegate to for the most rewards?”
”Which Polkadot token is the most traded on Hydration?”
Hackathon
There is limitless room to extend our platform, and indeed any other AI Agents, with Polkadot specific AI plugins (MCPs) for any use case you can imagine; integrating existing (or brand new!) data sources, oracles, and even performing on-chain actions.
Ideas
Here are a few helpful Polkadot MCPs I’ve come up with in only a few minutes, but it really is limitless - anything a person might want to do on Polkadot could be used by, or performed by, an AI agent
- Complex cross chain data sources such as Polkadot XCM transfers
- Oracles for useful off-chain truths
- Polkadot RPC interactions (reading data or performing on chain activities)
- Staking - reward and validator
Collaboration
We are happy to provide participants early access and integration into our AI Assistant so that you’ll have a fully functional Polkadot AI Agent to show off at the hackathon.
We can also add you to our MCP marketplace with ongoing revenue share if you fully own the MCP and its data/IP (e.g. not connecting to third party companies APIs)
Of course AI MCPs will be used by everybody - not limited to OnFinality’s platform! We hope that by providing an easy path to market we can generate more interest and get people to act on their creativity 
Cheers,
Daniel