We’re excited to announce our partnership with AnChain.AI to address one of Web3’s persistent tensions: how do you build for compliance without abandoning the decentralization that makes this technology meaningful?
The Short Answer: You Don’t Have to Choose
Pocket Network provides decentralized RPC access across 50+ blockchains through a globally distributed network of node operators. This architecture delivers the reliability and resilience that serious applications demand—without routing your data through centralized chokepoints.
AnChain.AI brings AI-powered compliance intelligence: risk scoring, sanctions screening, and transaction analysis across 40+ chains. As institutional interest in Web3 grows, this kind of tooling isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s table stakes.
Together, we’re offering developers something that’s been unnecessarily difficult: reliable multi-chain data access paired with institutional-grade compliance, through a single integration path.
Introducing: Compliance Unlocked Hackathon
To show what’s possible when decentralized infrastructure meets compliance intelligence, we’re launching a four-week virtual hackathon in Q1 2026.
The Challenge: Build an application that meaningfully integrates both Pocket Network’s decentralized data access and AnChain.AI’s intelligence platform. Show the ecosystem what compliant, decentralized applications actually look like.
Build Ideas:
- Wallet risk dashboards scoring counterparty risk from real-time transaction history
- DeFi protocol monitors flagging high-risk addresses before contract interaction
- DAO treasury tools alerting multisigs on flagged entity transfers
- Natural language investigation interfaces for compliance teams
- Cross-chain risk aggregators for institutional portfolios
- Community access bots that screen wallet addresses before granting Discord/Telegram roles
Prize Pool: 2,000 USDC across top projects
What You Get:
- Direct Discord access to both technical teams
- Comprehensive documentation and example implementations
- Elevated API access throughout the hackathon
Timeline (Tentative)
- Applications Open: Mid-February 2026
- Building Period: March 2026
- Winners Announced: Early April 2026
Who Should Apply
This hackathon is for developers who:
- Are building (or want to build) multi-chain applications
- Need compliance capabilities without sacrificing decentralization
- Are targeting enterprise or institutional markets
- Care about security, risk management, and regulatory readiness
- Want to explore what’s possible at the intersection of infrastructure and intelligence
No prior experience with either platform required. If you can work with APIs and understand blockchain fundamentals, you’re ready.
Why This Matters
The applications that reach mainstream adoption will need to satisfy both regulators and the principles that brought people to Web3 in the first place. That’s not a contradiction—it’s a design challenge.
The projects built during Compliance Unlocked will serve as reference implementations for the next generation of Web3 applications: compliant by default, decentralized by design.
Applications open mid-February 2026.
Get Involved:
- Join the conversation: discord.gg/pocket-network
- Technical docs: https://data.anchainai.com/docs/
- Questions? Reach out to Tracie at tracie@pokt.foundation