AI Projects Competing at Base Batches Demo Day

We have less than two weeks until DevConnect, Ethereum's premier developer conference (and home to the Bankless Summit). 

As an event that turns on nurturing and discovering developer talent, the conference will be a hotbed for technical discussions, hackathons, and competitions — making it an exciting one to track, even for those of us who aren't technical.

Why? Because seeing which projects win or receive additional support can provide edge and early discovery to those following along, alerting us to new teams before the rest of the market catches on.

One particular cohort I'm watching are the AI-related projects that just qualified as finalists in Base Batches' second round, and who will compete at DevConnect.

For context, Base Batches is Base's accelerator-esque program for teams building across two tracks: the Builder track for pre-product teams and the Startup track for teams with live products. The program's been running since early September and is now rapidly approaching its finale on Nov 19th, where Startup track finalists will demo in front of angel investors, VCs, and accelerators for the chance to receive funding and ecosystem support.

Out of the total 50 finalists, 7 of them incorporate or build for AI, targeting a wide variety of use cases from yield to APIs to dating. Below I've profiled these teams, drawing from all available information— some you may already know while others have little public available — to give you a guide to tracking them, discovering new projects, and hopefully gaining market edge in the process.

• Neurobro is a Virtuals-based, AI-powered intelligence platform for tracking and finding alpha. Built for surfacing actionable insights like smart money token accumulation, it maintains a database of both whales and tokens, showing buy/sell volume, latest activity, and realized PnL. Think of it as an AI copilot for onchain intelligence gathering.
• Delta is an AI built by mathematicians, quants, and former hedge-fund ML engineers, designed to capture market-neutral opportunities across DeFi. Backed by grants from Consensys Fellowship, Uniswap Foundation, and Arbitrum, among others, Delta's Dune dashboards show an ROI of 98% since October 7th. It works through Delta-neutral market making on DEXs, yield farming, and other more complex DeFi strategies.
• CODY is an agentic gaming platform aiming to build the first $1B onchain game through social, casual onchain gaming. Playable in both the Base app and Farcaster, CODY already has a token that serves as fuel for game entries, in-game purchases, and rewards. It's positioning itself at the intersection of AI agents and onchain gaming.
• NetMindAI is a fullstack solution for decentralized AI, offering a variety of plug-and-play  API services such as model integration, as well as an MCP hub for integrating with existing services. The platform also provides GPU infrastructure and business solutions, aiming to be a one-stop shop for decentralized AI needs.
• APINowfun is building on x402, creating tokenized APIs that let AI agents directly purchase access using tokens — similar to a vending machine for data and content. Agents can autonomously discover relevant APIs while token holders gain fractional ownership of these flows. Each call burns tokens, creating a deflationary mechanism tied to actual usage.
• Emerge is an AI mini-app for monetizing onchain workflows. Users create content engines by tagging the Emerge agent on Farcaster with aesthetic direction, which then generates a mini-app that others can pay to use. Creators earn rev share on each use, and the team is planning an airdrop post-TGE for both users who spend trying workflows and creators whose workflows generate revenue.
• Call Me Sensei is an onchain AI agent dating game teaching Japanese, available via iOS and Google Play. That's about all the public information available for now, though the concept — blending AI agents, language learning, and dating sim mechanics — is certainly unique among the finalists.

Overall, these seven projects showcase the breadth of what's being built at the intersection of AI and crypto on Base, everything from analytic to consumer.

For those looking to gain edge or discover new projects early, keeping tabs on how these teams perform at Demo Day could prove worthwhile. In the past we’ve seen that when winners receive funding and ecosystem, their token can take off — potentially giving early followers a head start on the market. 

All this is to say, it may be good to set aside some time on the 19th.