OPAL Shows AI Gamer in Action and Secures Top 5 Codex Spot

Summary

• OPAL drew attention after showing a Claude Opus–powered AI that queues into multiplayer shooters, joins voice chat, and plays matches alongside humans as a real teammate.

• After a quiet post-launch period, interest spiked when an Opal founder announced a top 5 finish at the OpenAI Codex Hackathon.

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Opal introduced itself as an AI agent built to function as a gaming teammate rather than a chatbot or overlay. The project shared footage of a Claude Opus–powered agent queuing into shooter games, joining voice chat, navigating maps, and actively playing alongside human teammates, from solo play to full duo queues.

In the same announcement thread, Opal stated that it would participate in Pump fun’s $3M Build in Public Hackathon. Pump fun had outlined that the hackathon would fund 12 projects with $250K each at a $10M valuation, along with mentorship from the Pump fun founders.

The OPAL token launched on January 24 and initially reached around $450K market cap before retracing to roughly $50K. For about 12 days, activity around the project remained limited. On February 6, Opal cofounder @qtzx06 shared that the team had placed top 5 at the OpenAI Codex Hackathon, which coincided with renewed attention and OPAL moving to a new high near $1.4M market cap.

Shortly after, Opal’s account shared photos from the Codex Hackathon, including shots of the team presenting the project to Sam Altman.

Opal cofounder @stpnhhh also posted a video from the event with Sam Altman, adding a caption referencing interest in AI agents.

Additional support came from a known memecoin trader, Anna, who said the Opal team were experienced builders and were attending multiple hackathons.