Ship Capital Markets kicks off Sept 2 🚢
Talks w/ @Kougamet [@SolanaFndn Grant Dev Representative] on how his startup scanner works:
• how Solana Foundation chooses which startups get grants and which don’t
• what milestones teams hit to make the SF Grants shortlist
+ 2 practice sessions w/ Kumeka Team [Sept 2 and 5]:
• using @luciddrakes’ framework to generate ideas
• form teams
• focus on real needs + Solana trends
🚀 Sonic Summer Surge Trading Event Extended
Light traders, you’ve got one more week to rack up rewards!
We’ve just dropped special prizes — $CHILL, $FOMO, and $CHAOS - and another surprise partner is coming later this week.
More time. More partners. More prizes. Let’s surge!
Everyone builds. Few break through!
A @solana hackathon (@colosseum) isn’t just an event.
It’s the combined energy of 8000+ builders showing what the future of the ecosystem could be.
Thousands of ideas. Hundreds of projects. One chain.
But only 15 teams will make it to the accelerator.
Only 15 will prove they’re ready to go beyond Figma and GitHub — and ship something real.
That’s what makes Solana hackathons different.
It’s not just about building. It’s about breaking through.
One day left until the registration deadline for Breakout!
Starting tomorrow, you'll be able to hit Submit — and continue editing your project until May 16.
Don’t wait until the last moment — register and submit your project on time.
Participation in KUMEKATHON is only possible through Breakout — no submission there, no entry here.
In addition to the main track prizes in the @Solana Breakout Hackathon, the @Superteam community has aggregated all the individual side tracks offered by ecosystem companies.
Total side prizes now total over $300,000. Check out the full list below! 👇
https://t.co/aSt12lEZyk
I've got a startup idea.🤪
It'll be called "What's for Dinner."🥮
Like Tinder, but with food. For example: Masha, 800 meters away, made borscht. If there's a match, Oleg indicates how much money he's willing to spend. Masha gets attention and money. Oleg gets attention and food. And they both socialize.
@KumekaTeam@colosseum@superteam where can i found funds to build?..
Build real products, solving real problems.
@MetaDAOProject is here to support all builders who are actively developing and shipping real products.
Participate for a chance to win from a $10,000 prize pool.
Tokenomics — the scariest part when you’re building your first crypto project.
That’s why we’re diving into it tomorrow!
⋅ How tokenomics works — and why some tokens moon while others crash
⋅ Breaking down the best and worst tokenomics examples
⋅ How to spot strong token models (and avoid bubble projects) just by reading a whitepaper
⋅ How tokenomics impacts your project’s value, liquidity, and trust
All this with @o_herasymchyk — a serial entrepreneur with 12+ years in Web3, business development, and AI.
CPO @crhgame
COO @GemuPlayStudio
CEO & Founder @heroesbattlearn
🗓
April 29
18:00 GMT+3
A hackathon isn’t just “build a product.”
It’s juggling:
— Running project socials
— Managing designers
— Giving clear tasks to devs
— Reviewing tasks
— Constant calls
— Solving problems no one even knows how to define
And it’s like that every day. Week after week.
Just when you think you can catch your breath — a new blocker hits.
Yeah, it’s hard.
Yeah, sometimes you feel burnt out before the finish line.
But if you’re a founder — there’s no other way.
Building means fighting. For your idea. For yourself.
Custom development – the thing @solana Breakout hackathon by @colosseum judges love.
Don’t miss tomorrow’s workshop with @solomina_olesya, CEO at @BDBoost3r!
Custom Development: How to go from ideas about your product and users to real use cases based on market demand — in under a month
We’ll talk about:
⋅ How to test product hypotheses by actually talking to your users
⋅ How to use user surveys and trends to shape use cases with real business potential
⋅ How to quickly iterate based on feedback and launch something relevant in just a month
Olesia Solomina knows how to build strategic partnerships in web3 like a pro:
⋅ 20+ years in sales
⋅ 3,000+ relationships across crypto & fintech networks.
⋅$20+ million in revenue generated for our clients.
⋅ 50+ individual client agreements secured.
🗓 April 22, 18:00
Streaming live on Twitter
Register on Luma so you don’t miss it:
Hot take: You can tell a lot about someone from their follower-to-following ratio. For me, Solana is about engaging with others, learning, collaborating, and building together.
If you follow a lot of people, it shows you care about the community, want to learn, and value different perspectives—even ones you don’t agree with. But if you barely follow anyone, it suggests you’re more interested in broadcasting your opinion than listening.
I want to share a bit of the pain every founder goes through.
As I’m writing this, it’s 1 AM on the weekend.
The whole team is asleep, everyone’s asleep—except me. I’m sitting here thinking about how to find new partnerships for a project no one has seen or heard of yet.
📣 We have a new template for create-solana-dapp!
This template is a Node/Express server featuring gill + @solana/kit! 🤓
It includes example routes, a setup script, dotenv, CORS, Docker configuration, and more! 🎁