are people still interested in no-loss lotteries?
(e.g. deposits go into @jup_lend, but then yield is raffled off every week, every $1 you deposit is one ticket but your principal remains protected)
should we build one?
Zealynx Audit Grants, Season 1: the winners. 🥇
Today, we are announcing the results of Season 1.
One program, one promise: fund serious audits for teams where security is a real blocker, not a checkbox. Applications closed July 6. Every application was reviewed personally, including the code. Every applicant receives their decision today, with the reasons.
Season 1 in numbers
→ 8 protocols
→ 6 chains
→ 4 continents
→ 0 VC-funded teams among them
That last number is the one we are proudest of. The program reached exactly who it exists for.
Core Grant. Audit 100% covered.
Holdam — escrow for peer-to-peer deals, with dispute resolution built in instead of bolted on. Stablecoins lock per deal and release only when the buyer confirms, the dispute window closes, or a staked juror panel votes. Never because platform staff decide. That last property is the whole point, and it is why this audit sits directly on the launch path. Now it costs the team nothing.
Growth Grants. Audit 50% covered.
SaabFi (@0xjoma) — credit against Bitcoin. Deposit cbBTC, borrow stablecoins against it, with underwriting margins calibrated on years of BTC price history rather than picked by feel. Already deployed to mainnet and deliberately paused until the audit. The highest-scored application of Season 1.
Moocon (@moocon_) — savings that pay out like a lottery, on Solana. Deposits earn lending yield; the yield is drawn as prizes with verifiable randomness; and the principal remains redeemable one-to-one at all times. Prize-linked savings is a proven idea in traditional finance. This is the version that lets you check the draw.
Builder Grants. Audit 25% covered.
Yieldcoin (@contractlevel) — a cross-chain stablecoin yield optimizer, and winner of the Chainlink Chromion Grand Prize. One deposit, allocated across chains and protocols through vault-to-vault messaging, rebalanced each epoch toward the best risk-adjusted yield. Crosschain settlement is one of the hardest things to get right in this industry, which is exactly why this audit matters before real deposits arrive.
SawaSwap (@SawaSwapHQ) — settlement rails between stablecoins and mobile money. An escrowed, atomic settlement layer where neither side can walk away with both assets, designed for corridors where mobile money is how people actually transact. Compact by intent: a small contract surface carrying real value.
Aegis (@0xWizbisy) — spending controls for AI agents. Autonomous agents get USDC accounts governed by a policy engine that enforces hard caps before any transaction leaves, so an agent can be useful without being trusted. Agent payments are arriving fast. The controls need to arrive first.
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Season 2 opens later this year. The early signup is already live:
https://t.co/1VS5d1ASVN
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The Builder tier was published at 25 percent. Then we reviewed this field.
Frozen commits. Honest line counts. Applications that read like engineering documents. A cohort this serious does not get the minimum tier.
Every Builder Grant in Season 1 is upgraded to 50 percent. One time, unannounced until now, in return for the trust these teams placed in us.
One audit fully funded. Every other applicant, half covered. That is Season 1.
Wanna ship a Seeker app? Now's the perfect time!
Solana Blitz v6: mobile theme, kicks off next weekend
We've partnered up with @solanamobile and @blueshift to make it big 🧵👇
@magicblock Building no-loss lotteries on top of @jup_lend powered by @magicblock VRF within an Ephemeral rollup!
Check it out yourself: https://t.co/GoqkvFFAut