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Colosseum Codex: Breakout Project Directory, Blueshift Courses, Farcaster Integration

Breakout Hackathon Project Directory, Blueshift Courses, Farcaster Solana Integration, Solana Attestation Service, Confidential Transfers, Solana’s Security History, Seeker. Mobile Hackathon

Mike Hale

29 May 2025 — 6 min read

Accelerate NYC came to an end last week with a ton of big news and announcements. I'm not going to give you a full recap here, there was just too much to share, but check out these great roundups for a full recap:

Colosseum cofounder Clay Robbins hosted a session with Breck Stodhill (Haun Ventures) on fundraising, the importance of capital-market fit, how founders need to align with investors, and detailing the funding journey from hackathons and angel investors to accelerators and seed rounds.

Check out the full video for more:

Here's the rest of what happened this week for Solana builders...

🎉 Breakout Hackathon Project Directory

The project directory for the Breakout Hackathon is now live!

Breakout was the largest crypto hackathon ever and one of the largest in tech history with 1,412 submissions.

Head over to the directory and check out all the projects built by talented teams.

Judging is currently underway and the winners and Colosseum Accelerator founders will be announced in 3-4 weeks.

Breakout Hackathon Project Directory

🎓 Blueshift

Blueshift has launched a set of in-depth, hands-on courses to teach developers how to build programs on the Solana blockchain.

Blueshift is a leading Solana development shop that has contributed to launches such as Virtuals, 10K, and the Solana Registry Service. The studio’s work funds its learning platform which supports the growing influx of Solana developers and strengthens the ecosystem.

Blueshift’s Solana courses are organized into chapters and hands-on projects. The content is structured to gradually introduce core concepts, starting from fundamental Solana account handling to advanced program logic and security considerations.

The initial set of courses include:

Pinocchio Vault: Developers build a vault program using the Pinocchio library that enables developers to write high-performance programs without relying on frameworks.
Anchor Vault: An introductory module designed to teach developers how to build a basic vault program on Solana using the Anchor framework.
Anchor Escrow: Introduces developers to building a non-custodial escrow program on Solana using the Anchor framework.

More courses are planned and will be released over time. All course materials are open source, encouraging adaptation and community contributions.

Blueshift Solana Courses

💬 Farcaster Solana Integration

Farcaster has introduced Solana wallet integration letting users launch games, token markets, or other Solana miniapps from inside the Farcaster interface.

Last year Farcaster first allowed Solana address verification. A user could link a wallet in Warpcast, Farcaster’s main client. Frames, the platform’s mini-app format, could then read that address and carry out basic actions like minting NFTs without leaving the feed.

This new integration allows users to open Solana mini-apps, token markets, and games right inside Farcaster.

For developers the change creates one identity that includes the user’s Solana address alongside any other supported chains. Frames can embed actions such as mint, swap, or vote directly in the social timeline, reducing the need for extra pop-ups or site changes.

Farcaster now supports Solana

🤝 Solana Attestation Service

Solana Attestation Service is a new open-source protocol that brings verifiable credentials to Solana that lets trusted issuers attach off-chain information such as KYC status, geographic eligibility, or investor accreditation to any Solana wallet through signed attestations that can be reused across apps without exposing sensitive data.

With a single SDK call, an application can accept or reject a wallet based on these attestations instead of running its own verification flow or storing personal information.

This neutral layer supports compliance, access control, on-chain reputation, and other identity functions while keeping user data private and portable.

Early use cases include KYC passports that satisfy regulation once and work on many platforms, region-based gates for asset drops, proofs of uniqueness for airdrops or governance, accreditation checks for real-world asset markets, DAO reputation badges, and device or location proofs for DePIN networks.

SAS launches with backing from Civic, Solana ID, Solid, RNS.ID, Honeycomb, and other partners that are adding attestations to their products or ingesting them into analytics and security tools.

Developers can start by installing the SAS SDK and following reference schemas on the official site.

By separating trust from application logic, the service lowers regulatory risk and user friction while giving wallets a single set of credentials that works everywhere.

Introducing Solana Attestation Service

⭐ Highlights of the Week

Confidential Transfers on Solana
Confidential Token Extensions, now live on Solana mainnet, add encrypted balances and private transfer amounts to any Token-2022 asset. This guide is a step-by-step walkthrough for developers who want to integrate Solana’s Confidential Token Extensions covering setup, encryption keys, ZK proofs, and the full transaction workflow.

A Comprehensive Analysis of Solana’s Security History
This article provides an exhaustive catalog of Solana’s security history up to Q1 2025, with in depth research to uncover every known, verified security incident in Solana using only high quality, verified resources.

Solana Seeker Announcements
Solana Mobile General Manager Emmett Hollyer confirms the Solana Seeker’s August 4 launch and explains how its $SKR token economy, upcoming Seeker dApps, and the TEEPIN architecture will underpin a decentralized, mobile-first ecosystem on Solana.

Solana Mobile Hackathon
Solana Mobile will host its first hackathon in June, inviting developers to build new mobile Solana dApps or adapt existing ones for the Solana dApp Store ahead of the Seeker phone’s launch with rewards that include marketing support, cash, Seeker devices, special track prizes, and prominent store placement.

⚡ Quick Hits

Unlocking Real-Time Onchain: A Guide to Ephemeral Rollups - MagicBlock

Understanding Solana Token Accounts (video) - QuickNode

Learn Surfpool For Solana Developers (video) - @dProgrammingUni

How to stream real-time price data with MagicBlock and Pyth Lazer feeds - @d1cetheroller

⚙️ Tools & Resources

Solana-Walrus SDK is a developer SDK for uploading, downloading, and managing files on Walrus Storage designed specifically for Solana-native dApps.

jaguar is a lightweight binary serialization library designed for high-performance operations in resource-constrained environments like sBPF programs and embedded systems.

Solana Flutter Scaffold is a Flutter scaffold to provide essential features and integrations, allowing developers to spin up a Flutter project that leverages the Solana Mobile Client for seamless wallet interactions on mobile devices.

doge-on-solana is a Solana program that enables trustless inter-blockchain communication between Dogecoin/Bitcoin and Solana by verifying full PoW/AuxPow consensus on chain.

Solana-Program-Authority-Manager is a script that provides a way to set the upgrade authority of a Solana program using the Solana CLI to delegate upgrade authority to a PDA or another keypair.

p-ata is a proof-of-concept of a reimplementation of the SPL Associated Token Account program using Pinocchio that optimizes the compute units, while being fully compatible with the original implementation.

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

Squads is hiring for several Frontend and Backend Engineering roles
Ondo Finance is hiring a Solana Smart Contract Engineer
Solstice Labs is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer
Orca is hiring a Software Engineer (Frontend)

📅 Event Calendar

Startup Village Split, Split, Splitsko-dalmatinska županija, June 9 - 18
Startup Village will turn Split, Croatia into a Web3 hub from June 9 to 18, offering founders, developers, and investors a ten-day program focused on Solana and broader blockchain applications, with expert talks and panels on DePIN, gaming, AI, infrastructure, payments, and consumer apps, alongside small-group workshops for hands-on learning and direct mentorship.

🎧 Listen to This

Solana Crossroads

In this episode Colosseum cofounder Matty Tay shares an insightful journey into the world of hackathons and their critical role in fostering innovation within the Solana ecosystem.

He explores the historical roots of innovation competitions, from ancient patronage systems and Napoleon’s Voltaire Prize to modern-day challenges like DARPA’s Grand Challenge, illustrating how open competitions have long driven breakthroughs.

Matty details how Colosseum organizes large-scale, multi-week hackathons that go beyond the traditional brief 24-48 hour events, encouraging the creation of sustainable products and startups on the Solana blockchain.

He highlights the ecosystem’s success, noting that 80% of all VC-backed Solana startups originated from hackathons, collectively valued at around $20 billion in market cap.

The episode also covers Colosseum's accelerator program and venture fund, which invest heavily in promising projects to help them transition from prototypes to fully-fledged companies, providing legal, technical, and go-to-market support.

Matty discusses the importance of community-building tools, such as their platform for finding co-founders and sharing ideas before hackathons start, emphasizing the power of collaboration in startup success.

The Evolution of the Hackathon | Matty Tay | Crossroads '25

Bonus Episodes

Crypto's Next DePIN Catalyst With David Rhodus, Pipe Network - Lightspeed

David Rhodus joins Lightspeed to discuss the future of Pipe Network, what is a CDN, DePIN's major unlock, how to scale a DePIN network, and competing with the big infrastructure providers.

This Solana Startup Is Finally Making Crypto Easy to Use | Chris Osborn - Talking Tokens

Chris Osborn of Dialect recounts the company’s journey since co-launching Blinks, Dialect’s mission to streamline crypto integrations by prioritizing user experience, trust, and security, describes why Solana’s speed and cost profile shaped the firm’s early focus, and outlines ongoing work to extend support to additional blockchains.

Inside Dune with Mats Olsen - The DCo Podcast

Mats Olsen, Dune’s co-founder and CTO, explains how the firm tackles the challenge of real-time blockchain data by storing chain data in structured tables and exposing it through SQL and Sim APIs, sparing apps from building their own indexers.

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