Colosseum Codex: Talent Olympics, Blink Build Days, Firedancer Bug Bounty

🏅 Talent Olympics

The Talent Olympics is designed to help talented developers from around the world get jobs at the best companies on Solana.

Superteam, in collaboration with Turbin3 and Rise In, have created a set of 10 challenges across two tracks: Front End and Rust.

Every challenge you complete will earn you points. The better your submission, the more points you earn. Developers with the most points will receive USDC prizes and can snag an interview with one of 45 companies looking to hire developers.

To enter, select one or more of the ten challenges under the Front End or Rust tracks. You can participate in either track and as many challenges as you'd like, but the quality of your submission is the most important factor.

The best overall participants will split a separate prize pool of $10,000 USDC.

Solana Talent Olympics Summer 2024

👀 Blink Build Days

Blink Build Days are IRL meetups to dive into the basics of Blinks and Solana Actions

Developers are invited to bring their idea to life with hands-on experimentation and collaboration while working through tutorials to enhance your skills.

You'll also get to connect with local developers, share knowledge, and grow the community together.

If there is not a meetup already in your area you're invited to step up and host one!

Introducing Blink Build Days

🐛 Firedancer Bug Bounty Program

Jump Crypto is launching a bug bounty program for Firedancer, a high-performance validator client designed to significantly boost Solana's network speed and security.

Powered by Immunefi, the program invites developers to identify and report critical bugs in Firedancer v0.1. Bugs found will be investigated and responded to within 24 hours on weekdays.

The bug bounty program will run from July 10, 2024, to August 21, 2024, offering up to $1 million in rewards by identifying vulnerabilities in Firedancer.

Firedancer Client $1M Bug Bounty Program

🥡 Introducing Termina

Termina is Nitro Labs' solution to the growing demand for Solana blockspace.

As Solana's blockspace demand outgrows its scaling capabilities, developers face challenges with congestion and outages. Traditional methods like SVM forks, side chains, and rollups are complex and operationally demanding.

Termina addresses these issues by introducing the first SVM Cloud platform, enabling developers to deploy custom blockspace on Solana or anywhere.

The core of Termina is SVM+, an extended version of the base SVM, which powers new use cases in gaming, trading, and DePIN.

As Termina is gets closer to its devnet launch, Nitro Labs is seeking teams looking to deploy applications suited to the SVM+ to collaborate with.

Introducing Termina: the End State of SVM Scaling

💎 Developer News

Zero-Knowledge Scaling
Through a comprehensive analysis of their architecture, technical differences, use cases, and performance, this article provides a detailed comparison of Solana’s ZK Compression and Ethereum’s ZK Rollups.

Midwest Blockchain Conference
The Midwest Blockchain Conference is launching its inaugural event on November 8-9, 2024, at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business to provide opportunities for Midwest students in the blockchain spaceand address critical topics like governance, blockchain education, and the future of cryptocurrency.

XFounders Bootcamp Season 2
XFounders Bootcamp, powered by the Solana Foundation, is set to take place in Bali this September. This month-long bootcamp offers startups the chance to build a robust product and be featured in a reality show which aims to inspire viewers and encourage them to embark on their own entrepreneurial journeys.

July Solana Ecosystem Call
The Solana Ecosystem Call for July covered Wins of the Month for June, the State of Solana, Blinks w/jon wong (Solana Foundation) and Chris Osborn (Dialect), Aligning Token Incentives w/Malisha (Streamflow), and ZK Compression on Solana w/ Helius & Light Protocol.

⚙️ Tools & Resources

Blink Inspector is a tool you can use to check if your Blink follows the Actions spec and lets you test all the user input fields to check raw data returned from the Actions API.

PayTube is a A reference implementation of an off-chain state channel built using Anza's decoupled SVM API that shows you everything you need to know to build with the new API.

Prism is a no-code platform for creating custom AI agents and ML models tailored for web3 on Solana. PRISM simplifies the integration of AI/ML features, offering powerful APIs for building products like Telegram bots, transaction tools, and wallet history analyzers.

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

Dialect is hiring a Senior Product Manager and Developer Relations Engineer..

marginfi is hiring a Senior Product / Application Engineer

💸 Funding

Rome, which aims to use Solana to provide services to Ethereum L2s, has raised $9 million of funding from top-tier investors from Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, and others, a long with notable angels including Anatoly Yakovenko and Austin Federa.

Frictionless Capital announced it has raised a $20M fund from Franklin Templeton and Foundation Capital, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon of A16z, and leading crypto founders such as Raj Gokal and Anatoly Yakovenko of Solana.

⚡ Quick Hits

What Is MagicBlock? Understanding the Solana Onchain Game Engine - Bankless

Phantom Updates Recap for June - @phantom

Resources and tutorials to start developing Blinks - @jashandotsol

Elmnts exits stealth mode to bring access to oil & gas mineral rights and royalties - @elmnts_

A Mildly Technical Intro to Solana's Gulf Stream - @adlonymous

Multiple Concurrent Leaders to Minimize MEV - @aeyakovenko

How to stream real-time Solana Transactions using Shyft’s gRPC service - Shyft

100+ ideas to build on Solana Blinks - @thesendcoin

Everything you know about Solana's proof-of-history (PoH) is wrong - @bw_solana

OKX Wallet Integrates Solana Blinks - @okxweb3

🎧 Listen to This

Unlayered

Greg Gotsis from Tiplink discusses the simple wallet onboarding experience that Tiplink offers its users.

While Tiplink's wallet creation process is made incredibly fast and intuitive via a Google Login workflow, it's Tiplink's ability to share and send ownership of their wallets via links over the internet which could truly help to unlock mass market user behaviors.

Greg talks about the project's journey so far, how a combination of Tiplink and the recently unveiled Solana Blinks could further help to transform user behaviours, and how he imagines the wallet landscape improving over the next 10 years.

Tiplink : Using Link-Based Wallets To Onboard A Billion People I Greg Gotsis

Bonus Episodes

Why Blockchain Transparency Is Changing the Future of Exchanges - The Brave Technologist

Bartosz Lipiński, CEO at Cube.Exchange, discusses how they're approaching the exchange model more transparent, how Cube is redefining blockchain's original promise of a public and trustworthy ledger, and the challenges of building a global exchange that adheres to disparate international regulations.

On Finding Product Market Fit and Meaning - web3 with a16z

Ben Rubin, who built the breakout social apps Meerkat, then Houseparty, and who is now building a decentralized messaging protocol as CEO and co-founder of Here Not There Labs, shares his journey and search for meaning with Jason Rosenthal, head of a16z crypto's CSX startup accelerator program.

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