Colosseum Codex: Eternal Reopens, Starter Kit, App Kit
Colosseum Eternal Reopens, Solana Starter Kit, Solana App Kit, Program Security, Tokenized Equities on Solana
The Colosseum Recap is a new monthly video series covering news and updates from across the Colosseum ecosystem.
Each episode will include highlights from Colosseum hosted hackathons, milestones and progress from Accelerator teams, and general updates on Colosseum initiatives.
The first episode, covering May 2025, is now live!
Here's more news from around the Solana ecosystem...
⏲️Colosseum Eternal
Colosseum has reopened its Eternal program, allowing crypto founders to begin a four-week product sprint at any time between hackathons.
Participating teams will be considered for $250 k in pre-seed funding and selection into Colosseum’s next accelerator cohort, with judges currently finalizing the first Eternal Award winner for H1 2025.
🧰 Solana Starter Kit
The Solana Starter Kit addresses a roadblock for teams entering the Solana ecosystem: extensive time spent on infrastructure configuration before any user-facing feature can be shipped.
Internal surveys at Tapestry suggested that new projects routinely invested more than 140 hours on wallet wiring, RPC setup, and basic UI scaffolding. These tasks delayed product validation and diverted effort from core functionality.
Pilot users reported a 10x reduction in initial setup time.
The repository combines production-grade examples and integrations that work out of the box:
- Privy wallet authentication: Secure key custody, sign-in flows, and session management
- Tapestry social layer: API endpoints for profiles, follows, and notifications
- Zerion portfolio views: Prebuilt wallet dashboards with real-time asset data
- 0x Project swap widget: Token exchange without additional backend code
- Helius RPC endpoints: Enterprise bandwidth and consistent commitment guarantees
Each module ships with TypeScript examples, minimal UI components, and environment files that map directly to the corresponding SDKs.
Development was coordinated by Tapestry with contributions from Privy, Zerion, 0x Project, and Helius.
Feedback loops included teams behind pump.fun, vector.fun, and Moonwalk Fitness, whose early adoption provided benchmark data and identified common edge cases.
The toolkit is open-sourced on GitHub under an MIT license, with documentation that outlines extension points and service limits. Updates and additional integrations are planned as the project evolves.
Introducing the Solana Starter Kit: From Months to Minutes
📱 Solana App Kit
Solana App Kit is an open-source React Native scaffold that speeds mobile development time for Solana applications from weeks to about fifteen minutes.
It targets two recurring hurdles:
- The steep learning curve for mobile-first blockchain apps
- The extensive effort needed to wire multiple protocol SDKs before any feature work begins.
The framework ships with a production-ready iOS and Android codebase, preconfigured navigation, state management, and a CLI quick start. A modular architecture lets teams import only the components they need while keeping clear code separation.
Key integrations include:
- Trading and swaps: Jupiter aggregator, Pump.fun AMM, Raydium concentrated liquidity
- Launchpads: Pump.fun, Raydium, Meteora, Token Mill
- Embedded wallets: Privy, Dynamic, Turnkey, plus Mobile Wallet Adapter support for Solana Mobile
- Data services: Coingecko, Birdeye, Rugcheck for token information
- NFTs: Metaplex minting and Tensor trading
- AI and utilities: SendAI for chat-based Solana actions, Jito bundles and Helius for transaction landing
The project is maintained by the SEND ecosystem, with each protocol provider contributing integration modules and test coverage.
Early adopters report faster prototyping for DeFi trading apps, NFT marketplaces, and wallet experiences, enabling teams to focus on user experience rather than boilerplate wiring.
⭐ Highlights of the Week
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Advanced Solana Program Security
This guide surveys six lesser-known program Solana vulnerabilities, illustrating each with real bug reports, code snippets, and suggested mitigations, so builders can spot and patch issues that slip past standard checklists.
Tokens are Broken
This presentation from Theia Research takes a deep-dive into the problems of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and identifies futarchy markets like MetaDAO as one of the most promising solutions to fix structural problems in token markets.
Issuing Tokenized Equities on Solana
This report argues that Solana has become the frontrunner for tokenized securities with its Token Extensions and transfer-hook framework that lets developers mint shares with self-enforce KYC, jurisdiction limits, dividends, splits and claw-backs, and it backs the claim with real launches such as BlackRock’s BUIDL and Apollo’s ACRED.
⚡ Quick Hits
Introducing Advanced Multisig Security Solution for Solana - Range
Solana Attestation Service (SAS) Explained: KYC Once, Access Everywhere - CCN
The First Solana Transaction in Space (video) - SOLYD
Surfpool v0.6.0 is live - txtx
Solana’s Stablecoin Landscape - Helius
Accelerating Perena Part 2: Trust is the Currency - @gizmothegizzer
⚙️ Tools & Resources
ASM Entrypoint is a generic Solana entrypoint deserialize for multi-instruction solana programs written in ASM.
anchor-version-detector is a CLI tool that analyzes Solana/Anchor projects to detect or infer the Anchor, Solana, and Rust versions needed for an Anchor project.
💸 Funding
Neutral Trade, a DeFi project that started in the Colosseum Radar Hackathon, has raised $2 million in a funding round led by Ergonia, and angel investors from projects like Drift and Jupiter Exchange. The funds will be used to scale operations and build a platform of crypto investment products on various exchanges.
Assisterr, a Solana-native platform for building and monetizing small language-model agents, has raised $2.8 million to finish launching its ASRR token and expand the no-code tools that let developers create and deploy specialized AI agents.
Donut Labs has raised $7 million in a pre-seed round led by Hongshan, BITKRAFT, and HackVC, with participation from angel investors including Solana and other ecosystem leaders, to develop the world’s first agentic crypto browser on the Solana blockchain
Fermi Labs announced a $1.2M pre-seed funding round led by Equilibrium Ventures and Big Brain Holdings to build a scalable and capital-efficient orderbook DEX on Solana
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Orca is hiring a Software Engineer (Backend)
- DoubleZero is hiring a Data Scientist / Network Analyst
- Wormhole is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer
- Everstake is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer
📅 Event Calendar
Layer KC Meetup, Kansas City, MO, June 8
Layer, a monthly meetup where art, tech, and decentralized culture collide brings creatives, builders, and the blockchain-curious together to explore how blockchain, AI, and open data can reshape local culture and collective action
🎧 Listen to This
Lightspeed
Brennan Watt discusses Solana's latest upgrade Alpenglow, diving deep into the Anza origin story, Alpenglow's impact on the Solana network, how to reduce malicious MEV, and the past, present & future of Solana.
Alpenglow: Solana's Largest Protocol Upgrade Ever | Brennan Watt, Anza
Bonus Episodes
Inside the Solana Story: Near-Death Brushes and a Need for Speed - web3 with a16z crypto
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko joins a16z GP Ali Yahya (live at the CSX Crypto Startup Accelerator) to recount Solana’s journey from a late-night insight and near-failures to becoming a high-speed blockchain, the network’s speed-first design, its ship-and-iterate culture, developer mindset, and recent innovations like a revamped consensus algorithm.
Inside Solana Mobile’s Master Plan with Chase Barker - 100xDevs
This OnlyDevs episode features Chase Barker, legendary shitposter, dev evangelist, and the man who helped onboard some of the earliest devs on Solana. Fresh from a brief “retirement,” he’s back to lead Solana Mobile, pushing crypto fully mobile and taking on the Apple-Google duopoly.
Chainlink Accelerates Solana's Growth w/Co-founder Sergey Nazarov - Paul Barron Network
Paul Barron interviews Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov about the major CCIP integration with Solana, which enables seamless cross-chain transfers and unlocks billions in liquidity. They discuss how this breakthrough attracts institutions to blockchain, expands tokenized assets, and deepens DeFi.
Oro is Bringing Gold On Chain and into the 21st Century - Solana Weekly
Usman, CEO and co-founder of Oro, explains how Oro tokenizes fully audited bullion on Solana, delivers 3–4% yield through the traditional gold-leasing market, and covers macro drivers, token mechanics, redemption logistics, and why a non-USD store of value could be the missing piece of Solana DeFi.
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