Colosseum Codex: Radar Project Directory, Developer Bootcamp, Futarchy 2.0
Radar Hackathon Directory, Developer Bootcamp Videos, Futarchy 2.0, Miniblinks, Neon EVM, Secret Network, Auditors Bootcamp, Historical State RFP, Solayer 101
🎉 Radar Hackathon Directory
The project directory for the Radar Hackathon is now live!
With 1,359 project submissions from all over the world, Radar was the largest crypto hackathon ever and one of the largest in tech history!
Head over to the directory and check out all the projects built by talented teams.
Judging is currently underway and the hackathon winners and Colosseum Accelerator founders will be announced in 3 weeks.
Radar Hackathon Project Directory
▶️ Solana Developer Bootcamp 2024
The Solana Developer Bootcamp 2024 is a free, comprehensive program designed to help developers grasp the basics of Solana and how to develop programs and full stack apps on Solana.
With over 20 hours of video content, this bootcamp provides hands-on experience by building real-world applications.
The bootcamp features guidance and instruction from top developers including Jacob Creech, Brandon Migliaccio, and Mike Maccana.
The bootcamp is divided into two parts, covering a total of 13 projects:
- Building a Favorites Program
- Creating a Voting Application
- Integrating Blinks and Actions
- Building a CRUD Application
- Creating a Token
- Creating an NFT
- Building a Swap Program
- Creating a Token Vesting App
- Building a Token Lottery
- Lending Application
- Programmable Money
- Attacking the Bank
- Getting to Production
By the end of the Solana Developer Bootcamp 2024, you'll become an advanced Solana developer with the skills to create production-ready web3 apps on Solana!
Solana Developer Bootcamp 2024 - Learn Blockchain and Full Stack Web3 Development
🗳️ Futarchy 2.0
MetaDAO's Futarchy 2.0 is bringing prediction markets to the next level on Solana. It's all about making decision-making more interactive and data-driven by letting you, or your users, create markets where people bet on the outcomes of different choices.
The platform emphasizes a simplified user experience, reducing the technical barriers that come with blockchain and prediction markets.
MetaDAO's Futarchy 2.0 will also have a big impact on governance. Projects and DAOs can use the platform to involve stakeholders in making strategic decisions.
For example, you might set up a market to predict the user engagement level if you introduce a new feature.
The market prices will reflect the community's collective expectation of the feature's success, giving you valuable insights by using the data from the prediction markets to guide which features to prioritize.
Futarchy 2.0 can help you to make smarter, community-backed decisions for your product.
Projects can reach out to MetaDAO for a DAO Onboarding Request to get started.
👀 Miniblinks
Miniblinks from Dialect offers a new way for developers to simplify workflows and provide users with direct access to actionable components like a single button or action into a product or app.
For instance, a donation Blink might offer multiple options like donating 1 SOL, 5 SOL, or a custom amount. Using Miniblinks, developers can pull only the button for a specific donation amount or just the custom input field.
The Miniblink SDK (available for React and React Native soon) uses the useAction hook to fetch data from the action URL, and developers can use the selector attribute to extract the specific action they want to display.
It offers a composable way for developers to integrate specific functionalities into apps while maintaining the flexibility of Blinks.
Use Miniblinks to integrate individual buttons & actions
✈️ Solana Native Neon EVM
Neon EVM is transitioning to a Solana-native experience to make it easier for Ethereum/EVM developers to connect with the Solana ecosystem, users, and liquidity.
This transition will serve as a fast track for EVM developers by simplifying the onboarding process, allowing them to deploy their projects on Solana without needing extensive Rust development expertise.
To achieve this, Neon EVM will enable EVM smart contracts to natively interact with Solana programs, enhancing composability and making it easier to leverage Solana’s liquidity and solutions.
EVM developers also gain native access to Solana SPL tokens, enabling them to incorporate Solana’s features such as Metaplex, Solana Pay, and Token Extensions into their dApps.
This transition aims to seamlessly blend the EVM and Solana ecosystems, allowing EVM developers to tap into Solana’s powerful infrastructure and growing user base.
Neon EVM’s next chapter: Becoming the Fast Track to Solana for EVM developers
🤐 Secret Network Solana Integration
Secret Network has announced its integration with Solana, bringing decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) to developers building privacy-preserving dApps on Solana.
Secret Network enables private and secure computation on encrypted data through the use of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). These are secure areas within a processor that isolate code and data, preventing unauthorized access or manipulation.
Developers can create programs that handle sensitive information without leaving the Solana ecosystem or learning new programming languages.
This integration facilitates features such as private voting for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), encrypted data storage for various applications, secure random number generation for games, confidential data linked to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), sealed-bid auctions, and encrypted order books for decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms.
Developers can begin by exploring Secret Network's Confidential Computing Layer page to understand how the integration works and example use cases with links to detailed documentation.
(See ⚙️ Tools below for the Solana Developer Toolkit.)
Secret Network’s Confidential Computing Layer is expanding to Solana
🛡️ Solana Auditors Bootcamp Videos
Ackee's Solana Auditors Bootcamp was a free educational program designed to help experienced Solana developers enhance their security skills and contribute to the ecosystem's safety.
Targeted at developers proficient in writing Anchor programs, the bootcamp provided in-depth training on how to audit, code, debug, test, review, and fuzz Solana programs with hands-on exercises and best practices for writing robust programs.
Even though the Solana Auditors Bootcamp has ended, you can still gain insights and knowledge by watching the lecture videos from the event to enhance your skills in auditing and securing Solana programs.
🏺 Solana Historical State Verification Tool RFP.
The Solana Foundation has issued a RFP to develop an open-source Historical State Verification Tool for the Solana blockchain.
This tool aims to enable verification of any state transition since the Solana Mainnet genesis, ensuring data integrity and reliability across various archival sources.
The Foundation is offering a grant of up to $275,000 for this project.
Currently, Solana lacks a robust mechanism for verifying historical state transitions, particularly those that involve earlier versions of the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) and past feature sets.
Existing tools like solana-ledger-tool can reproduce transaction execution results but fall short in accounting for historical file formats, outdated SVM versions, or previous feature configurations.
Recognizing these limitations, the Solana Foundation is seeking to bolster the blockchain's data verification capabilities.
By launching this grant program, the Foundation aims to develop a tool that provides accurate verification of historical state transitions and address existing gaps in infrastructure to facilitate further innovation and adoption of Solana's technology
Developers interested in responding to the RFP are expected to deliver a comprehensive solution that meets several key requirements:
- Create a CLI tool capable of verifying blocks or epochs.
- Establish a detailed mapping system that links each block or epoch to the corresponding SVM version and active feature sets at the time.
- Ensure that the tool is compatible with the various data archive formats used within the Solana ecosystem.
- Implement functionality that allows for the replay of transactions using the precise historical code and feature configurations that were active at the time of the original transactions.
- Incorporate methods such as parallel bank hash verification to enhance the efficiency of the verification process.
- Develop clear and accessible documentation tailored to a non-technical audience.
- Include thorough unit and integration tests to validate the tool's functionality and reliability.
- Agree to manage and maintain the tool and its associated dataset for two years following the development deadline.
Developers interested in responding to the RFP can submit a detailed plan that outlines how they intend to meet the project's objectives and requirements, their technical approach, development timeline, team qualifications, and plans for maintenance and community engagement.
Proposals must be submitted to the Solana Foundation by the application deadline of November 15, 2024.
Solana Historical State Verification Tool RFP
💰 Solayer 101 Bounties
Solayer 101 is launching as a community-driven platform with a commitment to bringing Solana to a wider audience. To kickstart this, they're offering $100,000 in grants to incentivize contributors to share research and educational materials.
Content types range from Solana fundamentals, code templates, and technical analysis to op-eds and more. Contributors are compensated in sUSD, a yield-bearing token.
Judging will be based on accuracy, depth, insights, and engagement, with extra credit for creative formats like infographics and tutorials. The top submission can earn up to $1,000 in sUSD, and the best articles will be featured on the platform and Solayer's official channels.
⚡ Quick Hits
The Solana eBPF Virtual Machine - An Overview - Joe Caulfield
SVM Expansion: The Landscape Beyond Solana - Hyperlane
Understanding Solana RPC: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers - Syndica
Asynchronous Program Execution: Dawn of a New Solana APE-och - Helius
Where You Should Incorporate Your Crypto Company and Why - George Harrap
Solana Changelog Oct 9: Program Runtime ABI v2, Updating Rust to 1.81.0, Agave v2.0 transition - Solana
TradFi Giant Stripe Announces Support for Crypto Payments On Solana - Solana Floor
Deanslist Metaplex CORE & MPL 404 Hybrid DeFi Grants - @deanslistDAO
⚙️ Tools & Resources
Solana Developer Toolkit is a guide to using Secret Network's Solana Toolkit to design dApps with confidential computing on Solana.
developer-bootcamp-2024 is the repo for the full Solana Developer Bootcamp with the full course material, code examples, and other resources for the course.
Squads Protocol v4 is the now fully open-sourced code for Squads v4 with a Typescript SDK to interact with the v4 program and a Rust crate to interact with the v4 program in Solana programs as well as Rust client applications.
jup-payments-web3js2 is a simple example of Jupiter's Payments API using web3js 2.0.
solana_secp256k1_example is a tutorial to use secp256k1 to create and verify digital signatures with Solana.
Our-GTM-Playbook is an example go-to-market strategy for builders of developer tools used by Built for Devs to grow their own product.
cosmwasm-counter gives an example of a user-specific counter smart contract in CosmWasm and the equivalent logic as a Solana Program. The README includes an in-depth comparison of core concepts for development
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Akash Network is hiring a Sr. DevOps Engineer to build, configure, manage and maintain Overclock Labs owned infrastructure.
- Orca is hiring a Smart Contract Engineer to build features that align with Orca’s goals and build user-friendly decentralized applications.
- Crossmint is hiring a Mobile Engineer - SDKs to lead the development of mobile SDKs for Crossmint.
- Drift is hiring a Lead Mobile Engineer to help spearhead mobile app development.
- Sphere is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help shape, build, and maintain Spherenet.
- Wormhole is hiring a Senior Frontend SDK Engineer to contribute to the Wormhole TypeScript SDK, Wormhole Connect, and other open source frontend components and libraries.
🎧 Listen to This
The Index
This week on The Index, host Alex Kehaya joins Darren Carvalho, co-CEO of MetaWealth, to explore how blockchain, specifically Solana, is reshaping the industry.
With his background at Toronto Dominion Bank and Goldman Sachs, Darren shares how MetaWealth is using Solana’s fast, low-cost, and scalable blockchain to offer everyday investors fractional property ownership.
Discover how Solana’s high-performance blockchain enables lightning-fast transactions, minimal fees, and robust security, opening the door for global investors to access real estate markets previously out of reach.
Learn how tokenization is transforming the industry by cutting out intermediaries, reducing costs, and making real estate investments more accessible.
Future of Real Estate Investment on Solana with Darren Carvalho, Co-founder of MetaWealth
Bonus Episodes
The State Of Solana DeFi Today | Tristan Frizza & Jayant Krishnamurthy - Lighstpeed
Live from Permissionless, Lightspeed chats with Tristan Frizza & Jayant Krishnamurthy about the current & future state of DeFi on Solana, the rise of alt L1s, the next evolution of DeFi, and what Solana can improve on in the future.
How to Find Generational Winners in Crypto with Kyle Samani - Blockcrunch
Jason and Darryl, prop investors at Tangent, sit down with Multicoin Capital Managing Partner Kyle Samani to discuss Kyle's Breakpoint takeaways, his Solana thesis and why he thinks SOL will flip ETH, and investing time horizons.
Follow @mikehale on X or Warpcast!
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