Colosseum Codex: Introducing the Solana Radar Hackathon

📡 Radar Hackathon

Colosseum and the Solana Foundation have just introduced the next major Solana hackathon: Radar.

Get ready to kickstart your new crypto project and compete to be discovered by the Solana community.

The Radar Hackathon will run from September 2 - October 8, 2024. More details, sponsors, tracks, and prizes will be announced soon. Register below.

Radar Global Hackathon

💎 Developer News

Feed Protocol RNG
Feed Protocol Random Number Generator (FPRNG) on the Solana Blockchain provides on-chain randomness for programs within a program, letting you obtain and use randomness in the same transaction. The RNG service will be free until September 30.

Solana Foundation Blinks Grants
The Solana Foundation has announced a $400k grant program to fund innovative, source projects for Solana Actions & blinks with four suggested tracks including API Frameworks, non-web blinks clients, safety and security, and social proof.

mtndao $50k Allocation
mtndao will be deploying another $50k check to a team emerging from mtndao v6 or in its early stages during attendance. Mtndao was created to advance the Solana ecosystem for people from all backgrounds, through both bull and bear markets.

Solana Builders: ZK Compression
The recent announcement of ZK Compression on Solana has sparked discussions about its nature and nomenclature. Is it a ZK rollup, an L2, or something else? While some believe the focus on terminology is unnecessary, it's important because names refer to constructs with specific trust assumptions and can provide insight into how the project functions uniquely on Solana.

⚙️ Tools & Resources

Basic CRUD app is an example of an on-chain CRUD dApp where you can create, read, update, and delete journal entries that has been updated from Anchor 0.29.0 to 0.30.1 to fix some small UI breaking changes.

Kinobi, a tool to generate clients, CLIs, documentation and more from your Solana programs, has updated developer docs to help you get started.

blink-tug-of-war is an example of a Tug of War game implemented through Blinks.

SNS (Solana Name Service - Bonfida), a Web3 Identity and domain provider, is now fully open source.

mock-pyth is a mock Pyth price feed oracle for testing on localnet.

💸 Funding

SkyTrade, a market for buying and selling a property's "air rights", announced the successful completion of its Pre-Seed round with Modular Capital and Portal Ventures co-leading the investment, and angel investors such as Solana Foundation, Mercatus Center, Adam Gries, and Jason Yanowitz participating.

Allium, a blockchain data platform for enterprises, raised $16.5 million in Series A funding led by Theory Ventures, with seed investors Kleiner Perkins and Amplify Partners also participating. Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures, will join Allium's board as part of the investment.

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

Codigo is hiring a Senior Web3 Engineer

Pocket Protector is looking for a Founding Software Engineer

Rome Protocol is hiring a Web3 Testing Engineer

⚡ Quick Hits

Solana’s Gulf Stream: Mo Mempool, Mo problems - Helius

Solana Staking Report: SOL Semi-Annual Analysis 2024 - Everstake

How to Create an Effective Whitelist for Your Token Launch - Coinlist

RadiantsDAO has announced the winners of Bonkathon - @RadiantsDAO

Simpler APIs with the new web3js - @callum_codes

Crossmint mint API now supports Solana SFTs - @crossmint

Insights on the Neon_EVM technical breakthrough - @Ify_Ezeugwu

How to Use ChatGPT for Blockchain Startups - @XFounders_camp

Introducing the Blinks Public Registry - @saydialect

The latest updates for Games on Solana - @Attis_gaming

🎧 Listen to This

Chewing Glass

😭 Sad news... This is the final episode of the Chewing Glass podcast.

In the final episode of Chewing Glass, Chase chats with Nick Frostbutter (co-host of the SolfatePod) about his personal journey and what it means to be in Dev Rel.

Nick Frostbutter (Solana Foundation, Solfate Podcast) - LAST EPISODE

Bonus Episodes

What Futarchy Looks Like in Practice w/ Kollan House (MetaDAO) - Validated

In this episode, Austin chats with Kollan House, cofounder of MetaDAO, the first project to put the concept of futarchy into practice since its conception in the early 2000's. Kollan breaks down how market-based governance works, gives real-world examples of futarchic voting proposals, and addresses the viability of futarchy's economics and ethics.

Unlocking DeFi With Infinex | Kain Warwick - Lightspeed

In this episode, the discussion centers on Infinex's mission to unlock DeFi by significantly enhancing the on-chain user experience. The conversation dives into Kain's crypto journey to date, the impact of fees on user experience, and Infinex's decision to integrate Solana.

Amazing AI Generated Art on Blockchain (feat. 0xGRAFFITO) - Solfate

Jackie, aka Graffito, a cybersecurity professional turned web3 artist, shares her journey from exploring the hacker community and working in cybersecurity to creating AI-generated videos and digital art. Jackie discusses her creative process, emphasizing the importance of starting with basic tools and evolving through experimentation and community feedback.

Follow @mikehale on X or Warpcast!

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