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Colosseum Codex: Switchboard Foundation, Radar Side Track Winners, Solana Ecosystem Page

Switchboard Foundation, Radar Side Track Winners, Electric Capital Developer Report, Solana Ecosystem Page

Mike Hale

Mike Hale

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Colosseum Codex: Switchboard Foundation, Radar Side Track Winners, Solana Ecosystem Page

🌅 Switchboard Foundation

Switchboard has officially partnered with the Switchboard Foundation to drive forward the decentralization of its protocol.

This move strengthens Switchboard's mission to deliver truly permissionless and scalable data feeds, crucial for empowering Web3 developers, businesses, and projects alike.

Since its launch, Switchboard has aimed to provide unrestricted access for data feed creation, and now they’re evolving into a fully community-driven and decentralized protocol.

The Foundation will foster growth through strategic partnerships, support community-led governance, and oversee the Switchboard DAO’s initiatives.

Switchboard Foundation Group

💰 Radar Side Track Winners

The Radar Hackathon saw a wide range of side and local tracks, each targeting specific themes, geographic regions, or sponsor objectives.

These side tracks alone had more than 1k submissions and more than $300k of rewards at stake.

While the official hackathon results are being finalized, here is a big list of winners of the various side tracks:

Side and Local Tracks Results

🔌 Electric Capital Developer Report

The annual Electric Capital Blockchain Developer Report highlights metrics like active developers, contributions to open-source repositories, and developer retention rates across various blockchains. 

Being featured in the report raises awareness of projects among developers, investors, and the broader Web3 community. Getting your project listed helps spotlight Solana as a thriving ecosystem, which benefits not just your project but the entire community.

Developers can use insights from the report to understand industry trends, target the right user segments, and prioritize features that drive growth.

Electric Capital Crypto Ecosystems

🗂️ Solana Ecosystem Page Refresh

Managed by the Solana Collective, the Solana Ecosystem Page serves as a central directory for active projects, dApps, DeFi protocols, NFT collections, infrastructure tools, and more within the Solana ecosystem.

The directory has been updated and refreshed to make it easier to add your project or explore existing ones!

Solana Ecosystem

⚡ Quick Hits

Strategies to Help Land Your Solana Transactions - QuickNode

How to Diagnose Transaction Errors on Solana - Metaplex

How to Win the Hearts of Developers: A Threaded Journey to Developer Adoption - @tessak22

12 tools every web3 marketer should know about - @mia_unhashed

Can Solana lower hardware requirements for validators while maintaining high throughput and low latency? - @aeyakovenko

Guide To Create 1 Million NFTs on Solana using Bubblegum - Metaplex

Balancing Innovation and Monetization: Insights on Product and Business Fit (Video) - XFounders

Introducing the SOON Genesis Hackathon - @SuperteamEarn

Help Shape Feed Protocol's RNG Solution (Survey) - @ugursirmen

Deep dive into the Capture instruction of the MPL-404 program - @Pratikdevv

Ironforge rolls out additional alert features - Ironforge

⚙️ Tools & Resources

Cash App on Solana is a a step-by-step guide to building a React Native mobile app that mimics a Cash App experience, including writing an Anchor program, integrating the Solana Name Service (SNS) SDK, and incorporating Solana Pay.

Pinocchio is a zero-dependency library to create Solana programs in Rust eliminating the dependency on the solana-program crate, which in turn mitigates dependency issues.

Solana Program Deployer is a tool to deploy Solana programs with Node.js and optional Jito bundles.

Proof of In Real Life (PoIRL) is an Anchor program that provides on-chain proof that a human interacted with NFC tags that contain a cryptographic keypair to prove that a human being interacted with a tag at a given location in real time.

💸 Funding

  • Moonwalk has completed a $3.4 million seed round led by Hack VC, with contributions from Binance Labs, Reciprocal Ventures, and Solana co-founder Raj Gokal. This funding will support Moonwalk's mission to offer a secure, gamified platform for building and maintaining healthy habits.
  • Streamflow has announced the successful completion of a $5M strategic funding round led by blockchain pioneer John Lilic, with contributions from major players such as Jump Crypto, Solana Ventures, and IVC to accelerate Streamflow's mission to expand robust infrastructure for token creation and distribution.
  • Nitro Labs has raised $4 million in its seed round led by Lemniscap, with participation from Borderless, Race, No Limit Holdings, Animoca Ventures, Finality, including angels from Tensor, Solana, Jump, and Spartan.

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

  • Phantom is hiring a Product Manager to gather and prioritize product requirements and define the product vision.
  • Orca is hiring a Software Engineer (Backend) who can specialize in building out their backend services and infrastructure.
  • Wormhole is hiring a Technical Projects Lead to write code examples, and explore novel use cases and integrations.
  • Helius is hiring an Integrations Engineer to help teams integrate Solana and Helius code successfully into their projects.
  • Solana Foundation is hiring a DeFi Growth Lead to be the primary point of contact for DeFi teams building within the Solana ecosystem.

🎧 Listen to This

The Chopping Block

In this episode, the Chopping Block crew is joined by special guest Anatoly Yakovenko, the mastermind behind Solana, for a deep dive into the network’s evolution and future. 

The conversation kicks off with a look at Solana’s rapid rise from its rocky early days to its current status as a blockchain powerhouse. 

They debate the role of memecoins in Solana’s ecosystem and whether they’re here to stay or just a passing craze. 

Next, Anatoly opens up about Fire Dancer’s impact on the network’s scaling and performance, sparking a broader discussion about vertical vs. horizontal scaling. 

Finally, they explore Solana’s ambitious push into the mobile space with the Seeker phone and its implications for the broader crypto industry. Packed with expert insights, bold predictions, and a few surprises, this episode is a must-listen for anyone following the future of blockchain.

The Chopping Block (feat. Anatoly): Solana's Second Act, SVM vs EVM, & Extension Dilemma

Bonus Episodes

Customizable Oracle Network on Switchboard | Mitchell Gildenberg - Blockhash

Switchboard CTO and Co-founder Mitchell Gildenberg recently joins Blockhash to discuss Switchboard, a fully permissionless and customizable oracle network that enables developers to create tailored data feeds.

Blinks & The Future of Crypto UX | Chris Osborn - Liquid Culture

In this episode Chris Osborn, founder of Dialect, dives into his background in physics & quantum computing, how he discovered and transitioned into crypto, the original vision for Dialect and “smart messaging,” Blinks & Solana Actions, crypto as a novel UX paradigm, reflections on crypto’s superpowers, and more.

Why The Future Of Crypto Is Mobile With Solana Mobile - The Kitchen

Emmett Hollyer, GM of Solana Mobile, talks us through the ideation process of creating a phone, what it takes to build something tangible like hardware, the lessons learned from their first generation device, and more!

Solana Breakpoint: Open Source Innovation with Eclipse Labs, Soon, Mantis, & ABK Labs - The Index

In this episode of Everything SVM on The Index, recorded live at Solana Breakpoint 2024, Vijay Chetty of Eclipse Labs and Joanna Zeng of Soon discuss the transformative role of open-source software, innovative SVM L2s, roll-up stacks, and the principles guiding Solana’s open-source culture.

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