Colosseum Codex: AlphaFC Acquires Alfreton Town FC, Heaven AMM, Switchboard Surge
AlphaFC Fan-Controlled Football Club, Heaven AMM & Launchpad, Switchboard Surge, Surfpool Studio, Chainlink Data Streams, Jupiter DeFi Superapp Report,
Here's what's featured in this week's issue:
- AlphaFC acquires Alfreton Town FC for fan governance of club
- Heaven launches $LIGHT ICO and AMM launchpad
- Switchboard launches Surge for faster price feeds
- Surfpool releases Studio UI tool
- Chainlink brings real-time US equities pricing onchain
- Messari Report: Jupiter’s growth into a DeFi superapp
⚽ AlphaFC Fan-Controlled Football Club
AlphaFC has completed the purchase of Alfreton Town Football Club in Derbyshire, England.
AlphaFC’s long-term plan is to transfer 100% of the club to a nonprofit foundation and give fans voting power through tokens.
Holders would use these tokens to vote on cultural and strategic matters, such as kit designs, community initiatives, and leadership elections, without receiving any claim on club assets or future profits.
AlphaFC views the acquisition of Alfreton Town FC as the first step in its plan to redesign football governance, aiming to make clubs more responsive and accountable to their communities while maintaining professional operational control on the pitch.
AlphaFC Launches the World’s First Fan-Controlled Football Club
🪽 Heaven AMM & Launchpad
Heaven closed its Genesis initial coin offering for the $LIGHT token after eleven hours of fundraising, well ahead of the advertised forty-eight-hour window. About 9k participants contributed roughly 27M USD.
The team intends to issue pro-rated refunds before the weekend, distribute tokens within the following one to three days, and list $LIGHT on Heaven’s automated market maker on August 11.
Heaven plans to open its platform as a single AMM and launchpad for additional token offerings. Platform revenue will flow back into the $LIGHT token from day one, establishing $LIGHT as the core value-capture mechanism for trading fees and future launches.
The fixed supply of one billion tokens is divided among sale participants, the team, community initiatives, a foundation, existing investors, and liquidity, aligning long-term incentives around platform growth and broader ecosystem activity.
The $LIGHT ICO is now complete
🌊 Switchboard Surge
Surge is a new high-speed oracle network launched by Switchboard, that delivers price feeds with sub-100ms latency.
Surge is designed for latency-sensitive DeFi applications like derivatives platforms and oracle-based AMMs.
Unlike conventional oracles that rely on onchain consensus and introduce several seconds of delay, Surge streams real-time data directly to applications via WebSocket, pushing updates only when market prices change. This design significantly reduces latency and gas costs.
Built on Switchboard’s open-source SAIL framework, Surge uses trusted execution environments (TEE) to verify oracle node integrity before data can be served.
The service is free to integrate and aims to make low-latency oracle data a public utility on Solana.
Introducing Switchboard Surge: The Fastest Oracle on Solana Is Here
📽️ Surfpool Studio
Surfpool Studio is a new browser-based UI for Surfpool that gives developers visibility and control over a private Solana testnet running on their machine.
It complements explorers by exposing instruction-level details, byte-level diffs, and environment controls that typical block explorers do not provide.
You spin up a Surfnet from the terminal, then open Surfpool Studio locally. The Studio connects to your running Surfnet and lets you pause or resume block production, jump time forward for tests, fund accounts from a built-in faucet, and inspect every transaction sent on your network.
It reads your program IDLs to parse account data, so it can show human-readable state changes as well as raw hex.
What it offers developers:
- Transaction inspector with per-instruction compute profiling, account writes, and before and after diffs.
- Parsed views using your IDL for custom program accounts, plus byte-level diffs when you need to go low level.
- Environment controls that save time: pause blocks, travel to a future slot or epoch, and a universal faucet for SOL and tokens.
- Offline-capable local workflow that reduces reliance on external infrastructure and speeds tight build-test-debug loops.
- One-click links to open any item in a public explorer when you need broader context.
Surfpool Studio makes execution transparent and test environments reproducible so teams can profile CUs, verify state transitions, and script complex scenarios without leaving their local setup.
Getting Started with Surfpool Studio
📈 Chainlink Data Streams
Chainlink Data Streams bring real-time US equities pricing onchain, offering low-latency, high-integrity market data across 37 blockchain networks, including Solana.
Designed for tokenized financial products, these Data Streams power use cases such as perpetual futures, lending, synthetic ETFs, and tokenized stock trading. Each data point is enriched with context like market hours, staleness indicators, and circuit breaker readiness
For Solana developers, this unlocks secure, high-frequency access to traditional financial assets like SPY, QQQ, and AAPL, for advanced DeFi products.
Protocols like Kamino and GMX-Solana are already integrating Data Streams to enhance performance, reliability, and user trust as Solana’s DeFi ecosystem expands into tokenized real-world assets.
💱 Jupiter: The DeFi Superapp
Jupiter continues to solidify its position as the leading DeFi platform on Solana, now responsible for over 90% of aggregator volume on the network and more than 50% of aggregator activity across all blockchains.
The next phase of growth focuses on two major initiatives: Jupiter Lend and JupNet.
Jupiter Lend, set to launch in mid-August 2025, introduces onchain borrowing and lending to the platform through a backend integration with Fluid, an Ethereum-native lending protocol.
Lend and borrow activity will be routed through Fluid’s infrastructure, giving users access to new capital efficiency tools within the Jupiter interface. The launch will be supported by over $1 million in incentives.
JupNet represents Jupiter’s broader ambition to abstract away blockchain complexity and unify fragmented ecosystems. JupNet is designed as a multichain infrastructure layer that simplifies cross-chain execution, ledger state management, and identity.
The report highlights Jupiter’s growing support for developers through its suite of APIs and infrastructure tools.
These developer-facing products, including access to Jupiter’s advanced routing logic like Ultra Mode, allow external teams to integrate high-performance swap execution and transaction optimizations directly into their own applications.
Read the full report for insights on Jupiter's role in shaping DeFi infrastructure on Solana.
⚡ Quick Hits
Solana Developer Q&A (video) - @b_migliaccio
Vanish publishes Core API Documentation - Vanish
Para's wallet and auth suite free tier now open to everyone - @get_para
3 Reasons Why Web3 Apps Suck - @CryptoDealer
Don't Believe, Think: The idea of internet capital markets - @metaproph3t
CDP introduces account.fund() to programmatically fund Solana server wallets in a single flow - @CoinbaseDev
DeCharge Unveils U.S. Community-Owned EV Charging Network - The EV Report
Huma Announced the Huma Content Academy - @humafinance
⚙️ Tools & Resources
pinocchio_amm is an AMM implementation using the Pinocchio framework that provides a fully functional decentralized exchange with liquidity pools and token swapping.
sbpf-asm-counter is a Counter program written in sBPF Assembly that allows users to create and increment an on-chain counter to demonstrate how to create an account and manage account data directly using sBPF.
Quant Scroll is Aa curated repo of essential readings on quantitative finance, trading strategies, MEV, and market microstructure, aimed at researchers and practitioners.
💸 Funding
Hylo has raised $1.M in seed funding led by Robot Ventures, with support from Colosseum, Solana Ventures, and a roster of prominent DeFi angels. The funds will help Hylo scale its DeFi platform for its xSOL leveraged SOL token and its yield-bearing hyUSD stablecoin, bringing simpler leverage and an onchain stable asset to Solana users.
Phantom has acquired Solsniper, a Solana trading and analytics platform focused on memecoins, with the Solsniper team joining Phantom while the web app continues to operate independently, signaling Phantom’s push to expand in-app trading features.
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Solana Foundation is hiring a Solana Program Engineer
- Temporal is hiring a Solana Data Engineer
- Helius is hiring a Lead Full-Stack Engineer
- Crypto Fantasy League is hiring several marketing & community roles
📅 Event Calendar
Superteam Indonesia Startup Village, Bali, Aug 14 - 20
Startup Village is a 7-day coliving sprint for early-stage founders and developers in Web3, AI, and frontier tech. The program includes workshops, mentorship, co-working, and pitch practice, ending with a Demo Day.
SuperTokyo 2025, Tokyo, Japan, Aug 24
SuperTokyo 2025 is the largest Solana conference in Japan, taking place on August 24 in Tokyo. Hosted by Superteam Japan, the event will feature a full day of expert sessions, product showcases, and a startup camp, bringing together Solana builders and ecosystem contributors from around the world
🎧 Listen to This
Talking Tokens
Emmett Hollyer, General Manager at Solana Mobile, the team behind Saga and now Seeker, crypto’s most ambitious attempt at a mobile-native device and ecosystem, joins Talking Tokens to discuss how Solana Mobile went from 20K Saga phones to 150K Seeker phones sold, why web3 apps need a crypto-friendly App Store, and how mobile can fix broken user onboarding through tools like Seed Vault, Seeker ID, and in-phone token rewards.
Emmett also explains how they’re battling bots, supporting new dApps, and preparing to launch a new token $SKR.
SKR to Airdrops: Everything You Need To Know About Solana Seeker | Emmett Hollyer
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