Announcing the Winners of the Solana Frontier Hackathon

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Announcing the Winners of the Solana Frontier Hackathon

Colosseum is thrilled to announce the results of the Solana Frontier Hackathon, a global online competition focused on bringing the next wave of high-impact startups into the Solana ecosystem. Frontier was Colosseum's 5th hackathon, providing founders and developers from 150+ countries a proving ground to build novel crypto products.

More than 10,000 participants teamed up to submit 2,857 final projects, making Frontier the largest crypto hackathon to date. Phantom, Altitude, Arcium, World, Metaplex, Raydium, Reflect, and Coinbase joined the Solana Foundation as primary sponsors for the hackathon, offering resources for crypto founders to jumpstart their journey.

We saw a significant increase in both total submissions and quality of submissions. Therefore, 5 additional teams were selected to receive a reward. So without further ado, here are the winners…

Grand Champion

CrowdBrain, a vertically-integrated robotics DePIN built to train users in simulation, qualify them through QA, and route the best operators to real robots for teleoperation, data collection, and failure recovery. The team will receive $30,000 CASH (Phantom's USD stablecoin).

Top 25 Winners

The next 25 best projects demonstrated the necessary execution speed, insight, founder-market fit, prioritization, and overall talent to potentially build an enduring crypto startup. The following winners are listed in no particular order:

  • Peaks: A consumer app for investing in any idea. Using agents, investors can launch self-managing portfolios based on a sector, personality, or worldview.
  • Alpha Group Trading: A mobile trading app where groups of friends trade, chat and collaborate.
  • Bench: An opportunity markets platform that aggregates insights, resolves, and rewards useful signals, revealed only to the market creator.
  • Mentioned: A mention markets platform designed for users to bet on word choices in any form of media.
  • Flovia: An analytics & intelligence platform for machine-paid APIs, turning fragmented agent payment and usage data into predictable API growth.
  • Senthos: A structured-product protocol for prediction markets, turning raw prediction market flow into risk-stratified, composable exposure.
  • Dropset: An onchain Forex platform that harnesses the power of Solana to facilitate open and efficient exchange of multinational currencies at scale.
  • WeLikeSports: A fantasy sports platform for creating and playing custom pools (survivor, brackets, pick’em). The platform earns does not take a house rake, instead generating revenue from the interest on pooled funds.
  • ODL: An RWA platform allowing liquidator funds to buy discounted RWAs and re-sell them to tradfi buyers; initially focusing on private equity, private credit, and tech/VC secondaries.
  • Housd: A platform for tokenizing real estate offerings and generate more stable yield for DeFi investors through real estate debt strategies.
  • JK Index: A TCG marketplace and platform for collector-driven pricing, grading, and market intelligence.
  • Fraudsworth: A closed-loop game leveraging a Market Intelligence Liquidity Fund to construct a new store of value.
  • Sudont: An agentic crypto security platform providing bare-metal execution firewall and local RPC on Solana.
  • YieldCompass: A search engine for DeFi yield opportunities, showing users realized APY and transparently scoring risk per protocol.
  • Clawpump: An agentic finance platform developed to launch agents skilled across swaps, sniping, lending, perp DEX arbitrage, prediction markets, and a long-tail of automations.
  • One Arena: A platform developing the application layer for the TCG economy. Battle and profit via ownership onchain collectibles.
  • Stablecorp: A business infrastructure for remote founders earning in stablecoins, focusing initially on India.
  • The Syndicate: A crypto game that is a skill-weighted, provably auditable mafia card league where USDC pack revenue funds transparent prize pools.
  • DashX: A stablecoin infra platform for compliant cross border payments, aimed for emerging markets like India.
  • Nomu: A crypto-enabled platform that provides physical supply chain out of the box. Sourcing, manufacturing, QA, warehousing, global fulfillment, tax, payouts, and support all under one roof.
  • Cesto: An app that provides users the ability to build thematic investment baskets on Solana with real-world assets, prediction markets, and perps.
  • Crafts: A platform for Stakeholder Token Offerings: a new way for startups to raise with equity-linked tokens.
  • Memetic Machines: A news platform that turns high-frequency geopolitical events into tradeable YES/NO markets structured within a real-time analytical intelligence layer.
  • KinnectFi: A dual-jurisdiction neobank that leverages stablecoins and DeFi for the Philippine diaspora.
  • Traded.gg: A TCG super app built to become the aggregation and execution layer for onchain collectibles.

University Award

The University Award, which recognizes excellence from the best project led by university students, goes to IOChain, receiving a $10,000 prize.

Public Good Award

The Public Good Award, which recognizes an open-source project that benefits developers across the Solana ecosystem, goes to Zoneless, receiving a $10,000 prize.

Honorable Mentions

In addition the the prize winners, we would like to recognize the following teams for the excellent product submissions:

We will follow up soon with an announcement of which winners were selected to join Colosseum's next accelerator cohort.

Thanks again to all of the builders, the judges who reviewed projects, and the sponsors from across the ecosystem. But most of all, congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions!

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