Colosseum Codex: Colosseum Discord Server, Base x Solana Bridge, Squads Grid is Live
Colosseum Discord, Base x Solana Bridge, Squad's Grid, Kalshi Developer Grants, LYS Labs Solana Data
Colosseum has launched our new Discord server as a community hangout for Solana developers and founders!
Members can join to discuss hackathons, developer news, and crypto startups, and more, with access available to anyone who creates a Colosseum account.
Here's what's featured in this week's issue:
- Base launches a bridge to Solana
- Squads Grid stablecoin developer platform is now live
- Kalshi launches KalshiEco Hub and grants for Solana developers
- LYS Labs Solana Data added to QuickNode Marketplace
🌉 Base x Solana Bridge
Coinbase has launched a bridge between Base and Solana designed to provide developers with tools to build across both ecosystems.
The bridge enables three key functions:
- Developers can deposit and use SOL in Base applications.
- Solana tokens can be imported into Base applications, allowing developers to expand functionality and tap into the Solana economy.
- Tokens created on Base can be exported to Solana, providing access to Solana’s liquidity.
The bridge, now live on testnet, offers developers access to more users, liquidity, and cross-chain functionality. Early integrations are already underway with projects such as Aerodrome, Zora, and Virtual.
💵 Squads Grid
Squads has opened Grid, its developer platform that packages Squads’ infrastructure into APIs for building stablecoin-powered applications.
Grid offers fault-tolerant accounts, support for stablecoin and traditional payments, integrations with RWA and DeFi yield strategies, and trading access to thousands of tokenized assets.
Developers can onboard users with email and passkey authentication, automate policies for payments and workflows, and rely on vendor diversification with automatic failover for reliability.
Built on Solana, Grid delivers stablecoin payments and high-throughput operations, enabling teams to launch financial products quickly.
Grid - Open Finance for Stablecoin Rails
🔮Kalshi Hub and Developer Grants
Kalshi has launched KalshiEco, a new hub to support builders developing prediction market products.
The program offers dedicated grants for Solana developers along with engineering support and promotional resources to boost innovation in the space.
Alongside funding, KalshiEco provides hands-on help ranging from technical guidance to community exposure, trading competitions, and creator-focused incentives.
The program is designed to create a growth cycle where builders ship new projects, creators showcase them, and increased visibility fuels further development.
🔌 LYS Labs Solana Data
LYS Labs has announced a partnership with QuickNode to bring its structured blockchain data to the QuickNode marketplace.
The integration provides near-instant insights from Solana’s on-chain activity, processing entire blocks in under 14 milliseconds.
Developers can now access decoded transactions, token launches, and wallet movements from major Solana DEXs and launchpads such as Raydium, Meteora, Pump.fun, Bonk, and Heaven with lower latency than traditional indexing systems.
With LYS Labs’ infrastructure now integrated into QuickNode, developers can work with fast data streams in real time, making onchain activity easier to follow and build on.
LYS Labs Solana Data now live in QuickNode Marketplace
⚡ Quick Hits
Financial Rails for an Agentic Web: Extending x402 to Solana - @_rishinsharma
Introducing the Solana Devs University Tour - @solana_devs
Solana Grant Opportunities Builders Consistently Overlook - @ivan_nomadz
RadiantsDAO Solana Mobile Hackathon Winners Announced - @RadiantsDAO
Inside Star Atlas: Web3’s Most Ambitious Game (video) - @SolanaFloor
React Native & Expo Solana Tutorial: Create a Mobile dApp with Wallet Login & Token Transfers (video) - Mobile dApp developer
Realms Adds Support for Metaplex Core NFTs - @realmsdaos
Rockets, Quantum Threats, Zeros and Ones: Dean Little on Forging Solana's Truth - Helius
⚙️ Tools & Resources
Relay API is an open-source tool to make Helium oracle data instantly accessible, removing the need to query S3 buckets or juggle multiple endpoints, providing a REST interface for real-time and historical Helium data, and including both Oracle and onchain Solana sources.
sbpf-asm-escrow is a Solana escrow program written in sBPF Assembly that enables users to securely swap tokens.
bytecode-introspection demonstrates bytecode introspection of a callee program by a caller program, enabling the caller to verify the execution of a specific bytecode middleware at the entrypoint of the callee before invoking it via CPI.
💸 Funding
Titan has raised a $7 million seed round led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Frictionless VC, Mirana, Ergonia, Auros, Susquehanna, and several angels to expand its aggregator technology and roll out new products. The raise coincides with Titan’s public launch of its meta-DEX aggregator on Solana, which builds on top of existing routers like Jupiter, OKX, DFlow, and Titan’s own Argos.
💀 RIP
Texture has announced it will shut down its lending protocol following a recent exploit and subsequent operational challenges. The team stated the protocol will close on Sept. 22 and urged users to unwind their positions before the shutdown, as the interface may not remain available. The team plans to share reflections and lessons learned in the near future.
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Solana Labs is hiring an Android System Engineer and a Senior Protocol Engineer
- Alchemy is hiring a DevOps Technical Lead
- Exo Tech is hiring an Engineering Manager
📅 Event Calendar
Cypherpunk Hackathon Kickoff @ Skyline, New York, Sep 25
Solana Skyline NYC is helping kick off the Cypherpunk Hackathon on September 25, with sessions on how Solana hackathons work, what makes a winning project, and an introduction to Solana development, along with networking and team-building opportunities for participants.
Forma Georgia, T’bilisi, Georgia, Nov 15-22
Forma Georgia will bring together 150 designers, artists, technologists, and founders for nine days of workshops, performances, and community building, blending cultural programming with creative sessions, outdoor activities, and founder-focused workshops.
🎧 Listen to This
All-In Podcast
At the All-In Summit 2025, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko discussed the future of crypto, from stablecoins potentially becoming major holders of U.S. treasuries to the role of exchanges in driving adoption.
He highlighted emerging use cases in social platforms, IP rights, and real estate, examined the impact of quantum computing and AI, and reflected on Bitcoin’s resilience, Ethereum’s vision, and how stablecoin rails could reshape payments infrastructure.
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
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