We get asked a version of the same question all the time: “What do you invest in at Colosseum?” It’s a reasonable question, but it’s also usually the wrong one. It assumes the answer is a category, a sector, or a thesis that fits neatly onto a slide.
We are excited to unveil Colosseum's fourth accelerator cohort. The batch is composed of winning founders from the recent Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon and our ongoing Eternal competition. 1,576 teams submitted products in the hackathon, along with an addition 64 submissions from Eternal in H2 2025. From the
Cypherpunk Hackathon Winners, Colosseum STAMP, Light Protocol Light-token, Firedancer on Mainnet, Phantom Connect SDK
Simple Token Agreement, Market Protected Over the past decade, Y Combinator transformed startup fundraising with the SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity), a more practical alternative to convertible notes and priced rounds. As crypto venture kicked off, the SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens) emerged to handle token issuance, but
Colosseum is thrilled to announce the results of the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon, a global online competition focused on bringing the next wave of high-impact products into the Solana ecosystem. Cypherpunk was the 12th Solana Foundation hackathon and the 4th run by Colosseum. The competition brought together founders and developers from
ORE Freezes Mint Program, Trepa Precision Prediction Markets go Live, Altitude CFO Stack, Solflare Shield Hardware Wallet, Blockworks Lightspeed IR,
Colosseum Breakpoint Arena, Framework Kit v1, SKR Launch Jan 2026, DFlow Kalshi Prediction Markets API, MagicBlock Free VRFs, Testship Dev Tool
Unruggable Hardware Wallet, Wormhole Sunrise, Umbra SDK Cohort, Decal in Solana Mobile App Store
SOLCTF, Surfpool Scenarios and Fixtures, Metis v7, SOLx402 MCP Server, OpenSigner Wallet Key Management
Cypherpunk Hackathon Product Directory, Transaction v1 SIMD, Blockchain Payments Consortium, Solana Educational Explorer
Messari State Of Solana Q3 2025 Report, Hermis Headless SDK, Harmonic Block Builder
Colosseum Alpha Testers, Launch on Solana Hub, Messari MetaDAO Report, Solana’s Next Chapter Report, Solana Constitution and Declaration
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SBPF Linker Opens New Languages, Range's Onchain Risk Verifier, ORE Relaunches, Trident Security VS Code Extension, SIMD-0266: p-token,
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Turbin3 Toolapalooza, Blueshift SBPF Linker, GitFish v2, LiteSVM.com
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Areta Audit Subsidy Program, LearnSol Educational Content, Umbra MetaDAO Powered ICO, Cyfrin Jobs Board, Audius Open Audio Protocol, DeSci News Hub
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Solana Handbook, BitcoinKit, DFlow JIT Router, Phantom Cash, Wallet UI v2
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Cypherpunk Hackathon, Project RFPs, Prediction Markets, Asynchronous Market Queues, Solana dApp Revenue Dominance
We are excited to release all of the details regarding Solana's Cypherpunk Hackathon! The global competition will be powered through Colosseum’s online platform and runs from September 25 through October 30, 2025. As with previous Colosseum hackathons, participants will compete for prizes, pre-seed funding, and acceptance into
Colosseum runs the world’s largest hackathons. Our most recent saw close to 1,500 projects. These fully online, global startup competitions are how we grow the Solana ecosystem, find talented builders, and support promising ideas. Our next hackathon, Cypherpunk, goes live on September 25th. And for the first time,
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Colosseum Discord, Base x Solana Bridge, Squad's Grid, Kalshi Developer Grants, LYS Labs Solana Data
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Supply Chain Attack, Solana RPC Infrastructure RFPs, QuickNode Solana September Update
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Cypherpunk Hackathon, Solana validators approve Alpenglow, MagicBlock TEE-secured Ephemeral Rollups, Dev.fun Projects, CU Optimization
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Star Frame, Codigo, Solana Bench, CDP Solana Transaction API, Darklake goes live
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100k TPS, State of Solana Q2, Cyfrin Rust Programming Basics Course, Breakpoint 2025 Giveaway, Epoch Town Discord