In this episode of the Colosseum Podcast, Chase sits down with Hardhat Chad, the cofounder of Ore, a project that brings "digital gold" to Solana. Chad shares the unique challenges and triumphs of building a Bitcoin-inspired protocol on a proof-of-stake chain, the strategic decisions behind choosing Solana, the
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Market-Driven Emissions, SVM Deep Dive, Multicoin Capital's Solana Thesis, Startup Resources, Pinocchio, Phantom Raise
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Mucho CLI, State of Web3 Adoption, Solana MEV Report, Jito Deep Dive, Solana AI Hackathon Winners
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Investment Themes for 2025, Accounts Lattice Hash SIMD, Quantum Resistant Winternitz Vault, Founder Survey, AI Agent Ideas
We launched Colosseum in early 2024 with the goal of empowering developers to compete, experiment, and build products across a broad spectrum of crypto use cases through our online hackathons. In partnership with the Solana Foundation and numerous ecosystem organizations, we’ve built the largest hackathons in crypto and helped
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Helius Startup Launchpad, Solflare Guards, VORTX, AI Hackathon Projects, Solana Games, Agent Kit
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Electric Capital Developer Report, Anza Research, Solana Events in 2025, MagicBlock Open Sources Ephemeral Validator
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DoubleZero, Colosseum Podcast, Max Resnick to Solana, Crypto in 2025, ZK Projects
We are excited to release Episode 1 of Colosseum's new podcast! The show will dive deep into stories and startup insights from the elite founders building in the crypto ecosystem today. With that focus in mind, we invited Anatoly Yakovenko, the godfather of Solana, onto the podcast as
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Poseidon, Pudgy Penguins $PENGU, Web3.js 2.0, Solana Temple, mtnDAO v7
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Squads API, Solana Inflation Rate, Gaming, Identity with Honeycomb, Solana's Mobile Future
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Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 2, Messari Solana Portal, Verifiable Builds, Measuring Solana's Decentralization, Anza Invalidator Team, Bridge to Turbin3, Solana Changelog, Phantom Acquires Blowfish