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Colosseum Codex: SBPF Linker Languages, Risk Verifier, ORE Relaunch

SBPF Linker Opens New Languages, Range's Onchain Risk Verifier, ORE Relaunches, Trident Security VS Code Extension, SIMD-0266: p-token,

Mike Hale

24 Oct 2025 — 6 min read

The Cypherpunk Hackathon submission portal is now live on the Colosseum platform. Founders can begin entering details for their projects and continue editing until the October 30, 11:59 PM PDT deadline.

Time to lock in those final updates and bring your best work to the finish line!

Here's what's featured in this week's issue:

SBPB Linker Opens Other Languages for Solana Programs
Range Launches Fully Onchain Risk Verification
ORE Relaunches with a Brand New Mining Protocol
Trident Releases a VS Code Extension for Security Checks
SIMD-0266 Proposes Replacing SPL Token Program with p-token
Meteora Announces Launchpad Upgrades

🔁 SBPF Linker Opens New Languages

I wrote about the launch of the SBPF Linker built by Blueshift last week, which has opened the door for developers to build Solana programs in entirely new ways.

In just the past week, developers have successfully compiled programs in Swift, C, Nim, Zig, and even Python, expanding beyond Rust as the primary language for Solana programs.

Early community experiments include:

C-Nocchio: A minimal proof of concept showing Solana programs can be written in pure C with direct syscalls, zero-copy data handling, and a simple macro for the entrypoint.
Clana: A lightweight template that lets developers build Solana BPF programs in standard C, with no Solana SDK required, direct syscalls, LLVM-based builds, and Rust integration testing.
Pylana: A hand-built transpiler that uses Python to generate Solana-compatible code through LLVM IR.
Zignocchio: A POC showing how to build Solana programs in Zig, featuring the Zignocchio SDK, auto-generated syscall bindings, and a fully automated Zig build and testing pipeline.
Swiftana: Compiles Swift into Solana BPF programs, featuring custom LLVM passes, direct syscalls, and full Rust-based integration testing.
Nimlana: Shows how to build Solana BPF programs in Nim, leveraging Nim’s C compilation to target Solana for educational and testing purposes.

While most are still proofs of concept, this marks a major step toward making Solana development accessible to a wider range of developers and communities.

Sadly, I'm still waiting for C# 😞

🛡️ Range's Onchain Risk Verifier

Range has launched onchain account risk verification for Solana programs, powered by its Risk API and Switchboard’s On-Demand Oracles.

Range’s onchain risk verifier brings real-time, signed risk data directly into Solana programs without forcing critical security and compliance checks to happen outside program logic.

Developers can now verify wallet and counterparty risk in real time using signed, tamper-proof data directly inside programs.

The flow is simple:

A client requests a signed “quote” from Range’s Risk API through a Switchboard OracleJob.
Switchboard’s oracles execute the job, sign the result, and return it to the program
Program verifies the signature with QuoteVerifier before acting on it.

Because Switchboard’s oracles work on demand, developers avoid continuous data feeds and extra infrastructure while keeping verifiable security.

To get started, developers can follow the Integrate Range's Onchain Risk Verifier into your Solana Program guide to learn how to request risk quotes with the Switchboard SDK and verify them onchain.

Risk Intelligence. Now onchain for Solana programs

⛏️ ORE Relaunch

ORE has relaunched its mining protocol on Solana with a complete redesign aimed at creating a Solana-native store of value.

The new mining mechanism uses a 5x5 grid where miners claim space with SOL over one-minute rounds. The SOL from 24 losing blocks is distributed proportionally to claimants on the one winning block, which is selected by a secure random number generator.

The protocol includes a Motherlode feature, a pool that accumulates ORE each round and is randomly awarded to winning miners.

A key change is the introduction of protocol revenue and value capture.

10% of all SOL mining rewards are collected as revenue to automatically buy back ORE from the open market. This purchased ORE is then "buried" (removed from circulation but can be mined again), potentially leading to net deflation.

The protocol has already driven over 990 SOL in buybacks over the past week.

Additionally, a 10% refining fee on claimed ORE rewards is redistributed to other miners based on their unclaimed rewards, incentivizing long-term holding.

Staking is funded by 10% of the ORE bought back with protocol revenue, offering a non-dilutive yield for long-term holders.

ORE’s revenue growth has been accelerating rapidly, crossing $130K in 24hr protocol revenue.

Re-introducing: ORE

🔱 Trident VS Code Extension

Trident has launched the first VS Code extension designed specifically for Solana development, bringing real-time security analysis into the IDE.

The extension provides two key features:

Automatic vulnerability detection
Visual feedback on test coverage

The static analysis feature includes a wide range of detectors that catch common Solana-specific security issues such as missing signer checks, unsafe lamports zeroing, and attempts to mutate immutable accounts.

These checks run as developers type, allowing early identification of potential problems before code review or audit.

The integrated fuzz coverage visualization shows which parts of the code are tested to help developers find edge cases that unit tests may miss.

The extension is free, open source, and works with any Solana project.

The first VS Code extension for Solana is here

⏫ SIMD-0266: p-token

SIMD-0266, proposes replacing the current SPL Token program with a CU version called p-token.

Authored by developers at Anza, this update aims to cut token program CUs by up to 98%, unlocking more capacity for onchain activity and boosting Solana’s overall throughput.

Currently, token program instructions consume around 10% of each block’s compute budget. By reducing that figure to a fraction of its current level, p-token could free nearly 12% of block space, allowing more transactions to fit in each block.

The proposal introduces a complete reimplementation of the SPL Token program with zero-copy data access and no heap allocations, while remaining fully backward compatible so developers won’t need to modify existing code.

If approved by validators, this change would be one of the most significant efficiency upgrades in Solana’s core infrastructure to date.

SIMD-0266: Efficient Token Program

🚀 Meteora Launchpad Upgrades

Meteora has introduced three major upgrades to give projects more control over how tokens launch on Solana.

Presale Vaults: Let teams raise funds with custom conditions, such as launching only after a funding goal is met, ensuring demand-driven and secure launches.
Meteora Invent: Streamlines the launch process with a toolkit that automates complex setup steps, allowing teams to deploy tokens quickly without deep technical expertise.
Dynamic Fee Sharing: Enables projects to design custom, non-custodial fee distribution models, deciding exactly how and to whom launch fees are shared.

These upgrades give projects more control and customization in how they distribute their token launches.

Meteora Launch Guide

⚡ Quick Hits

Colosseum co-founders Matty and Nate Join Dev.fun's Project Incubator as Mentors - @devfunpump

How to Build and Deploy a Solana Program Using Pinocchio - QuickNode

Roundup of ZK, Verifiability, and Privacy projects on Solana - @solana

JET Europa Launches to Grow Jito’s Global Community and Developer Network - JET Europa

Plans For Developer Onboarding on Solana - @GuiBibeau

Agave 3.0 Update: All You Need to Know - Helius

Tether Releases Its Wallet Development Kit (WDK) - Tether

Product Marketing 101 w/ Vibhu (video) - Superteam Balkan

Rent-Free Solana Accounts with ZK Compression w/ Light Protocol (video) - @SolanaPT

Blockworks adds DEX Aggregators Tab to Solana Dashboard - @Blockworks_

⚙️ Tools & Resources

anchor-escrow-with-litesvm is an example of how to test an anchor program with the litesvm testing library. The test file is heavily commented to help explain how to correctly write these tests.

Jetstreamer is a high-throughput Solana backfilling and research toolkit designed to stream historical chain data live over the network from Project Yellowstone's Old Faithful archive, which is a comprehensive open source archive of all Solana blocks and transactions from genesis to the current tip of the chain.

Bifrost is a WebTransport proxy for sending Solana transactions directly to validator TPUs from browsers.

Sol-Aud.io is a proof-of-concept Solana dApp meant to demonstrate the feasibility of on-chain audio storage that uploads and plays back onchain audio.

💸 Funding

Cube Group has been acquired by Mercer Park Opportunities Corp in a deal valuing Cube at $300 million, with a planned $500 million SOL tokens to strengthen liquidity and yield. The merged company will combine traditional finance structure with Cube’s DeFi platform to expand institutional access to digital assets.

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

DoubleZero is hiring an Engineer (Network)
QuickNode is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Squads is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer
Phantom is hiring a Senior Data Engineer

🎧 Listen to This

SOL Brothers

The Solana tech company Anza is shipping new upgrades to our beloved blockchain! This episide into the new p-token standard and how it reduces compute unit usage by 98%, and updates on the latest state of SOL ETFs around the globe.

The new P-Token standard will make Solana even faster!

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