Colosseum Codex: Solana MCP Server, Alpenglow Report, Codigo

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

• Solana MCP Server is Now Open Source
• Distilling Information from Alpenglow Consensus Report
• Codigo Solana AI Development Platform is Live
• Superteam Japan has released a Hackathon Playbook
• Drift Foundation Builder Fund: Mobile Trading
• nonce Classic TGE Guide and Simulator

🤖 Solana MCP Server Now Open Source

The official Solana Developer MCP server is now open source, giving developers and AI agents direct access to up-to-date Solana documentation through a unified endpoint. 

Developers can now integrate the remote MCP into supported IDEs like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. 

By running a simple configuration command, users gain real-time access to the latest Solana ecosystem docs directly within their development environment. 

The system supports advanced, natural-language queries such as:

• How are events implemented in Anchor 0.31?
• Build an AMM supporting both token-2022 and legacy tokens.
• What’s the best way to implement time-locked staking rewards?

The open-source release allows the community to fork, run, and contribute to the MCP service, helping expand Solana’s AI development capabilities.

Official Solana MCP Server

🌄 Alpenglow Report

Chorus One published an in-depth review of Alpenglow, the consensus upgrade proposed by Anza that seeks to replace Proof-of-History (PoH) in Solana. 

Alpenglow promises faster finality, lower latency, and stronger fault tolerance, increasing the threshold from 33% to 40%. 

Chorus finds that under realistic assumptions, this shift can reduce arbitrage MEV by ~38% and sandwich MEV by ~24%, while allowing up to 20% adversarial and 20% inactive stake with only modest trade-offs.

The report also highlights significant challenges like greater latency penalties for small validators, potential centralization pressures from MEV geography, and increased risk of authenticated DDoS due to a lack of spam resistance.

The report concludes that while Alpenglow introduces important structural improvements, its impact on decentralization, validator fairness, and network robustness will depend on implementation and real-world validator behavior.

Distilling Information from Alpenglow Consensus

⚙️ Codigo is Live

Codigo is a new AI development platform designed specifically for Solana. It combines a cloud-native IDE with agentic AI models trained exclusively on over 22 million lines of Solana code and more than 130,000 task-specific instructions.

Developers can describe a program's functionality in plain English and receive a Solana program that includes account structures, instruction handlers, tests, and documentation. 

Codigo provides a library of templates such as token vesting, staking, swaps, NFT minting with Metaplex, compressed NFTs, and DeFi primitives like bonding curves, escrows, and lending protocols, and also features integrated static analysis and vulnerability detection. 

Planned features include frontend and backend integration, performance analytics, and a one-click deployment pipeline with automated testing and verification steps.

Codigo

🏆 Hackathon Playbook

Superteam Japan has released a Hackathon Playbook to help teams build high-quality projects and increase their chances of winning one of the world’s largest crypto hackathons. 

Developed from interviews with past winners, judges, and teams, the playbook outlines a proven framework tested during the recent Breakout Hackathon.

The playbook focuses on five major areas:

1. Hackathon Canvas: Use structured tools like the Lean Canvas and SAT Canvas to clarify your problem, solution, target users, and strategic advantages early in the build process.
2. Pitch Deck: Learn what makes a compelling deck, including best and worst practices, and a sample agenda for organizing your presentation effectively.
3. Iteration: Emphasize continuous refinement of your product, messaging, and demo based on feedback during the hackathon timeline.
4. Hype Video: Create a short, engaging teaser to generate attention from the community, judges, and potential users.
5. Pitch Video: Follow a detailed checklist to structure your final pitch video. 

The playbook also includes a checklist and a list of “red flag” words to avoid, based on common feedback from past judging panels.

The guide is designed to launch a startup within the constraints of a hackathon.

Superteam Japan Hackathon Playbook

💰 Drift Foundation Builder Fund

Drift Foundation’s Builder Fund will distribute up to 100k DRIFT, with as much as 25k DRIFT per team, to accelerate mobile-first trading interfaces that execute on Drift perpetuals over Solana. 

Any product that routes orders to Drift qualifies, such as lightweight perps, Telegram bots, gamified views that replace price charts, or social copy-trading apps. 

Proposals are judged on originality, team strength, and demonstrated progress. In addition to token funding, selected teams receive marketing, strategic introductions, and technical guidance.

Applications are open now and close on Sept 1, 2025, and awards are issued against agreed milestones.

Drift Foundation Builder Fund: Mobile Trading

🧮 Tokenomics Design 201

The Tokenomics Design 201 report from nonce Classic offers a detailed framework for designing, modeling, and executing a token strategy, with an emphasis on practical implementation.

It begins by defining the role of tokenomics in a project’s architecture, and describes how to plan a token’s supply structure, covering maximum supply, stakeholder allocations, and unlock mechanisms like full unlock, vesting, and emissions. 

The TGE simulator (to be released soon) is a spreadsheet modeling tool that lets teams simulate and customize every major component of a token launch. 

Users input parameters such as token allocations, unlock schedules, emission rates, and revenue-sharing strategies, and the simulator dynamically calculates token flows, circulating supply, and dilution over time. 

The tool references real-world benchmarks from top projects, enabling teams to start with proven templates and adapt them to their specific needs. 

It also includes visualizations and automatic calculations for vesting schedules, revenue triggers, and stakeholder rewards, giving founders and developers a data-driven way to design and test their tokenomics before deployment.

This guide offers a complete playbook for creating a token strategy that aligns with product goals, user incentives, and long-term sustainability. By using the simulator, teams can visualize the impact of different design choices before launch, reducing risk and increasing the chance of product-token fit.

Tokenomics Design 201: From Theory to Execution

⚡ Quick Hits

25x Faster Anchor tests for Solana with LiteSVM (video) - QuickNode

Pinocchio: The No-Dependency Framework for Solana Smart Contracts - @avhidotsol

Solana Launchpads Trends, Token Performance, and Platform Traction - @ledger_top

Introducing Arcium’s $65K Developer Fellowship - @ArciumHQ

Live with Anatoly - Product Pitches - @timedotfun

TapeDrive storage revolution is here: How does it work? - @SuperteamPOL

Applications are now open for the MetaDAO Founders Residency - @MetaDAOProject

How to Use Paid Advertising for Web3 User Acquisition - Boost

Superteam India Community Update: June 2025 - @SuperteamIN

⚙️ Tools & Resources

Solana Mobile Dioxus Example is a sample Dioxus application that demonstrates how to integrate with the Solana Mobile Wallet Adapter (MWA) on Android with implementations for signTransaction, signMessage, and authorize

pump-fun-data-parsing-yellostone-gRPC is a realtime Solana blockchain monitor that tracks new token mints on Pump.fun using Yellowstone gRPC for efficient transaction streaming with data including metadata, accounts, and instruction arguments.

Fast CLOB Prototype is a high-performance Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) prototype forked from Manifest and deployed on MagicBlock's ephemeral rollups, achieving sub-50ms latency that rivals centralized exchange performance.

yellowstone-faithful-car-parser is a Rust parser for CAR files used in Old Faithful.

💸 Funding

Perena has secured new strategic funding from investors including Susquehanna, Native Crypto, and Hermeneutic Investments to advance its stablecoin infrastructure and expand adoption of USD*, a programmable, utility-driven stable token.

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

• AlphaFC is hiring a Lead Full-stack Engineer
• Raiku is hiring a Lead, Validator & Staking Growth (Solana)
• Exodus is hiring a Solana Engineer
• SkyTrade is hiring a Solana Smart Contract Engineer
• Solstice Labs is hiring a Head of Defi

🎧 Listen to This

The Latest Development

In this episode of The Latest Development, Taylor, co-founder of Exo Tech dives deep into Pinocchio, a revolutionary new library for building highly optimized Solana applications.

The conversation covers what sets Pinocchio apart, including its focus on performance improvements such as lower compute unit usage, reduced transaction costs, and increased throughput.

Taylor explains the development trade-offs between rapid prototyping and system-level optimization, offering guidance for teams deciding between Anchor and Pinocchio.

The episode also discusses Pinocchio's current limitations like limited Token 2022 support and how the library originated at Anza before gaining traction within the Solana developer community.

Understanding Solana's Pinocchio | Taylor, Cofounder Exo Tech

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