Colosseum Codex: Toolapalooza, SBPF Linker, GitFish
Turbin3 Toolapalooza, Blueshift SBPF Linker, GitFish v2, LiteSVM.com
Here's what's featured in this week's issue:
- Turbine is hosting Toolapalooza
- Blueshift releases SBPF Linker
- GitFish v2 Offers a Way to Monetize OSS Projects
- LiteSVM Docs Website Launches
🛠️ Toolapalooza
Toolapalooza is a day-long developer event hosted by Turbin3, happening on October 18, 2025. The event brings together maintainers and experts behind key Solana developer tools for a series of focused workshops.
Each session follows a “5W-How” format, walking through what the tool is, why it matters, who uses it, where and when it fits into development, and how to use it effectively.
The goal is to give developers a clear, practical understanding of Solana’s core tools straight from the people who build and maintain them.
Toolapalooza will have sessions on tools including:
- MagicBlock
- Switchboard
- Vixen
- LiteSVM
- Surfpool
- Carbon
- Codama
- Gill SDK
Toolapalooza is structured to make learning hands-on so participants can see how tools connect within the Solana developer experience.
The event is free and will be livestreamed on YouTube.
🔗 SBPF Linker
A big change for Solana developers has arrived with SBPF Linker built by Blueshift.
Until now, building programs on Solana required a custom Rust toolchain and Solana-specific build commands such as build-sbf. This approach relied on a forked version of Rust and LLVM that maintained Solana’s BPF target separately from the official open-source repos.
This creates challenges for developers like nonstandard workflows, compatibility issues when updating toolchains, and extra setup steps for those already familiar with Rust.
The new SBPF Linker changes that.
It acts as an upstream BPF linker that can take standard BPF binaries compiled with nightly Rust and relink them into a format compatible with Solana’s SBPF v0 runtime.
This means developers can now use the standard Rust compiler and ecosystem tools without switching toolchains or learning new commands. Solana programs can be built with regular Rust tooling while remaining fully compatible with the Solana blockchain.
By removing the need for a custom toolchain, the process of building and maintaining Solana programs becomes simpler, faster, and more in line with conventional Rust development practices.
🐟 GitFish v2
GitFish v2 offers a new way to fund open source projects through tokenized backing.
Each GitHub repo is represented by a single coin, and anyone can launch a coin for a project they believe in. Launching costs a set number of points based on a project’s popularity, measured by GitHub stars.
Coins generate value through attention and trading fees, creating a funding stream for verified project maintainers. Maintainers can link their GitHub accounts to claim earnings and reinvest in their projects.
Launching is free for project owners, while other users pay in points and earn 0.1% of trading fees for coins they create. Points are earned by interacting on GitFish through trading, tipping, or completing quests.
By connecting GitHub activity to Solana’s blockchain economy, GitFish’s goal is to create a new way for open source projects to receive ongoing support to maintain their project's development.
📘 LiteSVM Docs
LiteSVM has a new documentation site designed to help Solana developers learn how to easily test and debug onchain programs using LiteSVM.
The site includes detailed guides, usage examples, and links to example repos that integrate LiteSVM into Anchor-based projects.
LiteSVM is a lightweight library for testing Solana programs that runs an in-process Solana Virtual Machine optimized for developers.
Unlike traditional approaches that rely on external validator processes, LiteSVM embeds the VM directly into test environments, allowing tests to run faster with flexible configuration options for advanced use cases.
The new documentation site centralizes resources and examples to help developers quickly integrate LiteSVM into their workflow, improving both the speed and reliability of Solana program testing.
⚡ Quick Hits
Inside Solana: A Panel with the Solana Foundation, Colosseum & CargoBill (video) - Major League Hacking
$100k Bug Bounty Program for Anchor - Solana Foundation
The Graph to Launch Solana Account Foundational Store - Coindar
Cypherpunk Hackathon Pitch Workshop (video) - Superteam
Solana is Now Live on the Uniswap Web App - Uniswap
Understanding DAMM v2: Solana’s Next-Gen Automated Market Maker - Prapti Sharma
3 Tips to Winning the Cypherpunk Hackathon - @nomadz_co
⚙️ Tools & Resources
dynamic-bonding-curve is a Solana program implementing a dynamic bonding curve mechanism for token launch and distribution that provides an advanced alternative to traditional bonding curves.
solana-paywal-x402 is a simple example showing how x402 can be used to monetize api keys, paywall images and music.
wincode is a fast, bincode‑compatible serializer/deserializer focused on in‑place initialization and direct memory writes.
anchor-escrow-with-litesvm is an example of how to test an anchor program with the LiteSVM testing library that uses an escrow program to showcase using both the litesvm crate and the litesvm-token crate
dz-fee-check is an application that tracks DoubleZero validator fee payments and outstanding debts across different epochs.
talking-fish is a fun project that modified a Big Mouth Belly Bass Fish that listens to memos on the Solana blockchain and speaks them out loud.
lockbox is wallet-native encryption on Solana with zero client-side persistence for encrypted storage on Solana.
💸 Funding
a16z has invested $50M in Jito to strengthen Jito’s long-term development and support the protocol’s continued growth within the Solana ecosystem
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Bullet is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (Rust)
- Almanax is hiring a Software Engineer
- Keel is hiring a DeFi Data Engineer
- Artemis is hiring a Product Manager
🎧 Listen to This
OnlyDevs
The latest episode of the OnlyDevs Podcast features Rohan Dubbelman co-founder of Overclock Labs.
The discussion traces Rohan’s path from traditional software engineering to building key infrastructure in the Solana ecosystem, including Mithril, a lightweight Go client for Solana, and his contributions to Bonsol Labs, a framework built on RISC Zero for off-chain computation.
The episode explores Solana’s performance-driven architecture, the role of open source in accelerating crypto innovation, and how zero-knowledge proofs (ZK, SNARK, and STARK) are improving privacy, scalability, and secure proof generation.
The Future of On-Chain Compute with Bonsol with Rohan from Overclock
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