Colosseum receives thousands of startup submissions ranging from “fintech 3.0” to non-sovereign permissionless crypto protocols, and everything in-between. Our VC fund invests heavily in products utilizing fiat stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, etc. as we believe blockchains will dramatically lower costs, improve efficiency, and disrupt current financial infra. But we also believe this fintech 3.0 wave is familiarizing TradFi with blockchain-based asset issuance, trade/payment execution, and settlement. Essentially laying the same rails for which non-sovereign, truly decentralized financial products will leverage to eventually revolutionize global markets. My strongly held view is that the latter is where the largest returns will be when we look back on this time 10-15 years from now.

For future hackathons, what if we required all participants to stake 1 SOL along with their product submission? If the submission was determined to be in the bottom 50%, your deposit would get slashed. For startups in the top 50%, their deposit would be returned.

INTRODUCING: Ejector Seat A new class of onchain risk protection. The first in DeFi that pulls capital from a venue before it breaks. Utilization spikes. Admin changes. Collateral swaps. The signals that precede any major exploit no longer go unanswered. For the DeFi pilots.

The Frontier Hackathon has ended but the journey from idea to full fledged start up is not over yet. It’s time to enter the Final Frontier. MetaDAO is sponsoring a competition for Frontier Hackathon participants who successfully raise on our permissionless fundraising platform Futardio. The top project (as judged by MetaDAO and Colosseum) will receive $10,000 in treasury funding courtesy of MetaDAO. The rules are simple: 1You participated in the Frontier Hackathon 2You began your raise on Futardio by May 19th 3You successfully raised at least $20,000 Every team that successfully raises will have their own unruggable ownership coin, a community of early believers and the eternal glory that comes from turning a hackathon dream into reality. The Final Frontier awaits. See you in the books!

Cofounder @guyukyukgu here. @andromedacomp (main author), @_cmger, and I just finished an economic research paper on Trepa as an oracle, built on @solana. 14 iterations. A real piece of mechanism design work. You can read it here:

I won the Radar hackathon infra track in 2024 For this last @colosseum hackathon day, here’s what I’d do: - refine how you explain your business, make sure it’s simple to understand and only pitch *one* value prop - make sure you have a great hook *that adds value to your pitch* - show a clear understanding of the business line: extremely painful problem and crystal clear solution - briefly explain why you the founder should be running this company - show real traction numbers - get user’s proof of usage - do your pitch alone (cofounders go in the tram slide if you have time) - record yourself 10, 20, 30 times until every slide feels like a punch - have fun and remember: the hackathon is just the first step of the journey Good luck my degens

It's the final day of the @Solana Frontier Hackathon. Thousands of developers and founders from across the world are now submitting the products they have been building over the past couple of months. Remember, today is not the end of your journey. It's just the beginning.

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