Massive STOCKLANA hackathon update. 5 new sponsored tracks and a deadline extension to market close on September 25 @ 4 PM ET New tracks come from @MeteoraAG, @PreStocks, @clawpumptech, @Tessera_PE, and @PythNetwork. The prize pool is now over $120k to build with stocks on Solana.

Tokenized Stocks: @solana's Clearest Pivot In early 2025, tokenized stocks on Solana barely existed, the category was still nascent, with too little liquidity to register meaningful volume. As platforms like xStocks and Republic expanded their offerings through the year, the picture shifted fast. In H1 2026, Solana captured roughly 97% of spot DEX RWA volume across all of crypto, recording $4.9B in tokenized equity trading volume, a sixfold increase over the prior six-month period. Total RWA Active AUM on Solana grew from near-zero in 2024 to $2.4B, according to DefiLlama. Stablecoin AUM grew alongside it, from $10.4B to $15.7B, a 51% year-over-year increase. Source: @21shares, @DefiLlama

x402 on @Solana turned into a full payment stack over the past year. Payment Channels is the newest piece - letting an agent spend a budget for a whole task instead of paying per call. The infrastructure is real. Adoption is still open.

HACKATHON SZN NEVER STOPPED 🏗️ @Solana just opened two new doors: Stocklana and VibeFi 1/ Stocklana (@SolanaFndn) Tokenized stocks already trade on Solana - build what makes owning them better than a brokerage app. $100K in prizes, closes Friday Sept 18. 2/ VibeFi (@commonsmade) Humans lose 30M hours a day waiting on AI. $60K to fix that. Also open: a new $100K Hyperliquid track at @colosseum's Crypto World's Fair, backed by @hydromancerxyz - submissions due Oct 12. Coming up: Perps and Prediction Markets - $100K, scheduled, not live yet.

A tokenized stock beat its prior-day Wall Street volume. 63% of tokenized equity volume landed after the closing bell, and holders crossed 727K. Wall Street closes. Solana doesn't. Here’s everything that shipped: 📰 Headline News - $NKE, $GRND, $HTZ, $SPHR, $WEN, $DNUT, $DKNG, and 20+ more stocks went live on Solana via @sunrise, issued by @Backpack Securities - @solana launched Stocklana, a dedicated tokenized equities hackathon with $100K in prizes running Sept. 11-18 - @SolanaInstitute’s Washington x Wall Street Summit lands Sept. 14, featuring SEC Chair Paul Atkins and Commissioner Hester Peirce - Tokenized $GRND cleared $31M in its first 24 hours, exceeding its previous day’s U.S. market volume 📰 Launches - @world_xyz launched its prediction market platform covering sports, crypto, politics, and macro finance - $PEAQ, $DOGE, and $ARB launched on Solana via @sunrise - @OpenCover expanded institutional risk protection to Solana across four leading protocols - @PayBox made @sunrise available in Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok - @MeteoraAG enabled token launches paired with 100+ @xStocksFi assets - @joinfrontier went live for Frontier Traders, Solana’s VIP program for traders - @ProphetX’s CFTC-regulated sports prediction markets went live on Solana via @Agg_Market - @JupiterExchange integrated Jupiter Gacha into its mobile app - @SafePal added Solana support for @WalletConnect Pay - @veda_labs added @kamino as a liquidity source for embedded Earn products - @NomuStores debuted Vibe Manufacturing, turning text prompts into physical products in minutes - @meleemarkets launched Melee Beta on Solana testnet as a free, ranked prediction market platform - @SolanaMobile and @RadiantsDAO opened the 3rd Solana Mobile Hackathon with a $135K prize pool - @stardotfun teased the upcoming @getstonkoptions platform - @krakenfx launched the Solana Front Wing Takeover, with a spot on @WilliamsRacing’s FW48 up for grabs - @TrencherStudio unveiled an entertainment universe spanning animation, collectibles, and games - Solana AI & Capital Forum is scheduled for Sept. 28 in Woodside, CA, an exclusive gathering for institutional allocators, operators, and policymakers - @TrustWallet enabled 0% swap fees for USDT, USDC, EURC, USDS, and DAI on Solana - @apys_co went live on Solana, letting users earn stocks instead of buying them - @trendsdotrun brought its creator payment app to Solana, powered by @MeteoraAG with built-in TikTok distribution - @solana_zh announced Solana Accelerate China, a four-city tour from Oct. 16-22 - @superteam opened Breakpoint 2026 student scholarships covering travel, lodging, tickets, and mentorship - @SolanaEvents partnered with @locusxyz to provide UK visa and ETA assistance for Breakpoint London attendees 📰 Milestones - 63% of tokenized equity volume on Solana occurred outside traditional market hours as of August - Solana tokenized equity holders addresses crossed 727K - Tokenized equity supply on Solana hit a fresh all-time high of $684M - @PreStocks crossed 100K holders for pre-IPO equities - @phygitals surpassed $500M in cumulative GMV - @LaunchOnSF has distributed over $35M in rewards to StonkFun ecosystem holders - Solana led all networks in @x402 volume and transactions for the second consecutive week If you enjoyed this week’s newsletter, please share it with an RT. Artwork by @OfficialFadd 🔥

THIS IS HACKATHON SZN 🏗️ Three are live this September, each a different door into @solana: → Building on Android/Seeker? CLOCK IN opens 9/8, by @RadiantsDAO → Want VC + accelerator attention? Crypto World's Fair runs 9/14–10/12, by @colosseum → Already shipping an agent? Clawrena closes registration 9/20, by @clawpumptech Thread on what each door actually gets Solana builders 🧵

“Solana is the financial infra powering the token supercycle.” That line from @calilyliu’s new op-ed is not a bull case. It’s a framing: money, assets, and ownership moving onto always-on internet infrastructure. Read it as a rally and you miss the point. The internet capital market it produces becomes the largest capital market. The core claim: distribution is valuation. Legacy markets still price assets through old frictions: geography, ticket size, jurisdictional walls. Tokenization removes those gates. An asset issued anywhere can reach capital everywhere, at any hour. The ADR already proved this. Tokenization scales it. The early evidence is onchain. Hundreds of billions in RWAs have traded across @solana. More than $4.7T in stablecoins moved across the network in the past year. @Visa, @PayPal, @MoneyGram, and @WesternUnion use the same rails. That loop compounds: more issuers → more assets → more investors → deeper liquidity. Payments, settlement, issuance, and markets run on one venue. Any app can become a superapp. AI agents accelerate the same loop. We are still in the early innings. Tokenized Treasuries are the “newspapers going online” phase: useful, not the endpoint. The system that captures this shift will not be an upgrade of the old one. It is being built now, one token at a time. Full op-ed in the comments.

2 months post-Frontier Hackathon, the gap between "got picked for Cohort V" and "actually building" is already visible. Shipping for real: @traded_gg: new indexing engine live, 6M events, 400K tokens across 5 chains @cesto_co: GTA VI basket went live August 6 @JKIndex_: private beta running, 950 new graded cards @flovia402: picked up by Stripe last week @LasoFinance: $79K/month in agent volume, on top of an already-oversubscribed raise @zonelessdev: still shipping (KYC, Stripe migration guide) Quiet on X for the past few weeks: @Dropset, @housddotfinance, @rwaodl, @Senthosxyz, @fraudsworth Everyone else is active but without a clear ship moment, including @Rosentica and @myStableCorp, the two names everyone was excited about in June, who haven't put out a new number since. $250K and a 0.7% admit rate gets you into the cohort. Demo Day is August 26, first time @colosseum's running it in person. Worth watching who has something to actually show.

Solana builder season stacks up fast this fall. 7+ residencies, hackathons, and founder camps across 4 continents before Breakpoint. Mapped by date: → Kakheti, Georgia (22-31) - @SuperteamGEO residency, demo day Aug 30. Apps closed. → Amsterdam, Netherlands (31-Sep 5) - @SuperteamNL, focus DeFi/Privacy/Security. → Borneo, Malaysia (5-9) - @SuperteamMY, 5D4N workshop + build → Bangkok, Thailand (21-30) - @magicblock Founders Camp, fully sponsored, 1:1 mentorship + investor intros. Closest format to "project becomes startup." Supported by @SolanaFndn & @SuperteamTH → @colosseum Fall Hackathon (28-Nov 2, online) - fall follow-up to Frontier, historic on-ramp to accelerator cohort → Floripa, Brazil (Oct 19-Nov 11) - @islanddao v5, 3-4 week residency, LATAM/@SuperteamBR → London (Nov 1-12) - Solana Hacker House by @SolanaFndn, Somerset House, feeds straight into Breakpoint. → Breakpoint 2026 (Nov 15-17, London/Olympia) - by @SolanaEvents, flagship, side events AI Day / Scale or Die / BlockZero. Info as of mid-Aug 2026, dates/apps can shift, verify with official channels before booking.

Everything is moving to @solana, now even how you bet on it. Five prediction markets, five different mechanics: → @world_xyz: your wallet, your position → @trepa_io: not right or wrong, how close → @JupiterExchange: liquidity from elsewhere, one app → @meleemarkets (pre-launch): the pool sets the price → @intodotspace: same bet, 10x exposure Which one didn't make this list?

Waiting for the next hackathon to get funded? You don't have to. @colosseum's Eternal is a rolling 4-week sprint that runs between their two main hackathons - start whenever you're ready, no fixed calendar. ▪️How to join: - Sign up / log in with a Colosseum builder account - Start the timer on your Eternal dashboard, this begins your 4-week window - Submit a 1-minute progress update every week - Ship your product by week 4 ▪️This cycle: Eternal window: Jun–Sep. Winners chosen end of September. Accelerator placement runs Jan–Feb. ▪️Rewards for finishing: → $250K pre-seed funding → A seat in Colosseum's next accelerator cohort → The new Eternal Award: $25K, awarded twice a year for the most innovative product in the ecosystem Hackathon funding usually means waiting months between windows. Eternal removes that - but this cycle still closes end of Sep.