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.

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.