The 2026 Solana
@colosseum Frontier Hackathon winners are in. 2,857 projects, 10,000 builders participated in the biggest crypto hackathon ever held.
A few teams from these hackathons have had amazing success stories.
- StepN: placed 4th in its track, then hit 700K monthly users (1M daily) and a ~$1.9B token market cap at its peak
- Tensor: bootstrapped on ~$60K in prize money into Solana's #1 NFT marketplace, ~60-70% of all Solana NFT volume runs through it
- Mango, Drift, Zeta and Solend: all hackathon projects, all were amongst core Solana DeFi at some point.
So here's every winner of the latest one π
π GRAND CHAMPION ($30K)
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@crowdbrainai (CrowdBrain): robotics DePIN that trains robot operators in simulation, then routes the best ones to pilot real robots
π₯ TOP 25 ($10K each)
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@craftsdev (Crafts): startups raise through equity linked Stakeholder Token Offerings
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@PeaksTrade (Peaks): AI agents that run themed investment portfolios for you
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@getmurmo (Alpha Group Trading): mobile app where friend groups trade and chat in one place
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@benchdotmarkets (Bench): opportunity markets that reward useful signals
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@MentionedMarket (Mentioned): bet on which words get said across any media
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@flovia402 (Flovia): analytics for machine paid (AI agent) APIs
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@Senthosxyz (Senthos): structured products built on prediction market flow
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@__Dropset__ (Dropset): onchain forex to swap national currencies at scale
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@PlayWLS (WeLikeSports): fantasy sports pools that earn off pooled interest instead of a house cut
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@rwaodl (ODL): buy discounted real world assets, resell them to TradFi
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@housddotfinance (Housd): tokenized real estate for stable DeFi yield
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@JKIndex_ (JK Index): trading card marketplace with pricing and grading
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@fraudsworth (Fraudsworth): closed loop game building a new store of value
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@sudont_xyz (Sudont): agentic crypto security with an execution firewall and local RPC
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@YieldCompass (YieldCompass): search engine for DeFi yield that scores real APY and risk
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@Rosentica (One Arena): the app layer for onchain trading card collectibles
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@myStableCorp (Stablecorp): stablecoin payroll infra for remote founders, starting in India
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@SyndicateGameHQ (The Syndicate): auditable mafia card league funded by USDC packs
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@DashXHQ (DashX): compliant stablecoin payments across borders for emerging markets
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@NomuStores (Nomu): your full physical supply chain onchain, from sourcing to fulfillment
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@cesto_co (Cesto): build themed baskets of RWAs, prediction markets and perps
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@memeticmachines (Memetic Machines): turn geopolitical events into tradeable YES/NO markets
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@my_mana_ (KinnectFi): stablecoin neobank for the Philippine diaspora
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@traded_gg (
Traded.gg): the aggregation and execution layer for onchain collectibles
π UNIVERSITY AWARD ($10K)
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@iochaindev (IOChain)
π οΈ PUBLIC GOOD AWARD ($10K)
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@zonelessdev (Zoneless): open source tooling for Solana devs
The bigger prize is still coming: select teams will join Colosseum's accelerator for $250K each in pre-seed.
Which one becomes the next StepN or Tensor?