Digitized | Featured #47
Welcome to this week's edition of Featured, your weekly guide to the most interesting blockchain-based digital objects – across gaming, social, music, media, fashion, AI, immersive environments, and other consumer crypto categories.
This week, we turn the spotlight on Colosseum, the Solana-focused hackathon and accelerator home to some of the biggest projects on Solana.
Jito, StepN, Marinade, GenoPets, Squads Protocol, Tensor, and dozens more started their Solana journey at one of Colosseum’s online hackathons.
Solana hackathons were once small, but they’ve since become one of the largest recurring hackathons not just in crypto, but the entire technology space.
Some additional metrics around Colosseum’s online hackathons:
→ ~80% of all venture-back startups in the Solana ecosystem started at Colosseum’s hackathons.
→ Competing teams have collectively raised $650M+ in funding.
Colosseum hosts 2-3 online hackathons a year that each run for 5-week periods. Hackathon winners are then considered for Colosseum’s accelerator program directly following the hackathon. Accepted founders receive a pre-seed investment of $250K, access to 1:1 mentorship + exclusive networks, and much more. Here’s a short video introducing Colosseum.
‘Renaissance,’ the graphic highlighted at the top is Colosseum’s inaugural online hackathon as an independent organization. Watch a short video introducing the Renaissance global hackathon.
The Renaissance hackathon is currently in process, running from March 4th to April 8th, 2024. More than $1M will be rewarded in prizes and pre-seed funding. Registration is still open here.
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