what's colosseum?
Colosseum is a platform designed to accelerate innovation in the Solana ecosystem through a combination of hackathons, startup accelerators, and a dedicated venture fund. It supports early-stage founders by providing resources such as funding opportunities, mentorship, and networking within the Solana community, aiming to identify and nurture promising blockchain projects from ideation to launch. The platform hosts competitive events like the Solana Renaissance and Cypherpunk Hackathons, where participants build and showcase prototypes, with winners receiving pre-seed investments up to $250K, accelerator acceptance, and exposure to investors. Colosseum's accelerator program includes in-person sessions in San Francisco, dedicated office space, and demo days, fostering technical development and go-to-market strategies tailored to decentralized applications on Solana.
Colosseum acquired VECTORDOTFUN and Axelar, also released STAMP, an open-source investment contract.
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x.com/colosseumAcquired VECTORDOTFUN and Axelar.
Released STAMP, an open-source investment contract that provides a legal and operational framework for crypto founders to raise private capital and migrate equity cap tables to token allocations for public launches.
Colosseum announces two major upcoming reveals after Solana Breakpoint: a new fundraising mechanism for crypto startups and the 10 startups joining Accelerator Cohort 4.
@pythiamarkets wins the university track at the Cypherpunk Hackathon with an encrypted information markets platform built on Arcium.
The hackathon receives 1,500+ startup submissions and becomes the largest online hackathon ever, with 1,000 developers checking into the Breakpoint workspace over 3 days.
The Solana x Colosseum hackathon announces top 5 stablecoin track winners: mcpaytech (mcp x402 infra), crediblefin (India x stablecoins), cloaklabz (private payments os), 0xTemporal (ai agent banking), and SP3NDdotshop (amazon x stables).
The Solana x Colosseum hackathon announces top 5 winners in the RWA track: autonomrwa (rwa oracle), a tokenized private equity project, legasi_xyz (credit layer), pencilfinance_ (student loans), and watchtower150 (spacefi).
Cypherpunk hackathon reveals consumer apps track winners (Capitola, Superfan_one, Foramarkets, Toasterdottrade, Eatwithnomu) and DeFi track winners (Yumifinance, Kormos_finance, Getrektapp, Archerexchange_, Hobba_io).
The Cypherpunk hackathon announces winners with @unruggable_io named Grand Champion.
Colosseum arena hosts a weekend socratic meetup for over 200 MTNeers at SolanaConf this Saturday, with Arcium announced as MTN 2025 title sponsor.
An0nmesh wins the Arcium x Colosseum Cypherpunk Bounty and receives grant funding, with Android APK live and iOS TestFlight scheduled for December 2025.
Breakpoint Arena operates December 10-13 with dedicated workspace featuring desks, monitors, high-speed wifi, and technical workshops from leading Solana developers for all Breakpoint attendees.
Colosseum backs Vanish, a privacy-focused project that has completed an integration with Axiom.
The Cypherpunk Hackathon directory goes live with 1,567 submissions.
Colosseum broke the record for most hackathon submissions.
Colosseum currently funds multiple stablecoin-related startups and has been approached by nearly every major L1 and L2 foundation to expand operations but declined to maintain Solana focus.
Over a dozen applications from the Cypherpunk Hackathon are live on Arcium testnet and expanding the ecosystem.
30 campuses host Solana learning sessions with college_xyz and APAC Accelerate event launches in mainland China.
SuperteamBLKN's Buildstation Grand Finale concludes in Belgrade as official prep track for Cypherpunk Hackathon.
Projects entering Colosseum arena gain access to launch to 100k+ power users on Solana Seeker platform.
Colosseum founders join devfunpump (BUIDL) incubation platform as mentors alongside Mert for the upcoming ICM launch on Pump.
Cypherpunk Hackathon reaches 7,500 registered founders from 134 countries, competing for $2.5M in prizes and $250K pre-seed opportunities.
Block Stranding finishes in Top 5 of Colosseum Hackathon and receives backing from MagicBlock and Solana Gaming for their onchain real-time MMORPG game on Solana.
Colessum provides considerable support to MetaDAO over competing launchcoin platform in the ICM space, alongside the Solana foundation.
Cypherpunk Hackathon offers 10 teams $10k each with marketing and launch support to build mobile-optimized dApps for Solana Mobile dApp store integration.