Another week flew by, and Solana builders stayed locked in 🚢
Here’s highlights of what shipped last week:
- The largest startup competition in crypto is back, with @Colosseum launching the Solana Breakout Hackathon. Submissions due May 16th!
- The Solana Policy Institute arrived — here to help U.S. policymakers better understand decentralized networks like Solana — led by @millercwl and @KMSmithDC
- PayPal announced that $SOL is coming to PayPal and Venmo
- @XNET_Mobile partnered with AT&T to expand wireless access
- @chambaz released solanaui, extending @shadcn’s ui library to build interfaces for Solana apps
- The @SuperteamKorea Seoulana Hackathon kicked off and 250+ builders showed up to ship
- @matchaxyz launched Solana support, enabling token swaps across Solana and 14 other chains with deep liquidity, smart routing, and cross-chain bridging
- @SuperteamUK announced they’re bringing back the London Startup Village from June 9th to 18th
- Solana DeFi continued to level up: @KaminoFinance Meta Swap Aggregator launched, featuring RFQs powered by @PythNetwork’s Express Relay
Feels like Solana doesn’t sleep. If something slipped past, share it in the replies!