Superteam UK, a community of builders, founders and creators at the frontier of tech, will support all projects & builders during and after the hackathon.

Your challenge for the Encode AI London Hackathon is to build a AI x blockchain solution within one of our selected emerging tech industries on Solana, then after this hackathon you’ll have the opportunity to continue development with support from our UK team for submitting into the Solana Breakout Hackathon (April 14 - May 16) by Colosseum.

If you’re not already aware; Solana is a high-performance, open-source blockchain platform. Solana offers many innovations like no mem-pool, parallel transaction processing, compressed NFTs, etc. You can read more about Solana here.

Selected Industries:

1. DePin

2. Gaming

3. Consumer Apps

4. Defi

5. Stablecoins

6. Infrastructure

Explore Solana Solutions here, and the current AI Agent landscape here.

Focus on the innovative part of the complete solution during the course of this hackathon, and then post-hackathon work with SuperteamUK to continue building into the Solana Breakout Hackathon by Colosseum to turn that hackathon project into a startup ready for investment.

Winners of the Breakout hackathon will have the chance to be accepted into Colosseum’s accelerator program for $250k in pre-seed funding for their project.

Judging criteria

- Impact: Does the proposed problem make sense or be helpful to anyone? How large is the effect on the Solana ecosystem?

- Solution: How clever is the solution? The rule of thumb is the less code a solution requires, the better it is.

- Completeness: How far is the code base from production?

- Applications: How does your solution apply to blockchain, and utilise the innovative features of Solana

- Users: Have you onboarded 5-10 users who have given you positive feedback which you’ve iterated on during the hackathon, so by the end you have a product they love

Prizes

1. 🥇 USDC 2,000

2. 🥈 USDC 750

3. 🥉 USDC 500

4. 🎖️USDC 250

Resources

Review here a full list of technical resources, and secrets to win at Colosseum: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cb3uv6dYpx2UKe2cup-_0v9mvoGCwRPC7aMGoarDFrI/edit?usp=sharing

Additional Resources:

Solana TLDR: https://2501babe.github.io/posts/solana101.html

Solana AI Agent Kit: https://github.com/sendaifun/solana-agent-kit

• https://github.com/sendaifun/solana-mcp

• https://station.jup.ag/docs/old/token-list/token-list-api

• https://learn.sanctum.so/docs/for-developers/developers

Technical Docs: https://github.com/helius-labs/solana-awesome?tab=readme-ov-file

• https://build.superteam.fun/developer-tools

• https://www.soldev.app/ 

• https://buildspace.so/p/solana-core