Superteam UK, a community of builders on Solana, will support all projects & builders during and after the hackathon.

Your challenge for the Southampton Decentralised Society Web3 Hack is to build a blockchain solution within one of our selected emerging tech industries, then after this in-person hackathon you’ll have the opportunity to continue development on Solana with support from our UK team for submitting into the upcoming online Colosseum Breakout Hackathon (April 14 - May 17).

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. AI

4. Consumer Apps

5. Defi

6. Payments

7. Infrastructure

8. DAOs & Network States

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 Outbreak Hackathon by Colosseum. 

Winners of the Outbreak hackathon will also be accepted into Colosseum’s accelerator program, and have the opportunity to secure $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

Prizes

1. 🥇 USDC 1000

2. 🥈 USDC 500

3. 🥉 USDC 300

4. 🥉 USDC 100

5. 🥉 USDC 100

All winners will be invited to become Solana UK contributors to start their journey of joining our exclusive Superteam UK Engineering Guild - and have the chance to apply for a Solana Foundation UK Grant to continue development of their project.

If you have any technical questions, ask in our engineering telegram group for the fastest response: https://t.me/+C2cD-qQrhi1lOGZk

Resources

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

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

Developer Tools: https://build.superteam.fun/developer-tools

Solana Courses:

• https://www.soldev.app/ 

• https://solana.com/developers/cookbook

• https://buildspace.so/p/solana-core