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Why Colosseum Is the Best Hackathon — And Why That's Really a Story About Solana
A mentor in a Toronto co-working space asked us one question that rebuilt our startup in 48 hours. That's when we understood what Colosseum actually is: not a hackathon, but the front door to the most deliberately engineered builder-to-founder machine in crypto — and underneath it, Solana itself.
June 25, 2026 · 14 min read - Featured
Why Colosseum Is the Best Hackathon: The One That Doesn't End
Most hackathons are event-shaped; Colosseum is company-shaped. It runs Solana's global hackathons and then funnels winners into an accelerator that writes a $250K check from a $60M fund — turning a weekend project into a funded company. The structural case, the receipts, and an honest accounting of who it's actually for.
June 24, 2026 · 9 min read - Featured
MapleAgent: Give AI Agents a Budget, Not Your Wallet
We built a demo on Solana's new native subscriptions & allowances — a capped, revocable budget an AI agent spends on its own, with revocation enforced by the chain itself.
June 23, 2026 · 4 min read - Featured
Permissioned Pulls: Solana's New Authorization Layer for Subscriptions and Allowances
How Solana's subscriptions program works: a standalone, audited program that lets a token holder grant a bounded, revocable right to pull funds — capped by amount, period, and destination. The full anatomy, a merchant build walkthrough, and an honest accounting of what it doesn't do.
June 10, 2026 · 21 min read -
Canada's Stablecoin Subscription Layer: CADD, Solana Allowances, and the CAD-Native Billing Rail Nobody Has Built Yet
A strategy memo for Canadian builders on the collision of Solana's new subscription program and the CADD stablecoin — what's live, what's announced, what's hypothetical, and the unbuilt company in the gap.
June 23, 2026 · 18 min read
Vellum Blog notes on payment rails & protocol design