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Dev3pack is running its global hackathon October 30 to November 1, 2026, a three-day hybrid event with more than 40 in-person build stations across four continents. The three days sit in the middle of a longer program that opens with a free Solana Rust bootcamp on October 6 and ends with three months in the Bridge Accelerator for the teams that place.
Solana Accelerate China is back for a second year, running October 16 to 22 with single-day stops in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing. Each city has its own Luma page and a single General Admission ticket, with the Solana Foundation hosting all four and internet capital markets as the stated theme.
The Solana Foundation opened STOCKLANA, a one-week hackathon with $100,000 in prizes for apps built around stocks on Solana, with submissions closing Friday, September 18 at 4:00 pm ET. It is also the launch event for hackathons.solana.com, a self-serve platform where the community proposes hackathon themes, votes on them, and funds bounty tracks with USDC held in onchain escrow.
The Solana Foundation is now a Platinum member of the Rust Foundation, the top tier, which comes with a seat on the board that decides how the Rust Foundation spends its money. It joined at RustConf 2026 in Montreal alongside NVIDIA and is the only blockchain organization among nine Platinum members that include AWS, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
Solana Mobile and RadiantsDAO have opened Clock In, a four-week hackathon putting $135,000 behind mobile-first Solana apps, with submissions closing October 9, 2026. Ten teams get paid, the deliverable is a working Android APK rather than a pitch, and winners have 30 days to ship to the Solana dApp Store.
Superteam Korea has published the recap of the Google Cloud and Solana AI Agentic Hackathon Demo Day, where 10 finalist teams out of 160 builders competed for a $5,000 Solana Foundation grant pool. The more useful result is that all ten converged on the same architecture, splitting AI judgment from code-enforced spending limits.
Colosseum has opened registration for the Crypto World's Fair, an online hackathon running September 14 to October 12, 2026 that is open to builders on every blockchain rather than Solana alone. Every submission is eligible for prizes regardless of chain, though the $250,000 pre-seed check and the accelerator seat behind it still go only to Solana teams.
Solana Labs named six teams to Cohort 5 of the Solana Incubator, a three-month program that puts founders in New York City building alongside the Solana Labs team. The group runs from robot fleets and agentic finance to opinion markets and verifiable trade settlement, and applications for the next cohort open in October.
Solana has opened the Solana University Ambassador Support Program, a paid, one-semester role for two student ambassadors per participating university who run Workshops, Build Nights, and Demo Days from September through December. Ambassadors get a USDC stipend, event funding, full RPC/AI/data toolkit access, and a shot at Breakpoint or Accelerate for top performers, with applications closing September 1, 2026.
DeFi Development Corp launched State of Solana, a free public dashboard pulling SOL price and returns, live network throughput, staking yields, validator concentration, and cross-chain comparisons into a single page. It also tracks Solana's scheduled protocol upgrades, which most crypto dashboards leave out entirely.
Bench, built by the encrypted computation network Arcium, turns job hiring into a confidential prediction market on Solana, letting vouchers stake capital on candidates without competitors or the hiring company seeing where the money is going until the role is filled. Its devnet alpha drew 900 participants across 12 markets and $7.67 million in combined stake volume before the August 24, 2026 mainnet launch.
Solana ID is shutting down, with the Hub, API, and Display Network going offline September 30, 2026 and user data deleted by year-end. The team burned 73.78% of the total SOLID supply from its own treasury and already returned all 13.8 million staked SOLID across 1,239 wallets with zero failures.
Solana Mobile has launched a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy and Bug Bounty Program that pays researchers up to $75,000 in SKR for critical vulnerabilities in Seed Vault, SKR's onchain programs, and Seeker Genesis Token infrastructure. Rewards are paid under a signed Award Agreement across four severity tiers, and a separate Security Grants program launched alongside it.
Solana Foundation is running Solana School's Fall Class from August 31 through October 16, a free, seven-week, cohort-based program that ships working code every session, three times a week. Unlike the summer cohort, which required a college email, the Fall Class is open to any developer who applies, ending in a Demo Day pitched as practice for Colosseum.
A routing fault at Teraswitch's Miami site knocked 90 Solana validators and about 125 million SOL offline for 33 minutes, pushing delinquent stake to 28.83% against the 33.34% level where the network stops finalizing blocks. Marinade Finance's incident analysis found more than a quarter of all staked SOL concentrated on a single ASN, with 94% of it going dark at once.
Flash Trade is winding down unless it finds a buyer, ending a three-year run as one of the few fully bootstrapped perpetuals exchanges on Solana. Co-founder Anas Khader took full responsibility and gave three reasons for the closure, none of which was running out of money, and any acquisition proceeds go to FAF holders pro rata with the team taking nothing.
Credible Finance closed the first ICO ever routed through the Colosseum STAMP, drawing $32,775,016 in commitments from 790 contributors before the team accepted roughly $4 million and refunded the rest. The STAMP replaces the usual SAFE plus token warrant with a single instrument that makes the token the only economic claim, handing the treasury and IP to MetaDAO's decision markets at launch.
MagicBlock and MonkeFoundry have launched Forge, a VIP builder program pairing Solana founders with 1:1 engineering mentorship, VIP access to ecosystem leaders, and a shot at the IRL Hacker House.
