Superteam India 2023 UNWRAP
Superteam India 2023 UNWRAP
Celebrating member projects, prizes, wins & milestones from the past year
This newsletter is back after a break and we’re excited to kick off 2024 by looking back at everything our community accomplished in 2023.
Presenting the Superteam India 2023 UNWRAP…
January
We started the year with community GDP at $1.2M.
Members shipped 34 projects to the Solana Sandstorm hackathon.
Superteam Earn crossed 150 registered talent profiles.
We hosted a debate between Toly & Toghrul on the podcast.
Superteam Build curated a list of VCs who actively invest in Solana projects.
India build stations were announced across Mumbai, Delhi & BLR.
February
Members won 22 (out of 83) prizes at the Sandstorm hackathon.
The Wordcel team launched Gum, an open-source protocol that allows devs to make their apps stickier by importing social elements like profiles, a feed, friend graph, etc.
Members Tushar & Aditya took their passion for making cool videos and launched a production studio, Little Unusual.
We partnered with Nas Academy to bring a free cohort based course on Solana development.
Arbaaz Khan invited you to participate in the Solana Grizzlython.
Kash dropped a timeless video on how to win a Solana hackathon.
The first (and only?) Superteam United Nations conference took place. You can still catch the recording on the previous link.
March
Members Anoushk & Hersh shipped, Tinydancer, Solana’s first light client via the Grizzlython hackathon.
The CandyPay team launched a one-click checkout solution & payment links while onboarding Hello Moon, Triton, Trader M8 & Samo as customers.
Superteam members submitted 71 projects to the Solana Grizzlython.
Member Yash Agarwal shared his story about accessing global earning opportunities from a small town at the Indo-Bhutan border.
Community GDP crossed $1.5M.
April
Gum launched session keys, a primitive to enable in-app actions without needing to approve a transaction from their wallet every single time.
CandyPay helped power the Boba guys booth at NFT NYC. Boba Guys went on to launch their loyalty program on Solana.
We launched 2 new grants programs – cross chain grants by wormhole & the Superteam Pizza fund.
Anurag Kashyap invited you to apply for our Wormhole grants program.
Members raked in the prizes at the Solana Grizzlython
May
Superteam Earn shipped their V2 with an all new sponsor dashboard & a mobile optimised version.
Adarsh shipped Solana tourism, an interactive website that guides newcomers into experiencing the best of what Solana has to offer in a structured manner.
Members Sitesh & Yash shipped the Solana payments hub.
Members 0xAryan, 0xshuk, Akshay, Ashraf, iMEF, Daoit, Samridh, YTW7, and Sunit were accepted into the first Hxro Elite 10 cohort.
Kash shipped storytime videos covering Backpack, Firedancer, $GREED, DePIN, and AI Wars.
Five member projects were accepted into the Solana university program:
June
Members Irffan & Dhruv launched a closed beta of their crowdfunding platform Cubik & took Solana Twitter by storm.
Synap shipped social profiles, airdrop lists & won a prize in the Coindesk web3athon.
We partnered with Zo House to host a Crosschain clubhouse, watch the recap video here.
Members knocked out 10+ Open RFPs.
We partnered with Underdog to ship the new soulbound Superteam member NFT.
We crossed $2M in global community GDP & 1.5M in India community GDP.
July
Superteam Earn crossed 1000 talent profiles, ~7x growth from the 150 profiles they started the year at.
We launched a grants program with Circle & the Superteam education fund.
Superteam Member Srijan’s startup Fuze got accepted into the Hub71 Program.
Members Akshat, Yash Aggarwal, and 0xRay got accepted into the Wormhole Fellowship.
Member Abbas joined Hashed Emergent as their ecosystem lead.
August
Superteam members globally submitted 57 entries (out of 150) to the OPOS hackathon.
Cubik successfully hosted submissions & prize distribution for the OPOS hackathon & the Solana Speedrun Game Jam.
Little Unusual shipped videos for ONDC, the India Blockchain week & piloted a video series “Between 2 NFTs” with members Irrfan & Umang.
CandyPay shipped a mobile payments SDK.
Superteam Earn crossed 1500 talent profiles, growing 50% MoM. They added new features like email notifications, improved app experience with points of contact and filters, and iterated on their mobile UX #itsgoodnow.
We hosted campus connect, a week-long series for students across university campuses to learn about Solana.
Member Dhiraj landed a job at Airchat.
Shruti and Kaushik got accepted into the Wormhole Fellowship.
New member perks; 30% off on Helius and a free domain by All domains – redeemable against the member NFT.
We partnered with Taptive to host a writing cohort for Superteam members.
September
Member Wilfred got hired at Underdog Protocol.
Member & co-author of these updates, Yash C got accepted into the Wormhole Fellowship.
Member Srijan’s startup Fuze finance raised $14M.
Member Umang launched Picoplay – a gaming platform for chess communities built around daily puzzles, rewards & cNFTs.
FA2, co-founder of Solana, published a guest post on the Solana DeFi comeback.
The Superteens documentary went live at the Bangalore Hackerhouse.
Member Anam launched the Solwave Mobile SDK.
New member perk – two months of free access to Chainstack’s growth plan.
Superteam India members brought in some prizes from the OPOS hackathon,
'Aquatica Odyssey' by BK won first place in the 'Build with Shyft' track.
'Orbit' by Ahzam took second place in the 'Build with Shyft' track.
'Solarplex' by Pratik won first place in the 'A Fresh Bowl of Guacamole' track.
'Proto' by Akshay, a20hek, and King secured third place in the 'dePIN' track.
'Picoplay' by Vampo, Sitesh, Anishde, and Sahilpabale won first place in the 'Holaplex Compression + Superteam Mobile Apps on Solana' track.
'Root Protocol' by Dhrumil won joint second place in the 'Phoenix' track.
'SpedX' by Karthik shared second place in the 'Phoenix' track.
'Monstre Photo Booth' by CM and Fatality achieved first place in the 'Tiplink' track.
The India Solana community showed up for the Mumbai & Bangalore hacker houses.
We hosted Balaji for a Network state keynote & meet up in Mumbai & BLR.
Superteam turned 2.
October
The Tinydancer SIMD was merged.
We hosted a Hacker Hostel in Dharamshala & a community-run build station in Bangalore for members participating in Hyperdrive.
Superteam got a mention in the Messari State of Solana Q3 Report.
Kash shipped a video with advice for Hyperdrive teams.
We shipped a one-stop-shop hackathon resource bank.
November
The Superteam community globally brought in 16 prizes & 23 honourable mentions at Hyperdrive.
Members from India won 4 prizes & secured 6 honourable mentions
Tatami by 0xshuk, Dean & team won 2nd prize in the DAOs & Network state track.
Albedo by Prakyath & team finished 3rd in the DePIN track.
Vaxchain by Aarushe, Anish & Sahil took 4th in the DePIN track.
Carbon pay by Sahil & Sameer won the climate award.
Tontine, Picoplay, Spedx, Intrant Infernis, Sayver & Watch Tower received honourable mentions.
Kleo, Albedo, Watch Tower, Root & Tatami won prizes in side tracks.
The Superteam national dress ball at Breakpoint was a hit.
Kunal & Anish shipped Revokin, a tool you can use to prevent your wallet from getting drained by detecting & revoking malicious account delegations.
FT joined the ISC team,focused on building Solana’s first flatcoin.
Tiny Dancer got featured on the Bankless Podcast.
Members represented Superteam at Breakpoint in Amsterdam
Anoushk & Hersh presented key features of Tinydancer, including the fact that it can verify bridge transactions.
Josip spoke about building mobile first on the developer stage and about digital comics at the DRiP Haus.
Akshay spoke about Proto & decentralised maps.
Yash shared actionable advice for anyone looking to write & research in the Solana ecosystem.
Dhiraj spoke about simplifying mobile app development.
Paarug brought home a win in the BONK boxing match.
India community GDP closed at ~$1.85M.
December
Nas joins Superteam focused on tokenized communities & creator monetization.
Our very own Kash became a Dad ❤️
Paarug got a job at squads.
Revokin goes viral! 1.6K wallets checked & 150 malicious delegations revoked.
Over 25K wallets got their Solana Wrap via Ankit & team.
Community GDP crossed $2M.
The past year tested the resilience of the ecosystem & anyone who continued to build, create and work in the web3 space. All signs indicate that 2024 is gonna be one hell of a ride & we couldn't be more grateful to share it with the best community out there.
Superteam has always focused on onboarding people through creation and contribution to products and communities over just speculation. This newsletter will continue to talk about products, communities & ideas to help you contribute and create in web3.
That’s all for now & wish you an exciting 2024 ahead!