Superteam India Update: Aug 2023
GDP $1.7M | Hyperdrive | 57 OPOS submissions by members | Cubik, SpedX, Little Unusual, Superteam Earn, Fetcch | 11 Bounties & Grants awarded | New Member Perks | IRL Season
India Community GDP crosses $1.7M
Up from $1.6M last month, community GDP is the North Star metric for Superteam. It represents the value created for & by community members who found earning opportunities through Superteam.
A special shoutout to the rainmakers of the month (i.e. members who have brought in earning opportunities to the community) Kash, Ujjwal, Akshay BD, Karthik, Umang, Anoushk, and Neil Shroff.
If you’re reading this for the first time, click here to scroll ahead for a short introduction to Superteam.
Hyperdrive
The next Solana hackathon is here! Sign up now.
Shipping 🚢
OPOS
This hackathon, organized by LamportDAO focused on showcasing what’s uniquely possible on a high-speed, global state & low-cost blockchain like Solana.
The Solana community rallied to support this initiative, with over 25 prize tracks from a wide range of ecosystem projects. There were 150 entries, 600+ participants, and a 100K prize pool.
A whopping 57 entries were from the global Superteam community.
Cubik
Cubik successfully hosted submissions & prize distribution for Solana Speedrun Game Jam. Check out the official winners here.
They also hosted the submissions, voting, and a matching pool for the OPOS hackathon.
Little Unusual
It has been a busy week at Little Unusual. The team shipped a video for ONDC, a video for Indian Blockchain Week, and another episode of Between Two NFTs.
The team shipped two films from Little Unusual Films, which is a passion project born out of Little Unusual. If you want to get such amazing videos for your project/product, send them a DM on X.
Superteam Earn
Superteam Earn has crossed 1,500 verified talent profiles. Here are some feature updates from last month:
Email notifications — including new bounty-added notifications for talent, weekly live bounty round-ups for talent, sponsor email notifications, etc.
Improved mobile experience.
UI / UX improvements across the site such as bounty stage filters, a carousel for recent earners, bounty nudges, Point of Contact sections for bounties, etc.
SpedX
SpedX is an advanced trading platform integrating a CLOB and an AMM. It utilizes the Hxro Network to enhance liquidity and optimize trading efficiency.
SpedX took part in the OPOS hackathon and is gearing up to unveil a refreshed UI. They're also preparing a special [redacted] for their early backers. For the most recent updates, visit X, and join Discord to engage with the SpedX community.
PurplePay
Co-founded by early Superteam member Saumya, Purple Pay is building a compliant web3 ecosystem by linking KYC/KYB records to wallets, getting them verified by compliance providers, creating ZK proofs of it, and putting them on-chain for web3 dApps to access.
PurpleID has successfully completed its first phase, focusing on cross-chain KYC verification and the issuance of verified credentials. They are currently beta-testing Purple Pay, which facilitates seamless transitions between fiat and crypto transactions. Other than this, they developed and released comprehensive documentation for merchant use.
They’ve secured three new clients:
A brand loyalty platform from Turkey.
A crypto commerce entity from Australia.
ZoHouse in Bangalore.
Fetcch
Fetcch offers a "Pull Payments Layer" for streamlined blockchain transactions, allowing receivers to initiate payments while senders retain final approval.
The team launched the alpha version, a payments application based on Fetcch infrastructure, deployed relayers for Wormhole, and introduced a new website. If you want to add Pull payments to your app, book time with the team here.
Solana x Superteam Campus Connect
Campus Connect is a series of meetups for students to get into the world of Web3 and understand the basics of Solana.
In the last month, the events were held at NIT Trichy, IGDTUW in New Delhi, Bennett University, Amity University Noida, and IIT Delhi from the 22nd to the 26th of August. Upcoming events are scheduled at IIT Kanpur on 7th September and BITS Mesra on 10th September. Sign up here.
Earning
Bounties 💰
Bounties are small-scale tasks (typically worth 1,500 USDC or the equivalent in a project token). To learn how your project can best leverage bounties, request a session with Kash here.
Anushka Varshney won the Twitter Thread Recap of the August Ecosystem Call Bounty.
Rishabh Parochi won the MetaTicket UI/UX Bounty.
Mujahid Shuaib won the Marinade Deep Dive Bounty.
Syed Tahoor Ali won the Design a SOAP for Berlin Hacker House Bounty.
Instagrants ⚡
Instagrants are equity-free grants to support builders across the Solana ecosystem. Applications take less than 15 minutes, and approval decisions come within 48 hours. Anyone can apply here.
Issued Grants
Solang Tutorial series
A series of 8 beginner-friendly videos for Solidity and Ethereum developers to help them transition to Solana.
Won by: FoskaayDecentralization Adoption by the Government of India: Exploring Futures and Potential Impact
A Crypto Writers grant to deep dive into the various protocols used by the government of India and how they can potentially impact growth.
Won by: JeevithaDeep Dive into pNFTs on Solana
A Crypto Writers grant to deep dive into Proof-of-Contribution NFTs, Key to Onboarding the Next Wave of New Users and Contributors to Solana.
Won by: Harsh and KaushikPurply Pay
Building Chain-agnostic Decentralized identity-based payments for web3 dApps. Won by: SaxenasahebState of IDLE gaming in Solana A grant to create a comprehensive technical blog exploring the state of IDLE games on Solana and provide a metric on the active players currently and upcoming games in the genre. Won by: Killerthief
Solang-series A grant to write technical articles/tutorial series about Solang (solidity) to onboard more EVM devs to Solana. Won by: Shivam Soni
State of Solana Gaming A grant to explore the current state of Solana gaming. Won by: Yash C
Shipped
1/1 Art Market on Solana A deep dive into the State of Art Market on Solana. Shipped by: Yash
Solana Stable Coin Dashboard As the name suggests, a dashboard to track stable coins on Solana. Shipped by: Samridh
Learning 📚
Videos 📹
Last month, our Sherpa, Kash released several videos, including "Why Should You Stake Your Sol?", "Crypto x AI Crossover", and "Myth Busting about Solana Development."
Blog ✍️
Our picks of 5 games from the Solana Spreerun hackathon!
Inside Solana Speedrun 🎮
Celebrating Members 🚀
Anoushk made an OSS contribution to Firedancer.
Dhiraj landed a job at Airchat.
Shruti and Kaushik got accepted into the Wormhole Fellowship.
Arihant wins the July XP race.
Vignesh published his book, “Into the Unknown”.
Dhiraj, Anoushk, Hersh, and Paarug will be speaking at Solana Breakpoint.
0xshuk made OSS contributions to Realms governance UI and SPL governance SDK.
Bolt, Ujjwal, Drac, Sahil, and Sabir hosted the Solana workshop at IIT Delhi.
0xAryan made a tool for Service Protocol for Compressed NFTs which takes away the hassle of managing Merkle tree for NFTs.
King shipped a bot within the SuperteamIN Discord channel to streamline the allocation of XP.
Member Perks
Helius
Superteam Members get a 30% off at Helius. Just raise a ticket on Discord and show your MemberNFT.
All Domains
Anyone with a Superteam Member NFT can get a free .superteam TLD for their wallet (e.g. kash.superteam).
These TLDs are not for sale, they are exclusively available for our Members. To get started, just go to All Domains and register your name, simple as that.
Upcoming Events
India
Apart from Bangalore and Mumbai Hackerhouses, there are Network state meetups, cross-chain lunches, and many fun side events ranging from laser tag to paintball combat, if you are a member and are near Mumbai or Bangalore, you should definitely check this out.
Head over to Luma to reserve your spots!
Superteam World Tour
Meet Solana enthusiasts near you, and prepare together for Hyperdrive — the upcoming global hackathon. Meet-ups in over 19 countries. Sign up here.
Highlights of the Month 🥳
Shivam hosts a meetup!
Superteam X Taptive writing cohort.
Candypay shipped its mobile payments SDK.
Rishabh hosted a meetup in Bangalore.
Root is building a market maker on Phoenix.
Solana DevRel team conducted a Developer Educator Program.
Members conducting sessions at various Campus Connect events.
What is Superteam?
If you’re new here — Hello! Thank you for dropping by. Here’s a quick introduction to Superteam and the work we do.
Superteam is a network of operators, devs & grantees working on promising Solana projects.
Simply put, it is a gated Discord server for those who satisfy the membership criteria. There’s no treasury, take-rate/commissions, or token sale. From its inception, Superteam has chosen to be a collective of sovereigns over a sovereign collective. All members, including the core team, may participate as much or as little as they wish. Any revenue generated is captured by the individual members or teams that self-organize and win a bounty, and secure a grant or venture funding for their ideas. The community is the product. And members have exclusive access to the product.
Superteam is currently live in Israel, India, Vietnam, Turkey, Germany, Mexico, the UK, UAE, & Nigeria.