Superteam India Update: Feb 2023
GDP $1.3M | CandyPay, Gum, StellarSol, Gaj Show, Little Unusual | 3 Bounties and Grants awarded | Nas Academy Course & Hackathon Pro-tips | IRL Buildstations
What is Superteam?
Superteam is a network of individuals and companies building products in the Solana ecosystem. 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 may participate as much or as little as they wish, including the core team. Any revenue generated is captured by the individual members or teams that self-organise 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 India, Vietnam, Turkey, Germany & Mexico.
Key Metric
$1.3 Million in Community GDP 📈
Up from $1.2 Million last month, this is the North star metric for Superteam. It represents the value created for & by community members who found earning opportunities through Superteam.
Driving this number is a community of 160 members & 200+ contributors. A growing talent network with 2500+ registered people looking for opportunities in web3. And 50+ partner projects who’ve tapped into this talent pool.
A special shoutout to the rainmakers of the month (i.e. members who have brought in earning opportunities to the community) Ezgi, Devaiah, Tamar, Anh, Abbas, Kash, Akshay BD, Swarnab, Carlos & Neil Shroff.
Shipping 🚢
Gum
A decentralized social media protocol on Solana by the Wordcel team. Using gum, developers can enable users to import their existing social stack in-app and build native experiences on top of it.
Key legos involved are user profiles, posts, connections, and reactions. All of these are stored on-chain using account compression.
You can read their docs & start making your app stickier using their open-source SDK today.
CandyPay 🍭
Last month, the team shipped Caramel - a tool that allows developers to natively monetize their code.
This month, they publicly launched CandyPay checkout. A one-click, low-code payment solution to start accepting payments on Solana.
StellarSol 🪐
StellarSol enables you to pay via crypto for your online purchases. You can now shop on Flipkart and Amazon US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Italy with USDC via the StellarSol extension.
This month, the team shipped an extension for the Chrome Webstore.
The Sandstorm hackathon 🌪️
Superteam Members and Contributors won a quarter (22 out of 83) of prizes at the Sandstorm hackathon. Here’s the rundown,
Cubik by Irfan and Dhruvraj won the Judge’s favourite track, SolanaU Student Prize track, Civic Decentralised Identity track, and Dispatch Composable discussion track.
Caramel by Candypay won the Opensource track.
DisBet by Bolt won the Sports betting UX track.
tmev by Anoushk and Hersh was the second runner-up in the Jito MEV track.
Galactic Reputation by King was the runner-up in the Reputation track.
Fuser by Pratik won the Helius NFT track.
Monstrè x Elusiv by CM won the Private Payments using the ZK track.
Intersect by Carlos won the Automation track and fifth prize in the Bonk track.
Sunrise stake by Daniel won the Liquid Staking track.
Root Protocol by Dhurmil won the Defi track.
Here are all the winners from the Hackathon 💻
Superteam Build 💡
Superteam Build is an idea bank for the upcoming hackathon and a broader source of inspiration for anyone hungry for ideas on what to build. This time around, the team added an all-new mobile section.
The Gaj Show 🎙️
Our friend Gajesh launched his podcast a while back, in which he talks to the brightest minds in the crypto industry and open-sources their knowledge.
In just two weeks, the show has accumulated 200+ watch hours & 3k+ views.
Little Unusual
A production studio by Superteam members Tushar and Aditya changing the way we see and think about content. In Feb, they shipped the Superteam Mexico launch video.
Earning
Bounties 💰
We continued to work with some of the most exciting Solana projects to complete bounties.
Himanshu Kumar won the Seahorse Cookbook UI/UX Redesign Bounty.
Kouga won the best recap thread of the Ecosystem Call bounty.
Instagrants ⚡
Equity-free grants to support builders across the Solana ecosystem. Applications take less than 15 minutes, approval decisions come within 48 hours. Anyone can apply here.
Issued Grants:
Solana Ecosystem Page 📜
A common hub for all Solana ecosystem projects where projects would be listed after being verified by the community.
Won by: a20hek
Shipped
A guide to Solana City 📍
An interactive website that guides newcomers into experiencing the best of what Solana has to offer in a structured manner.
Won by: Adarsh
Learning 📚
Solana Course on Nas Academy
Superteam partners with Nas Academy to bring a free Cohort based course on Solana development.
How to win the Solana Hackathon
Kash & Akshay drop alpha on how to win a Solana hackathon.
Hint: presentation matters. If you’re submitting to Grizzlython, DM Kash for advice on how to make a winning pitch.
Celebrating Members 🚀
Despite the bear market, Superteam members went ahead and kept building:
Anoushk makes a contribution to Jito Labs.
Gyanlakshmi joins Starkware as a Developer Advocate.
CM wins the 2022 Monke builder of the year.
Anoushk makes a contribution to Solana Cookbook.
Jaydeep is helping produce the Network State Podcast.
Buildstation 🖥️
Buildstation is a developer-guidance program for teams participating in Solana Grizzlython. It will take place in person on Saturdays and remotely through Discord & Telegram.
We already had 11 sessions with different mentors across Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi. We have a lot more sessions coming up in March. Visit here to find out more info about the events happening!
Highlights of the Month 🥳
From the legend
The legend himself invites you to participate in the ongoing Grizzlython.
Superteam Superspace
(Some people are calling it the Superteam United Nations)