Superteam India Update : March 2023
GDP $1.5M | Shipping : Superteam @ Grizzlython, CandyPay, Gum, TinyDancer, Cubik, Little Unusual, Seasurf | 11 Instagrants & bounties awarded | Blog: A Saga Gig Store
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
$1.5 Million in Community GDP 📈
Up from $1.3 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 165 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, Tamar, Anh, Arihant, Abbas, Kash, Akshay BD, David Taylor, Magio, Tushar, Anoushk & Neil Shroff.
Shipping 🚢
Gum
A decentralized social media protocol on Solana by the Wordcel team. Using Gum, developers can let users bring their existing social stack into their apps and build native experiences on top of it.
The team has been fast in shipping UI components for React Native and has a YouTube channel for helping developers with guides, tutorials, and explainers. Along with that, the team is burning the midnight oil to launch session keys soon!
If you’re looking to build social apps on Solana, here’s an idea you can start with. Get help with infrastructure, intros, distribution, etc from Mert.
CandyPay 🍭
Last month, the team publicly launched CandyPay checkout and payment links. A one-click, low-code payment solution to start accepting payments on Solana.
They onboarded quite a few new customers in March, here are a few -
Hello Moon: A seamless experience to purchase developer tools in SPL tokens
Trader M8: The First Community-Run Market Analysis Tool.
Triton, an RPC Node Provider.
Samoyedcoin & Solana foundation to power payments at HCMC Solana HackerHouse.
The Grizzlython 🐻
Grizzlython was a month-long hackathon by the Solana Foundation partnering with multiple projects in the Solana ecosystem. The hackathon commenced on March 14th with 10,000 participants from 80 nations with a total of 800 submissions.
56% of all submissions were from Superteams across the world. To help you navigate submissions - here’s a repository of projects from all the Superteams.
Tinydancer 💃
Tinydancer is a light client for Solana which ensures the security of the network in case there is a supermajority attack.
Here’s a powerful vision statement from their whitepaper - “Anyone should be able to spin up a diet client on a mobile device and verify the validity of their transaction and state without requiring a full node or having to trust the supermajority.”
The team has open-sourced the Project along with providing a deeper understanding of how things work with the docs. The team has big plans moving forward and has released a roadmap too. If you are a dev and want to get involved, feel free to raise a PR here.
Little Unusual 🎬
Little Unusual is a production house that spun out of Superteam. As the name suggests, they take usual or mundane content and turn it into an extraordinary and most beautiful experience. The team has shipped multiple videos in the last month for Dialect, Frakt, and Tinydancer. They also released a rewind video for all things the team shipped in 2022.
Cubik
Cubik is a decentralized funding tool on Solana that enables organizations to conduct fair quadratic funding rounds while also providing robust Sybil resistance.
The team, after winning a barrage of prizes at the Sandstorm hackathon, is now preparing for a launch in April with revamped UX, design, and overall security.
SeaSurf 🌊
Seasurf is a simple Solana Block Explorer, which would help to track and analyze different transactions in one place.
The team implemented a transaction explorer and an account explorer that would help users navigate and read transactions easily. Along with this, the team is incorporating a bunch of new features that are [redacted]. Stay tuned!
Earning
Bounties 💰
We continued to work with some of the most exciting Solana projects to complete bounties.
Founding Titan won the Developer Portal Deep Dive bounty.
Grahil won the Little Unusual thread 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:
Solfaucet
Solfaucet is a Mainnet Sol faucet to fund users with gas fees and help them start their Solana journey.
Won by: VampoFreezo.io
Freezo.io is a Blockchain timestamp as a service for enterprises to manage their IP.
Won by: PandatechieAutomate NFT minting
A tool to mint a Solana NFT to a wallet when a user fills out an Airtable form.
Won by: Divya RanjanSynap
Synap is building a socially accountable credit rating system on Solana.
Won by: UjjawalSupertable
Supertable is an enhanced version of Airtable that allows you to connect custom domains, customize UI, and wallet-gate form responses.
Won by: SoulNinjaHelius Python SDK
A Python SDK for Helius clients to interact with data on Solana.
Won by: MayurSolex
Solex is a CLI/learning tool that allows developers on Solana to improve their skills by practicing and solving bite-sized exercises.
Won by: 0xMukesh and SahilReFi Graph
Refi Knowledge graph is a project that is working to map the interoperability and composability of new ReFi assets and protocols, as well as the regenerative finance projects that are building on Solana.
Won by: Madhav
Shipped
Hubble Videos
Hubble Protocol sponsored a mission for an expert Video Producer to create multiple video tutorials that are sleek and professional looking for maximum shareability in the ecosystem.
Won by: Tushar Sinha
Learning 📚
On the Podcast
The team discussed the SVB situation, and we got a little story time with Kash 🙇♂️
From the Blog
Scribloor and Yash B explored "Where there's a phone, there's a job—and what that means for smartphone distribution and global gig marketplaces.
Celebrating Members 🚀
Anoushk made a contribution to Solana Cookbook.
Gajesh, Bolt, and Kunal got featured in “Here come the Zoomers” by The Information.
Ujjwal hosts a workshop at Greenpill Festival.
Bolt wins the XP race for February 2023.
Shek used ChatGPT to create a spreadsheet view of Grizzlython submissions.
Kash officially launches “Story time with Kash” on YouTube.
Yash A publishes a thread on earning global wages from an exotic remote location.
