Superteam India Update: May 2023
GDP $1.9M | Crosschain Clubhouse, SolanaU, Synap, SOL Trek, Little Unusual, Superteam Earn V2 | 19 Instagrants & Bounties awarded | Hxro Elite 10, Open RFPs & more stories with Kash
What is Superteam?
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 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-organize and win a bounty, 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
$1.9 Million in Community GDP 📈
Up from $1.6 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 194 members & 260+ 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, Kash, Ujjwal, Aditya, David, Akshay BD, Pratik, Anh & Neil Shroff.
Shipping 🚢
Crosschain Clubhouse
The Superteam India community is collaborating with Zo World to host a two-week hacker hostel in Bangalore from May 30 to June 13, 2023. It will be 15 days of shipping, living, and enjoying together, supported by the Wormhole and Solana Foundations.
It has already begun, and rumors say that builders are absolutely loving it. Follow Superteam India for live updates!
Solana University Accelerator
Solana University Accelerator Program is a program designed to support and facilitate the growth of university-led blockchain projects on the Solana network. It focuses on providing mentorship, resources, and connections to teams with promising ideas.
Several projects from Superteam were accepted into the program:
Synap
Synap is a social platform on Solana that provides portable social profiles and enables dApps to create a personalized, interoperable, and rewarding experience for Solana users.
The team released profiles for Solana users; these profiles, which are unique to each user, provide an overview of your activity in the Solana ecosystem. If you've used Solana before, your profile is already there and ready to be claimed.
More than 100 profiles have been claimed; claim yours now!
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 beautiful experience.
The team shipped videos for Synap, Dailect, and Cashmere Labs and attended the Nas Creators Summit. They will be covering the Crosschain Clubhouse in Bangalore and have also launched their website. Click on the button to be amazed!
Superteam Earn
Superteam Earn aggregates all earning opportunities on Solana to help match the best sponsors with top talent through a range of formats like bounties, grants, contracts, jobs, etc.
The team shipped Earn v2! They’ve got a new version of the product, the key improvements are,
A new, simpler look focused on better discoverability of earning opportunities on both desktop and mobile.
New sponsor dashboard to view submissions.
Alpha Squad: Get exclusive early access to the latest Solana projects and win product feedback bounties.
There is currently $600K+ worth of open earning opportunities! Sign up now!
Sol Trek
Sol Trek is a visual block-based Solana learning playground for people to explore and build without having to code.
SOL Trek has arrived! You can now start visualizing your development flow. The team integrated HXRO Network's SDK, so you can try it out without writing any code. The project also supports multiplayer, allowing you to prototype and learn alongside your friends. If you are a developer, you must try this!
Earning
Bounties 💰
Bounties are small-scale tasks (typically worth $1,500 USDC equivalent of your token) that can help your project grow. To learn how your project can best leverage bounties, request a session with Kash here.
Pandatechie wins the Push Protocol deep-dive bounty.
Samridh won the Grant Finder bounty.
Hieu won the Mochi Raycast Extension Development bounty.
Samridh & 0xRay tied for the “Submit Capstone Project Ideas to WBA" bounty.
NotMxrvel won the "Make a Comic Strip on NFTs" 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:
Charged
Charged is a developer tool for adding breakpoints, editing inputs, and simulating Solana transactions before sending them on-chain.
Won by: ApoorvInstaPay
InstaPay is a PoS machine that enables merchants and users to just use their fingerprints to make any transactions.
Won by: AryanSOL Trek
A visual block-based Solana learning playground for people to explore and build without requiring them to code.
Won by: BoltFoster Market Place
Foster is a decentralized digital art marketplace on Solana governed by CircusDAO.
Won by: CircusDragonStorytellersDAO
StorytellersDAO is a community-owned brand with a mission to bring comics to Solana by funding ideas and fostering IP-based culture.
Won by: JosipTokenplex
Tokenplex is a platform for cross-chain liquidity pools of high market cap Ethereum tokens.
Won by: DoraxTinyDancer
Tinydancer is a light client for Solana that would be used to ensure the security of the network in the event of a supermajority attack.
Won by: Anoushk and HershWormhole explainer video
A grant for making a Wormhole explainer video.
Won by: KiratCrypto Writers Grant
An explainer post on Solana’s TVU.
Won by: 0xNineteenSoltera
Soltera is a Discord bot for Solana development that is AI-powered and provides all-in-one documentation and education.
Won by: Apoorv and AnishGasPay
GasPay allows users to make cross-chain deposits without having to hold tokens native to a single chain.
Won by: MrigankSuperbridge wallet
Superbridge is a multi-chain wallet that aims to be a home for your funds across multiple chains.
Won by: Ameya
Shipped
Solana Tourism v2
An interactive website that guides newcomers into experiencing the best of what Solana has to offer in a structured manner.
Shipped by: AdarshReFi 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.
Shipped by: MadhavSolana Payments Hub
A front page for all things payments on Solana.
Shipped by: Sitesh and Yash Agarwal
New Grant Programs
Checkout the full selection on our website
Open RFPs
Superteam and our partners, including the Solana Foundation, Solana Labs, Wormhole Foundation, Circle, Backpack, etc., all put out simple bounties and requests for contributions to the public. Anyone who completes the tasks successfully as per the terms can claim the payment for them.
RFPs are open to everyone, and you can pick any task from the list here.
Learning 📚
Hxro Elite 10
The Hxro Elite10 developer cohort is a 2-week program exclusively for Superteam developers to learn and build DeFi applications.
Selected applicants participated in a 2-week curriculum of classes, support, and mentorship dedicated to building and developing products on top of Hxro Network’s core protocols — Dexterity and the Parimutuel protocol, using their respective SDKs.
0xAryan, 0xshuk, Akshay, Ashraf, iMEF, Daoit, Samridh, YTW7, and Sunit were accepted into the first Hxro Elite 10 cohort.
Storytime with Kash
Our very own Kash launched a string of videos covering some of the best projects on Solana.
So far he’s covered Backpack, Firedancer, $GREED, DePIN, and AI Wars.
From the Blog ✍️
Product lessons from DRiP for founders and growth teams building in consumer crypto.
Celebrating Members 🚀
Kunal is going to be a part of the Meta Bug Bounty researcher conference in Seoul.
Ashraf hosts a Solana Dev workshop.
0xNineteen is joining TinyDancer as a core developer.
Ritvij’s paper gets published in IEEE.
Bolt wins the Apple Swift student challenge.
Highlights of the Month 🥳
Solace got accepted into the Crypto.com accelerator program.
10+ Open RFPs were claimed in the last month.
Candypay is powering tax payments in crypto through Prospera.
600+ subscribers to the Superteam global events calendar.
Grahil hosts the Jaipur dinner.
Madhav hosts the Bangalore dinner.
