Superteam @ Solana Summer
Superteam @ Solana Summer
CandyPay, D-Hire, Metapass, SolStore, Bounty Hub, StellarSol, Cricinshots, Stream-RTC, Proto, Ohana, Raid, Solace & Truts.
We recently published an essay covering our top 35 picks out of all 618 submissions to the Solana Summer Hackathon. In this follow-up essay, we will take a look at all 13 submissions from the Superteam community.
Some interesting stats…
Compared to the overall average of 25%, a much higher share of superteam builders are currently in university.
Given superteam projects are predominantly from India, this got me curious on how each country ranked on this metric. Once you normalise for projects submitted, India is the clear leader with 80 projects submitted and little under half of them from university builders. Nigeria is a close second with just as high a % of university builders but fewer total submissions. Indonesia, Germany, Serbia, Spain, Kenya, Turkey & France are all above the average of 25%. But the absolute count of projects starts getting pretty low once you move towards the right of the chart - so this may not be indicative of larger trends. The USA came in below average but this is probably because of a more mature market and more overall builders.
Superteam builders are definitely more confident of the lot…
Superteam Projects @ Summer Camp
A request: As you go through this list, pls do consider voting for any projects you like. All you need to is click on the button, sign in via-twitter (once) and vote. It is great validation for teams along with an opportunity for them to win the community prize.
With that, let’s look at our submissions. In no particular order…
Proto
A geographical NFT platform and an API for location based services on Solana. This makes it easy for brands & projects to control access to NFTs based on your physical location - bridging the gap between virtual & IRL experiences.
Solace Protocol
A smart-contract based non-custodial wallet which eliminates the need of a seed phrase, eases user onboarding and enhances security using social recovery.
Ohana.town
A decentralised non-custodial funding infrastructure on Solana. Their goal is to make fund-raising from the community faster, cheaper and easier for projects. By minting each project as an NFT it makes it easy for anyone to verify whether this genuinely a project listed on Ohana or a fake link. The UX for both fundraising and contributing is pretty slick. They automatically create a token for the project and people who invest do so through this token. They have a lot of exciting features in their
Bounty Hub.
Creating the infrastructure using which communities are able to engage and reward members through bounties and competitions. This was created when the team saw many different projects, including Thugbirdz, struggling to manage bounties and earning opportunities for their community across multiple disconnected platforms. Their goal is to make it easy for community admins & managers to list and payout bounties. And for bounty-hunters to discover and complete them. Super excited about the no-code Bounty Hub builder they plan to launch soon. This will hopefully allow each community to customise the interface to their needs while reading and writing to a shared database of bounties and contributors.
SolStore.
Open Source web3 E-commerce protocol. An interesting feature is their integration with the Orca whirlpool CAMM. This allows buyers to pay in any token that has a USDC pair in that pool & automatically swaps it to USDC for the merchant.
D-Hire.
An open source transparent job onboarding platform for DAOs and talent on Solana. They want to improve the hiring process for both organisations look to hire & people looking for jobs. A key element is allowing candidates to transfer their real world credentials on-chain & get them verified by their previous org.
Cricinshots
A free to play + play and earn cricket game with sustainable economics, which is set in the future, where users have to build an intergalactic team, join leagues, & defeat opponents in a never before seen cricket gameplay.
Stream-RTC.
A decentralised real time media communication protocol, with wallets as a first class citizen. Their goal is to become the communication layer of the metaverse. They’ve written a miner - which contains all the code needed to send media. Anyone can sign up to operate a miner, they get paid out based on usage from an escrow.
StellarSol - They’re a browser extension which allows you to pay in USDC on ANY website. They do this by buying gift cards in the background & automating the site’s checkout process.
Our Notes: Spending crypto easily continues to remain a problem. Being able to spend directly from your browser extension without clunky, delayed off-ramps is a big opportunity. StellarSol is a pretty clever product that uses gift cards in the background allowing you to spend your USDC-SPL in your Phantom on e-commerce websites like Amazon.
Truts
A reviews & discovery platform for web3 communities. One of the few community led products in the hackathon that have already generated some traction from real users
Our notes: If web3 lives up to its promise, hundreds of thousands of communities will form over time with their own intellectual, economic, political or social pursuits, and their own idiosyncratic structures and membership rules. Truts may prove to be an excellent discovery platform for people looking to join a community, while also creating a review mechanism. Over time, they could monetise by providing services to the communities on its platform. Checkout their product here.
CandyPay - They are powering mobile native NFT experiences. Their product was already used to dispense SOAPs across many IRL summer camp events & NFT Berlin.
Metapass
Their goal is to provide access-as-a-service. The first product they’ve launched is ticketing for events.
Our notes: Let's start by saying, you can do most ticketing with web2 platforms better than any web3 alternative. However, imagine a world where users are able to showcase via NFTs what events they attended (this is a practical example of the rhetoric of “users own their data”); and then any brand or artist can query the chain and target discounts or other exclusive offers to those users. Eg., Tanmay Bhat offers tickets to his stand up show at a 20% discount to anyone who has attended and supported an open mic show in the last 60 days. Ultimately, web3 will create a peer to peer advertising marketplace for “pixels” as Anatoly puts it.
Raid.
It allows you to build & manage automations for on-chain activity. Their claim is that it is not easy for smart contracts to talk to each other & that most teams end up having to build this in-house. This is redundant & doesn’t scale well. Their product allows devs to build logic based on on-chain events using just a few lines of code
Our Notes: Composability is one of the biggest unlocks of web3 (We think of Solana as an API Killer rather than ETH Killer). This is the ability for builders to go beyond restrictive APIs and plug-in directly at source. It can unleash the “bazaar” of developers and projects who have been stifled by closed platforms. A plug and play module for building applications on top of on-chain events is an invaluable tool for developers and has the potential to be spun off into a no-code tool as well, e.g. access an NFT mint access based on DAPPs used, games played, NFTs held etc. Follow the founders Aryan & Ayush.
Thanks to Devyesh Tandon for compiling the spreadsheet version of submission.
Some of the entries have been reproduced from our previous essay - Inside Solana Summer.
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