Sailor@solana_sailor
Solana hosted the largest crypto hackathon ever
Colosseum Frontier, broken down 👇
📊 Relevant data:
• 2,857 submissions
• 19,040 registered participants
• 165 countries
• 45 judges
• +81% vs the previous Colosseum hackathon
• +166% vs the first Colosseum hackathon
🌍 Top 5 countries by registrations:
• India: 6,656
• Indonesia: 1,467
• Nigeria: 1,410
• Brazil: 1,088
• US: 962
👥 Participants breakdown:
• New users: 16,034
• Returning users: 3,006
- Students: 1,563
- Non-students: 17,477
After mapping every project logo, I wanted to look at where builders are actually spending their time 👇
🧩 Category breakdown:
• Consumer/Social: 607
• AI: 540
• DeFi: 515
• Infra: 279
• Payments/Fintech: 255
• Gaming: 148
• Security/Privacy: 147
• Verticals: 137
• RWA: 98
• Data/Governance: 83
• Wallets: 48
Consumer/Social, AI and DeFi alone account for 1,662 projects
That is more than 58% of all Frontier submissions
The top categories are all very close to users, user behavior and actual product usage
🏆 Winners will be announced around June 23, but the full project list already says a lot
With this many projects across so many verticals, there is a real chance that more than one of them will matter in the next phase of Solana
Good luck to all the builders.
The judges have a very hard job ahead.
