Thousands of devs on Solana with a thousand plus programs used every single day. 1,092 programs used on Solana on Nov. 8 — near an all-time high — and an estimated >25,000 unique developers who have written, deployed, and audited Solana programs, according to sec3.

Additionally, Google Cloud is running a block-producing validator on Solana and will bring Blockchain Node Engine to the Solana chain next year.

Solana NFTs are now supported on Instagram and Facebook.

Neon is bringing EVM to Solana in December.

ASICS tapped Solana Pay to power limited global shoe drop with loyalty badge and Stepn NFT.

Dialect went live with Smart Messages on 50+ Solana projects.

Backpack brought executable NFTs to Solana, with developer interest at Breakpoint high.

BetDEX announced they are going live on Solana before the 2022 World Cup.

Major progress was announced for Saga and Solana Mobile Stack, along with support from Helium and Ledger.

It's time to fight the bear and launch the next big crypto project.

Welcome to #GRIZZLYTHON 🔥

🌍 An online, global Solana hackathon
🏁 Running Feb. 2 - March 14
🏆 $5 million in prizes and seed funding up for grabs

Register and start building now!

Builders can win Grand Champion, speciality prizes & awards in:

📲 Mobile by Solana Mobile
📊 DeFi by Monaco Protocol
💸 Payments by Stripe
💻 Consumer by Brave
🛠Tools/Infrastructure by SolanaFM
🎮 Gaming by Amazon Web Services & Hello Moon
🤝 DAOs/Network States by SuperteamDAO

Grizzlython is an online event, but you can join forces IRL in:

🇸🇬 Singapore with Metacamp
🇮🇳 Delhi with Superteam
🇮🇳 Bangalore with Superteam
🇩🇪 Berlin with Superteam Germany
🇺🇸 SLC with mtndao
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City with Superteam Vietnam
🇦🇺 Melbourne with Drift Protocol and Magic Eden

No purchase necessary to enter or win. Void where prohibited. Participants must be the age of majority in their state/country of residence or older.

Learn more 👉 http://solana.com/grizzlython

2,200+ builders around the world are now competing in GRIZZLYTHON! 🔥

Previous Solana hackathon winners have cumulatively raised $600 million in venture funding over the past 2 years.

Do you have what it takes to win?
👇Register and start building👇

https://solana.com/grizzlython

New city.
New vibe.
A new campus for the Solana community.

Save the date for Breakpoint 2023, coming Oct. 30-Nov. 4 in....
solana.com/breakpoint

Breakpoint will take place at the Solana Campus, a pop-up gathering ground for the Solana community located only 15 minutes from central Amsterdam.

Hop on a free ferry or shuttle for everything you need to learn and connect with your fellow builders.

Tickets will be going on sale in the coming weeks, with special tiers and discounts for developers, creators, and students.

Want to hear when tickets go on sale first? Sign up: solana.com/breakpoint

Breakpoint is about the entire Solana community. Want to get involved?

Nominate a speaker: form.typeform.com/to/b8pzk15S
Become a sponsor: form.typeform.com/to/s5bBaKn1

We can't wait to see what you all have done this year.

See you on campus 🏫

solana.com/breakpoint

10,000 registrants.
813 submissions.
Participants from over 70 countries.

🐻 The Solana Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of Grizzlython, the 7th Solana Hackathon.

https://solana.com/news/solana-grizzlython-winners

🏆 The Grizzlython Grand Champion is Underdog API, a platform that allows anyone to seamlessly integrate dynamic NFTs into products and turn the blockchain into a shared data layer. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/underdog-api

📱 First prize in the Mobile track goes to tap, a cash app that makes sending, spending, and earning cash easy, powered by Solana and USDC. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/tap
📱 Second prize in the Mobile track goes to AquaID, a self custody human identity protocol built on Solana. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/aqua-id
📱 Third prize in the Mobile track goes to dReader, an on-chain comic book store. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/d-reader
📱 Fourth prize in the Mobile track goes to de_plan proto, an API for spatial data and proof-of-location on Solana. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/proto
📱 Fifth prize in the Mobile track goes to SAGAnize, a mobile tool suite consisting of Products/SDKs/Libraries to onboard developers to build Solana Native Mobile dApps. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/saganize

⚒ First prize in the Infrastructure & Tooling track goes to Bunkr, a permissionless asset protection tool powered by code-based 2FA in your authenticator app of choice. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/bunkr
⚒ Second prize in the Infrastructure & Tooling track goes to XRAY, a human-readable Solana explorer. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/xray
⚒ Third prize in the Infrastructure & Tooling track goes to extrnode, a fault-tolerant, disaster-resistant, decentralized RPC service for web3 products. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/extrnode
⚒ Fourth prize in the Infrastructure & Tooling track goes to Tinydancer, a light client for the Solana blockchain. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/tinydancer
⚒ Fifth prize in the Infrastructure & Tooling track goes to Shadow Portal, infrastructure that allows developers to summon off-chain data onto Solana. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/shadow-portal

🎮 First prize in the Gaming track goes to Michi, a casual roguelike dungeon crawling game powering an ecosystem of games/products. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/michi
🎮 Second prize in the Gaming track goes to Kyogen Clash by Dominari, a fully on-chain RTS game built using the Dominari Game Engine. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/kyogen-clash-by-dominari
🎮 Third prize in the Gaming track goes to rps, an on-chain wager-based gaming studio for Solana. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/rps
🎮 Fourth prize in the Gaming track goes to Sporting Labs, an on-chain F1 Fantasy League on xNFT Backpack. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/sporting-labs
🎮 Fifth prize in the Gaming track goes to 3ntertain, an end-to-end event-oriented solution, dedicated to entertain and monetize communities while fairly rewarding game developers. https://solana.com/grizzlython/projects/3ntertain