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Cohort 5

21 Companies

At Cesto, we're on a mission to end one-size-fits-all finance. Now, you can go from idea to trade in one click. We are building thematic baskets on Solana with RWAs, prediction markets and perps. Given you own the assets, you can lend, borrow or stake baskets too.

Clawpump, where agents become companies, and access the agentic financial system.

Distributed intelligence layer for robotics, connecting trained operators, robot hardware, environments, and verifiable data across the physical AI stack.

DashX is the payment rail for businesses receiving money into emerging markets like India. Instant settlement, automated compliance & transparent pricing.

DASMAC (dasmac.com) is building Dropset (dropset.io), an onchain Forex platform that harnesses the power of Solana to facilitate open and efficient exchange of multinational currencies at scale.

Agent Experience Simulator & Optimizer for API and MCP providers. It simulates the agent-to-API journey to show where users drop off, why agents choose competitors, and helps API teams apply the highest-impact fixes with one prompt to win back revenue.

Housd brings institutional U.S. residential private credit onchain, offering fully liquid 10% APY (real yield) backed by first-lien real estate loans.

JK Index is building TCG grading prediction markets.

Laso Finance is the agent-native financial stack. With a single prompt an agent gets its own prepaid card, a US bank account, and the ability to buy anything online. The same rail lets people spend crypto anywhere prepaid cards are accepted, without handing over personal information.

Mana is a stablecoin neobank for the Global Workforce starting with the Global Filipinos, combining US virtual accounts, low cost remittances with card, investment and savings products. Its larger ambition is cross-border underwriting: using developed-market income and Philippine financial activity to unlock credit, insurance and other financial services for immigrants who are invisible to legacy institutions.

Nomu turns a plain-language ideas into a manufactured product, sourced, produced and delivered anywhere in the world. Solana's biggest brands already run on us with $1M+ GMV since launch.

ODL (On-Demand Liquidity) is launching a RWA liquidator vault focused on tokenized investment securities within private credit, private equity and venture capital. ODL acquires or finances discounted RWAs to either hold or re-sell to ODL's TradFi network of investors.

Peaks is a trading app for investing in any idea, trend or token.

Collect, Play, Social, Full TCG experience online, all in One Arena.

Senthos is the institutional risk layer for prediction markets - a fair price for every event contract. A single engine prices the less-liquid yet useful markets and even extends to untraded markets by borrowing information from correlated ones across a proprietary cross-market covariance model, which then extends into risk, margin, and financing. Senthos is building the missing risk-data layer and aims to capture the entire prediction market interdealer stack.

StableCorp is the business infrastructure for remote founders earning in stablecoins. One platform to go from earning USDC to running a real business: US LLC formation, stablecoin treasury with yield, multi-rail invoicing (stablecoins, ACH, SEPA), and full compliance (bookkeeping, FEMA filings, US + India tax filing)

A Store of Value with a perpetually rising floor.

A provably fair on-chain mafia strategy game on Solana. No token, ever, but real USDC prizes.

Traded is the global exchange for collectibles. Every vault, every marketplace, one place to buy, sell, and hold graded cards.

WeLikeSports is building the next great fantasy sports platform.

Zoneless is an open-source alternative to Stripe Connect, built on stablecoins. It lets marketplaces pay their sellers globally at near-zero cost: ~$0.002 per payout vs $2+ on Stripe. It has an identical API to Stripe, so developers can migrate in minutes with no code changes. Apache 2.0 licensed and fully self-hostable, so you never have to worry about lock-in or fees.

Cohort 4

11 Companies

An MEV-resistant decentralized exchange on Solana using dual batch flow auctions to offer competitive pricing and reduce latency races.

Capitola Labs is a product-led research and development firm building novel information finance applications. Capitola Labs’ first product is Vistadex, a full-stack RFQ prediction markets platform on Solana enabling users to trade all events listed across major venues at the best price.

A privacy layer for Solana enabling confidential transactions through decentralized pools and miner-driven anonymity sets, protecting users from transaction tracing.

A stablecoin-powered remittance rail on Solana for cross-border business payments, offering guaranteed FX rates and instant settlement.

The access layer for the agent internet, enabling AI agents running on any client to pay for and access resources and capabilities.

A yield aggregator on Solana that optimizes returns through fractional reserve mechanics, balancing liquid and illiquid allocations across senior and junior tranches.

A derivatives trading platform for perpetual futures with a simplified, gamified interface and social features designed for accessibility.

An opinion markets platform for music on Solana where fans stake on artists they believe are undervalued, with fees flowing into artist treasuries that finance their art.

A prediction markets infrastructure company on Solana, building the next generation of derivatives trading tools with cross-venue aggregation and execution.

A hardware wallet and companion app built for Solana with native staking, swaps, perps, yield, privacy, and multisig capabilities.

A checkout SDK and API enabling merchants to offer buy-now-pay-later with crypto, using onchain and offchain data for credit underwriting.

Cohort 3

10 Companies

A stablecoin payments platform for supply chain, processing cross-border logistics payments on Solana with flat-fee pricing and instant settlement.

A web game where players draft token teams and compete in PvP contests scored by live crypto prices.

A merchant payment gateway on Solana enabling payment acceptance on any device with integrated customer loyalty features.

A self-custodial stablecoin wallet that lets users scan regular merchant QR codes to pay without a bank account in emerging markets.

An advanced liquidity provision terminal for Solana that simplifies LP position management to two clicks, with dashboards to find the most profitable opportunities and zero-slot latency transactions.

An AI-powered data scientist for Solana, providing research-grade onchain analytics for developers, investors, and researchers.

Decentralized object storage on Solana using on-chain tape structures and a miner network, enabling permanent data storage with cryptographic proofs.

An automation engine for crypto trading on Solana, enabling anyone to create, share, and scale trading strategies with low-latency execution.

A competitive prediction platform on Solana where players forecast exact numbers on market-moving data like GDP, payrolls, and earnings, with payouts that scale with accuracy and convex rewards for perfect calls.

A keyboard app that doubles as a non-custodial Solana wallet, letting users view balances, send tokens, and interact with DeFi without leaving any app.

Cohort 2

13 Companies

A fan-owned football club on Solana where token holders govern real-world club decisions, stream live matches, tip players, and participate in scouting — built around Alfreton Town FC.

A growth and advertising platform for Web3 businesses, providing analytics, attribution, and targeting tools for efficient scaling.

A zero-knowledge AMM on Solana that encrypts trade size, direction, and slippage before execution, eliminating MEV extraction. == 2nd Place - DeFi track, Colosseum Radar (2024) Acquired by SOL Strategies Inc. (2026).

A DePIN platform for clean energy on Solana, connecting energy generators with consumers and recording energy transactions onchain with rewards for participation.

A DeFi protocol on Solana that mints hyUSD stablecoins and xSOL leverage tokens through LST-backed collateral pools.

A fully onchain game where tokenized monsters hatch, grow, and battle to absorb each other’s liquidity.

A trustless, peer-to-peer sports betting platform. Set your own odds, bet without limits, and compete directly against others.

A stablecoin infrastructure protocol on Solana enabling permissionless issuance of yield-bearing stablecoins, backed by delta-neutral DeFi strategies.

A fully onchain, real-time multiplayer game on Solana where players buy in with tokens, compete to grow the biggest on the map, and can cash out at any time.

A monitoring platform for Solana programs providing automated transaction analysis, error detection, and performance tracking in real time.

A platform that tokenizes the reputation of memecoin alpha callers on Solana, letting users trade on caller track records.

Infrastructure as Code for Web3, bringing Terraform-style declarative deployments and secure operations to smart contracts and Solana programs.

A volatility farming protocol on Solana with smart routing across decentralized exchanges, generating yield from market arbitrage.

Cohort 1

10 Companies

A social marketplace on Solana for buying and selling tokenized tweets, enabling creators to monetize their social engagement.

A decentralized data network where users monetize excess bandwidth to support AI training, sentiment analysis, and trend prediction.

A DePIN financial derivatives platform that tokenizes hardware participation through NFTs, enabling investors and operators to access decentralized infrastructure networks without running equipment.

A decentralized EV charging network on Solana with IoT-enabled hardware that can be installed anywhere, enabling owners to earn passive income.

A DePIN network enabling generalized 3D mapping through scan uploads and a Unity SDK for building location-based XR applications.

A fair-launch digital currency on Solana where anyone can mine ORE tokens through a novel proof-of-work algorithm, designed for mobile and home mining with zero insider allocations.

An optimized Solana validator client using advanced scheduling and pipeline optimizations to deliver boosted transaction throughput and staking yields.

A gaming platform for creators to engage with their audiences through Teamplay, a new interactive product built on Solana.

Customer engagement infrastructure for Solana, providing audience segmentation, campaign management, and reward distribution for onchain user acquisition.

An intent-based swap aggregator bringing protection against toxic MEV at the application layer.

Strategic Investments

9 Companies

An institutional-grade decentralized exchange on Solana with credit-backed leveraged positions, advanced order types, MEV protection, and risk management tools for sophisticated traders.

An onchain app platform on Solana that lets anyone build, launch, and monetize consumer crypto apps with AI-native tooling.

An opinion markets venue for trading on collective belief, letting users bet on what the market or broader internet believes.

A Solana-native launchpad and AMM for permissionless token creation and trading, combining launch infrastructure with standardized market mechanics and a protocol-level revenue model.

A decentralized governance and capital formation platform on Solana built around futarchy, where market prices guide organizational decisions.

A permissionless Solana protocol that merges spot trades and isolated margin lending using unified AMM pools, enabling leveraged trading of long-tail assets without oracles.

A marketplace for programmable Solana stake accounts and tokenized staking yield, letting validators and stakers access upfront liquidity and trade yield exposure in an onchain market.

The dollar infrastructure layer for Solana, issuing USDv — a yield-bearing stablecoin designed for wallets, protocols, and treasuries that turns idle onchain dollars into productive capital.

A privacy-first trading layer on Solana that routes trades through shielded liquidity pools, protecting execution and strategy from front-runners and copy traders.