Solana Mobile and RadiantsDAO have opened Clock In, a four-week hackathon putting $135,000 behind mobile-first Solana apps, with submissions closing October 9, 2026. Ten teams get paid, the deliverable is a working Android APK rather than a pitch, and winners have 30 days to ship to the Solana dApp Store.
Solana Foundation president Lily Liu argues that tokenization is a decades-long “token supercycle,” and a new Allium report backs a good part of that up. Solana executes about a third of all onchain RWA trading, but it holds just 12% of the market cap, and $1.7 billion of institutional balances sitting on it never trade at all.
The first step of SIMD-0437 activated at mainnet epoch 1028, dropping lamports_per_byte from 6,960 to 6,333. Four more feature gates follow, each one waiting on state growth data, until Solana's storage cost lands 90% below where it started.
Superteam Korea has published the recap of the Google Cloud and Solana AI Agentic Hackathon Demo Day, where 10 finalist teams out of 160 builders competed for a $5,000 Solana Foundation grant pool. The more useful result is that all ten converged on the same architecture, splitting AI judgment from code-enforced spending limits.
