Seoulana
Hackathon
2025

Seoulana
Hackathon
2025

Seoulana
Hackathon
2025

Superteam Korea's First Competition
April 4 - 6, 2025 📍이노베이션 아카데미

Superteam Korea's First Competition
April 4 - 6, 2025 📍이노베이션 아카데미

FIRST-EVER SUPERTEAM KOREA-LED HACKATHON: SEOULANA

FIRST-EVER SUPERTEAM KOREA-LED HACKATHON: SEOULANA

FIRST-EVER SUPERTEAM
KOREA-LED HACKATHON: SEOULANA

3-DAY HACKATHON IN SEOUL

3-DAY HACKATHON IN SEOUL

3-DAY HACKATHON IN SEOUL

$97,000

Total in Prizes

(A mix of cash and paid-in-kind prizes)


$97,000

Total in Prizes

(A mix of cash and
paid-in-kind prizes)



General Track

+

5 Special Tracks



🏗
General Track

$12,000

🏗
General Track

$12,000

🏗
General Track

$12,000

⛓️
Multichain Track

$7,000

⛓️
Multichain Track

$7,000

⛓️
Multichain Track

$7,000

🪡 
NCN Track

$7,000

🪡 
NCN Track

$7,000

🪡 
NCN Track

$7,000


Liquid Staking Innovation track

$7,000


Liquid Staking Innovation track

$7,000


Liquid Staking Innovation track

$7,000

🌐
Solana Finfra Challenge Track

$7,000

🌐
Solana Finfra Challenge Track

$7,000

🌐
Solana Finfra Challenge Track

$7,000


bitcoin on solana Track

$7,000


bitcoin on solana Track

$7,000


bitcoin on solana Track

$7,000

Hack or Die!

Hack or Die!

Hack or Die!

About

About

Seoulana Hackathon 2025 is a dynamic three-day Solana hackathon set in Seoul, bringing together global innovators to build cutting-edge decentralized applications. With up to $97,000 of prizes and support from industry leaders, this event offers a unique opportunity for builders to shape the future of blockchain technology.

Seoulana Hackathon 2025 is a dynamic three-day Solana hackathon set in Seoul, bringing together global innovators to build cutting-edge decentralized applications. With up to $97,000 of prizes and support from industry leaders, this event offers a unique opportunity for builders to shape the future of blockchain technology.

Why Participate?

Why Participate?

✅ Be Part of the first-ever Solana hackathon in Korea

✅ Join solana's dynamic ecosystem - Tap into one of the most vibrant and fast-growing blockchain networks, where innovation thrives.

✅ Showcase your skills to industry leaders, VCs, and the entire community - a perfect chance to make your mark.

✅ Win big - both in cash and reputation!

✅ Be Part of the first-ever Solana hackathon in Korea

✅ Join solana's dynamic ecosystem - Tap into one of the most vibrant and fast-growing blockchain networks, where innovation thrives.

✅ Showcase your skills to industry leaders, VCs, and the entire community - a perfect chance to make your mark.

✅ Win big - both in cash and reputation!

Tracks & Prizes

Tracks & Prizes

Tracks & Prizes

General Track

General Track

The General Track in the Seoulana Hackathon is designed to inspire fresh, innovative ideas that push the boundaries of what's possible with Solana's ecosystem. Whether you're exploring DeFi, NFTs, infrastructure, or consumer apps, this track is your chance to bring something original and creative to the table. Check out the Participants Handbook for some cool suggested ideas to kickstart your creativity!

The General Track in the Seoulana Hackathon is designed to inspire fresh, innovative ideas that push the boundaries of what's possible with Solana's ecosystem. Whether you're exploring DeFi, NFTs, infrastructure, or consumer apps, this track is your chance to bring something original and creative to the table. Check out the Participants Handbook for some cool suggested ideas to kickstart your creativity!

ai

  • Communication and collaboration among AI agents to build scalable ecosystems

  • Enhance Solana Agent Kits

  • MCP

  • Develop an Agentic AI Framework/VM for seamless interoperability

  • Design functions, tools, and skills tailored for AI agents

  • An AI agent economy (including Wallet, IAO, etc.)

  • Introduce Verifiable AI for enhanced transparency

  • Develop NLP-based solutions for initiating transactions and allowing users to sign seamlessly via self-custodial wallets

  • Solana-Powered Autonomous Agents that utilize Aethir's network of 420k+ GPUs (https://docs.aethir.com)

  • Winning teams from AI subtrack will receive Aethir's GPU credit up $15,000.

DeFi

DeFi

  • Develop creative Yield Trading strategies

  • Optimize yield generation from LSTs by leveraging SIMD-96

  • Build a Sniper Bot/DeFAI for optimized trading strategies

  • Create Liquid (Re)Staking Protocols that allow users to earn rewards through staking tokens or LSTs while participating in other dApps

developer & security tooling

developer &
security tooling

  • Build AI agents that generate insightful @flipsidecrypto or @Dune data analysis dashboards (Reference)

  • Create tools that help developers analyze and improve Solana ecosystem data efficiently.

  • Explore MEV-Resistant Execution solutions.

attention capital market

attention
capital market

  • Implement Token Vesting models driven by user attention

  • Develop Attention Arbitrage mechanisms

  • Design a Decentralized Marketing Protocol that rewards engagement

gaming

gaming

  • Develop AI-driven cooperation or rivalry mechanics

  • Create immersive gameplay with Dynamic NPCs that react to user actions

  • Mini games, social games, FOCG, high-ARPU games, etc.

consumer applications

consumer
applications

  • Seamlessly onboard the next billion crypto users using Solana’s efficient infrastructure

  • Design unique solutions to drive mass adoption from the Korean market

1st Prize
$6,000

2nd Prize
$4,000

3rd Prize
$2,000

SPECIAL Tracks

SPECIAL Tracks

Wormhole

Wormhole

Multichain Track


Dive into the Multichain track and unlock the potential of blockchain interoperability with Wormhole. This track invites you to leverage Wormhole products and tooling alongside Solana’s capabilities to develop groundbreaking applications that operate across multiple blockchains.

Multichain Track


Dive into the Multichain track and unlock the potential of blockchain interoperability with Wormhole. This track invites you to leverage Wormhole products and tooling alongside Solana’s capabilities to develop groundbreaking applications that operate across multiple blockchains.

Jito & Fragmetric

Jito &

Fragmetric

NCN Track

Cook with us in the Jito (re)Staking track and leverage JitoSOL or other SPL tokens to secure your node consensus network (NCN). By developing an NCN, you can develop novel consensus mechanisms for use cases such as DePIN, oracles, and bridging, seamlessly manage administrative authorities for your protocol, and harness Jito Network effects, including working with professional node operators and Fragmetric, to build utility on Solana.

NCN Track

Cook with us in the Jito (re)Staking track and leverage JitoSOL or other SPL tokens to secure your node consensus network (NCN). By developing an NCN, you can develop novel consensus mechanisms for use cases such as DePIN, oracles, and bridging, seamlessly manage administrative authorities for your protocol, and harness Jito Network effects, including working with professional node operators and Fragmetric, to build utility on Solana.

Sanctum

Sanctum

Liquid Staking Innovation track


Explore the future of Solana’s liquid staking ecosystem with Sanctum! This track invites you to build on top of Sanctum’s powerful LST infrastructure—leveraging deep liquidity, seamless integrations, and a thriving ecosystem of LSTs. Whether you’re creating yield-generating strategies, DeFi protocols, or innovative staking applications, Sanctum provides the foundation to supercharge your ideas. Leverage and experiment with Sanctum’s product suite—LST infrastructure, Infinity (INF), and Creator Coins—to build applications that unlock new possibilities for staking, liquidity efficiency, and user-centric DeFi experiences, and tap into the next wave of Solana’s evolution!

Liquid Staking Innovation track


Explore the future of Solana’s liquid staking ecosystem with Sanctum! This track invites you to build on top of Sanctum’s powerful LST infrastructure—leveraging deep liquidity, seamless integrations, and a thriving ecosystem of LSTs. Whether you’re creating yield-generating strategies, DeFi protocols, or innovative staking applications, Sanctum provides the foundation to supercharge your ideas. Leverage and experiment with Sanctum’s product suite—LST infrastructure, Infinity (INF), and Creator Coins—to build applications that unlock new possibilities for staking, liquidity efficiency, and user-centric DeFi experiences, and tap into the next wave of Solana’s evolution!

Astra

Astra

Solana Finfra Challenge Track


Explore the frontier of financial infrastructure and unlock the full potential of Solana's multi-chain ecosystem. This track challenges developers to leverage cutting-edge tools and financial primitives to enhance liquidity across Solana mainnet, SVM, sub-chains, side-chains, Layer 2 solutions, and asset chains.

Solana Finfra Challenge Track


Explore the frontier of financial infrastructure and unlock the full potential of Solana's multi-chain ecosystem. This track challenges developers to leverage cutting-edge tools and financial primitives to enhance liquidity across Solana mainnet, SVM, sub-chains, side-chains, Layer 2 solutions, and asset chains.

zeus network

zeus network

bitcoin on solana track


Become Satoshi Nakamoto on Solana. Zeus Network uses APOLLO as a gateway where BTC is locked and minted as zBTC on Solana. Builders can create innovative applications with zBTC to fulfill Bitcoin's original vision while taking advantage of Solana's smooth user experience.

bitcoin on solana track


Become Satoshi Nakamoto on Solana. Zeus Network uses APOLLO as a gateway where BTC is locked and minted as zBTC on Solana. Builders can create innovative applications with zBTC to fulfill Bitcoin's original vision while taking advantage of Solana's smooth user experience.

Each Customized Track to nominate 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners

Each Customized Track to nominate 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners

Each Customized Track to nominate 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners

1st Prize
$4,000

2nd Prize
$2,000

3rd Prize
$1,000

Timeline

Timeline

Timeline

Registration

FEBRuARY 27 - APRIL 1, 2025

Registration

FEBRuARY 27 - APRIL 1, 2025

Registration

FEBRuARY 27 - APRIL 1, 2025

Hackathon (onsite)

APRIL 4 -

APRIL 6, 2025

Hackathon (onsite)

APRIL 4 -

APRIL 6, 2025

Hackathon (onsite)

APRIL 4 -

APRIL 6, 2025

Finalist demo

APRIL 6, 2025

Finalist demo

APRIL 6, 2025

Finalist demo

APRIL 6, 2025

Schedule

April 4 - 6, 2025

Schedule

April 4 - 6, 2025

Day 1 (Friday) - 4 April

Day 1 (Friday) - 4 April

Time

Time

Duration

Description (Location / Activity)

Description
(Location / Activity)

Keyman

Keyman

16:00 - 18:00

16:00

- 18:00

16:00 - 18:00

2 hr

[B1] Participant Check-in

[F1] Dinner


[B1] Participant Check-in

[F1] Dinner

Superteam KR Staff

Superteam KR Staff

Superteam KR Staff

18:00 - 18:10

18:00

- 18:10

18:00 - 18:10

10 min

[B1] Opening Remark

[B1] Opening Remark

[B1] Opening Remark

Scott from Superteam KR

Scott from

Superteam Korea

Scott from
Superteam KR

18:10 - 18:30

18:10

- 18:30

18:10 - 18:30

20 min

[B1] Rule & Guidance

[B1] Rule & Guidance

Jaehyun from Superteam KR

Jaehyun from

Superteam Korea

Jaehyun, from

Superteam KR

18:30 - 20:30

18:30

- 20:30

18:30 - 20:30

2 hr

[B1] Platium Sponsor
Intro

[B1] Platinum Sponsor Intro

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speaker

  • Presto

  • Wormhole

  • Jito

  • Sanctum

  • ASTRA

  • Sonic

  • Zeus

  • Aethir

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Presto

  • Wormhole

  • Jito & Fragmetric

  • Sanctum

  • ASTRA

  • Sonic

  • Zeus

  • Aethir

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Presto

  • Wormhole

  • Jito & Fragmetric

  • Sanctum

  • ASTRA

  • Sonic

  • Zeus

  • Aethir

20:30 - 21:00

[B1] Core Infrastructure

Sponsor Intro

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speaker

  • Helius

  • Blockdaemon

21:00 - 21:15

[B1] OS Sponsor Intro

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speaker

  • Lavarage

20:30 - 21:00

18:10

- 18:30

30 min

[B1] Core Infrastructure Sponsor Intro

Moderator

  • Superteam KR

Speakers

  • Helius

  • Blockdaemon

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Helius

  • Blockdaemon

21:00 - 21:!5

18:10

- 18:30

15 min

[B1] OS Sponsor Intro

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Lavarage

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Lavarage

21:15 -

21:!5 -

21:15 -

[B1 & F1 & F5] Hacking Continues

[B1 & F1 & F5]

Hacking Continues

Day 2 (Saturday) - 5 April

Day 2 (Saturday) - 5 April

Time

Time

Duration

Keyman

Description

Description

Keyman

09:00 - 09:30

09:00 - 09:30

[F1] 🍽 Breakfast

[F1] Breakfast

11:00 - 11:30

11:00 - 11:30

30 min

[B1] Panel 1


Future of Restaking

Ecosystem

[B1] Panel 1

  • Future of Restaking Ecosystem

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Wormhole

  • Jito

  • Fragmetric

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Wormhole

  • Jito

  • Fragmetric

11:30 - 12:30

11:30 - 12:30

1 hr

[F1] 🍽 Lunch

[F1] 🍽 Lunch

12:30 - 13:00

12:30 - 13:00

30 min

[B1] Panel 2

Solana's Approach
to Institutions

[B1] Panel 2

  • Solana's Approach to Institutions

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Presto

  • BitGo

  • Blockdaemon

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Presto

  • BitGo

  • Blockdaemon

13:00 - 13:40

13:00 - 13:40

40 min

[B1] Panel 3

Future of DeFi

on Solana

[B1] Panel 3

  • Future of Defi on Solana

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Orca

  • Lavarage

  • Something

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Orca

  • Lavarage

  • Something

13:50 - 14:40

13:50 - 14:40

50 min

[B1] Panel 4

Bringing End User

Adoption to Masses

[B1] Panel 4

  • Bringing End User Adoption to Masses

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • D3

  • SNS.SOL

  • Cudis

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • D3

  • SNS.SOL

  • Cudis

14:40 - 17:00

14:40 - 17:00

[B1 & F1 & F5]

Hacking Time

[B1 & F1 & F5] Hacking Time

17:00 - 17:30

17:00 - 17:30

30 min

[B1] Panel 5

Diagnosing Solana's

SVM Network

Ecosystem

[B1] Panel 5

  • Diagnosing Solana's SVM Network Ecosystem

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • ASTRA

  • Zeus

  • Sonic

  • Solayer

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Astra

  • Zeus

  • Sonic

  • Solayer

17:30 - 18:00

17:30 - 18:00

30 min

[B1] Panel 6


Infrastructures on

Solana

[B1] Panel 6

  • Infrastructures on Solana

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Streamflow (Online)

  • Helius

  • Aethir

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Streamflow (Online)

  • Helius

  • Aethir

18:00 - 18:30

18:00 - 18:30

30 min

[B1 & F1 & F5]

Hacking Time

[B1 & F1 & F5] Hacking Time

18:30 - 19:30

18:30 - 19:30

1 hr

[F1] 🍽 Dinner

[F1] 🍽 Dinner

19:30 - 20:00

19:30 - 20:00

30 min

[B1] Open mic

[B1] Open mic

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Any Sponsor

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Any Sponsor

20:00 -

20:00 -

Hacking Continues

Hacking Continues

Time

Duration

Description (Location / Activity)

Keyman

09:00

- 09:30

30 min

[F1] Breakfast

11:00

- 11:30

30 min

[B1] Panel 1

  • Future of Restaking Ecosystem

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Spaekers

  • Wormhole

  • Jito

  • Fragmetric

11:30

- 12:30

1 hr

[F1] Lunch

12:30

- 13:00

30 min

[B1] Panel 2

  • Solana's Approach to Institutions

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Presto

  • BitGo

  • Blockdaemon

13:00

- 13:40

40 min

[B1] Panel 3

  • Future of DeFi on Solana

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Orca

  • Lavarage

  • Something

13:50

- 14:40

40 min

[B1] Panel 4

  • Bringing End User Adoption to Masses

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • D3

  • SNS.SOL

  • Cudis

14:40

- 17:00

[B1 & F1 & F5] Hacking Time

17:00

- 17:30

30 min

[B1] Panel 5

  • Diagnosing Solana's
    SVM Network Ecosystem

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Astra

  • Zeus

  • Sonic

  • Solayer

17:30

- 18:00

30 min

[B1] Panel 6

  • Infrastructures on Solana

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Streamflow

  • Helius

  • Aethir

18:00

- 18:30

30 min

[B1 & F1 & F5] Hacking Time

19:30

- 20:00

30 min

[B1] Open mic

Moderator

  • Superteam KR


Speakers

  • Any Sponsor

20:00 -

Hacking Continues

See Sponsor Office Hour Time Table

See Sponsor Office Hour Time Table

See Sponsor Office Hour Time Table

Day 3 (Sunday) - 6 April

Day 3 (Sunday) - 6 April

Time

Time

Duration

Description

Description

Keyman

Keyman

09:00

09:00

[B1] Submission

Deadline

[B1]🧑‍💻Submittion Deadline

Superteam KR

Staff

Superteam KR Staff

09:00 - 12:30

09:00

- 12:30

09:00 - 11:30

3.5 hr

[B1] Assessment

[B1] Assessment

11:30 - 12:30

11:30

- 12:30

11:30 - 12:30

1 hr

[F1] 🍽 Brunch

[F1] 🍽 Brunch

12:30 - 13:00

11:30

- 12:30

12:30 - 13:00

30 min

[B1] Final 11

Announcement

[B1] Final 11 Announcement

13:00 - 15:30

13:00

- 15:30

13:00 - 15:30

2 hr

30 min

[B1] Demo Day

[B1] Demo Day

15:30 - 15:50

15:30

- 15:50

15:30 - 15:50

20 min

[B1] Winner

Announcement

[B1] Winner Announcement

15:50 - 16:30

15:50

- 16:30

15:50 - 16:30

40 min

[B1]

Closing Remark &

Pictures

[B1] Closing Remark & Pictures

16:30 - 22:00

16:30

- 22:00

16:30 - 22:00

Private Dinner &

Networking

Private Dinner & Networking

Judges, Speakers & Mentors

Judges, Speakers & Mentors

Judges, Speakers
&
Mentors

Judges

Judges

Matt Sorg

vp of technology

Solana foundation

Mert

CEO

Helius

Matt

CEO

Colosseum

Anh

apac lead

Superteam

Yash

CEO
Send AI

Chaerin

APAC Growth

Solana foundation

sj baek

principal

hashed

glen

investment manager

presto

BOra lee

MVP

MICROSOFT

justin wang

founder & CEO

zeus network

jesse

co-founder

sanctum

kinsa durst

Cmo

sonic svm

robby oh

eir

altos ventures

Mentors

Mentors

Chaerin

APAC Growth

Solana foundation

Boosik

Dev Captain

Superteam Korea

issac

coo

orca

mike

product ops lead

orca

Chris

Defi Captain

Superteam Korea

Defi Captain

Superteam Korea

Partners

Partners

Partners

FAQ

FAQ

FAQ

How do I register?

To participate, please submit your application through our official Hackathon page on Devfolio. The registration process requires you to complete an application form.

When does registration open and close?

You can register for the Seoulana anytime between Mar 4 at 12:00 PM UTC+9 and Apr 3 at 23:59 PM UTC+9.

Can I submit a project I’ve already been working on?

Yes, however, the only part of the project that will be judged is what was actually built during the period of the hackathon.

How many tracks can I submit for?

Every team can submit their project to multiple tracks as they deem appropriate.

What are the judging criteria?

Judging will be based on the project's innovative approach, quality of technical execution, user-friendliness, and how well it aligns with the chosen track's objectives.

How do I get support during the hackathon?

During Seoulana, we provide continuous assistance through scheduled office hours and ongoing support via the Superteam Korea Discord and Telegram channels. Upon successful hackathon registration, You will be prompted to join the channel of your choice.

How do I register?

To participate, please submit your application through our official Hackathon page on Devfolio. The registration process requires you to complete an application form.

When does registration open and close?

You can register for the Seoulana anytime between Mar 4 at 12:00 PM UTC+9 and Apr 3 at 23:59 PM UTC+9.

Can I submit a project I’ve already been working on?

Yes, however, the only part of the project that will be judged is what was actually built during the period of the hackathon.

How many tracks can I submit for?

Every team can submit their project to multiple tracks as they deem appropriate.

What are the judging criteria?

Judging will be based on the project's innovative approach, quality of technical execution, user-friendliness, and how well it aligns with the chosen track's objectives.

How do I get support during the hackathon?

During Seoulana, we provide continuous assistance through scheduled office hours and ongoing support via the Superteam Korea Discord and Telegram channels. Upon successful hackathon registration, You will be prompted to join the channel of your choice.

How do I register?

To participate, please submit your application through our official Hackathon page on Devfolio. The registration process requires you to complete an application form.

When does registration open and close?

You can register for the Seoulana anytime between Mar 4 at 12:00 PM UTC+9 and Apr 3 at 23:59 PM UTC+9.

Can I submit a project I’ve already been working on?

Yes, however, the only part of the project that will be judged is what was actually built during the period of the hackathon.

How many tracks can I submit for?

Every team can submit their project to multiple tracks as they deem appropriate.

What are the judging criteria?

Judging will be based on the project's innovative approach, quality of technical execution, user-friendliness, and how well it aligns with the chosen track's objectives.

How do I get support during the hackathon?

During Seoulana, we provide continuous assistance through scheduled office hours and ongoing support via the Superteam Korea Discord and Telegram channels. Upon successful hackathon registration, You will be prompted to join the channel of your choice.

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