Imagine the best view of Istanbul it was the Solana Summer Party venue by @SuperteamTR 🤘 Prob it was the most oversubscribed event of the week, only the chosen ones could attend Kudos to @aysegulsensoy, @tunacka and @leperking_sol 🫶 for this amazing event

Solana Summer landed in Istanbul ☀️ 1,000 registrations. Packed beyond capacity. One unforgettable night. The energy was unreal ⚡ Builders, founders, investors, and creators from around the world came together to celebrate @Solana and @SuperteamTR. This is what a global community looks like. LFG 🚀

On the Bosphorus. A private gathering of founders, CEOs, and investors shaping the future of internet capital markets. Live violin in the background. Our private dinner brought leaders together in Istanbul — a city that has been connecting worlds for centuries. On the table: @Solana, internet capital markets, and the future being built onchain. Curated. Intimate. Unmatched.

Feeling truly blessed to be part of such an amazing team ♥️🙌

BREAKING: Mastercard is introducing always-on stablecoin settlement on Solana. 3.7 billion cards. 210 countries. One of the largest payment networks on earth, now settling onchain.

Solana Summer is happening in Istanbul 🥂

We’re taking over Istanbul Blockchain Week 🔥 @SuperteamTR on the ground. See you in the city 🇹🇷

solana is global & superteam is a cheatcode 2,857 projects submitted to the @solana Frontier hackathon -- up 1.8x from prev editions despite a worse market!! incredibly proud of our @superteam teams that run local outreach, workshops, pitch sessions, build stations, demo days, etc to get teams over the line jobs not finished...

This is insane. 19,000 hackers registered for Frontier by @colosseum since April 6, including 16,000 new. That's 15 new Solana builders born every hour.

Turks have been shipping. 30 projects pitched. 4 cities onsite. Founders from all across Türkiye. Live demos, real judges, actual teams building on @Solana. This is what @Colosseum hackathon season looked like in Türkiye. Now onto the leaderboard 🇹🇷

The arena doesn't need perfect. It needs shipped ⚔️

12 hours. Half a day between you and the arena. You’ve spent the last 5 weeks building. Now it’s time for the final polish. Clean it up. Tell the story. Hit submit 🏛️

The projects we saw these past two days were incredible. But what really stood out was how Turkish builders had each other’s backs 🤝 This is what a real ecosystem looks like. You made us proud 🇹🇷

Türkiye’s best builders are live, pitching their projects to @SuperteamTR's local judging panel from across the ecosystem. Tune in 👀

90% of my advice for @colosseum founders comes to these ideas: Nail the 3-5 word pitch. Language is the basis for shared understanding, and nobody will use your product if they can't understand it. Use metaphors liberally to assist (e.g. Robinhood for agents, Pumpfun for startups). In fact, you should solve for the language before you build anything, because the product emanates from the language. If you have the thought "a wallet for Polymarket users" or "Agents that serve as multisig members for Squads," in fact you've solved for audience & product already and now the rest of what needs to be done is relatively simple. The canonical example from James Currier @ NFX (legendary investors) is "cloud storage for your photos" vs. "photo sharing app" is the same technical infrastructure but the first is a small idea and the second is a world-changing idea (Instagram). Then, build for the right distribution channel. If you're building a product to share trades in group chats, don't build a web app where people need to share links. Build a Telegram app or iMessage keyboard. Lastly, keep your product vision narrow. Don't build generic infrastructure or building blocks. Solve single use cases with tremendous depth & make it a magical & delightful product, and then expand after you find happy users. Specific language & audience, pick the right distribution channels, then a narrow product. In that order.

Just met a dozen @colosseum hackers from Turkey building in AI, privacy, predictions, and more. Super bullish on the new @SuperteamTR.

5 weeks in the arena ⚔️ Now it's time to face the local judges.
 For the @SuperteamTR x @HalbornSecurity Local Track with $10,000 prize pool, the judging panel is officially set. Meet the judges 👇

Build Station & Demo Day ⚡️ 5 weeks of building. One final weekend. Builders across Turkey have been going all-in on @Colosseum Frontier — the world's largest online startup competition with $2.5M in prizes.

took a few calls with turkish builders today obviously im bullish than ever 🇹🇷 underrated colosseum competitors on your way