Solana Breakout Hackathon: India’s Moment
Behind the numbers: the products, trends, and instincts that stood out.
With 1,412 submissions from 140+ countries, the Solana Breakout Hackathon became the largest in Solana’s history and arguably its most consequential. Hosted by Colosseum, the five-week sprint ran from April 14 to May 16, 2025, with more than 40 judges evaluating entries across categories like AI, DeFi, and consumer apps.
The Solana Breakout Hackathon
Breakout wasn’t a weekend sprint. It ran for five weeks, long enough for teams to move past hackathon hacks and start thinking like product builders. The hackathon was open to developers globally, solo builders, small teams, and even university students. Participants submitted a mix of presentations, live demos, and GitHub repos to compete across seven distinct tracks.
India topped the charts with 231 submissions (16.3% of all entries), making it the single largest contributor to the Solana Breakout Hackathon. That’s more than the U.S. (110) and Ukraine (102) combined. Nigeria followed closely with 175, showing Africa’s growing on-chain energy. But what made India stand out wasn’t just volume, it was consistency. The median quality felt solid, the focus was clear, and in many cases, the use cases were rooted in very real local problems. While dozens of other countries showed up with spikes of brilliance, India brought sustained, grounded momentum.
Prize Pool and Awards
The Solana Breakout Hackathon wasn’t just the largest by participation, it was also one of the most rewarding. With over $400,000 in prize money, the event recognized both technical depth and product relevance across multiple tracks.
It was made possible with support from key ecosystem players across tooling, infra, and application layers.
At the top was the Grand Champion award of $50,000, given to the single most outstanding submission across all categories.
Each of the seven main tracks, Consumer Apps, DeFi, Gaming, Infrastructure, DePIN, AI, and Stablecoins had a structured prize ladder:
First Place: $25,000
Second Place: $20,000
Third Place: $15,000
Fourth Place: $10,000
Fifth Place: $5,000
Each track also included a University Prize of $2,500, aimed at highlighting the best submission from student teams.
In addition, three special prizes were awarded:
Climate Award – $5,000
Public Goods Award – $5,000
University Grand Prize – $10,000
But as many builders would agree, the real upside wasn’t just the prize, it was visibility. Winning teams gained exposure to investors, ecosystem leaders, and potential collaborators, setting them up for the next stage of their journey.
That said, looking at what people built, across all countries, tells a deeper story than where they were from.
Breakdown of the Tracks
Builders could submit to tracks like AI, DeFi, Stablecoins, Gaming, Consumer Apps, Infrastructure, and DePIN. The themes reflect what Solana is actively pushing toward.
The Breakout Hackathon was structured around seven tracks: AI, DeFi, Stablecoins, Gaming, Consumer Apps, Infrastructure, and DePIN, each highlighting a different edge of on-chain development. But far from being arbitrary categories, these tracks served as a window into what builders genuinely care about right now and where the Solana ecosystem is evolving next.
The biggest gravitational pull, unsurprisingly, was Consumer Apps, with over 65% of all projects tagging this track. And no, this wasn’t just a flood of wallets and dashboards. The entries here felt deeply user-centric, often mobile-first, and increasingly AI-native.
From decentralized inheritance protocols to hyper-specific trading assistants and even social platforms that reflected user sentiment in real-time, these were apps that could hide the blockchain entirely and still be compelling. It’s the clearest signal yet that if crypto is going to cross the gap, it’ll be through tools that prioritize utility and UX, not tokenomics.
DeFi remained one of the most competitive tracks, drawing close to 42% of all submissions. What’s refreshing is that many of these projects broke free of the "fork and tweak" model that dominated early DeFi. Teams here were building systems for credit scoring based on wallet behavior, trustless launchpads with Sybil resistance, and stable-yield protocols that attempted to actually address risk.
AI, meanwhile, is fast becoming Solana’s new obsession. Over 35% of submissions included AI in some form and not just as a buzzword. There were smart contract copilots, trading bots that adapted to user goals, and even wellness apps that generated personalized content using on-chain signals.
The Infrastructure track, while quieter, was arguably where the deepest technical talent pooled. Roughly 27% of teams worked on tooling, privacy, compute, or ZK proof systems that improved the developer experience or security posture of the chain.
Gaming came in at just under 20% and while fewer fully playable games showed up, the tools and systems underneath were solid. Think NFT economy frameworks, game-state synchronizers, and reward systems that bridged Web2 gaming logic with Solana-native rails.
The Stablecoins track, at 15%, might seem modest, but it had some of the most practical entries: payroll systems for DAOs and remote teams, cross-border wallets that natively plugged into India’s UPI stack, and stable-yield savings tools that used AI to recommend strategies. It’s easy to overlook stablecoin infra in a flashy hackathon setting, but this is where adoption quietly happens, especially in markets where USD-pegged cash flows matter more than speculative tokens.
Finally, DePIN was the smallest but perhaps most daring track, with about 13% of submissions. These projects aimed to bring the physical world on-chain: sensor networks for air quality and energy usage, certification systems for device provenance, and coordination layers for EV charging networks.
74% of submissions spanned multiple tracks, which means teams weren’t just building “a DeFi tool” or “an AI app”, they were building systems. And the most common blend? Consumer + AI + DeFi. That alone says a lot. It shows where attention is shifting: away from protocol-maximalism and toward products that actually do something useful, for someone, in the real world. Less jargon, more interfaces. Less theoretical yield, more decision support. Less “what if,” more “how fast can I ship this.”
And if you’re wondering where this full-stack, user-first thinking showed up most visibly, look at India. With 231 submissions, Indian teams didn’t just show up in volume, they showed up with intent. They embraced the same multi-track mindset, especially around Consumer, AI, and DeFi, but often anchored their ideas in very real, local problems: remittances, micro-savings, crypto inheritance, trust in transactions. This wasn’t abstract experimentation. It was execution with context.
So instead of giving every project equal weight, the next section zooms in on the ones that stood out, for their clarity, usefulness, and the sheer sharpness of thinking behind them.
India’s Breakout Moment
231 Signals, One Direction: India Builds
India didn’t just show up with numbers, it showed up with a sharp instinct for where Solana is going. Of the 231 Indian submissions, over 32% leaned into consumer-facing tools, and not in the usual dashboard-or-wallet sense. Think: inheritance protocols with mobile-native UX, AI copilots baked into trading flows, mental health companions that respond to on-chain sentiment. These weren’t backend playgrounds, they were built for real people.
AI and DeFi weren’t far behind, and what’s fascinating is how often they showed up together. And while you might expect a heavy tilt toward infra, only 11% of Indian teams chose that route. That’s a quiet but important signal: more teams want to ship products, not just primitives.
DePIN, Gaming, and Stablecoins had smaller slices, but some of the most unusual ideas showed up there, including on-chain air quality monitors, PvP memecoin battle games, and UPI-compatible wallets for remote teams.
To really understand how India showed up at Breakout, you have to look at what individual teams actually built. Not the idea on paper, but the execution, the edge, the signal beneath the noise. Below, I’ve curated the most compelling projects from India, across tracks, across styles, that didn’t just ride the trend but pushed it forward. These aren’t just submissions. They’re blueprints for where Solana is heading next.
You’ve heard the numbers. You’ve seen the trends. Now let’s get to the ones that actually shipped something worth your time.
Among 231 Indian submissions, most had good intentions. Some had great ideas. But a few went beyond that, they delivered execution that felt inevitable. These are the ones that stuck. Not because they followed the brief, but because they pushed it forward.
The projects featured in the following section were selected based on the official judging criteria laid out by the Solana Breakout Hackathon. While this list isn’t ranked, each project reflects strength across key dimensions: functionality, potential impact, originality, user experience, open-source alignment, and long-term viability. These aren’t just ideas that sounded good on paper, they’re projects that demonstrated real execution and promise within the framework set by the hackathon itself.
Projects That Stood Out
Loky
Track: AI, DeFi
Team: Harsh Rajput, Abhay Singh
Website | Documentation | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Loki isn’t a prototype, it’s an AI-native terminal that already runs live on Base, and now it’s dialed in for Solana. Built by the team behind DappLooker (a cross-chain analytics platform integrated with over 30 networks), Loki reads on-chain signals like a human analyst, only faster.
Using The Graph’s Substreams, Loki plugs directly into Solana’s raw data layer. That means no RPC bottlenecks, just clean, real-time access to things like dev wallet activity, smart money flows, and token-level risk. Whether you’re a trader, builder, or analyst, you can get insights through SQL, dashboards, or just natural language, all powered by DappLooker’s AI agent.
Loki already hit $12.5M all-time high volume and generates $350K+ in annual revenue. It tracks the noise, flags the red flags, and makes the chain make sense.
Javin.AI
Track: Infrastructure, Consumer Apps, AI
Team: Vrushal Kapadnis, Shantanu Sakpal, Mohammed Mehdi
Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Javin.AI is building natural language search for crypto, not just off-chain queries, but real-time, on-chain answers. Ask things like “Which Solana validators had the highest APY last month?” or “Show me this wallet’s portfolio,” and it returns live data pulled from sources like BirdEye, DeFiLlama, and SNS.
The backend is a modular AI-agent stack that parses intent, calls relevant tools, and assembles a clean response. It’s already live inside Sentient chat, handling over 100K queries in a few weeks, proof there’s real demand for readable blockchain data.
For developers, Javin.AI offers a permissioned API that can be embedded into wallets, explorers, or agents in minutes. No need to build your own data infra or NLP layers, it just plugs in.
In short: Javin turns blockchain UX from “figure it out” to “just ask.” And it’s working.
MetEngine
Track: DeFi, Consumer Apps
Team: Harsh Ghodkar, Neel Patel, Vraj Desai
Website | Documentation | Pitch | Technical Demo
MetEngine is a Telegram-based tool that lets users mirror liquidity providers on Solana in real time. It abstracts the complexity of Liquid Provisioning, tracking volatile tokens, optimizing swaps, monitoring impermanent loss and automates the entire process through a chat interface.
The key feature is automated copy LP, designed for fast-moving LP markets where opportunities often last only minutes. Users can replicate top-performing positions without needing dashboards or custom strategies.
In the last two months, MetEngine has facilitated $26M in volume, with users earning over $400K in fees. Around 2,000 users currently use the bot.
The tool is part of a broader trend toward making liquidity provision more accessible and reactive in Solana’s high-speed market environment.
Encifher
Track: DeFi, Infrastructure, Stablecoin
Team: Nitanshu, Archisman Das, HRSH, Rishabh Gupta, Rachit Chahar
Website | Documentation | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Encifher is building a native privacy layer for DeFi on Solana without changing the user’s wallet, flow, or preferred apps.
Most DeFi users, from crypto-native employees to institutional traders, are forced to expose their strategies, wallet balances, and transaction sizes to the entire network. The only workaround until now has been to bridge assets to separate privacy-focused chains, a terrible UX that fragments liquidity and adds friction.
Encifher fixes this by enabling compliant encrypted interactions directly on Solana. Actions like token transfers, swaps, and yield farming can be executed without revealing key parameters on-chain. The system preserves Solana’s speed and UX, but adds a layer of zero-knowledge protection under the hood.
The team brings serious ZK and distributed systems experience, and the architecture is robust: threshold key management, encrypted execution clients, and a modular system for integrating private DeFi actions.
Their go-to-market starts with confidential salary management and expands to other DeFi use cases through protocol integrations. The vision is clear: bring “HTTPS for DeFi”, not on some altchain, but on Solana itself.
Paystream
Track: DeFi, Infrastructure, Stablecoin
Team: Maushish Yadav, Shreyansh, Alok, maddestfhd
Website | Whitepaper | Documentation | Pitch | Technical Demo
PayStream takes a fresh swing at DeFi lending by ditching the outdated pool model. Instead of dumping capital into passive pools, PayStream directly matches borrowers and lenders via its own peer-to-peer engine. Any unmatched funds are routed into Solana-native protocols like Camino, MarginFi, Drift, and others, meaning zero idle capital.
For lenders, this delivers 3.3x higher returns. For borrowers, it cuts interest rates by up to 40%. This is a structural improvement, not a temporary yield spike. And it works, the protocol is already live on mainnet (private beta), with 479 users onboarded and climbing.
To manage risks, the protocol uses a fixed 7-day borrow and repayment cycle. It’s a tradeoff for safety, but a smart one, minimizing attack surfaces while keeping capital fluid.
If Solana is going to power serious lending markets, it’ll need systems that price credit dynamically, not just rent liquidity. PayStream is building for that future.
SoulBoard
Track: DePIN, Consumer Apps
Team: Rudransh, Aviral Shukla, Mohak Gupta , Aanya Jain
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
SoulBoard is turning physical advertising into verifiable, DePIN-powered real-world assets. Using edge devices, secure hardware modules (ATCC608A), and view detection algorithms running on-site, it tracks verified ad impressions in the real world and anchors all of it on Solana for transparent, tamper-proof validation.
Unlike Web2 ad networks that rely on trust or unverifiable reach, SoulBoard modules collect proof-of-view and proof-of-location via cameras, NFC taps, and GPS, all cryptographically signed and pushed on-chain. Fraud is minimized, performance is measured, and payments are trustlessly settled via smart contracts.
This isn’t theory: SoulBoard has live deployments in India (e.g. LMIT Jaipur and retail locations in Jodhpur), tracking hundreds of real views and taps with full on-chain traceability.
Ad space owners earn from verified reach. Advertisers get access to transparent, democratized media buys. SoulBoard breaks the Web2 monopoly and enables anyone to plug into decentralized physical ad monetization with better ROI, better data, and zero middlemen.
Accret
Track: DeFi, Consumer Apps
Team: Parth Parmar, Shivang Parmar, Dharmin Nagar, Yatharth, Nayan Patanvadiya
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Accret is a mobile-first crypto wallet built for one thing: making cross-chain actions as easy as a tap. Designed with deep-link (Blink) integrations and cross-chain swap support out of the box, it fixes the broken UX of mobile wallets by eliminating browser hops, flaky WalletConnect flows, and endless confirmations.
Users can initiate any Solana Blink, including swaps, staking, or token sends, simply by scanning a QR, tapping NFC, or clicking a link. Accret supports seamless bridging via Wormhole and Mayan, and is optimized for mobile-native execution with reduced steps and near-instant finality.
It brings:
Full Blink support (unlike Phantom or Backpack)
Unified cross-chain swaps across major L1s
A dead-simple, minimal UI for everyday users
Planned fiat on/off ramps, Blink widgets for devs, and a programmable Solana debit card (Accret Card)
With 6–8 steps cut down to 3–4, Accret delivers a consistent, secure execution layer across mobile devices, making Web3 usable. The vision? Replace the clunky multistep flows with something that feels like UPI, but decentralized.
Umbra
Track: DeFi, Infrastructure, Stablecoin
Team: Pranay, Asim Shaik, Kru, Cal
Website | Telegram | Pitch | Technical Demo
Umbra is a fully on-chain privacy layer for Solana, enabling encrypted and auditable transactions using Arcium’s confidential compute. Think ZK-proven transfers, anonymous balances, and stealthy interactions, all without leaving Solana.
In today’s open ledgers, salaries, treasury trades, and alpha moves are all exposed fodder for bots, copy traders, and malicious actors. Umbra flips that paradigm. Its architecture encrypts user balances and transfer actions, while still allowing selective auditability via zero-knowledge proofs.
The system uses:
Encrypted token accounts for unlinkable deposits
Zero-knowledge proofs to verify balances without revealing user data
MPC (via Arcium) to process encrypted computations like transfers and swaps
Relay networks to abstract Solana fees away from public wallets
Currently live on Devnet with encrypted SPL transfers, Umbra is expanding into private swaps, payroll, offramps, and launching a native wallet, building toward fully private, programmable finance on Solana.
Where Tornado-style tools break UX and DeFi composability, Umbra embraces Solana's speed with distributed PDAs and full protocol-level scalability. It’s not a patch, it's a privacy primitive.
Wave
Track: Consumer Apps, DeFi
Team: Saurabh, Naved
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Wave is a mobile-native messaging app that turns crypto into a social experience. It brings together chat, payments, and trading, letting users send tokens, buy assets, and even monetize their DMs directly inside a conversation.
Instead of juggling multiple wallets, chat apps, and trading interfaces, Wave users can:
Chat + Send Crypto: Transfer any token (e.g., USDC, TRUMP) while chatting, as easily as sending a text or photo.
Trade Socially: Share tokens in chat, see what friends are buying, and copy trades with one tap. Earn rewards when others follow your calls.
Monetize DMs: Set a price for messages and earn from your time. Ideal for creators, founders, and influencers who get flooded with inbound.
Smart Key Management: Wave creates an MPC wallet with keys split between device, iCloud, and secure servers, so users never touch a seed phrase.
Built-In Portfolio: View your wallet, send tokens, or access swap features, all inside the same app.
Wave takes a 1.7% fee on trades and shares 20% of that back to users who invite friends or give profitable trading tips. It turns attention into capital.
Wave has already onboarded 370+ users to the waitlist, with live usage from 20+ private testers and 100+ real transactions processed. The mobile UX is polished and the team has deep product experience across social and commerce apps.
The long-term vision is simple: make crypto feel like messaging and turn every chat into an opportunity to transact or earn.
DashX
Track: AI, Consumer Apps, Stablecoins
Team: Dhruv Gera, Hardik Sharma, Suraj
Website | Documentation | Pitch | Technical Demo
DashX is a cross-chain payments platform focused on onboarding Web2 users through a familiar, fiat-style experience. It abstracts away crypto complexity with username-based transfers, gasless transactions, and a USD-denominated UI. Built on Circle’s programmable wallets, users retain self-custody while moving funds across Solana and EVM chains in one click. On the business side, DashX Gateway enables merchants to accept a wide range of tokens (including memecoins) with instant, non-custodial settlements. Developers can integrate via API, while non-technical users get a no-code portal. The platform also features an AI agent for portfolio insights and automated employee payouts.
Positions Finance
Track: DeFi, Infrastructure
Team: Dinesh, Mgnfy View, Karan Pargal
Website | Github Repo | Documentation | Pitch | Technical Demo
Positions Finance introduces a "Proof of Collateral" system that lets users turn yield-bearing staked assets into composable collateral across chains like Solana, Arbitrum, Monad, and Berachain. Users lock assets into vaults, minting NFTs that represent their collateral and can be used in lending, leverage, or hedging strategies without forfeiting staking yields. The Solana implementation adds vaults and relayers to enable deposits and cross-chain borrowing, with built-in checks to ensure position health during withdrawals. This design unlocks capital efficiency for advanced DeFi strategies across ecosystems.
dBook
Track: AI, Consumer Apps
Team: Harshit Singhal, Gurkaran Sahni, Angad
Website | Telegram | Pitch | Technical Demo
dBook is an AI-native Web3 assistant that lets users execute complex on-chain actions through simple, conversational prompts. Instead of juggling multiple apps, bridges, and chains, users can just say things like “I want to earn 10% yield” or “swap 0.1 USDC from Base to Solana” and dBook handles discovery, bridging, and execution behind the scenes. Under the hood, it uses three engines: an intent parser to translate goals into programmable actions, a settlement engine to find optimal paths across chains, and a recommendation engine that suggests relevant protocols based on wallet data and market context. By unifying protocol discovery and transaction flow, dBook significantly reduces friction for users while helping protocols reach high-intent users at the right moment.
0byte
Track: AI, Infrastructure
Team: Sidhanth Pandey, Nitin
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
0byte is a cryptographic infrastructure protocol that acts as "SSL for AI content," enabling verifiable authenticity for media generated by AI. It works by embedding tamper-evident, zero-knowledge proofs directly into images, audio, or video at the moment of generation not as metadata or external watermarks, but at the pixel or frame level. Each proof captures the prompt hash, model version, and timestamp, and is anchored on Solana, ensuring it remains verifiable even after reposting or editing. The protocol is designed to be trustless, privacy-preserving, and resistant to manipulation.
0byte provides an open SDK that can be integrated into any AI platform in just 16 lines of code. This allows AI tools, creators, or compliance systems to invisibly embed and verify provenance data without relying on centralized APIs. As synthetic media grows and regulatory requirements like the EU AI Act take effect, 0byte positions itself as a foundational layer for trust in digital content. Their architecture uses a zero-knowledge proof circuit, a Rust-based backend, and Solana anchoring, enabling sub-2-second verification across devices.
Gryffin
Track: AI, Infrastructure
Team: Zeref, Joon
Website | Pitch | Technical Demo
Gryffin is an AI-powered, web-based IDE designed to streamline Solana smart contract development. Born from the team's personal struggles navigating Solana’s fragmented and outdated documentation, Gryffin aims to offer a drastically smoother development experience. It combines AI-assisted coding, real-time bug fixes, and auto-generated tests to help developers ship faster and more securely, especially valuable for those new to the ecosystem or tackling niche contract features.
The platform already features a fully integrated chatbot and IDE, unlike other tools that are either deprecated or still in waitlist mode. Gryffin is also trained on over 100 real Solana exploit scenarios to help catch vulnerabilities early. Built by devs for devs, it’s engineered not just for faster shipping but for safer and more confident deployment.
Lana Roads
Track: Gaming
Team: Semi
Presentation
Lana Roads is a fully onchain Crossy-Road-style game where every move is a transaction, executed in just 10ms using ephemeral rollups powered by Magicblock. Built in Rust and Unity, it pushes the limits of real-time gaming on Solana without needing L2s or bridges.
The game uses delegated PDAs and ephemeral contract instances to minimize onchain state bloat and deliver a seamless experience. All gameplay, movement, scoring, and coin collection, happens on Solana mainnet, with over 6.7 million transactions processed in just two weeks and 700+ wallets playing.
Players earn "send coins" (game points), which are later airdropped on-chain. It’s simple, fast, and addictive, earning Lana Roads a repost from Solana and a nod from Raj Gokal.
Built as a friendly challenge to MegaETH’s Crossy Fluffle, Lana Roads proved that ephemeral rollups can achieve sub-20ms gameplay performance on Solana mainnet, without sacrificing decentralization.
Sodh
Track: AI, DeFi, Stablecoins
Team: Surabh, Aditya Sharma
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Sodh (short for SOAR, Sanskrit for "research") is a decentralized research collaboration platform built on Solana, designed to fix the fractured pipeline between academia, industry, and innovation. It’s powered by DAPR, a modular, privacy-preserving protocol stack for attribution, programmable IP, and trustless collaboration.
Today, academic research is siloed, attribution is broken, and IP agreements take months. Sodh rewires this process by introducing four core primitives:
Attribution Engine: Tracks contribution lineage across complex collaboration chains, secured via Solana’s proof-of-history.
Programmable IP Framework: Allows granular sharing of research output, protecting contributors’ rights via on-chain logic.
Smart Collaboration Agreements: Automatically generates and enforces research MOUs, reducing negotiation time from months to minutes.
Tokenized Incentives: Aligns researchers, funders, and institutions through USDT and SOL-based multi-factor reward models.
The architecture includes:
A Consensus Layer (PoH) for tamper-proof audit trails
A Protocol Layer for smart contracts managing IP and attribution
A Privacy Layer using ZKPs for selective disclosure
An Interface Layer with domain-specific dashboards
Future roadmap includes AI-driven governance, automated dispute resolution, predictive collaboration matching, and real-time optimization of contributor reputation.
Sodh targets use cases like pharma R&D, clean energy, and materials science domains where IP friction slows innovation. By embedding funding, attribution, and legal trust into code, it aims to create a programmable substrate for open yet protected research.
Remi - The Stablecoin Layer for Solana
Track: DeFi, Infrastructure, Stablecoin
Team: Arc, Arvee
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Remi is a stablecoin management framework that enables any business, be it banks, DeFi apps, or payment processors to issue and manage their own branded stablecoins backed by prominent collateral assets like USDC or USDT.
Built natively on Solana, Remi supports yield generation via integrations with money markets, optional confidential transfers, and multi-sig security, while remaining interoperable with DeFi and Web2 apps through SDKs.
A Devnet version already allows stablecoin issuance, transfer, and analytics. Remi targets both TradFi and DeFi adoption by addressing stablecoin infrastructure gaps, with the market expected to exceed $2T by 2028. Key upcoming milestones include SDKs, confidential transfer support, and fiat on/off ramps. The goal: become the default issuance layer for stable-value assets across Solana.
Finz
Track: DeFi, Consumer Apps
Team: Ramik Mukherjee, Shivraj
Website | Pitch | Technical Demo
Finz is building the attention capital markets layer on Solana, where users can tokenize and trade tweets as “tweetcoins” directly from X. By tagging the Finz agent, any post can be instantly turned into a tradable token with automated ticker suggestions. It opens up a new monetization path for creators, who earn perpetual revenue from trading fees, while early buyers speculate on attention as a liquid asset.
In just 48 hours since launch, Finz saw $300K+ in volume, powered by Radium’s bonding curves and integrated launch tooling. Their fee model splits earnings among creators (50%), referrers (10%), and the protocol (40%). Backed by Superteam India, CoinDCX, and Solana Foundation, Finz is targeting a future where every tweet is an on-chain financial primitive.
ZunoPay
Track: DePIN, Consumer Apps, Stablecoin
Team: Athar Mohammad, Svalinaj
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
ZunoPay enables physical shops to accept stablecoins with minimal friction and low fees. Merchants can integrate ZunoPay into their existing checkout flows without needing new QR codes or interfaces, making crypto payments seamless for everyday use.
Alongside stablecoin acceptance, ZunoPay provides fast fiat settlement and shop discovery for crypto-native users, aiming to bridge the gap between digital currencies and real-world commerce. It's a simple, future-ready solution for onboarding retail into the stablecoin economy.
Evora
Track: DePIN
Team: Raj Pratap Vidyarthi, Srinivasa
Website | Pitch | Technical Demo
Evora is building mobile EV infrastructure to solve India’s massive EV charging gap. Fixed stations are capital-intensive, sparse, and slow to deploy, especially across highways and rural areas. Evora’s solution is a mobile, on-demand charging service powered by swappable battery modules and dynamic chargers. Users can request a charge via app or call, and roadside assistance is offered in underserved zones. The service is live in pilot mode on the Vijayawada–Hyderabad highway, with successful sessions completed on Tata EVs.
Unlike existing city-bound competitors, Evora is designed for highways and tier 2/3 cities. The model is monetized through direct-to-consumer charging, fleet subscriptions, partner roadside assistance, and future carbon credit markets. Long term, Evora aims to become a distributed mobile charging network that meets the demands of India’s projected 80–100 million EVs by 2030, bridging the 1M+ charger shortfall with modular, reward-enabled infrastructure.
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StoriesDotFun
Track: Consumer Apps, AI
Team: Rajat Agrawal, Adhitya Iyer, Lekha, Aditi, Tanvi Gundarwar, Zeesh, Tanush
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Stories.fun lets people turn their personal journeys into on-chain assets. Whether for dating, legacy, or pitching, users speak their story aloud, AI agents guide the narration, shape it into compelling text, and mint it as an NFT. Stories can be collaboratively authored, tokenized via SPL tokens, and discovered through semantic search. Think of it as a capital market for human experience, where tokens are backed by truth, identity, and meaning.
The stack includes Next.js, tRPC, and Tailwind, with Solana smart contracts written in Anchor and NFTs managed via Metaplex. Collaborative logic and fractional ownership are baked in, and content is stored using Cloudflare R2 (with plans for decentralized storage like Walrus). Stories.fun is building not just a tool, but a new economic and emotional layer for the web, where memory becomes capital, and stories become infrastructure.
Twinn
Track: Consumer Apps
Team: Sarthak, Farhat Kadiwala
Website | Github Repo | Pitch | Technical Demo
Twinn brings POAP-style proof-of-attendance tokens to Solana using zero-knowledge compression via Light Protocol, reducing minting costs by up to 5000x. Rather than bloating the chain with millions of full NFTs, Twinn compresses tokens into a Merkle tree structure while preserving cryptographic integrity. Users can create and claim attendance badges with just a few clicks, no gas, no tokens, and seamless UX via social login (Privy). It's designed for mass adoption: every meetup, workshop, or digital event can now be marked with an on-chain collectible.
The platform supports credit-based minting, collection organization, and QR-based drop sharing. Events like Breakpoint, ecosystem calls, and conferences already use POAPs. Twinn gives Solana a native alternative that is radically cheaper and more scalable. With a familiar user flow and first-mover advantage on Solana, Twinn positions itself as a core public good for community memory, recognition, and identity across Web3.
xApple
Track: Consumer Apps, DeFi
Team: DogeFather, Metabodivan, Raghul Sankar, Juanpa, Alwin Helor
Website | Pitch and Technical Demo
xApple is the first Telegram-native launchpad on Solana, letting anyone launch a token in seconds, directly from chat. No wallets, no clunky interfaces, just drop a name, ticker, and image, and your token is live. Tokens are instantly tradable across top bots and aggregators like Jito, Jupiter, and Meteora, thanks to integration with Meteora's DEX infra. With over 1,000 launches and $4M in volume within the first three days, xApple hit product-market fit fast by embracing where crypto lives, Telegram.
Beyond ease of use, xApple introduces a 2% trade fee split four ways: 25% each to creators, platform, community, and referrals. This model turns every user into a potential growth channel and monetizes attention from day one. With no-code UX, bot-native design, and massive exposure, xApple unlocks viral, permissionless launches and redefines token creation as a consumer-grade experience.
Final Thoughts
Across all the tracks, Indian builders showed up with urgency, precision, and purpose. These weren’t just “cool hacks” for demo day. They were well-scoped, context-aware products with traction, insight, and clear paths forward.
From protocols embedding trust into AI media, to real-world EV infra, to Telegram-native launchpads, this wasn’t theoretical. It was execution, at scale. You could feel the shift: less time explaining what Solana is, more time shipping products that prove why it matters.
If this hackathon was any indication, the next wave of breakout Solana apps, the ones that onboard users, raise rounds, and bend the roadmap might not come from New York or SF. They’ll be written in Hyderabad, built in Jaipur, and launched from a Telegram group at 2 a.m. in Mumbai.
Breakout wasn’t just a name. For Indian teams, it was a mirror. And the reflection is clear: the breakout already happened.
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