Colossem published a list of Solana Frontier hackers. This online event attracted more than 10,000 developers from over 150 countries, and eventually submitted 2857 projects. The organizers selected a total of 26 award-winning projects, including 1 total champion, 25 win-win projects and special awards such as university awards and public goods awards.

It's a new race.

The current Frontier was held from 6 April to 11 May 2026 and was the fifth hacker pine organized by Colossium in cooperation with Solana Ecology. The contesting course covers several tracks such as AI, DeFi, payments, RWA, infrastructure, games and tools development.

Clossium states that with the marked increase in the number of applications and submissions and the simultaneous improvement in the overall quality of the project, an additional 5 awards were added. According to the organizers, this was the most competitive session to date.

  • More than 10,000 developers participated in the competition.
  • More than 150 countries and territories were covered
  • Final submission of projects 2857

Crowdbrain.

The grand champion was won by Crowdbrain. The project is positioned as a robotic DePIN platform, which is aimed primarily at robotic operation training, quality clearance and remote manipulation, data collection and failure recovery for better performing operators.

As disclosed by the organizers, Crowdbrain received a $30,000 bonus, which was paid in Phantom's $CASH stabilization currency.

Awards cover multiple tracks

In addition to the General Champion, 25 other projects were on the winning list. According to the organizers, the main reference for the selection was implementation capacity, the match between the founder and the market, technical capacity and the potential for subsequent entrepreneurship.

Awards are more widely distributed. Consumer investment directions include the AI Portfolio platform Peaks and socialized mobile trade products Alpha Group Trading. The projected market direction includes Bench and Mentioned. AI infrastructure directions include Flavia and Clawpump.

DeFi’s direction includes structured forecast products Senthos, chain-based foreign exchange projects Dropset, the yield ranking tool Yieldcompass, and the New Bank for Stability for Filipinos. The monetization directions include ODL, Hosd and Cesto. Infrastructure and security orientations include Sudont and the Cross-border stabilization currency payment project DashX.

In addition, IO Chain received a university award and Zoneless received a public goods award, both of which were $10,000. The organizers also issued honorary nominations for 16 projects.

Next accelerator or will be expanded

The co-founder of Colassem, Matty Taylor, indicated that the next accelerator plan would double in size because of the deeper high-quality project reserves in the current hacker pine. Michael Rinko, a member of the Colusseum investment team, also stated that 26 winners had been screened from 2857 projects and had been interviewed, fine-tuned and discussed internally for weeks.

The community-based organization Superteam also indicated that 16 of the 25 winning places had been won by projects in its network, indicating that the influence of regional developers ' communities in Solana ecology was increasing.

The host will then announce which winning teams will enter the next accelerator. The selected team will receive pre-seed financing, mentor support and investor-eco-partner resources.