Hackathon resources

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Solana Developers

Solana Starter Kit

Solana Playground - Web IDE to quickly test and debug Solana smart contracts.
Solana Cookbook - Essential concepts and code snippets for building applications on Solana.
Solana Scaffold - Starter Scaffold for spinning up a Solana application
Solana Program Examples - Program examples to get your started w/ smart contracts
@solana/web3.js - SDK to interact with Solana using JavaScript/Typescript

Developer Education Content

Solana Documentation - Core Solana documentation
Solana Course - Quickstart your Solana development with this course.
Anchor Book - Collection of Anchor documentation and references.
Freecodecamp - Interactive Solana educational program through VSCode

Tutorials and Guides

Hello World on Solana (using only your web browser)
Install the Solana CLI locally
Byte-sized videos on Solana concepts
Solana 2023 Bootcamp - 7 hours of intro to Solana development for new devs
Solang Tutorial - Quickstart guide for deploying your Solidity smart contracts onto the Solana Blockchain

Tooling

Metaplex - Resources/Tooling for building w/ NFTs on Solana
Solana Mobile Stack SDK - SDK for building mobile applications on Solana
Solana Pay - Tool for building payment applications on Solana
Governance / DAOs - Tool for building DAO applications on Solana
Unity SDK - SDK for building Solana games with unity
@solana/web3.js documentation
Solang - Docs and tooling for deploying Solidity smart contracts onto the Solana Blockchain

Sponsored Developer Resources

Amazon Web Services

AWS is offering free credits to the Hyperdrive grand prize winner via their Activate program.

Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/startups/credits
Terms of Service: https://aws.amazon.com/activate/terms/

Also check out these resources:

Amazon CodeWhisperer, which supports both Rust and Javascript to develop Solana smart contracts and frontend respectively: https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/
AWS Amplify to rapidly develop and deploy web-based Single Page Applications with very popular Next.JS: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/
AWS Amplify uses multiple other AWS services on the backend from DynamoDB and Cognito to CloudFront with S3 and Lambda. https://docs.amplify.aws/

Ironforge

Ironforge revolutionizes Solana development by removing undifferentiated work. Unleash your potential with a suite of developer tools and services.

Get started: https://www.ironforge.cloud/docs

UXD Protocol

UXD Protocol issues a collateralized decentralized stablecoin backed by various assets. These assets may include overcollateralized lending positions, real-world assets, and delta-neutral positions, among others.

Learn more: https://github.com/UXDProtocol/examples
Integrate and get started: https://docs.uxd.fi/uxdprotocol/

IO.NET

io.net formerly ANTBIT.IO delivers a set of products, clients and libraries that allow machine learning teams to access distributed Cloud clusters permissionless and at a small fraction of the cost of comparable centralized services by aggregating the world's scattered GPU supply.

Get Started: https://developers.io.net/docs

Helio

Helio is a web3 payments platform used by thousands of merchants, creators & marketplaces who sell NFTs, video content, subscriptions, e-commerce & digital products with Helio's DeFi payments.

Get started: https://docs.hel.io/introduction/welcome-to-helio

Phantom

Phantom is a leading wallet in the Solana ecosystem. Integrate a complete set of features into your app to onboard Solana users.

Get Started: https://docs.phantom.app/

Magic Eden

Magic Eden is a decentralized marketplace for peer-to-peer trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Magic Eden Solana API is designed to empower developers in creating innovative experiences using NFTs and our abundant marketplace data.

Get started: https://docs.magiceden.io/reference/solana-overview

Sponsored RPC Provider

Triton One provides high-performance bare-metal RPC servers for Solana applications. Triton specializes in dedicated servers and custom deployments. Triton also offers a global shared RPC pool perfect for web3 front ends.

Triton is providing free devnet RPC access, in addition to their private devnet faucet for all Hyperdrive participants. Sign up to use at: https://customers.triton.one/users/new?hackathon=true

Solana Public RPCs

Mainnet - api.mainnet-beta.solana.com
Devnet - api.devnet.solana.com
Public RPC Rate limits

Note: If you plan on using an RPC for any amount of traffic, we recommend using one of the RPCs found below or in the sponsored resources section. Public RPCs are only for basic testing.

Other RPCs

You can find other available RPCs at solana.com/rpc.

SOLANA Foundation Hackathon Official Rules

DISCLAIMER

The Solana HYPERDRIVE Hackathon is a competition where projects will be evaluated by judges on their technological merits without consideration of legal viability. Participants in the Hackathon will create software solely for purposes of evaluation by judges as part of a competition and not for commercial deployment or release as part of the Hackathon. All participants must comply with applicable laws and regulations when releasing any software that they develop as part of the Hackathon.

The developer resources that Solana Foundation (“SF”) provides are for educational and inspirational purposes only. SF does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment of any such applications in violation of applicable laws or regulations. SF does not encourage, induce or sanction the deployment, integration or use of any such applications (including the code comprising the Solana blockchain protocol) in violation of applicable laws or regulations and hereby prohibits any such deployment, integration or use. This includes use of any such applications by the reader (a) in violation of export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, (b) if the reader is located in or ordinarily resides in a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), (c) if the reader is or is working on behalf of a Specially Designated National (SDN) or is a person subject to similar blocking or denied party prohibitions, or (d) in violation of the Commodities and Exchange Act.