The Solana Breakpoint Hackathon, the largest global crypto startup competition with over 10,000 participants and 1,412 submissions from more than 140 countries, recently concluded with winners announced by Colosseum. TapeDrive was named the Grand Champion for its innovative on-chain storage solution on the Solana blockchain and has been accepted into Colosseum's third accelerator cohort, which also includes startups such as Met Engine, Slant AI, UseDecal, CFL, Trepa, Tempo Trade, LocalPay Asia, Cargobill AI, and TypeX Keyboard. The hackathon featured multiple tracks, with MagicBlock powering three of the five gaming track winners. Additionally, Solana-based decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) projects reported strong financial performance, earning a combined $716,000 in revenue in June 2025. Notable DePIN projects include Helium, Render Network, Hivemapper, UpRock, NATIX Network, and Xnet Mobile. Xnet Mobile has facilitated the offloading of 192,751 GB of cellular traffic by enabling users to connect automatically to community-operated Passpoint WiFi hotspots, accessed by over 20 million users, thereby reducing mobile network load and providing user rewards.
📡REPORT: @Solana-based DePIN @XNET_Mobile has offloaded 192,751 GB by shifting cellular traffic to Passpoint WiFi, accessed by 20M+ users. XNET allows users to auto-connect to community-operated hotspots via Tier-1 carrier roaming, easing mobile network load, rewarding users, https://t.co/680LmvJEx3
📊REPORT: In June, @Solana-based DePIN projects earned a combined $716K in revenue, a new high for 2025. Projects include: Helium, @rendernetwork, Hivemapper, UpRock, NATIX Network, and Xnet Mobile. https://t.co/366Yf0TwjZ
1/ TapeDrive presents a compelling approach to onchain storage on Solana. After being named the Grand Champion in @colosseum's most recent hackathon and being being accepted to Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 3, the protocol is now live on Solana devnet with mainnet launch on the https://t.co/LZO0ECevc9