Last weekend I went down the Colosseum Solana Breakout Hackathon rabbit hole, which had 1,400+ submissions. 🤯 So I built a dashboard to filter, sort, and explore projects + some analytics to see what people are building and how others are engaging. Insights + link below 👇

Up first, some stats 📊 This might be the largest crypto hackathon ever: - 1,414 total projects - 3,401 unique participants - 2.4 average team size - 74 countries represented

Top Tracks 🧭 Out of 1,400+ submissions, here’s where most teams focused: 🛍️ Consumer – 30% 💸 DeFi – 19% 🤖 AI – 16% 🏗️ Infrastructure – 13% 🎮 Gaming – 9% 💵 Stablecoins – 7% 📡 DePIN – 6%

Top Countries 🌍 Where are all these builders from? Here are the top 10 by project count: 🇮🇳 India – 231 🇳🇬 Nigeria – 175 🇺🇸 United States – 110 🇺🇦 Ukraine – 102 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – 68 🇩🇪 Germany – 58 🇯🇵 Japan – 55 🇨🇳 China – 53 🇲🇾 Malaysia – 39 🇫🇷 France – 37

Team Size Breakdown 👥 How big were the teams? 🧍 Solo – 551 👥 2 members – 333 👨‍👩‍👧 3 members – 251 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 4 members – 141 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 5 members – 66 🧑‍🤝‍🧑+ 6 or more – 72 Most teams chose to hack solo or as a pair, while the largest team had 20 members 😯

Top 10 by Engagement 📣 As of writing, these projects have the highest total engagement (likes + comments): @collaterizehq 🥇 @cheersupSOL 🥈 @plinkcinerator 🥉 @Refihub @pett_ai @SharpTradeFi @thelynkapp @GalaxyhubAI @stakenovadotfun @catoffgaming

One key feature of the dashboard: analytics update based on your filters. For example, there are 15 projects in “prediction” × AI and they show 70% higher average engagement than the overall set.

Try it out: If you find any interesting data, have feedback, or ideas for what to build next, I would love to hear from you. DMs open, and am always down to jam!

While you're here, if you’re a hacker and want to level up your project to the next stage, I’m backing early teams with up to $100K. Check out my profile and feel free to reach out. Always open to chat.

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