ChainCatcher news, the Solana Chinese community Solar and the Solana Foundation will host the Solana Hong Kong Startup Village in Hong Kong from October 9 to October 16, 2024. This event is co-hosted by the Web3 education platform HackQuest and supported by Hong Kong Cyberport. The Solana Hong Kong Startup Village will select 30 entrepreneurs from the Solana ecosystem within the Chinese-speaking region for a week-long Co-build, Co-live event.The event has also received support from several local Web3 companies and universities in Hong Kong, including OKX, Gate.io, Metalpha, Animoca Brands, ScalingX, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, SOON, and SONIC. Selected Solana ecosystem entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to engage in face-to-face discussions with Solana Foundation staff and founders of leading ecosystem projects, visit local Web3 companies and investment institutions, and explore potential collaboration opportunities. This event is part of Solana's ecosystem building for founders in the Asia-Pacific region and marks the first time Solana Startup Village enters the Chinese-speaking region. Solana will also host the Solana Hong Kong Hacker House from October 24 to October 26.

ChainCatcher news, HackQuest will collaborate with Solar and the Solana Foundation to jointly launch the Solana Founders Fellowship, which will take place during the Solana Radar Hackathon. The Fellowship will start on September 20 and end on October 12, with rolling applications accepted during this period. The entire program will provide in-depth guidance to participants in areas such as technology, financing, and ecosystem support through multiple closed-door Office Hours and Workshops. The mentor team consists of members from the Solana Foundation and top project founders within the ecosystem, including Backpack co-founder Can Sun, Jupiter co-founder Siong, Drift co-founder Cindy, STEPN CRO Mable, Sonic co-founder Chris, Jambo co-founder James, Solayer core contributor Jason, Colosseum APAC head Cris, and SOON co-founder Joanna, among others. This session of the Fellowship Program will select 20 teams from the Chinese-speaking region. It is reported that this is the second Founders Fellowship Program organized by HackQuest in collaboration with Solana. In the first Fellowship, five teams won the Solana Global Hackathon Grand Prize, and several teams successfully secured follow-up funding.In addition, well-known investment institutions such as Coinfund, OKX Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Animoca Brands, SevenX Ventures, HashKey Capital, Find Satoshi Lab, Hash Global, and Gate Ventures will participate in Demo Day, providing project support and feedback. Teams selected for the Fellowship will also have the opportunity to receive a Travel Grant and be prioritized for selection in the Solana Hong Kong Founders House and to participate in the subsequent Solana X HackQuest Founders Bootcamp.Registration link: https://xsxo494365r.typeform.com/to/YB6H88tp

ChainCatcher news, Borderless Capital has launched its third DePIN fund, which has received $100 million in support. Investors in the fund include the blockchain Peaq, which focuses on DePIN, as well as the Solana Foundation and Jump Crypto.Borderless Capital partner Álvaro Gracia stated, "DePIN will become the global standard for deploying physical infrastructure, coordinating human resources, and creating billions of dollars in passive income, while providing users with convenient access and lower costs."

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, ZKsync developer Matter Labs has hired former Solana Foundation Vice President of Marketing Meghan Hughes as its new Chief Marketing Officer.It is reported that Hughes previously worked at companies such as Google, Layer, and Box, and helped Box grow from its startup phase to its initial public offering. She has also held significant marketing positions at Facebook, Niantic, and Stripe.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana Foundation has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) announcement on the X platform to promote the development of open-source data tools for Solana. The development directions for the proposals include Solana Indexer Tooling and Solana Discriminator Directory, with funding of up to $160,000 available.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Solana Optimistic Network (referred to as SOON) has announced the completion of a new round of financing. Investors include Lily Liu, chair of the Solana Foundation, Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, Jonathan King, head of Coinbase Ventures, Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia Labs, Robinson Burkey, co-founder of Avail, and Robinson Burkey, co-founder of the Wormhole Foundation, among others. The specific amount has not been disclosed.It is reported that the funds raised by Solana Optimistic Network will be used to build it into "the highest throughput rollup stack, providing scalability and efficiency for decentralized applications and any Layer 1 blockchain," by developing the flagship products SOON Stack and SOON Mainnet.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana Foundation announced on X that it has launched a $400,000 grant for open-source developers of Solana Actions and Blinks Tools, and is officially soliciting new grants. Projects receiving funding from the foundation must be publicly available for others to use, open source, have source code available for foundation review, be innovative, and add value to the ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana Foundation has launched a tool aimed at transforming any website or application into a cryptocurrency trading gateway. The foundation stated that the first new tool is called "Actions," which enables users to complete on-chain transactions on websites, social media platforms, and QR codes.The foundation also mentioned that it is launching "Blinks" ------ a hybrid word of blockchain and links, which can turn any "action" into a shareable link. This means that any digital path that can display a URL will become a starting point for cryptocurrency transactions on the Solana blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the Web3 music platform Stage has completed a $2.4 million funding round, with participation from the Solana Foundation, Kraken US CEO, RR2 Capital, Moonrock Ventures, Cogitent, and others.It is reported that Stage will soon launch the STAGE token on the BNB Chain.

According to ChainCatcher, citing informed sources from CoinDesk, over 30 validators were kicked out of the Solana Foundation's delegation program last weekend. Although they remain validators on the network, they are no longer eligible to receive rewards for validating transactions on the Solana blockchain. Another source stated that many of the operators are Russian. In total, 32 operators were removed, who collectively held 1.5 million SOL, accounting for about 0.5% of the staked amount in the program.ChainCatcher previously reported that, according to The Block, the Solana Foundation announced that it had removed a group of validator operators from the delegation program due to their involvement in "sandwich" attacks on Solana users.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Web3 game developer Seeds Labs announced the completion of a $12 million seed round financing, with participation from Avalanche's Blizzard Fund, Solana Foundation, Krust, Hashkey Capital, UOB Ventures, Signum Capital, IVC, and Emoote.It is reported that Solana ecosystem game infrastructure developer Seeds Labs was founded in 2021, and its Web3 game Bladerite is scheduled to be released this month.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Bankless co-founder David Hoffman will resign from his position at Bankless to join the Solana Foundation full-time as the foundation's first Vice President of Decentralization.

ChainCatcher news, HackQuest announces the acquisition of a Solana Foundation Grant to launch a bilingual tutorial in Solana Rust. HackQuest will support Solana in building a developer education ecosystem and organize related developer and entrepreneurial activities.Developers can learn Solana and Rust-related courses and obtain certificates on the HackQuest platform.

ChainCatcher news, Web3 game launcher Elixir Games has announced the completion of a $14 million seed round financing, with participation from gaming giants Square Enix, Shima Capital, and Solana Foundation. This round of financing will bring Elixir Games' total funding to $20 million.Elixir Games will use the funds to develop its gaming ecosystem and officially launch in the second quarter of 2024. Additionally, it will introduce the ELIX token to support the company's gaming products.It is reported that Elixir provides distribution and connection tools, game verification services, as well as anti-cheat and anti-hack layers to help bring a safer Web3 gaming experience for players and guilds. Elixir also has a social platform that facilitates community creation and promotes the gaming economy.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the AI project QnA3.AI announced that it has received investment from the Solana Foundation and will establish a strategic alliance with the Solana Foundation, focusing on artificial intelligence and DePIN development. QnA3.AI also stated that it is working on developing an application specifically tailored for Solana Saga.

ChainCatcher news, according to Gadgets360, the Solana Foundation announced a partnership with CoinCDX to launch a ₹250 million (approximately $3 million) funding program in India, aimed at encouraging local Web3 developers to design and develop products on the Solana blockchain.In the coming months, the funds from this grant will be used to kickstart advanced blockchain education programs and competitions similar to hackathons among Web3 developers.