Superteam Germany July Newsletter
A packed summer month with our first Game Jams in Berlin & Munich, multi-chain events, members meetups, creator & developer guild action and so many member W's!
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
SOLANA SPEEDRUN 3 - IRL Game Jams 🎮
Our IRL Game Jame events for Solana Speedrun 3 were a huge W for the month! Gaming is new territory for us, but despite the learning curve we had so much fun with our community and ended up meeting a bunch of great new people who joined us on this journey to learn all about what web3 gaming. Check this thread for the roundup.
Metaplex supported us with great workshops 🦾
Through the two days, our Game Jam attendees had support, mentorship and workshops by some of the brightest gaming minds in Solana! Leo from Metaplex & Thomukas from Rubians supported the Berlin hackathon irl with comprehensive instructional sessions live at w3.hub. Thomukas’ multi-part tutorial is available online for anyone who like to take a deep dive into building their own blockchain-based 3D game with Godot Engine.
Munich community boost via Game Jam Day 👾
Our DevRel Björn travelled from Berlin down to Munich to host the very first full day Game Jam event. Attendees enjoyed a fun, educational and engaging workshops which included a complete how-to for building a web3 game on Solana. Munich isn’t complete without a community dinner as well.
Game Jam winners of the week 🏆🎮
Top teams showed off the local talent and their ability to come together and engage to build with Solana resources as well as deliver within a very short period of time. We’re bullish on Solana's potential which is becoming more and more apparent within the gaming industry.
Connect³ in collaboration with xAlliance
We joined forces at Lisk Center with xAlliance, who are building a community in the MultiverseX ecosystem. The evening gave attendees the chance to experience and overview of our activities and integrations in an educational presentation presented by Dr. Revel and Lukas, followed by networking and on-chain raffles for prizes including Bonk and CHOMP’s famous Chocks (socks) merch as giveaways before we concluded the event with a beer and pizza social.
Our Zupa Beach Volleyball Bash was a blast 🏐
Our members and friends showed up to throw down for many fantastic rounds of beach volleyball despite the 32 degree Berlin heat! 🌞 After cooking our toes in the sand we cooled off with food and beers afterwards.
Our bi-monthly Guild calls are cooking! 💾🔥🎨
Our CREATORS and DEVELOPERS GUILDS enjoyed exponential growth this month and we are excited to see the numbers of new people tuning in to learn about all the possibilities brewing in the Solana ecosystem. For the third round of the Developers Guild, our DevRel Björn led the community on a comprehensive walk-through of BLINKS and Actions on Solana.
Meanwhile, our CREATORS GUILD moved to X and Bonk Art Master’s Program Ambassador JT Liss came to talk with us about the many opportunities currently available to artists and art spaces through this amazing initiative by @bonk_inu x @SolanaFndn. Check out the CREATORS GUILD: ROUND 3 TAKEAWAYS HERE!
Developers Guild v4 with Metaplex Core
Huge shoutout to Leo who joined Björn in the Developers Guild for a “Mint NFTs on Solana Part 1” session to explain the basics on how you can mint NFTs on Solana using the new Metaplex Core standard! We live streamed this session simultaneously on YouTube & X and are approaching 650 views and counting!
Great guest speakers for Creators Guild v4 : Writers Room ✍️
Writer’s Room focused on storytelling, publishing and of course writing in web3 on Solana. Attendees learned about how @dReaderApp is revolutionizing the comic world from their Founder Josip Volarević and @tonyboyletweets & Tony Boyle, Community Dev of Metaplex delivered an eloquent and accessible intro to @Metaplex's underlying CORE technology which is fuels dApps like dReader. Next, @SuperteamNG friends shared their experience and secrets with their hugely successful writer & content creation community. Huge shoutout to @Adedamolajoke & @netrovertHQ leading initiatives! The numbers are telling in terms of the quality our Guilds meetups are bringing to the community and we are grateful for our guest speakers and attendees - thank you all! HERE is the CREATORS GUILD Writer’s Room ROUNDUP.
All resources from both CREATORS and DEVELOPERS GUILDS will be collected and archived in our Gitbook HERE.
Aachen Blockchain Club keeps on crushing it 🙌
The Solana enthusiasts of Aachen hosted their 4th Solana Ecosystem Call watch party and have been truly enjoying gathering around for this monthly meetup!
They also started a workshop series!
Starting it of with the “Blockchain with Pen and Paper” session, the Aachen community is going to host several workshops to educate their students on various blockchain related topics.
ZUPAPoker night v2 with MadLads🃏
Since our Zupa Poker Tournament during Blockchain Week Berlin had such a massive turnout, community members took advantage of the pizza fund and hosted another great poker night! ♠️♣️♥️♦️
HACKATHON HIGHLIGHTS
After Colosseum’s Renaissance Hackathon, Bonkathon followed hot on its trail as the first ever BONK-centric hackathon and lots of our community members submitted for this competition!
Chomp wins grand prize in Consumer Apps 🏆
Way to go CHOMP! This gamified truth-seeking app scored first place in the Bonkathon. Our favourite fast-paced quiz & trivia game is free to play, but every single question card is revealed after the player burns 5000 $BONK. CONGRATS AGAIN!
FridonAI hits second place in the AI track 🏆
Scoring 2nd place in the Bonkathon AI track is FridonAI. Fridon has created a plugin marketplace which allows developers to create and sell or mint plugins, fostering innovation and collaboration.
Memecam by 3.Land wins 4th prize in Consumer Apps track 🏆
Massive congrats to our member Bangerz and her project 3.Land for reaching the 4th Place for their (secret) Memecam project! We can’t wait to hear more!
Colosseum announces next Global Hackathon: RADAR 👀⏳
Registration is now open for the RADAR - the Global Hackathon presented by the Solana Foundation and powered by Colosseum. “Get ready to build your new crypto startup and compete online to be discovered by the Solana community. Sep 2, 2024 - Oct 8, 2024”.
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS
Andy shipping great new tutorials on Blinks
Watch Andy build a useful BLINK and go through the registration process! We love his tutorials - always extremely entertaining and so educational as well!
Go and onboard your dads to Solana
Developing on Solana: so easy that even your Dad can do it?! (Seriously, we have evidence 👆 ) Go Dads!
We have new members to celebrate!!🥳
Big welcome to T.E.D. and Quinn to our community, super excited to have those two new members who are just crushing it on the content side!!
Our Supergirls are just on fire🔥
Mar, Thais, June, Nusha and KZ telling it like it is in an irl moment at our Connect3 event - some of the brightest personalities in web3 and we are super fortunate to have them in our community.
We’ve reached 5k followers on X! 🎆
Time to celebrate! Our SuperteamDE account finally reached and surpassed the 5,000 followers milestone! VIELEN DANK!!! 🍻
COMMUNITY WINS
London Hacker House Ws 🙌 🇬🇧
Lots of Superteam Germany members made it to London for the Solana Hacker House and they just crushed it on stage! Here our very own KZ is leading a panel with Vik, Maurice and Carlos!
Nusha again on a Hacker House stage in London
Nusha is always a refreshing and unique presence at any Hackathon and she continued her tradition of captivation presentations with the latest on the ever growing and evolving ohr project which she and Mimi are developing to reshape the electronic music industry on Solana.
Bonny Team visiting in London
The Bonny team made it to London Hacker House to spread the word about their award-winning project to build the world's largest consumer data map. Save and scan those receipts, folks - they might just earn you crypto.
Björn is making noise at WeAreDevs Conference
Our fav DevRel spent two weeks sharpening his skills and sharing his knowledge at We Are Developers conference this month all while working full steam on countless other projects - including our Developers Guild - most impressive!
Chomp is doing big numbers in their first Beta month
After just one month up and running in beta, CHOMP is approaching 4,000 unique wallets! (And did we mention we love the socks?)
New Members: July
Fabian is a big brain dev with a PhD in engineering. He is also a Serial-Entrepreneur and recently won instagrant for building a solana-actions library in python!
Anton is a multiple time founder & angel investor with experience in Carbon Markets and FinTech. He loves building products with great UX and is fascinated with the potential of Solana & DeFi. He also recently won the 24h hackathon with @jstnwdev!
Chris is has been crushing in Hackathons and in the Solana ecosystem generally with his team building out Bonny “Building the world's largest consumer data map. Earn crypto with your bills & receipts.”
TED is a badass innovation manager, where she researches the latest tech trends and test new gadgets. She has been into web3 for 3 years now especially supporting nft projects building communities—and even has her own flourishing community that provides education, whitelist raffles and overall support!
Quinn is the content legend over at our beloved w3.hub! He is creating videos, twitter content and the best memes.
Mikolaj is Vice President and Head of Research & Development team at @RWTHBlockchain—a kick-ass student initiative at the RWTH University in Aachen. The Aachen community is crushing it and we are so excited to have him join us!
Janine is a legendary developer and entrepreneur, starting with C++, then moved on to mobile and web development for her own startup. She runs a web3 dev shop and just built Metablink and previously hosted a crypto podcast.
Member of the Month
LEO has been an incredible help this month with hosting lots of workshops and mentorships. First he joined us for our Game Jam and supported for 2 days in person guidance. Then he hosted a great workshop for our Developers Guild, which was super helpful to understand how to mint NFT’s with Metaplex Core.