Colosseum Admits 21 Startups to Its 5th Accelerator Cohort, Drawn from the Frontier Hackathon and Eternal Sprint

Colosseum has admitted 21 startups to its fifth accelerator cohort, the largest it has run. The teams were drawn from two pipelines: the Solana Frontier Hackathon winners, which drew 2,857 submissions from 10,000+ builders across 150 countries, and Colosseum's rolling Eternal Sprint program, which collected 112 applications in the first half of 2026. The combined admission rate across both pools was 0.7%.

Colosseum is investing in all 21 teams. The 8-week program runs online with San Francisco office time and is designed to take companies from devnet to mainnet, concluding with a private investor demo day followed by a public release of the recordings.

The 21 Teams in Cohort 5

The cohort spans DePIN, DeFi, gaming, consumer finance, and RWA infrastructure. CrowdBrain, the Frontier Hackathon's Grand Champion, is building a vertically integrated robotics DePIN network for training and routing operators to physical robots. Other admitted teams include:

• Cesto (UK): thematic investment baskets combining Solana real-world assets and prediction markets
• Flovia (USA/Japan): analytics for machine-paid APIs
• Senthos (USA): a structured-product protocol for prediction markets
• DashX (India): stablecoin infrastructure for compliant cross-border payments
• Dropset (USA): an onchain Forex platform for multinational currency exchange
• WeLikeSports (USA): a fantasy sports platform generating yield from pooled fund interest
• ODL (USA): an RWA platform for liquidator funds
• Housd (Germany): real estate tokenization and debt strategies
• JK Index (USA): a trading card game marketplace with pricing and grading intelligence
• Fraudsworth (UK): a closed-loop game with a Market Intelligence Liquidity Fund
• Clawpump (USA/Argentina): an agentic finance platform for swaps, sniping, and arbitrage
• One Arena (Japan): a TCG economy application layer
• Stablecorp (India): business infrastructure for remote founders earning stablecoins
• The Syndicate (UK): a skill-weighted mafia card league game
• Nomu (UAE): a crypto-enabled physical supply chain platform
• Mana (USA/Philippines): a dual-jurisdiction neobank for the Philippine diaspora
• Traded.gg (Indonesia): a TCG super app for onchain collectibles
• Peaks (USA): a consumer app for self-managing investment portfolios
• Laso (USA): a private crypto spending platform
• Zoneless (UK): an open-source USDC-based alternative to Stripe Connect

Geographic Spread and Sector Breakdown

The cohort is geographically diverse. Teams come from the UK, USA, Germany, Japan, India, Indonesia, the UAE, Argentina, and the Philippines, continuing the spread the Frontier Hackathon itself reflected, with submissions from 150+ countries.

By sector, gaming accounts for four teams (Fraudsworth, The Syndicate, One Arena, Traded.gg), DeFi and consumer finance for several more (Peaks, Mana, Laso, Dropset, Senthos, Cesto), and infrastructure for the remainder (DashX, Zoneless, Flovia, Stablecorp, Nomu). CrowdBrain's robotics DePIN and ODL's RWA liquidator fund round out the breadth.

How Accelerator Admission Differs from the Frontier Hackathon Results

The Frontier Hackathon named 26 winners on June 26. Accelerator admission is a separate decision: not all hackathon winners receive investment or enter the program, and the cohort also draws from the Eternal Sprint. Laso, for instance, announced a futarchy fundraise via MetaDAO META$4,260.18+7.5% on June 23, before the cohort was selected, illustrating that some Eternal Sprint entrants were building on Solana independently of the hackathon cycle.

This is Colosseum's fifth cohort since launching its combined hackathon-to-accelerator pipeline. The organization operates as a venture fund alongside its accelerator, investing directly in cohort companies at the pre-seed stage.