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On December 13, Colosseum, the Solana ecosystem accelerator, announced the winning projects of the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon. This event saw over 9,000 participants form teams and submit a total of 1,576 final projects. The overall champion was Unruggable, a new hardware wallet and companion application developed for Solana. Other first-place winners in their respective tracks included Capitola, a prediction market meta-aggregator (Consumer Track); Yumi Finance, an on-chain "Buy Now, Pay Later" solution (DeFi Track); Seer, a Solana-based trading debugging development platform (Infrastructure Track); Autonom, an oracle developed specifically for RWA (RWA Track); MCPay, an open payment infrastructure connecting MCP and x402 (Stablecoin Track); attn.markets, a protocol that tokenizes revenue to support on-chain banking services (Undefined Track); Pythia (University Award); and Samui Wallet (Public Interest Award).

According to ChainCatcher, on-chain analyst Emmett Gallic has monitored that the US Bitcoin company associated with Trump increased its bitcoin reserves by 613 BTC over the past 7 days, bringing its total holdings to 4,931 BTC, valued at $444 million. Of these, 70 BTC came from mining revenue, while 542 BTC were acquired through strategic purchases worth $50 million.