Superteam Balkan

The Solana Summit Serbia aftermovie opens with a line about the Balkans:

"People have been marching through it for centuries, always on their way to somewhere else."

This August, more than 80 speakers came from all over the Balkans, and from as far as America, the UK, Germany and India. 1,500 people filled two packed stages at Sava Centar, 13 startups pitched live on Demo Day, and 20+ side events took over Belgrade.

To every speaker, sponsor and guest, and to the whole @Solana community, thank you for taking this so far past our expectations, it means a lot to us, and we plan to keep building from here for many years to come.

.@Treggs6 at the Funding Options for Founders workshop: the goal of your seed round is to get to default alive, meaning a business that is profitable on its current costs.

Build something people use before any token exists. Listing costs, market makers and legal setup all land right before TGE, investors expect you to survive the year after launch, and running out of cash at that point leaves you with very few options.

"It's actually at these kind of moments that the most predatory terms can be handed to you as a founder."

Treggs is a Solana @incubator alum and founder of @seedplex_io.

Tomorrow at 5PM CET we're joining @nosana_ai, @LaFamilia_so and @SuperteamNL for Build Local, Launch Global, a live session on how local communities can help your product find users, collaborators and new markets.

If you're building on Solana and want to grow beyond your home market, set your reminders.

.@mert on why DeFi should be written like pacemakers.

"The way that DeFi software and crypto software in general has been written to date has been sort of the Facebook era of building apps."

"Crypto is much more akin to something like space software or biomedical software like pacemakers, which is to say, once you have a smart contract that handles a billion in funds, if it gets hacked, it's catastrophe. It's not reversible. You cannot reverse a transaction the same way if you deploy pacemakers in people's hearts. If there's a bug in that software, people die."

"DeFi builders have the edge to build mathematically verifiable systems that are extremely secure, mathematically proven, that you can feel more secure going forward putting your funds in than anything else, because they're tested by literally the entire country of North Korea trying to attack them."

Mert Mumtaz, CEO of @helius, at @solana Summit Serbia

“They bootstrapped our whole go-to-market”

@Sora_i_guess, CEO of @JurassicFi, on how Superteam Balkan helped them:

“Superteam Balkan is a community with a whole bunch of support”

“Development, social media, you have events, grants, and they can connect you with other founders”