The world-class, action packed startup experience. mtndao XI: Feb 1-28, 2026. Salt Lake City, UT, USA 📍🇺🇸. Applications open December 1.
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Well folks, that's the show.
mtndao X is a wrap. 🏔️
This iconic 10th iteration embodied everything mtndao has always stood for:
Push your velocity.
Meet others who are doing the same.
Capped off by a @Solana Demo Day that was somehow even better than the last one, take a deep dive at what it was like to be here this August:
mtndao is a month-long startup residency that has a simple, singular set of beliefs:
No matter how fast you're moving, you can move faster.
No matter how hard you're pushing, you can push harder.
No matter how high you've climbed, you can climb higher.
Come to the MTN.
10 Best Growth Programs for Solana Startups.
1) Monkey Foundry Incubator | @MonkeFoundry
- $300K in funding
- Access to top Solana founders and investors
- Perks from leading tooling providers
- Focus: DeFi, consumer, infrastructure
- Applications: Closed
2) R[3]sidency Accelerator | @fabric_vc
- $300K in investment
- $100K+ in credits and ecosystem perks
- Demo Day and NYC investor roadshow
- Focus: AI, crypto, technology
- Applications: Closed
3) Superteam Chapters | @superteam
- Up to $10K in instant grants
- Earning and job opportunities
- Community of professional builders
- Focus: Solana ecosystem
- Terms: Non-dilutive grants
4) Speedrun Accelerator | @speedrun
- Up to $1M in investment
- $1M+ in credits from top providers
- Demo Day with investors
- Focus: AI, fintech, consumer
- Terms: $500K SAFE for 10%
- Applications: Closed
5) Alliance Accelerator | @alliance
- $400K in funding
- Demo Day in NYC with top VCs
- Network of 300+ startups
- Focus: Crypto, fintech, AI
- Terms: $400K SAFE + token side letter
- Applications: Apply by November 18
6) Solana Incubator | @incubator
- Relocation stipend
- Fundraising support
- Strategic collaborations
- Focus: Solana and Web3
- Applications: Apply by December 4
7) Colosseum Accelerator | @colosseum
- $250K in investment
- Perks from top providers
- Mentors from leading Solana companies
- Focus: DeFi, infrastructure, consumer
- Terms: $250K SAFE + token warrant
- Applications: Via hackathons or Eternal
8) mtndao Startup Residency | @mtndao
- 24/7 coworking in Salt Lake City
- Access to top Solana founders
- Perks from leading tools
- Focus: Solana, AI, robotics
- Applications: Closed
9) Techstars Accelerator | @Techstars
- $220K in investment
- $4M+ in perks
- World-class mentorship
- Focus: AI, fintech, healthcare
- Terms: $20K for 5% + $200K uncapped SAFE
- Applications: Apply by November 18
10) Forma Residency | @formacity
- $10K scholarship per founder
- Stay and workspace fully covered
- Weekly workshops and lectures
- Focus: Early-stage startups, all sectors
- Terms: $10K scholarship, no equity
- Applications: Rolling
Which one would you add to this list?
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mtndao 🗻 retweeted
I met @pavankat during mtndao. I listened to a lot of startup pitches that day but Pavan’s pitch stood out to me. I spent the rest of my afternoon talking with him about metadao
long time in the making but excited to finally have @morifinance_ raise on metadao live
Mori Finance’s raise is live. It will run for 4 days.
Participate here: metadao.fi/companies/mori-fi…
another one
We're excited to announce that @morifinance_ will be our next curated raise on November 9th at 11am PT.
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You can go buy gold. Good luck selling it.
Or, you could trade gold futures. Good luck showing your off to your friends.
Or, you can get it all.
@obsidianRWA xGLDB/GOLD markets give you *both* realtime liquidity on gold and physical pieces you can actually redeem.
powered by @MeteoraAG 🔥
The xGLDB/GOLD market is live now on Solana via @MeteoraAG.
Fractional Goldbacks and ounce-denominated gold, connected through one market.
In-app liquidity is coming soon.
Put your gold in motion.
Security on the internet has become a top priority this year.
This goes double for anything built on internet financial rails, like @solana.
Every Sanctum wallet is now a 2-of-3 multisig by default
Seamless security. Congrats, @sanctumso!
Loofta already made it easy to send money to anyone, anywhere (even if they don't have a wallet!)
But that was already happening.
Now?
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Multi-platform money that feels like magic. 💸
GM loofters! ☀️
New Loofta just dropped: fresh design + a bunch of new features 👀
First up: Crypto → USD 🇺🇸
Ever needed to pay a normie friend who doesn't touch crypto?
Now you never leave @solana.
Type their Venmo, Cash App or Revolut username and they get USD directly 💸
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Are you ready to build an empire?
@ImperialPerps just revamped their Points system, and there's an entire quest behind it now:
1) Start as a freeman (0)
2) Grow through becoming a merchant (500), Patrician (10k) and a Senator (25k) all the way to ruling as Emperor (50k)
Qualify through trading volume, hold time and OI.
Nuanced gamification and sophisticated playstyle backed by a robust rules system.
You love to see it.
mtndao 🗻 retweeted
twice a year, @barrett_io and i host an entrepreneurship summit that brings hundreds of founders from around the world to the mountains.
every time we run it, i'm consistently stunned by what people build out of MTN HQ.
97 days until february
Breakpoint is coming - you can feel it in the air. 🇬🇧
You know what comes after Breakpoint.. right?
As @solana prepares for its pinnacle conference, and the London city winds begin to blow, feel your adventurous soul pull you to new MTN summits.
UNDER 100 DAYS TO FEBRUARY
mtndao 🗻 retweeted
Some of the best things to come out of @solanaturbine happened @mtndao. One of biggest paradigm shifting ideas was unearthed at mtndao. little something here about institutions and co op models that was unearthed nearly a year and a half ago at mtndao finally getting set into motion this year
Breakpoint is coming - you can feel it in the air. 🇬🇧
You know what comes after Breakpoint.. right?
As @solana prepares for its pinnacle conference, and the London city winds begin to blow, feel your adventurous soul pull you to new MTN summits.
UNDER 100 DAYS TO FEBRUARY
mtndao 🗻 retweeted
.@aikidoapp founder Dus on how they plan to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, and why better open-source models are good for them:
"The wonderful part is, as Hermes gets better, as these open-source models get better, we inherently get better, because we're not directly competing with these. We're building around these harnesses and these models."
"So when Kimi K4, K5 comes out, amazing, that's great for us. We can still arbitrage and add some margin on these models."
"Every time they release a new model, people keep complaining that, oh yeah, I'm running out of usage. I have a prediction, and it's not just a prediction. I think we already see it happening."
"I think they're going to move away from subscription-based pricing to API-based pricing. In Codex, I think you can add credits. In Claude, you can add more credits."
"They're going to make it normal that you pay $500 subscriptions, or even add 150 bucks, because it brings so much value."
"I think for Aikido, since we're based around open-source models, our cost is basically the inference cost. So we might be able to compete with that kind of pricing, because right now, with Codex and Claude Code, with these $200 plans, I don't know if they're making money on these plans."
FT @dusilen
mtndao 🗻 retweeted
T minus 105 until The Westerner
See you on the mtn
mtndao 🗻 retweeted
Can't wait till my 5th straight @mtndao in February! 🗻🏂 – at Sunnyvale, CA
Tapkit is a Mac app that lets your agents use your iPhone.
A REAL iPhone, not a simulator.
Enormous congrats to longtime MTNeer @tj_littlejohn & the team 🏔️
Introducing Tapkit
Tapkit is a Mac app that lets your agents use your iPhone. Tell it to do anything and it can use your phone to do it.
We've been iterating on Tapkit over the last few months with our earliest users and finally feel like it's ready for general use. Today it is easy to use, supports any agent, and can even use multiple iPhones at the same time.
There are so many great things that we can do with this new primitive, but I didn't want to wait any longer to share it with you.
Try it now: tapkit.ai
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