Student developer Solana Haulthone Winner Guide

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Sharing the field experience of a student who won in Solana Clossium Hawthorne provides the student developers with advice on balancing studies and competitions. The author stressed the importance of innovation, presentation and the use of tools such as Helius CLI, MCP and Lana AI to improve development efficiency, with the aim of helping beginners quickly build and validate projects in Solana ecology。

I won the @coloseumBreakout university award (University Award) with OpenSOL (a codeless tool developed by Solana for students) and TrinchTown (a game based on PenL and Memecoin) in Radar's game of honor。

Recommendations for students

If you're a student, don't be frightened by the number of participants and teams. That's why the university track was set up, giving you the opportunity to compete with students from all over the world in the largest encrypted currency in history。

Balancing the curriculum, examinations and student life has become very challenging, and participating in hackers can exhaust you. Take advantage of Clossium hacker pine to last about a month and rationalize its rhythm. If you are not excited or anxious throughout the competition, you may need to re-evaluate your motivation for participation。

In addition, students have access to large amounts of free resources, ranging from Anthropic to Supabase points, which are sufficient to support your development from 0 to MVP (the least feasible product)。

To win the core of the Clossem competition

The standard guide for winning Colusseum is detailed in other articles and tweets, and a quick summary is provided here:

It's an entrepreneurial competition: more than just writing codes。

Maintain innovation: Build something new or outpace competitors。

Founder-market-fit: Why are you qualified to solve this problem

Pitch better than Demo: Tell a story about why this is important to you。

Build in public: Create an X account for your project。

A sense of urgency: Use all available time to build。

Start as early as possible and continue to invest: the end of the hacker pine does not mean the cessation of development。

I have every reason to build OpenSOL, because I'm teaching @txblockchain on block development, so it's very natural for me to create educational tools to help students understand the concept. For Trenchtown, I have a moving story about trading with friends and hoping to make this experience a game. At the same time, this idea coincided with the market's heat for Memecoin。

How to implement and develop efficiently

How should the rules be applied in practice

I ACTUALLY SPENT MOST OF MY CONSTRUCTION TIME READING DOCUMENTS, TESTING API AND STUDYING EXAMPLES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW TO MOVE THE PROJECT FORWARD. I OFTEN DO NOT KNOW WHEN AND HOW TO USE LIN’S FULL-FLEDGED TOOLS (E.G., WHAT IS THE FASTEST WAY TO GET A WALLET FOR ALL TRANSACTIONS。

Reducing the struggle to achieve detail means that you have more time to improve Pitch, get user feedback and actually generate income. In a competitive environment, these efforts are often more valuable. It is often said that “twice, not broken”, but you need the right tools and knowledge to do it effectively。

Recommended tool: Helis

Whatever you build, you may need to read or write a block chain。

I may have a little personal preference, but @Helius did make it all simple. You just call API to get the data or send the transaction. It's very efficient. Before I joined Helius, I used it because it was cheap, fast and fully functional. I have completed my project with the full use of the free level, with the remaining amount。

More importantly, we just released Helius CLI and MCP, tools and knowledge that can reduce development time by 10 times. It allows AI Agent to search for Helius blogs and documents, remove hallucinations, and even interact directly with Helius API to validate response formats, capture data on the chain, or interpret transactions。

If you are a student, cost optimization may be the primary consideration in the construction process. Fortunately, Helios offers programs from the MVP to the enterprise level. MCP is able to understand this and achieve different programmes according to your budget proposal。

Smart Assistant: Lana AI

Need a more friendly way of thinking about storms or looking for help? You can try @LanaAI, a specialist in the chain, actually interacts with the block chain。

For example, Lana can:

Search networks for evidence-based answers。

Draws charts for system design。

Query, parse and understand transactions。

Send, transfer and convert Token。

And more features

Summary and resource recommendations

These are the tools that I've dreamed of at the Colusseum competition, and now I have the privilege of working in Helius to build these tools for other developers。

SO, IF YOU'RE A STUDENT, YOU'RE READY TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT, MISS CLASSES AND APPLY FOR AN EXTENSION SO YOU CAN WIN THE GAME AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WISH TO SEE THE FUNCTION IN THE CLI/MCP, COMMENTS OR PRIVATE LETTERS ARE WELCOME