Monthly Report: Road to Winter Arc Matsumoto
Superteam Japan’s February was a month full of builder events.
We held regular mini-hackathons “Trend Hack”’ for the first time, held builder training camps, online study sessions, and most importantly, co-hosted Builders Weekend.
Builders Weekend is not a hackathon mainly focused on blockchain, let alone Solana, but a hackathon event where developers from various genres gather. As many as 60 people gathered every day for three days, making it the perfect opportunity to convey the appeal of Solana. We actually succeeded in onboarding four teams, a total of just under 20 people, to Solana development, and two of those teams will participate in the large builder event “Winter Arc Matsumoto” to be held in March.
Superteam Japan is putting all its efforts into discovering and training builders for the Breakout Hackathon in April.
Contents
– Japan Prize appears in Solana Global Creator Competition (2/10)
– Solana×Murasaki Futsal event #2（2/11）
– UNKOMON wins DeAI hackathon (2/11)
– Moonwalk 2nd Soylana Cup (2/11-14)
– New promotional video for Winter Arc Matsumoto released (2/12)
– First Trend Hack held (2/12)
– Builders Weekend Icebreaker（2/14）
– AI agent development training camp (2/14-16)
– SendAI Japan launched (2/16)
– Winter Arc Matsumoto official website announcement (2/17)
– Photo Finish Private Dinner (2/18)
– Adrena AMA（2/20）
– Builders Weekend & After Party（2/21-23）
– Winter Arc Matsumoto second batch announcement (2/22)
– Blockchain SPE study session for companies in Fukuoka (2/25)
– Sonic Hackathon Briefing & Mainnet Launch AMA (2/27)
– After Hack – Builders Weekend 2025 official post event (2/28)
– Solana Developer Hub #14 (2/28)
-💰 Community GDP is at $27,438
-🏙️ Organized 19 IRL & Online Events
-😲 with 500+ attendees
-📈 3,882 Discord members
-📈 5,371 Twitter followers
-👥 64 Superteam JP Members
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1888917833024958737
Solana’s first global competition for creators has announced a $5,000 prize track for Japanese artists and content creators.
The following three Japanese people will also participate as judges.
Joe Takayama – Japanese Crypto YouTuber
https://twitter.com/littleunusualHQ/status/1887139124957642843
Cryptobaby – Crypto dancer
https://twitter.com/littleunusualHQ/status/1889259034718409080
Camao – Superteam Japan Community Lead
https://twitter.com/littleunusualHQ/status/1895807958342402279
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1889497807691845875
Two months after the first futsal event, which was a great success, the second futsal event was held in collaboration with Murasaki!
The number of participants has been filled early before the event, making it a highly anticipated event.
Although the weather was cold that day, there was a lot of passionate play that blew away the cold.
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1889200738334540160
UNKOMON, which won a special award in the DePIN category of Radar Hackathon, won first place in DeAI Hackathon! UNKOMON continues to make good progress even after the Radar hackathon!
https://twitter.com/cryptoebi01/status/1888342051596697770
Continuing from last month, the Moonwalk community event was held, hosted by Superteam Japan member Ebi and sponsored by Soylana Japan.
This time, 32 people participated, double the number of participants last time! This is the result of increasing recognition through continued holding.
Participants aimed to complete a daily step mission for a prize of $BONK.
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1889600330520052133
Thanks to the full cooperation of Eno, who is participating in Winter Arc Matsumoto as a mentor, we have completed a wonderful promotional video that conveys the charm of the event.
Excellent builders from around the world work on business development while drawing inspiration from Japan’s rich culture, historic streets, and magnificent nature.
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1890919011740766409
“Trend Hack”, which is held regularly with a different theme every time, was held for the first time!
The theme was AI agents, and SendAI cooperated as a sponsor. Thank you!!
On the day of the event, as many as 40 participants gathered and the venue was filled with excitement. This event was the first time some of them attended a Solana builder event, and it was a great way to connect with new developers for us.
We can’t wait to meet talented builders on new themes next time!
https://twitter.com/BuildersWeekend/status/1890415866543485353
An ice-breaking party was held before Builders Weekend.
It was an event focused on builders, and even though it was the participants’ first time meeting each other, they quickly connected and enthusiastically discussed development everywhere.
https://twitter.com/kyohei_nft/status/1891732757350388138
Yuki from Superteam Japan Member/Metaplex Japan held a 3-day training camp with the theme of AI agents.
In particular, participants praised the SendAI Solana Agent Kit, stating that it offered an exceptional developer experience even amidst the increasingly competitive landscape of web3 agent development tools. They also expressed their admiration for the impressive technical capabilities of the powerful Solana ecosystem.
https://twitter.com/yashhsm/status/1890929483554898044
After falling in love with Solana Agent Kit through Trend Hack and AI agent training camp, and deepening connection with SendAI, SendAI Japan was launched as a community initiative.
And surprisingly, SendAI has officially recognized it as an authorized community. We are looking forward to their future activities!
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1891318396987511105
Winter Arc Matsumoto official website has been announced!
At the same time, the lineup of the first sponsors and mentors will be announced. We are happy to receive so much support and to be able to hold this big event for two weeks.
We would like to thank Matsumoto City for their support, allowing us to hold an international builder event in a local city surrounded by traditional Japanese culture and rich nature.
https://twitter.com/photofinishgame/status/1891875530179477951
A private dinner was held to celebrate the team’s visit to Japan for the horse racing game “Photo Finish” that utilizes Solana’s NFTs.
It was a wonderful chance to build deeper connections. We truly appreciate this opportunity to strengthen our bonds!
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1890332093110157346
Perpetual DEX project “Adrena” came to Superteam Japan Discord and held an AMA.
They even prepared presents for the participants, which caused many cries of joy.
Participants expressed that they were impressed by Adrena’s attitude of valuing the community.
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1893966995349016807
Superteam Japan co-hosted Builders Weekend, the biggest event in February.
As mentors, 256hax, Yuki, and Kinzal visited the venue to share Solana’s technology with Web2 developers.
Since the event was attended by very talented builders, participants asked many pertinent questions about Solana, which led to the discovery of issues for onboarding Web2 builders to Solana in the future.
It was a great event that allowed us to connect with many new developers who were not in the blockchain world.
We would like to thank everyone involved, including the Builders Weekend management team!
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1893222986708373939
All sponsors and mentors who will be involved in Winter Arc Matsumoto have been announced.
We would like to sincerely thank Solana’s top projects and established players for supporting Winter Arc Matsumoto.
Thanks to all of you, we will have a wonderful event!
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1892523439833112734
We held a blockchain study session in Fukuoka for companies interested in Web3.
With the main theme of a solution called “SPE (Solana Permissioned Environments)” that allows companies to create their own blockchains with Solana, the event was packed with explanations of Superteam, Web3 business tips, networking, and more.
We are looking forward to developing our relationship in the future through this event!
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1893602128377319826
Mond from the Sonic team came to the Superteam Japan Discord and held an AMA.
This day was also the day Sonic launched mainnet. congratulations!
And thank you for always supporting us.
https://twitter.com/BuildersWeekend/status/1894751960269775308
We co-hosted a meet-up event after Builders Weekend.
It provided a relaxed atmosphere for developers to connect and share their thoughts freely, offering a welcome break from the intense focus of the three-day hackathon.
Let’s continue to build together!
A monthly event for Solana developers. This time, Mameta participated as a lecturer for the first time, representing the newly launched SendAI Japan!
– What is RWA x DePIN – Kouta Ozaki
– New possibilities for RWA using Asset Signers – Yuki Metaplex Japan
– Implementation of RWA using SendAI – SendAI Japan mameta
The above three people held the event focusing on RWA, which will be the theme of the next Trend Hack.
This month again, there were major positive events for Solana in Japan.
Jupiter Japan was born!
https://twitter.com/JupiterExchange/status/1893246362432446782
The full-scale launch of Jupiter in Japan, which all Solana users know, has been announced.
Superteam Japan hopes to actively cooperate with them to contribute to raising awareness within Japan.
Japanese Crypto profit and loss calculation service now supports Solana
https://twitter.com/cryptact/status/1891678109683814805
Cryptact, one of the famous services for calculating profit and loss of cryptocurrencies in Japan, has started supporting the Solana blockchain for the first time in Japan.
This is expected to make it easier for even more users to access Solana, making it a very popular piece of news.
Japanese team wins 3rd place at Jito The Grid
https://twitter.com/jito_sol/status/1892769467899265387
The final judging results of the event, which was organized mainly by Jito and was a combination of workshop and competition that started in January, have been announced.
Windfall, which won 3rd place in the Gaming category at Radar Hackathon, also won 3rd place at Jito The Grid! congratulations!
https://twitter.com/SuperteamJapan/status/1894200447856173341
It has been decided that the 2nd Trend Hack theme will be held at “RWA”.
Termina, a platform that supports developers in building and deploying their own blockchain using Solana, will be working with us as a sponsor! Thank you very much.
https://twitter.com/yuki_solana/status/1894274559349854681
Along with this, a Termina study session will be held by Superteam Japan Member Yuki.
It has become established that we hold a mini-hackathon with a theme each month, and hold study sessions in advance based on that theme, making it an event that helps strengthen Solana builders.
https://twitter.com/students_web3/status/1894361838521127342
We will also be participating in Pitch Day, a student-only ideathon! The quality of the entries will be very high, and it will be great to see first-hand some amazing talent from a new generation.
Well, March will finally bring the Winter Arc Matsumoto. See you next month’s report!