Pack Your Backpack 🎒 Mad News #51
Backpack and Mad Lads are global brands, first ever Mad Lads Africa meetup, dozens of trading tokens available on Exchange, download trading history in CSV format and much more!
Welcome to the Mad News!
Backpack and Mad Lads are brands with global reach 🌏
First ever Mad Lads Africa event 🇳🇬
Backpack Exchange embarks on massive listing run 🪙
HLG and SHFL trading contests 📊
Track. Swap. Launch. Browse. Explore. 🎒
Download your trading history on Backpack Exchange 📁
Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver build in public 📣
Former LAD OF THE WEEK, CONSPI, drops an animated banger for the Lads.
Backpack and Mad Lads are brands with global reach 🌏
Backpack and Mad Lads have a growing presence from Chicago to Tokyo and everywhere in between.
🇳🇬 First ever Mad Lads Africa event
Follow Mad Lads Africa on X/Twitter.
🇧🇷 Superteam Brazil catches up with Mad Monkey
Join Backpack, Meta Pool, Fact Finance and MUNU for a conversation about building on the Solana blockchain.
Vamos reunir Backpack, Meta Pool, Fact Finance and MUNU para uma conversa sobre construir no ecossistema Solana!
🇪🇸 Making an appearance in España
The team cosponsored a recent #HeavyDutyBuilders event in Spain.
Backpack Exchange embarks on massive listing run 🪙
Backpack has been aggressively introducing EVM tokens to the Exchange.
Adding these cryptocurrencies brings Backpack Exchange’s total number of supported networks to more than thirty.
MON (MON Protocol)
MATIC (Polygon)
STRK (Starknet)
HLG (Hologram)
LINK (Chainlink)
UNI (Uniswap)
ONDO (Ondo Finance)
NYAN (Nyan Heroes)
SHIB (Shiba Inu)
PEPE (Pepe)
Although long standing CEX’s like Coinbase and Binance already support hundreds of networks, they have been building for a decade.
Backpack launched just seven months ago.
Backpack Exchange is also filling the role as host to Token Generation Events (TGE) for established protocols launching their cryptocurrency for the first time.
15 mil in $SHFL volume on Backpack is such a great start!
Couple more things we're testing this week on the SHFL side now that we have a liquid, high volume, reliable place for our users to buy SHFL.
Listen to the pre-listing recording of Nyan x Backpack Space where the team discusses Nyan Heroes history and what’s in store for the future.
HLG and SHFL trading contests 📊
Along with rapid listings and TGEs, Backpack Exchange has facilitated numerous contests which reward shrewd traders with big bags of tokens.
Lately the team has been experimenting with different rule formats aiming to gamify the experience and keep contests fresh.
SHFL and Earn II adopted a new prize pool breakdown scheme along with a much lower barrier of entry prize pool for all SHFL traders.
1 or more trades of SHFL | Chance at 50K SHFL
>$50K trading volume | 200x prizes of 500 SHFL
>$1M trading volume | 40x prizes of 10K SHFL
>$10M trading volume | 5x prizes of 90K SHFL
Track. Swap. Launch. Browse. Explore. 🎒
Backpack Wallet received a fresh feature infusion with the introduction of the new Explore menu.
Securely connect to hundreds of the most popular Solana and Ethereum platforms.
Download the Backpack Wallet today,
Backpack Wallet and Birdeye work together for more transparency 🐦
The Birdeye integration in Backpack Wallet provides a secured portal to research memecoins, stablecoins and other crypto assets.
💰 Token supply & FDV
👥 Holder distribution
📈 Interactive chart
Birdeye is a decentralized crypto aggregator who hosts data, shows trends and facilitates trading.
Download your trading history on Backpack Exchange 📁
Accountants and fastidious traders alike are delighted to learn about the new trading history export function on the Backpack Exchange.
Download trading history in CSV format for easy access to your data.
Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver build in public 📣
A hallmark of the Backpack story is the sheer amount of interviews, Spaces, Broadcasts and IRL speaking events which Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver have participated in.
Listen to this week’s EignLayer x Armani Ferrante interview here.
Tristan is joining an all-star list of crypto founders next week for an NFT focused Space hosted by Adrian.
Mad Lads holders have less than 24 hours remaining to make Aethir Cloud Drop claim ⏰
Holders of Mad Lads have the opportunity to complete a short claim process and secure an allocation of ATH (Aethir) tokens.
Mad Lads, one of Solana's leading builder communities, is a hub of innovation within the ecosystem.
To recognize their contributions to DePIN innovation on Solana, we are excited to announce that their community members will be eligible for our drop. It’s an honour to have the Mad Lads with us on the #Aethir journey.
Connect your Backpack Wallet holding Mad Lads NFTs here.
Mad Lads x Jito x Superteam Turkey event recap video is live 📺
Solana Crossroads ended for many with a Superteam Turkey driven mixer featuring Mad Lads and Jito as the main sponsors.
See more videos and photos from the event here.
LADS OF THE WEEK 🔵
Mad Lads is one of the few Solana NFT collections which has grown the size of their communities throughout the crypto bear as well as during this current NFT downturn.
Our LADS OF THE WEEK are the ones who have committed to onboarding new holders on sheer faith…
…as well as the newcomers who take a chance on the Backpack team.
Mad Lads has 5,184 unique holders which makes it one of the most widely distributed collections on Solana.
Rarely a day goes by without a newcomer joining the community.
Some holders like Kevin MD (previous solo LOTW) are prolific supporters of Mad Lads who have singlehandedly onboarded dozens of new holders.
Follow everyone on this list, TODAY!
5% MarginFi points booster still in place for Backpack Wallet users ⬆️
Whales should take note that trading on MarginFi with the Backpack Wallet nets you a 5% points booster.
Points utility is rumored to come into play when MarginFi launches their own crypto token.
Points have no cash value, are not exchangeable for cash, and are not transferable. The sale, barter, or other disposal of Points, other than by us, is expressly prohibited.
Minting Spanish speaking Solana developers 🗒️
Heavy Duty Builders is the largest regional community in Spain.
Their #HeavyDutyCamp hackathon returns for another month of Spanish language driven education and practical building.
👩🔧 At #HeavyDutyCamp we will build programs on the Solana blockchain. 🌊
We’ll dive into the powerful Rust language 🦀 & use the Anchor framework ⚓.
🤝 Come, connect & collab with our community.
Solana backed Ackee Blockchain Security releases new fuzzing audit tools 🕵️
Trident is a security auditing tool used to fuzz test Solana Rust code.
Automated fuzz test generation for Anchor programs
Adaptive inputs for better test coverage
Faster results through guided instruction sequences
Invariant checks
Fuzz testing or Fuzzing is a Black Box software testing technique, which basically consists in finding implementation bugs using malformed/semi-malformed data injection in an automated fashion.
Solana Summit heads to Malaysia for an IRL hackathon 🇲🇾
Solana Summit is one of the blockchains newest regional community, their first offline events kicks off on June 20th in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Welcome to Solana Summit, where we converge with peak leaders in the APAC region—ranging from regulators and legal experts to experienced CEOs who have walked similar paths.
These experts will lead workshops, engage in fireside chats, and offer strategic insights tailored to the dynamic web3 landscape.
Furthermore, attendees will have the exclusive opportunity to connect with the diverse APAC crypto community, including influencers, creatives, and tech innovators.
Admissions are free, simply register here to get started!
PODCAST CORNER 🎙️
Validated
In this episode, Austin chats with Itai Turbahn (Dyanmic) about the future of web3 wallet onboarding. Dynamic is building web3 authentication that allows crypto-enabled companies to seamlessly serve web3 natives and crypto novices alike through varying degrees of wallet abstraction.
Over the course of the conversation, they discuss things like user management for multi-wallet users, tokenizing KYC, and the role of passkeys in web3 authentication.
Solandy
Another look at what will be THE Solana typescript SDK of the future. Now is the best time to still give feedback and shape how it looks!
Lightspeed Podcast
This week we welcome Brandon Millman & Donnie Dinch for a discussion on Phantom's recent acquisition & how they grew to be the largest wallet within the Solana ecosystem!
Logan Jastremski
Sei V2 takes the proven advantages of Sei and makes it accessible to a global base of EVM developers.
This allows Sei to get the best of Solana and Ethereum - a hyper optimized execution layer that benefits from the tooling and mindshare around the EVM.
Wintermute’s Crypto Builders Bootcamp
Find Product Market Fit with Tristan Yver (Backpack), Tristan Frizza (Zeta) and Calvin Chi (Impossible Finance) in this episode of Wintermute'sCrypto Builders Bootcamp.
This is an action-packed session filled with actionable tips for finding your first 1000 users and what the tactics are to find and retain product market fit.