Solana Mobile Reveals CLOCK IN Hackathon Winners: Here’s What to Watch for the Next Breakout Solana App

Solana Mobile has announced 11 winners of its CLOCK IN hackathon, concluding a competition that attracted 438 submissions from developers building mobile applications for the Solana ecosystem.

Organized by RadiantsDAO, CLOCK IN opened submissions on September 8 and closed on October 12. Judges began evaluating projects afterward and concluded the process on November 9. The competition awarded 5 grand prizes, 5 additional prizes, and a separate $SKR Integration Prize.

RadiantsDAO highlighted the quality of submissions, stating that builders demonstrated “a massive level of polish and curiosity” while turning unconventional ideas into functional products.

The competition emphasized usability, performance, and thoughtful mobile design. Judges evaluated projects across 4 equally weighted categories: stickiness and product-market fit, user experience, innovation, and presentation.

Sprouts Claims the $30,000 Grand Prize

DeFi application Sprouts emerged as the competition's top winner, receiving $30,000 in $USDC and a Solana Seeker device for each team member. Sprouts helps users save and allocate small amounts of money automatically through their trading activity. The application rounds up swaps from linked wallets and invests the spare change once daily in selected Solana DeFi products.

Users can allocate funds across $SKR staking, $stORE, $hSOL, $cbBTC, and $USDC or $SOL lending through Kamino and Jupiter Lend. The concept addresses a common challenge among active traders: setting aside money while continuously trading.

Other Grand Prize Winners

Beyond Sprouts, 4 projects secured grand prizes across different sectors. Vanna Protocol, a credit and leverage application, won $25,000, while payments project Glyf received $20,000. Gaming applications Battle Cities and Gali took home $15,000 and $10,000, respectively.

Gali also secured an additional ORE matched prize. ORE offered the reward to the strongest qualifying $ORE integration among the competition's top 10 projects, effectively doubling Gali's winnings to $20,000.

Additional Winners and SKR Integration Prize

The remaining 5 winners, ranked sixth through tenth, include Mobiloot, Polaris, OnePlan Travel, Beatking, and Envelope. Payment applications accounted for 4 of these projects, with Beatking representing the gaming category.

Separately, PAYtience won the $10,000 SKR Integration Prize, paid in $SKR, for its creative and meaningful integration of the token.

All winning teams also qualify for featured placement on the Solana dApp Store, marketing and launch support through official Solana Mobile channels, and an opportunity to receive feedback directly from Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.

The judging panel included Anatoly Yakovenko, Helius CEO and co-founder Mert Mumtaz, Solana Foundation's Chase Barker, and Solana Mobile/Solana Labs BD and Ecosystem Lead Akshay Rajan.

Throughout the competition, RadiantsDAO and Solana Mobile also organized educational sessions for participants. These included technical office hours with Solana Mobile developer relations representative Beeman, a marketing and growth masterclass with Akshay Rajan, and RadiantsDAO's Life's a Pitch workshop. The sessions covered development, user acquisition, growth strategies, and preparing project presentations.

CLOCK IN Strengthened Solana Mobile's Hardware Ambitions

Speaking on SolanaFloor's Shipped livestream, Solana Mobile General Manager Emmett Hollyer explained that the developer ecosystem plays an important role in conversations with potential hardware manufacturing partners.

Hollyer described Solana Mobile's developer community as “genuinely unique” and said other phone manufacturers recognize the value of bringing talented developers to their devices. He identified the dApp Store as a breakthrough in conversations with users, developers, and hardware manufacturers, adding that hackathons help maintain that momentum.

The Solana dApp Store recently surpassed 1,500 applications, providing another indication of the ecosystem's expansion.

Meanwhile, Solana Mobile has extended its 50% discount on the Seeker phone through November 17, the final day of Solana Breakpoint 2026. The device now costs $250 with free shipping, and the discount applies automatically at checkout, with no promotional code. The offer remains available while supplies last.

To keep track of all the featured apps and rewards running throughout Seeker Summer, visit SolanaFloor’s Seeker Hub.

Additionally, users can tune into SolanaFloor’s Seeker-centric livestream show, Shipped, to hear directly from the founders and builders shaping the Solana dApp Store's most popular protocols.

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