Data x Chain: Where Data Science Meets Solana• Global Track

At Staking Facilities, we care deeply about infrastructure — and believe that meaningful tooling, insights, and innovation often start with great data. For the Breakout Hackathon, we’re sponsoring a global and a local track focused on the exciting intersection of Data Science and Blockchain.

We’re looking for teams who want to explore the full spectrum of what’s possible when you bring together large-scale data analysis, AI, process mining, and onchain activity. Whether you’re building dashboards, injectors, analyzers, or explorers — if it helps see, understand, or work with Solana data in new ways, we want to see it.

🛠 Track Description & Inspiration

Apply data analytics, machine learning, or statistical modeling to Solana’s rich transaction layer to:

Explore ways to refine on-chain processes

Discover new business cases

Identify potential avenues for security enhancements

Experiment with advanced contract development

Make infra more observable, explainable, and accountable

Some ideas to get you going (feel free to build on, remix, or completely ignore and build your own thing!):

Stake Tracker: Visualize and analyze stake flows across Solana: e.g. native → LST, validator hopping, concentration trends, or delegation behavior.

Deep Transaction Inspector: A validator-facing tool to parse transaction data with metrics like TX profitability (bonus points for Grafana dashboards 👀).

Custom TX Injector for Jito Bundles: Bring new visibility or functionality into the MEV stack — built for validators.

Voting Token Distributor: Let stakers opt in and receive a voting token (or vote directly) via a simple UI — think quadratic voting, percentages, etc.

💸 Prizes

🌍 Global Track – $10,000 USDC

🏆 1st: $5,000

🥈 2nd: $3,000

🥉 3rd: $2,000

Staking Facilities is also offering a local (German) track worth $5,000 open for participants based in Germany — click here to have a look. If you are based in Germany, you can submit to both.

💡 What We’re Looking For

Projects that offer real utility for validators, delegators, or Solana community members.

Projects that extract, analyze, or leverage onchain data for insights.

Experiments that merge data science and decentralized systems in novel ways.

Bonus points for open source, clean UIs, or documentation.

Whether you’re diving deep into validator infrastructure or building a funky new interface for data interaction — if it’s smart, useful, and on Solana, it’s fair game.

✨ Who We Are

We’re Staking Facilities — a team of infrastructure nerds that care about the long-term health and decentralization of the networks we support. We operate validators across multiple chains, contribute to ecosystem development, and sponsor initiatives that push things forward. We’ve been with Solana since day one — stoked to see what you’ll build!