[ Web3 ]
Web3 is learned by practising it.
Genius sells neither tokens nor promises. The federation opens the doors: specialist partners who teach, workshops on campus, the Colosseum hackathon, and events where things actually get built.
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Workshops
Short hands-on sessions, no prerequisites. You leave with something that actually runs.
Hackathons
Hackathons with mentors and partners from the ecosystem. We build, we help each other, we ship. Whatever your starting level.
Events
We take our students to the gatherings that matter, in France and beyond. Talks, demos, afterworks — the network is built offline too.
[ How it works ]
Three steps, no crypto knowledge needed.
01
You discover
A 90-minute hands-on session: nothing to know beforehand, no wallet to install, nothing to buy.
02
You build
The Colosseum hackathon, chapter projects: you ship something real, with mentors alongside you.
03
You keep going
Introductions to partners, internships, work-study places and access to the web3 alumni network.
[ Flagship event ]
Colosseum Hackathon, the arena of the Solana ecosystem.
Twice a year, Colosseum opens a worldwide online competition: five weeks to build a product on Solana, judged by the ecosystem's founders and investors. The federation supports the chapters' teams throughout, from picking a subject to submitting.
Next edition: 28 September to 2 November 2026.
The format
Five weeks online, two editions a year. You build a product, not a weekend demo.
The teams
Alone or in a team, with no selection at the door. Over 80,000 participants since the first edition, across 150 countries.
The judges
Founders, developers and investors from the Solana ecosystem.
The prize
Over $2.5M deployed by the Colosseum fund into the winners, and an interview for the accelerator.
[ Events ]
We practise web3 before we talk about it.
Want to bring your campus in?
We open six to ten chapters a year. The application takes twenty minutes.
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