Ascent Residency 2026 HQ

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This guide should have everything you need to know to get the most out of your time at the Ascent Residency.

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Building for the World. Together.

Indian teams have flourished in the Solana Ecosystem, and you all are at the helm of taking this ecosystem to the next level. To build from India, but for the entire world. This has always been the promise of crypto, and we are here to 100x that potential for you all.

You are the ones doing the hard thing. You are shipping real protocols, real products, wrestling with liquidity, security, and users, and learning topics outside your comfort zone. The purpose of Ascent is to help you navigate this journey, along with people who are just like you.

So, during these 7 days, make the effort to get to know your fellow residents, and you’ll find collaborators, integration partners, design partners, and customers, and hopefully make some friends along the way.

Don’t network and try to collect contacts. Instead, get to know people. Share ideas that inspire you. Contribute thoughtfully when others share an interesting idea. Break each other’s protocols before the market does.


Calendar

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WhatsApp

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All comms & announcements will be made on our WhatsApp Group. Please ensure you’re in there!

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Updates

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Venue

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Get to know your peers!

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Get to know your peers β€” you will co-live and co-work with these folks for 7 days, have a lot of fun together, and may even become collaborators, integration partners, and lifelong friends later.

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Cohort: up to 10 teams Β· up to 20 founders (2 core team members per team)


Attendees


Agenda (this is WIP)

Day Stint Agenda Co-working Calendar
Mon, 21 Product & Markets 10:00–1:00 - Welcome and settling in
1:30-2:30 - Building a Serious Company on Solana
15:00-16:00 - Diagnonis + Splitting streams: Where Are You Actually Stuck? 16:00 onwards - Open Build + Mentor Time
Tue, 22 Product & Markets 10:00–10:30 - Morning Founder Sync
11:00–12:00 - Designing DeFi Products Around Real User Behaviour
12:15–13:00 - DeFi Product Teardown
14:30–15:30 - Building Trading Products People Actually Use 15:45–16:45 - Product & Market Office Hours
17:00 onwards - Open Build
Wed, 23 Product & Markets 10:00–10:30 - Morning Founder Sync
11:00–12:00 - Building Reliable Solana Applications
12:30–13:00 - Execution Infrastructure on Solana
14:30–15:30 - Vault Architecture, Validators & Bootstrapping Liquidity 15:45–16:45 - Infrastructure + Architecture Office Hours
17:00 onwards - Open Build
Thurs, 24 Test & Distribute 10:00–10:30 - Morning Founder Sync
12:15–13:15 - Security Review From an Auditor's Perspective
14:30–16:00 - Threat Model Your Product
22:30 - 23:30 - How DeFi Protocols Break 16:00-20:30 - Open Build
Friday, 25 Test & Distribute 10:00–10:30 - Morning Founder Sync
11:00–12:00 - Building Agent-Powered Financial Products
14:30–15:30 - Early-Stage Marketing + Finding Your First 100 Real Users
15:45–17:00 - Product, Brand, UI/UX + GTM Teardowns 17:00 onwards - Open Build
Sat, 26 Test & Distribute 10:00–10:30 - Morning Founder Sync
11:00–12:00 - Designing GTM Activations & Partnerships
12:15–13:00 - Design Your Distribution Wedge 14:30–16:00 - Open Product Feedback #2
16:00–17:00 - GTM + Distribution Office Hours
17:00 onwards - Open Build
Sun, 27 Company & Capital + Demo Day 10:00–10:30 - Morning Founder Sync
11:00–12:00 - Structuring a Global DeFi Company From India
12:15–13:00 - Fundraising Structures Outside Traditional VC
14:30–15:15 - Raising Through MetaDAO: The Good and the Bad 17:00 onwards - Demo Prep + Open Build
Mon, 28 Company & Capital + Demo Day 10:00–10:30 - Final Morning Founder Sync
10:30–12:00 - Demo Run-throughs + Final Feedback
12:00–15:00 - Final Prep / Build / Meetings
16:00–18:00 - Demo Day + Open House at LocalHost
18:00 onwards - Closing Mixer