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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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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 youβll find collaborators, integration partners, design partners, and customers, and hopefully make some friends along the way.
Donβt 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 otherβs protocols before the market does.
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All comms & announcements will be made on our WhatsApp Group. Please ensure youβre in there!
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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)
| Day | Stint | Agenda | Co-working Calendar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, 21 | Product & Markets | 10:00β1:00 - 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 | 10:00β10:30 - Morning Founder Sync | |
| 11:00β12:00 - Designing DeFi Products Around Real User Behaviour | |||
| 12:15β13:00 - DeFi Product Teardown | |||
| 14:30β15:30 - Building Trading Products People Actually Use | 15:45β16:45 - Product & Market Office Hours | ||
| 17:00 onwards - Open Build | |||
| Wed, 23 | Product & Markets | 10:00β10:30 - Morning Founder Sync | |
| 11:00β12:00 - Building Reliable Solana Applications | |||
| 12:30β13:00 - Execution Infrastructure on Solana | |||
| 14:30β15:30 - Vault Architecture, Validators & Bootstrapping Liquidity | 15:45β16:45 - Infrastructure + Architecture Office Hours | ||
| 17:00 onwards - Open Build | |||
| Thurs, 24 | Test & Distribute | 10:00β10:30 - Morning Founder Sync | |
| 12:15β13:15 - Security Review From an Auditor's Perspective | |||
| 14:30β16:00 - Threat Model Your Product | |||
| 22:30 - 23:30 - How DeFi Protocols Break | 16:00-20:30 - Open Build | ||
| Friday, 25 | Test & Distribute | 10:00β10:30 - Morning Founder Sync | |
| 11:00β12:00 - Building Agent-Powered Financial Products | |||
| 14:30β15:30 - Early-Stage Marketing + Finding Your First 100 Real Users | |||
| 15:45β17:00 - Product, Brand, UI/UX + GTM Teardowns | 17:00 onwards - Open Build | ||
| Sat, 26 | Test & Distribute | 10:00β10:30 - Morning Founder Sync | |
| 11:00β12:00 - Designing GTM Activations & Partnerships | |||
| 12:15β13:00 - Design Your Distribution Wedge | 14:30β16:00 - Open Product Feedback #2 | ||
| 16:00β17:00 - GTM + Distribution Office Hours | |||
| 17:00 onwards - Open Build | |||
| Sun, 27 | Company & Capital + Demo Day | 10:00β10:30 - Morning Founder Sync | |
| 11:00β12:00 - Structuring a Global DeFi Company From India | |||
| 12:15β13:00 - Fundraising Structures Outside Traditional VC | |||
| 14:30β15:15 - Raising Through MetaDAO: The Good and the Bad | 17:00 onwards - Demo Prep + Open Build | ||
| Mon, 28 | Company & Capital + Demo Day | 10:00β10:30 - Final Morning Founder Sync | |
| 10:30β12:00 - Demo Run-throughs + Final Feedback | |||
| 12:00β15:00 - Final Prep / Build / Meetings | |||
| 16:00β18:00 - Demo Day + Open House at LocalHost | |||
| 18:00 onwards - Closing Mixer |