🎙️ From the Judges' Table, Ep. 1
A Stablecorp podcast with @colosseum judges, for teams shipping at Crypto World's Fair.
Building is cheap now. Your agent can crank out a smart contract in an afternoon. So what actually separates the teams that win?
@10KRotator down with @andyweng_ from @magicblock, who was one of our judges back when Stablecorp was just a pitch, to ask what he looks for when judging.
What he shared:
🎯 Founder-market fit comes first: Does it make sense for you to be building this? Deep financial products have quirks outsiders miss. Build where you have an unfair understanding of the problem.
💡 A request for startups: A perps design with 1000x leverage and no slippage, where everyone trades against a central pool. When the pool runs dry, you get a receipt token that's paid out as fees come in. Unproven, but if it works, it changes the game. Andy wants to see someone build it on Solana.
🚀 First users matter: MagicBlock's Quests program funds incentives to get your first hundred users. We've used it ourselves.
🗣️ GTM matters more than ever: When the tech is easy to ship, the story is what's scarce: why this problem exists, why you're the one to solve it, told in a way people get in seconds.
His advice for the hackathon: put the coding agents down for a bit. Do the research. Tell a great story.
Thanks @andyweng_ , and thanks @magicblock for one of the best Founders Camps we've been to.
More conversations from the judges' table dropping over the coming days. Follow along if you're shipping for
@colosseum Crypto World's Fair 👇
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