5%
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A decentralized tipping platform for streamers and creators to receive fast, low-fee donations on Solana.
0Contender
A Solana livestreaming platform where viewers tip creators in USDT/crypto and receive NFT rewards, with Civic wallet auth
Solid creator-tipping traction, but the on-chain program is nowhere to be found.
Dimensions
Verdict
Switched is a Solana livestreaming platform combining LiveKit video, Civic wallet auth, USDT/crypto tipping, and NFT reward payouts, built over 8 months by 7 contributors across 149 commits . The project is itself a hackathon corpus entry, and two other teams have built derivatives on top of it, unusually strong winnerSimilarity evidence even without a confirmed track win. The niche is not empty: Solana TipJar and Solutip both run near-identical crypto tipping for streamers, and the closest actual winner, Banger , took 1st place in Consumer Apps with a related creator-monetization mechanic, so this lands as a partial_gap rather than a clean opening. The weakest link is techQuality at 48: no tests, no CI, and the referenced Anchor program has no visible source behind a generic devnet program ID, leaving the on-chain tipping/withdrawal logic unverified. Momentum is real but modest, zero stars and a small, steady commit cadence. The concrete next move: ship and test an actual on-chain program for tipping and withdrawals, because right now the Solana-native core of the pitch is unproven despite genuine product polish.
Methodologyv1.4
Closest competitors
5%
match
Non-custodial USDC tipping platform for streamers with gas sponsorship and real-time widget overlays.
Banger
Winner1st Place - Consumer Apps (Consumer Apps)
7%
match
A marketplace for buying and selling tweets to support creators and monetize social engagement.
4%
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Decentralized livestreaming platform for Solana games with integrated DEX, NFT marketplace, and P2P trading.
deplay
WinnerHonorable Mention - Consumer Apps (Consumer Apps)
5%
match
A decentralized music streaming platform on Solana with pay-as-you-listen and share-to-earn mechanics.
Winner DNA
Real on-chain program in Rust/Anchor: missing
Anchor config exists but no program source is visible in the 287-file tree; 42.8% of cohort winners use Rust.
Tokenization/NFT reward primitive: present
NFT reward payouts and tokenization primitive present, matching the cohort's top primitive at 11.9% share.
Payments/stablecoin rails (USDC/USDT): present
USDT/crypto tipping and spl-token dependencies align with the 9.4% payments and 10.1% stablecoins cohort tags.
Content-creator target user: present
Explicitly targets content creators, matching an 8-project/5% cohort tag among winners.
Test coverage / CI for on-chain correctness: missing
No tests directory and no CI workflows despite anchor.toml defining a test script.
Live ecosystem traction (self-match/derivatives): present
Project is itself a corpus entry and has 2 derivative projects built on top of it.