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ack3 Supports Build Station in Prague
Build Station runs October 3 to 7 in Prague: five days from idea to shipped Solana project for Czech and Slovak builders, on the road to Colosseum. ack3 is a partner.
Build Station runs October 3 to 7 at Marina Pivovar in Prague: five days where Czech and Slovak builders take a Solana project from idea to shipped, with mentors, technical support, and team matching on site. It is the main stage of Zero to Hero 2.0, SolanaCZE’s builder program for Czechia and Slovakia, and ack3 is one of the partners.
From ideathons to Colosseum
Zero to Hero 2.0 opened in mid-September with ideathons in Brno, Bratislava, Zlín, Pilsen, and Prague. Build Station is where the program converges, and teams that ship there continue into Colosseum, Solana’s global hackathon, with a $100,000+ Colosseum prize pool, $10,000+ in local prizes, and a $250,000 investment opportunity on top. Entry is free, no prior web3 experience is required, and registration is at buildstation.cz.
Solana security is daily work for our auditors, from audits to wake.sol, our new open-source Python testing and fuzzing harness for Solana programs. Build Station brings the next Czech and Slovak teams into that ecosystem; that is worth backing.
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Vocabulary
Terms used in this article.
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Solana
Solana is a public proof-of-stake blockchain whose runtime executes parallel transactions when their declared account access does not conflict.
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Audit
A smart contract audit is an independent, scope-bound security review of blockchain code using manual analysis, testing, tooling, and documented findings.
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Wake
A Python-based development and testing framework for Solidity with fuzzing, debugging, static analysis, and editor tooling.
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Auditor
A smart contract auditor is a security researcher who reviews blockchain systems for exploitable behavior, unsafe assumptions, and implementation errors.
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Fuzz testing
Automated testing that explores many generated inputs or action sequences to find violations of expected properties.
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Solana program
A Solana program is executable onchain code, usually written in Rust and compiled to sBPF, that processes instructions using explicitly supplied accounts.
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