Solana Mobile Heads Into Summer With New Apps, Quests, and Builders
Can you feel it? The heat, the hype, the… future of finance? It can only mean one thing: Seeker Summer is here. ☀️
The ecosystem continues to accelerate, as the dApp Store has quietly become the most crowded beach on Solana — featuring new games, DeFi campaigns, and commerce apps coming in almost every day, each one hiding a quest and a badge with your name on it.
So no, you don't have to touch grass for this one. You just have to open your phone and start digging.
Surf’s up! Here's what's shipped so far over the past few weeks:
Seeker Summer Begins
Seeker Summer is live as part of Seeker Season 2, running July 7 through August 30. The format is simple: four rounds, two weeks each, four hand-picked apps per round. Almost every day, a new app drops into the Seeker Summer hub with quests waiting inside.
Each app has two quests. The first is quick, built to get you started. The second asks a little more and pushes you deeper into the app. Complete a quest and you earn a badge stamped with the app, the quest, and the day you earned it.
Badges live in the Solana dApp Store and in Seed Vault Wallet’s Activity Tracking tab. By the end of the summer, your badge collection becomes a record of what you tried, where you showed up, and what you found.
Four Apps Kick Off Seeker Summer Round 1
Round 1 kicked off with TokenRun by @GEODNET, an app that turns the world around you into a treasure map. The first quest asks you to open a treasure chest and claim a reward. The second sends you out into the world to bury a message on the Treasure Trail for someone else to find.
@loyal_hq also joined Round 1, with stablecoin quests: deposit at least $5 USDC, then switch on autodeposit into Earn.
@playdolero brings quick 1v1 card duels to the dApp Store. Claim your free chips after connecting your wallet, then challenge other players to head-to-head onchain matches.
@slimecoinio rounds out the first four with quests for its onchain gaming platform: sign up, warm up in free practice mode, then play three or more games to complete the set. New players get a $2 USDC welcome bonus on signup.
Open an app, complete a quest, and collect a badge. Round 1 ends July 15 — stay tuned for what’s coming next 👀
New Perks and Campaigns Across the dApp Store
Elsewhere for Seeker Season 2, @CryptaraConq went live with bullet-hell survival gameplay, seasonal leaderboards, boosted stats, discounts, and perks exclusive to Seeker users. Its first wave of Seekers has already logged more than 400 hours of gameplay from more than 450 players.
Beyond Cryptara, builders added new MMOs, RPGs, casual games, and seasonal events across the dApp Store:
@PumpvilleWorld launched a social MMO where you complete quests, gather resources, trade, duel, and track down @toly in-game to claim a Seeker-exclusive welcome gift
@ShardLegends brought Clan Wars to the dApp Store, a dark fantasy RPG with arena PvP, clan development, monster battles, and Seeker-exclusive starting chests
@JstElizabethCat launched its running game, Elizabeth in Istanbul, with extra rewards for early players
@AstrolabBuilder dropped Poodies, a physics-based casual game packed with arcade and puzzle mini-games
@SnakeOS_SOL shipped a Seeker theme, a badge, and 10% off Market purchases for SKR holders
On the DeFi side, Lending, trading, staking, and tokenized asset apps also expanded their Seeker offerings during the month.
@xplaceapp celebrated 2,000 sign-ups on Seeker for its crypto credit card and lending app
@clashofperps ran a ten-day trading competition with @PhoenixTrade, @pacifica_fi, and @FlashTrade, with up to $10,000 in the prize pool and a 10% gold boost for Seekers
@HubraApp opened a Seeker-exclusive campaign with 2x points for staking through the app, plus a bonus prize pool of up to $20,000 in raUSDC
@project0 brought its DeFi prime broker to mobile
@Dominion_Market gave Solana Mobile users early access to tokenized Silver on Solana with a 10% discount
@Tessera_PE opened early access for Seeker users to its tokenized OpenAI exposure.
Solana dApp Spotlight featured a new yield-focused set: @project0, @Loopscale, @perena, and @FensoryApp
Beyond games and finance, commerce, everyday utilities, and hardware continued to expand on Seeker.
@NOMADZxyz switched on SKR payments for hotel bookings, so you can pay for a stay straight with SKR from your wallet
@merchsdotfun landed on the dApp Store, letting you spot trends and buy merch.
@ArthurLabsDAO launched HIIE on Seeker, an AI workflow OS for helping users develop and deploy real hardware inventions
The Seeker Community and Media Around the Globe
Seeker builders gathered to test new ideas through community hackathons and builder houses around the globe, from Koh Samui to Kyiv.
@islanddao shared an exclusive look at Solana Mobile Week at IslandDAO v4, showing the builder and community side of Seeker in person.
@magicblock’s Solana Blitz v6 with @blueshift ran a mobile-themed weekend hackathon with $1,000 in prizes, and templates for teams shipping Seeker apps.
@SuperteamUKR hosted a Solana Mobile Vibehack at Incrypted Conference, bringing 50 builders together for two rapid hackathon waves, with Seeker phones, cash, and merch going to participants.
Many thanks to all who participated, and congrats to the winners! 🥳
Seeker showed up at Solana Summit Chicago by @SolanaInstitute where @m_it spoke about making onchain interactions mainstream, with mobile and edge custody at the center of that story.
The latest edition of Shipped Live with SolanaFloor aired in a special Seeker Summer edition, featuring:
@bassbuddha (Collector Crypt)
@0xChrisSaturn (Dolero)
@candyflipline (Loyal)
@mikeahorton (TokenRun + GEODNET)
If you missed it, there’s still plenty of time to watch and clip it.
As the ecosystem expanded, community members also published tutorials, translations, and app roundups that helped new Seekers discover what had launched.
@inno_ox kept the weekly Solana Mobile recaps rolling and @ftosol continued a Top Solana Mobile Apps series. @SolanaAppWorld highlighted apps building SKR into staking, yield, rewards, and in-game mechanics. @neko_smg published a Seeker Summer guide in Japanese, @FEIlXIE in Chinese, and more community guides landed in other languages. And we even put together a megathread of all the SKR integrations we spotted out in the wild...so far.
Seeker Summer didn't stay inside the dApp Store. It showed up on beaches, in badge screenshots, and across "I'm trying every app this season" posts.
Growing the Seeker Family This Summer
To grow the Solana Mobile ecosystem, we teamed up with @Collector_Crypt on a launch promo: 20% off Seeker plus a free $50 gacha spin for the first 5,000 buyers using code CARDS20, running through August 30. Just pay with Solana Pay using USDC, USDT, PYUSD, or SKR and get a free rip on Collector Crypt to the wallet you purchased with 🔥
Seeker Summer draws from a catalog that now spans more than 1,000 apps thanks to builders working hard all over the globe. Throughout the season, new quests, badges, and app launches will continue arriving in the Seeker Summer hub. Stay tuned for an update soon on Round 1 btw… 🫢
Seek and You Will Find!a
