Sun’s Out: Your Seeker Has Been Busy This Summer

Over the past few weeks, a day with Seeker could mean taking a walk, surviving a game wave, minting a Gargoyle, or making a swap between stops. Round 3 quests are now live, Round 2 SKR claims are open, and new app, builder, and community updates have arrived alongside them.

Here is what you need to know.

Seeker Summer shines bright into Round 3

Seeker Summer entered Round 3 on August 3. Round 3’s four featured apps turn your Seeker into something different each time you open them.

• Titan Exchange puts a Solana meta-DEX aggregator in your pocket. Connect Seed Vault Wallet to earn Enter Olympus, then complete one swap to unlock Titanic Trade.

• LootGO sends you out to explore the real world around you. Open five loot boxes to collect Loot Goblin, then buy and deploy one SKR Booster on the map to complete Boost Seeker.

• Game Terminal by Astrolab loads an arcade onto your Seeker. Mint its Seeker Summer NFT to earn Hero Pass, then play at least five games to collect Arcade Buster. Built during a Solana Mobile Hackathon, Game Terminal has now become part of Seeker Summer.

• Pumpville’s Round 3 quest is a fishing trip 🎣. Connect Seed Vault Wallet, create an account, and claim the Seeker Welcome Pack from Wizard Toly to earn Wizard’s Welcome. Then meet Wizard Toly at the docks and fish his lost phone out of the water to complete Reel It In.

You have until August 12 at 2pm UTC to complete all eight Round 3 quests, so by the time you read this, the round may already be closed. Seeker Summer continues through August 30, with Round 4 still ahead.

A few new apps came to Seeker, too: ZINC is now live in the dApp Store, bringing mobile mining to your Seeker. Iluminary launched its self-custody AI-powered wallet on Seeker. Neutral Trade is offering Seekers a 20% NT Points boost on Neutral Autopilot for two months beginning August 7.

SKR could be waiting in Seed Vault Wallet

Your Round 2 SKR may still be waiting in your Seed Vault Wallet.

Round 2 allocated 27M SKR to participants. Allocations were split across three tiers, with an additional bonus for some of the most active participants in the highest tier. Claims opened on July 30 with a 30-day claim window.

If you completed Round 2, open Seed Vault Wallet, enter the Activity Tracking tab, select Check Available Allocations, and claim any SKR assigned to you. Once claimed, you can hold it or stake it.

Round 2 sent Seekers through four different apps. Moonwalk Fitness turned daily movement into a Solo game. GCATS asked players to survive through Wave 15. Cube Crush made Agency Rank 5 the target, while Gable Guardians sent players to mint a Gargoyle cNFT, reach Level 3, and activate item drops. The Round 2 lineup offered eight badges before closing July 28.

The opening round featured TokenRunApp, loyal, DOLERO, and Slimecoin, followed by 25M SKR in claims. Across the first two rounds, Seeker Summer has allocated a combined 52M SKR. After Round 1, more than half of the allocated SKR was staked.

Building for the Solana Mobile ecosystem

Seeker continues to be a boon for founders trying to bootstrap distribution: During Round 2, Cube Crush passed 19,000 players. Earlier in the campaign, Slimecoin added 8,661 users who played 150,000 matches and generated $65,000 in cash-game volume over ten days.

Outside of Seeker Summer, memebook added more than 500 users shortly after appearing in a Solana dApp Store Spotlight.

What are you waiting for? The best time to start building was yesterday, the second best time is now. Here’s some ways you can get started: 

Solana Blitz v6, presented by MagicBlock in partnership with Solana Mobile and blueshift, selected its winners from 41 mobile apps.

Builders had another opportunity to build with NoahAI Nitro 01, a gaming hackathon powered by Solana Gaming that ran from August 7–12. Its mobile-focused tracks cover onchain game mechanics, Solana Mobile-native experiences, tournaments, quests, rewards, and player identity.

You do not need to begin inside a traditional development environment, either. NoahAI offers a free workflow for creating an initial Solana dApp and developing it into a full-stack app with a live Solana program.

Beeman shared a video walkthrough covering the setup of Android development tools for Solana Mobile apps, and there’s even more coming to our YouTube. 

Building for the Solana Mobile ecosystem? Start with the developer docs or apply for a Builder Grant.

Seeker in the Community: Summer Edition ☀️

Seeker Summer has gone far beyond the dApp Store. 

Big shoutout to SP3nd, who made it so that you can spend SKR to buy goods anywhere on the internet 🤯

Moonwalk Fitness quests travelled through everyday routes and onto the streets of Paris with Jack Russell. Across three weeks, Cooper documented his journey on completing the quests. Inno’s weekly Seeker recap continued to bring the latest quests, rewards, apps, and community activity together in one place.

Other community members documented the quests in several languages 🌍. Sasami published a Japanese walkthrough of Astrolab Builder’s Game Terminal. 0xFEI created a Chinese-language guide, while CryptoJar published an English walkthrough. ArtDYOR published a Pumpville Seeker Summer quest-completion guide.

Since joining the ecosystem last September, AlexKosa1 has built a community of more than 400 Seekers. Make sure to give him some love (and a follow, if you’re feeling generous).

The latest episode of Shipped by SolanaFloor featured Beeman, WhiskyTitan, and Inno breaking down apps, rewards, and strategies for Seeker power users. 🎙️

Invite a friend to join us this Summer

Still looking for a Seeker or know a friend who is lacking a Solana phone in their life? Through Seeker Summer until August 30, use code CARDS20 at checkout for 20% off and a free $50 Collector Crypt gacha spin when paying with SKR or stablecoins through Solana Pay. Get yours fast, because it’s limited to the first 5,000 purchases.

Your Seeker has been a treasure map, a fitness partner, a wallet, a survival arena, a mining app, a trading desk, and an arcade. There is still more summer ahead.

As always, remember: Seek and you will find 🫡