gm Solana Developooooors! Technical news, updates, content, code and job opportunities for Solana developers 🧑🏽💻
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Introducing Confidential Balances Token Extensions 🛡️
Confidential Balances are now live on Solana mainnet — the first ZK-powered encrypted token standard built for institutional compliance without sacrificing sub-second finality.
Everything devs need to know 🧵
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What are we missing in the @solana ecosystem? Solana is fast and cheap with tons of DeFi and NFT projects. What else needs built? Gm
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So you're new to @solana development and looking to get into it? Check out these courses to help kick-start that journey!
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Did you know that there is an EVM on @Solana?
@neonlabsorg is “is a fully Ethereum-compatible environment on Solana”. Currently live on dev net, and planned for mainnet next month! Deploy your solidity apps on Solana mainnet, soon 🫡
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Introducing Solana Devs Tour: India 🇮🇳
- In-person technical workshops
- Connect and co–work with ecosystem developers
- 21 cities in India from Feb. 13th to Mar. 28th
Sign up now 👇
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Solana devs: help us break Kora and make it better.
Kora eliminates the SOL requirement for Solana transactions, so your users can pay with any token.
Fee abstraction for Solana via JSON-RPC + SDK.
Try it, file an issue, share all feedback below 👇
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New Year, New Skills 🎉 Dive into Solana development with one of our January crash courses! RSVP through the event pages in thread 🧵🗓️
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Cheers to all you @solana devs out there. This one is for you.
Some smart people tell me there is an earnest smart developer community in Solana, and now that the awful opportunistic money people have been washed out, the chain has a bright future.
Hard for me to tell from outside, but I hope the community gets its fair chance to thrive🦾🦾
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gm solana developoooooors ⚓️⚓️⚓️
new Anchor framework docs just dropped: anchor-lang.com
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The transaction-wide compute cap feature is being activated on Monday
What does this mean?
TLDR:
Default compute budget increased to 1.4m compute on a transaction
Compute is capped transaction-wide instead of per instruction
Let's dive in 👇
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Coinbase's x402 now supports Solana 🤖
TLDR? AI Agents can go online and purchase services using USDC on Solana.
☑️ No sign-ups needed
☑️ Universally accepted (uses HTTP)
☑️ <1 second payments
PR merged! 🎉
x402 + Solana = AI GOD MODE
Big thanks @ngundotra @carsonroscoe7 @programmer 🙌🚀
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1/ Tracking activity on @Solana is different than other chains. In Nov. there were:
- 2053 total active developers on all projects.
- 1654 of those are working projects solely focused on Solana.
Don't compare apples to oranges. Read how we measure data: solana.com/news/measuring-de…
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PSA for Solana x AI developoooors 🤖💻
The Solana MCP server implementation is now open source!
Run it, fork it, vibe code with it 👇
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The first group of projects is now available for the @freeCodeCamp Solana Course! Check it out!
web3.freecodecamp.org/solana
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gm developoooors, ready to take your Rust and Solana skills to the next level?
- 100% free course for Solana developers
- 9 weeks
- Fully online
Apply for @AckeeBlockchain's School of Solana by October 13th 👇
Get ready for School of Solana Season 6
Take your technical skills to the next level and get certified in the Rust language and Solana
Season 6 is
• 100% free, 9 weeks, online & in English
• Starting on Oct 16 & supported by @SolanaFndn
Apply👇
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1/ Building in web3 just keeps getting better for student builders.
Introducing Solana U, a new program aimed at equipping university students with tools to connect to the Solana ecosystem, learn Rust, and launch new projects.
Learn more 🧵solana.com/news/introducing-…
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Big news for web3 developers in France! 🇫🇷🛠️
@alyraBlockchain is offering a 100% free, application-only 8 week training course to dive into Solana development, Rust, and the Solana Virtual Machine.
📅June 3 - July 28
Learn more and apply by May 30th👇
alyra.fr/formations/developp…
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Secret's Confidental Computing Layer is now integrated with Solana!
Use-cases include:
- Private DeFi protocols
- Confidential NFT ownership and verification
- Encrypted messaging apps
Developers can get started building and learn more below 👇
We’re excited to announce the integration of Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer with @solana, a blockchain built for mass adoption.
Learn more 👇
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gm to everyone, especially to all the brand new, glass eating @solana buildoooooors!
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gm devs. tired of conferences where "technical" means a surface-level Solana overview?
This is different.
At Scale or Die from May 19-20th in NYC, you'll work alongside the engineers maintaining and improving the core Solana protocol. Dive deep into code. Optimize cryptographic primitives. Push TPS beyond what's possible today.
You'll learn to address infrastructure challenges that matter. No business talks. No panels on "the future of web3."
Just you, your laptop, and the hardest technical problems in blockchain. Access by application-only. Apply below.
IBRL. See you in NYC 🫡
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Are you new to Solana or web3 and want to level up your coding skills?
Introducing the new Solana Bootcamp!
In just one week: learn the basics, build your first program, and become a developer on Solana.
Get started today: piped.video/watch?v=0P8JeL3T…
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There has never been a better time to build for mobile.
Check out this mega-thread of developer resources to start building crypto apps for @solanamobile 📱🧵
1/ Solana Mobile Developer Resources
Developers have all the tools necessary to start building mobile crypto apps for the dApp Store today.
Let's go over the Solana Mobile SDKs and development resources 🧵 👇
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Reminder: anyone with an internet connection can start building on Solana 🤠
The Solana Developer Bootcamp is 100% free, beginner-friendly, and gets you shipping smart contracts in minutes.
Start here 👇
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SCALE OR DIE
A Solana event for devs and engineers accelerating the infrastructure layer. Application only access. May 19-20, NYC.
7 Tracks:
— Research
— Applications
— Security & Privacy
— Core Protocol
— Developer Experience
— Infrastructure
IBRL. More info and apply👇
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Big news for even greater dev experience on Solana!
Released VSCode extension for Solana Playground!
Supports building and deploying programs(Native, Anchor, Seahorse), sharing code, wallet support and program snippets.
And all this without relying on any other program, shouldn't have any issues on Windows!
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Builders: Confidential Balances Token Extensions just landed on Solana!
Now you can build private, auditable payroll systems, institutional transfer tools, merchant payment solutions, and privacy-preserving consumer apps — all with Solana's speed.
More from Quicknode 👇
🛡️ Confidentiality just leveled up on @Solana
Confidential Token Extensions are now live on mainnet — enabling encrypted balances, private transfers, and institutional-grade compliance.
Here’s what you need to know 🧵👇
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1 week. $100k+ in prizes.
Submissions due 11/11, sign up today, new bounties in thread 👇
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gm developoooors, ready to take your Rust and Solana skills to the next level?
- 100% free course for Solana developers
- 9 weeks starting July 2025
- Fully online
Apply for Ackee's School of Solana now 👇
The program that built @Solana's most respected developers is back.
School of Solana Season 7 applications are now open.
Supported by @SolanaFndn & @Solana_Devs.
Application form below. Thread ↓
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Project submissions for the Solana x402 Hackathon are now open!
Deadline for submissions will be 11:59PM EST on 11/11.
Enter now for a chance to win $100k+ in prizes
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The Solana community governance process has begun for SIMD 326: Alpenglow 🌄
Alpenglow is a new Solana consensus protocol that aims to bring transaction finality down to 100-150ms
Join @TheWattenhofer on August 27 at 6PM UTC on r/solana for an AMA on all things Alpenglow
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1/ Did somebody say “digestible coding tutorials for building on @Solana, for beginners and experienced devs alike?"
Introducing 👾 Solana Bytes 👾 from @SolanaFndn Dev Relations.
Here’s what’s in the first batch 🧵👇
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New dataset available for devs 🤖🤖🤖
🌟 𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗢-𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗟-𝗗𝗦-𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧 🌟
Presenting to you, Solana's largest ever open-source AI Dataset: Lumo-Novel-DS-Instruct - curated by Lumo.
- Datasources: 19+ authoritative references
- Total QA Pairs: 95,127 (3.3x over predecessor)
- Precision Improvement: 7.2x over predecessor
- QA developed by category/information based chunking mechanism
LINK: huggingface.co/datasets/lumo…
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Vibe Code [Solana] Game Jam 🎮
The Solana Foundation is offering $6k in prizes for the top 3 Solana games submitted to @levelsio's Game Jam.
1️⃣ Vibe Code
2️⃣ Submit to levels' competition by March 25
3️⃣ Post your game on X and submit using the form below
happy coding!
I'm organizing the
🌟 2025 Vibe Coding Game Jam
Deadline to enter: 25 March 2025, so you have 7 days
- anyone can enter with their game
- at least 80% code has to be written by AI
- game has to be accessible on web without any login or signup and free-to-play (preferrably its own domain or subdomain)
- game has to be multiplayer by default
- can use any engine but usually ThreeJS is recommended
- NO loading screens and heavy downloads (!!!) has to be almost instantly in the game (except maybe ask username if you want)
The jury: me, and I will ask some real game dev people to jury too
Gold, silver and bronze winners will be tweeted out and if companies want to sponsor prizes that works too
General sponsors welcome to, just DM me!
I hope this will help give the best vibe coded games more distribution!
I'll add a form to enter your game below this tweet
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Pretty wild how quickly the @Solana developer ecosystem has grown in the last 1.5ish years. Big thanks to the buildooooors buildoooooring every day.
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Solana Devs: OpenZeppelin just open-sourced Solana Relayers in alpha!
With Solana Relayers, you can:
— Accept any token for fees in your app
— Sponsor transactions for users (no SOL needed)
— Integrate with key management services for fee payment
Start experimenting 🧵
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Solana Foundation DevRel is headed to @ethereumdenver, and we're not just there for the altitude🏔️
Join us this week to connect on all things Solana! Sign up and check out meetups below👇
All things Solana are coming to @EthereumDenver this week! Let’s connect, learn, and collaborate on all things blockchain 🤝
Register for sessions and meet-ups in thread 👇
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SIMD-370 proposes to remove the compute unit block limit completely.
This means validators are incentivized to pack as many transactions as they can into a block, while developers can do more on the network.
Read more 👇
1/ SIMD-0370, by Jump’s Firedancer team, proposes removing Solana’s fixed compute unit block limit after Alpenglow. This would eliminate static caps on block limits and have validators skip blocks they can’t process in time. Here’s what changes 🧵
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Agave, the Solana validator client developed by the team at Anza, is getting a major upgrade in v3.0.
This release brings big performance boosts, long-awaited protocol improvements, and some breaking changes.
Here is what’s new and why it matters, a guest thread by @anza_xyz 🧵
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gm buildoooooors! what would you say if I told you there was a framework for writing smart contracts on @solana in Python? The framework is built on top of @anchorlang and generates the Rust code for you. Check out @seahorse_lang for more info!
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1/ Introducing: Token extensions on Solana ⚒️🪙
13 advanced configurable extensions expanding the SPL token standard, such as:
👉Transfer hooks
👉Transfer fees
👉Confidential transfers
Empowering developers to build quickly with a new design space🧑💻
solana.com/news/token-extens…🧵
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Are you a Solana developer?
Make sure you add your Solana repos to the Electric Capital dataset! The deadline is tomorrow!
1. Ctrl + f your repo on raw.githubusercontent.com/el…
2. If it is not there, pr to add your repo github.com/electric-capital/…
Make sure your repos count!
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gm devs. Over the course of the last year there has been a large increase in content and tooling to improve the developer experience. But what’s missing that would greatly improve the developer experience, especially for new developers?
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Solana is nothing without its builders.
That’s why we’re hosting Scale or Die on May 19-20 in NYC — an event for devs & technical researchers scaling Solana's infrastructure to meet global demand for blockspace.
Access by application-only.
Apply: solana.com/accelerate#ticket…
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Solana Attestation Service ships with easy-to-use TypeScript & Rust clients (codama-generated for seamless compatibility with Solana Kit and Solana-SDK) 🔐
Technical guides for both are now live.
Start building apps that can securely verify KYC, reputation, and more 👇
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Want to learn how to build with x402?
We're live now, come join us 👇
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SolanaPay developers will bring adoption to global crypto payments, the ultimate use case that has yet to be unlocked. It’s coming… Are you going to be part of it?
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Next year is going to be huge for global expansion of @solana developers. @hackerhouses is going back on the road with stops in Turkey, Australia, Vietnam, Austin Texas, Taiwan, New York, Israel and India. Sign up today! Let's get it!
solana.com/events
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Get ready for the live kick-off for @_buildspace Solana Core! Become a Solana Legend today!
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Want to build on @Solana? Don't know where to get started?
The @MLHacks Fall Fellowship is looking for 34 future developers.
Contribute to a Solana ecosystem project, earn a stipend, and get access to job opportunities network-wide.
Apply by Sept 9th: hackp.ac/ZmRbr5
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The Solana Agent Kit by @sendaifun has arrived — an open-source toolkit to easily build AI agents that can trade and interact autonomously on Solana.
15 protocol integrations ready to use. Get started below!
Introducing the Solana Agent Kit –– an open-source toolkit for connecting AI agents to @solana.
Now, any agent, using any model –– can autonomously perform 15+ Solana Actions — like trade, launch tokens, lend, zk airdrop, execute blinks, and launch on AMM.
More 🧵
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All things Solana are coming to @EthereumDenver this week! Let’s connect, learn, and collaborate on all things blockchain 🤝
Register for sessions and meet-ups in thread 👇
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Who is joining us in leaving their parents basement, getting on an airplane and flying to Miami for some awkward social dev interactions with live DJs where no one dances?
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Need fast answers?
We’ve added AI chat support and unified search to the Solana Developer Docs powered by @inkeep — find what you need instantly.
Get real-time answers to your questions and build faster. Live now!
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Submissions for the Solana x402 Hackathon are due tonight!
Get your submissions in by 11:59pm EST.
Over $100k+ in bounties are up for grabs, make sure you submit your project 👇
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"Transfer hooks essentially give unlimited potential on what developers can create now for holders" -@raulriera 👻
@Phantom recently added native support for token extensions on Solana — hear from @bfriel_ & @raulriera on their approach & reasoning👇 solana.com/news/developer-sp…
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1/ gm @solana devs!
Blockchain 🤝Hardware
We built a new example which shows you how you can use Solana transaction requests to control a Raspberry Pi.
Here is how it works👇
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A look back at @EthereumDenver earlier this month👀
Thank you to all the devs who joined — it was great connecting about all things blockchain & Solana 🤝
Find an event near you: solana.com/events
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gm developoooooooors! New @_buildspace x @solana landing page just dropped. Complete with 3 weekend hacker projects (dApps, Payments, NFTs) and the Solana Core Master Course!
buildspace.so/solana
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Activation for transaction-wide compute cap feature will commence shortly and will be active at the epoch boundary in ~7.5 hours.
The transaction-wide compute cap feature is being activated on Monday
What does this mean?
TLDR:
Default compute budget increased to 1.4m compute on a transaction
Compute is capped transaction-wide instead of per instruction
Let's dive in 👇
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Join us for advanced EVM to SVM developer workshop livestreams next week with @decentra1ized_ 💻
We'll cover:
- Solana vs. Ethereum smart contracts
- Creating a Solana program
- System level differences
Feb. 3rd and 7th — sign ups below 👇
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8 week dev fellowship open to anyone with an internet connection 💻
Your time to build on Solana is now -- what are you waiting for?
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Day 1 of the Solana developer bootcamp is starting virtually in 10 minutes!
Join us live to learn how to build on Solana 👇
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P-Token is on its way to getting out the door.
Work left:
1. Formal Verification completion
2. Potential validator vote on SIMD 266
3. SIMD 266 acceptance
4. P-Token feature in a deployed cluster
5. P-Token activation
IBRL
1/ SIMD-0266: Efficient Token Program, authored by @0x_febo, propose replacing the current SPL token program with a new compute optimized version called p-token. The upgrade will reduce Token program CU usage by up to 98%. Here’s how it works 🧵
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BIG: Crossmint just launched a new wallet SDK — built from scratch for stablecoins, fintech, and scale.
- Solana support baked in
- Easy wallet creation
- Gas sponsorship, bridging, staking in 1 line
- No vendor lock-in
10K free wallets for the next 48 hours 👇
Wallet infra is broken.
Today we’re launching a new standard for wallet SDKs, built from the ground up for stablecoins and fintech.
No blockchain experience needed. No vendor lock-in. First-in-class features included.
Get 10K free wallets for the next 48 hours 👇
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Meet gill — a new javascript/typescript client for Solana devs 🐟🐟🐟
introducing gill: the new javascript/typescript client library to interact with the @solana blockchain
- fully compatible with web3js v2
- tree shakable
- lightweight
- and numerous quality of life improvements for devs
lets dive in 👇
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한국의 개발자분들, 안녕하세요! ☀️
We’re grateful for the opportunity to support Open Source Summit Korea as a Gold Sponsor on November 4–5 in Seoul.
Please join our booth and our Korean-language session, “Code, Community, & Commerce: The Future of Payments with Solana’s Open-Source Ecosystem.”
We look forward to meeting more developers and contributing to the growth of the open-source community.
More info 👇
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Curious how the high performance, parallelized Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) works under the hood? ⛓️
Some Sunday reading from @realbuffalojoe dives deep into the Agave codebase from @anza_xyz.
Dive in👇
Here's a paper on how Agave's runtime works.
It's by no means exhaustive, but it uses real code permalinks and snippets to do its very best to explain what's happening in all of that source.
Enjoy. 👽 🌵
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The biggest startup competition in crypto is so back.
Time to lock-in
Introducing the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon, powered by @Colosseum!
🌏An online, global Solana hackathon
🏁Product submissions due by October 30, 2025
🏆Colosseum’s fund to invest $2.5 million in winners
Join crypto’s biggest startup competition: colosseum.com/cypherpunk
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The Accelerate Scale or Die agenda is here -- one click add any talk to your calendar 🗽🇺🇸
See you tomorrow!
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We're one day away from @helium migrating to @solana 🎈
Once Helium is migrated, what can you build on Solana with it?
@redacted_noah and @nickfrosty chat about this and more 👇
piped.video/etgj_QwbvKI
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Come learn how you can level up your game with @solana at #GDC2024! 👾
Talks kick off tomorrow through Wednesday with builders from:
- @magicblock
- @PlayHoneyland
- @solanalabs
- @SolanaFndn
- @BuddyLinkApp
- @LadderCaster
- @makegamesfast
RSVP: lu.ma/bz1ckign
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Solana devs, it’s time to build🎨
The Solana Renaissance Hackathon powered by @ColosseumOrg officially kicks off March 4th!
Learn more, find cofounders, and register to build the next breakout web3 startup👇
1/ Announcing the Solana Renaissance Hackathon, powered by @ColosseumOrg! 🎨
🌍 An online, global Solana hackathon
🏁 Running March 4 - April 8
🏆 Prizes & pre-seed funding up for grabs
Learn more & register today: colosseum.org/renaissance
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Last week 1.17 reached supermajority on mainnet-beta
This release included many changes such as:
- Gossip push improvements
- TPU Connection cache improvements
Read about the release 👇
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The core community call is happening today!
Join us at 18:00 UTC as we discuss Light Clients on Solana
Full join instructions as well as future agendas 👇
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Interested in how to build with x402?
Join us tomorrow to learn about x402 and build on Solana for the x402 hackathon
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The Solana DePIN Playbook just got a makeover and walks through:
- What to use blockchain for in your DePIN
- How to structure rewards distributions
- Compressed accounts to slash costs by 50%+
- Proof‑of‑Contribution consensus without full‑data persistence
Start building 👇
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want to try to break Firedancer and get paid while doing it? 🔥💃
Up to $1M in bounties are up for grabs to better secure the in-development Solana validator client.
immunefi.com/boost/firedance…
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APP SZN.
Ship Solana mobile apps in minutes with @solanaappkit
📱solanaappkit.com📱
Introducing the @solanaappkit by SEND ecosystem 📱
An open-source React Native kit to build iOS and Android mobile apps on Solana in ~15 minutes
Ft. 18+ protocol integrations 🧵
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Today the ExtendProgram feature was activated on Mainnet!
What does this mean?
Previously you were unable to increase your program's size after the initial program. Now you can! 🎉🎉🎉
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Alpenglow was announced earlier this year as the evolution of Solana's consensus model.
The mechanisms are still being discussed and decided.
Follow along with the latest update 👇
1/ SIMD-0337 introduces block markers, paving the way for Fast Leader Handover in Alpenglow. This enables leaders to optimistically build blocks on tentative parents, minimizing delay by changing leaders. Block production starts ~120ms earlier, improving IBRL by ~7.5% 🧵
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Voting has now kicked off for SIMD 326: Alpenglow, a new consensus protocol for Solana 🌄
Join @TheWattenhofer for a Reddit AMA in 10 minutes today August 27th on r/solana related to all things Alpenglow!
Drop your questions below 👇
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Ready to get started building on Solana? 🛠️🦀
The 100% free, 6 week Solana Bootcamp by @encodeclub's is coming soon starting June 3rd!
Apply today to level up your Rust and Solana skills👇
encode.club/solana-bootcamp
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Who is excited to see all the new @Solana #RiptideHackathon projects?
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Attest to anything with the Solana Attestation Service (SAS) 🔐
→ attest.solana.com ←
Start building today 🧵
Introducing the Solana Attestation Service (SAS) 🔐
A new open source, permissionless protocol to attest to anything — the trust layer for internet capital markets.
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