Dan Albert
@DanPaul000
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Executive Director & Village Elder @SolanaFndn. Try new things, be kind to people.
Joined February 2009
End of an era. Nearly six years ago, @trentdotsol and I were sitting in @garious14 's basement ordering computer parts on Newegg to hand-build the first metal validators for Solana. Mainnet was still a ways away, hardware and network requirements were unknown, docs, tools and
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Just witness a packed standing-room-only group of 200 or so @solana validators enraptured by a live build @jump_firedancer demo. Attention locked watching the compilation fly by on the CLI. Audible gasps when they unveiled the validator monitor GUI. You all have no idea what’s.
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Is #Solana decentralized?. Solana Mainnet TODAY has. - 2,849 full validating nodes (block producing + RPCs). - 1,967 block producers. - Running in 297 distinct locations . - In over 40 different countries. - Nakamoto coefficient (a measure of stake distribution) of 31. -.
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There are currently 409 open jobs listed on 405 of these are in the ecosystem, 4 of these are at @SolanaFndn. 100x ratio of ecosystem growth/hiring to Foundation's internal growth is amazing! Let's keep building together and get this to 1,000x!.
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To the builder who was sitting on the sidewalk at 1030p last night, laptop out, still coding, after shutting down the @solana #HackerHouseMiami: we are here for you. You are the ones we do all this for.
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Nice touch on the @solanamobile Saga charging cord. A physical switch that disconnects the data wires and allows for charging mode only. Excellent security posture when charging at public/unknown usb ports!
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Today marks my 5 year anniversary working on @solana. To say it's been a heck of a ride would be a massive understatement. It's been an honor and a privilege to be surrounded by so many brilliant, ambitious and creative people along for the ride. Thank you for all you do!.
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Shared this story with the @SolanaFndn team recently…4 years ago almost to the day we were hand building and hand racking the very first metal #Solana validators. 1 team, 1 data center, 1 abused Newegg account. How much we’ve grown in such a short time never ceases to amaze me.
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Had a blast connecting with the @solana Ukrainian community in Kyiv at Ukraine Blockchain Week!
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Every single @solana dev in the world - Summer 2019. Time has flown by and I am continually blown away and humbled at how this project and everyone who contributes to it has grown, evolved and matured, through great times and awful times and every grinding day in between.
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With the @solanamobile Trust Zone, Android cannot screenshot your seed phrase when it’s on screen, nor can it capture touch events on your screen when entering a seed or unlock PIN. This makes the @solana Saga as secure as a hardware wallet, with the UX of mobile
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Hi @solana community! There’s been some questions about some recent changes to the way some wallets are displaying SPL Token addresses. Most wallets in the Solana ecosystem now display a single deposit/receive address per wallet account for all SPL Tokens.
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I am eternally grateful to the entire @solana community right now for sticking together during an incredibly challenging time. We will get through this and we are going to come back so much stronger. You are friggin' champs, every one of you.
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1/4 Hey @solana validators, voting is live for SIMD-228 and SIMD-123. Make your position known and help govern the network!. Voting remains open until the end of epoch 755, approximately 3.5 days from now. Links with voting instructions below 👇.
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Did you know that some of the top data centers in the world are offering @solana validator/RPC-quality bare metal servers to our community of node operators? . Check out for info.
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Solana has been called many things over the years. Complacent has never been one of them, and we won’t start now. Faster.
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Kevin Bowers from @jump_firedancer giving a chip architecture overview and Firedancer update to an absolutely PACKED standing room only talk at @SolanaConf
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#Solana network will soon have more RPC nodes on the network than consensus validators. The validators can handle tons more network usage, but good dapp UX requires quality RPC services to tap into the network's true speed and capacity.
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.@solana validators, did you know there are major data center companies that are explicitly *friendly* towards running your nodes there? @SolanaFndn has worked with some of the biggest operators in the world to help them understand the unique needs of our network and community.
Cloud storage provider @Hetzner_Online inexplicably announces a ban on all Ethereum infrastructure and abruptly affecting 16% of all ETH nodes on Reddit of all places. We must find decentralized alternatives if legacy providers are going to deplatform web3. Who is building this?
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Solana is for everyone. On good days, on bad days and on weird stupid days.
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End users don't care about transactions-per-second. They care about seconds-per-transaction.
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Solana is more than a blockchain, @solana is a tech platform where people are building real end-user applications. What are the best tools today that enable unique products? ex. IoT/location by Helium, payment APIs by Tiplink, etc. Let's make product tools more discoverable!.
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In 2018, my then-manager at Qualcomm, @garious14 left the company to cofound some obscure sounding crypto project. A month later he took me out to lunch for a chat that basically went “I have an old friend, his name is Anatoly and he wrote this white paper for a new blockchain.
as we look back on 5 years of Solana -- share your favorite memory. how OG are you?.
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If you're coming to Singapore for @SolanaConf this week, make sure you download Grab app for ride sharing to get around the city. You can fund your Grab wallet with USDC, USDT and PYUSD stables directly from your @solana wallet!.
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It’s going to be a spicy Breakpoint @SolanaConf ! I’m going head to head w @viktorfischer to debate the future of the very org I’ve served since its inception. Solana Foundation is here to stay, or…congratulations team, you’re all fired!. Let’s find out!
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When I interview candidates applying for ecosystem-facing jobs at Solana Foundation, one of the first questions I ask is what their favorite Solana app/wallet/NFT is. If they don’t have an answer or don’t use the chain, the interview is over.
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Fast, cheap, secure, decentralized, reliable on-chain infrastructure is today's reality on @solana. Focus instead on building world-class applications and products to the masses. On @solana. Today. #OnlyPossibleOnSolana.
Innovation. Scalability. Community. Discover what sets Solana apart. Built on the foundation you created. #OnlyPossibleOnSolana.
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Austin, sir, it's been a pleasure. You've had a great impact on so many projects on Solana over the last few years across your numerous roles - through many ups and downs, victories and late-night crises. Huge appreciation for all your work at the Foundation and I look forward.
Some Personal News:. After four years on the Solana project, I have taken the leap and cofounded @doublezero – a new protocol setting out to solve a problem at the heart of the internet, and at the heart of high performance blockchain: global, base layer connectivity. It's not.
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It is not enough for Solana to be the fastest L1 today or tomorrow. Solana will be the fastest L1 possible. Forever.
THEY ARE LITERALLY SCALING THE INTERNET ITSELF. READ THAT AGAIN . ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING ME NOW THATS FUCKING CRAZY AHHHHH.
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Scale or Die is for deep tech, and those who build it. No shills, no hype, just the real nerd stuff. If you can’t build from source, this is not the event for you. CLI or Die. Ship or Die later the same week is a full scale conference for all our community, showcasing the.
Excited to announce Solana Accelerate: Scale or Die by @SolanaFndn. We're hosting a large developer-focused event May 19 + 20 to bring together devs and researchers and dig deeper on the inner-workings of @Solana. We have some great tracks:.
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Developer resources for @solana are scattered you say? How about an indexed encyclopedia of everything you ever wanted to know to get building?.
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ONE HUNDRED BILLION confirmed state transitions since genesis thankyouverymuch.
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If you didn’t hear Kevin Fucking Bowers on stage at @SolanaConf today complaining that the speed of light was too slow for the kind of performance he wants to squeeze from @jump_firedancer , were you even at Breakpoint?. There is fast. And then there is KFB fast.
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Here’s my dog meme. It’s just my dog. Her name is Opie and she is my copilot.
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We are gathering the best and brightest from around the country and around the world to push innovation forward on Solana's home turf. Join us for Accelerate! I'm so excited I can't sleep.
Chicago’s railroads. Silicon Valley’s garages. New York’s trading floors. American innovation has always been about getting it done, not getting permission. SHIP OR DIE. May 22-23. NYC.
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I hear we have about 4,000 devs signed up for this month's Bengaluru @hackerhouses . Way over venue capacity. We can hang out outside and vibe, fam. I will see each and every one of you there.
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Fun fact - I took my first phone interview for Solana Labs with @rajgokal in 2018 from McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
.@DanPaul000 we need you to do one more Antarctica trip.
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There is only one place to be for the future of Solana, crypto and tech this May. Accelerate!.
3000 of America’s sharpest founders and entrepeneurs are landing in NYC this May 🇺🇸. Not to sightsee — to rebuild how tech, finance, and policy work together. You coming?
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Breakpoint.
Name something that starts with B and we all love it.
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For a global state machine to be universally available, it is so important to be resilient to infrastructure failures. @solana has 1,700 block producers and a total of 2,800 full nodes (block producers + RPCs) spread across 200+ data centers in 40 countries.
Even hyperscalers are subject to long outages. If you don't have a multi cloud / multi region strategy you will eventually get rekt.
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Awesome to see infrastructure adoption at scale to keep making @solana better. Small scrappy dev projects and big enterprises can benefit from the solana stack of tools maturing on top of the blockchain protocol.
Solana works with Google Cloud to enable high-performance use cases with efficiency. Dan Albert from the @SolanaFndn talks about simplifying blockchain data with tools like #BigQuery and BigTable and how they enable developers to move and build faster ↓
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Go spin up your very own Testnet node running @jump_firedancer !!.
@aeyakovenko @solana @DanPaul000 @SolanaFndn Just like that, @DanPaul000 announces 🔥💃 testnet is live!. "Right now, the first version of @jump_firedancer is live on testnet! Well done, Firedancer team, this is a huge step forward, this is a huge step forward for the network, this is a huge step forward for the
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I got debanked by @Chase and deCEXed by @coinbase this year. Kicked off my bank that I’d been a large customer of (checking, savings, investments, safe deposit boxes, multiple credit cards, years of direct deposits) for many years. No explanation, no recourse, no appeal.
Coinbase just locked my account after trying to send $25k USDC . Wasn't @brian_armstrong just talking about debanking??? . Very cool!
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On-chain FX, coming to @solana !.
Solana now has:.🇺🇸USD: USDC, USDT, USDP, UXD, USDH, USDY, ZUSD.🇪🇺EUR: EURC, EUROe.🇯🇵GYEN.🇨🇦QCAD.🇨🇭VCHF.🇹🇷bLira, 🇮🇸ISKT and 🇧🇷BRZ as well (some not that active). Liquidity still not the best for most pairs, but one step closer to on-chain FX! @gizmothegizzer.
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Life update: also moving to NYC next month.
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All time spent attacking other projects and their founders is time you wasted not building for your users. …you do have users, right?.
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Thank you @dmcccrypto for making a welcoming home for the global @solana community here in Dubai!.
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Amazing to see three independent liquid staking solutions go live on @solana on the same day! Congrats and thank you to @SoceanFinance @LidoFinance @gopartyparrot (and to OG already-live @MarinadeFinance) for helping keep #Solana secure and censorship resistant.
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Was excited to see @hosseeb moderate a panel of different L1 founders at @token2049 . To consider the scope and future of blockchain industry, really disappointed by the opening question “complete this sentence: my blockchain is like Ethereum, but…”. Ethereum has been a
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Hard to follow all the fast moving changes in the #Solana codebase! Here's a great weekly roundup of the latest highlights.
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More people have 1Gbps fiber internet to their home than have ever heard of a raspberry pi. Do with this what you will.
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Token extensions (formerly known as token22/supertoken) bring a step function increase in functionality to what tokens can be and what tokens can do on Solana. Purpose built for businesses with compliance/reporting/permissioned requirements, while getting all the benefits of the.
1/ The future of tokenization is now: Introducing token extensions, ready-to-use advanced token functionality on Solana. Token extensions empower developers to rapidly build customized token experiences & designed to meet business compliance needs.🧵
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Solana Foundation is hiring! Work with cracked devs. Create more cracked devs.
We're looking to scale Solana education 100x this year and are hiring for a new role at @SolanaFndn . You'll get to work alongside the best devs in the ecosystem, educational partners around the world, and the DevRel team. Think you've got what it takes?. Apply today 👇.
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Thanks for hosting @KumekaTeam , and big thank you to all of @solana 's Ukrainian community who came out tonight! 🇺🇦❤️.
Ukrainian Blockchain Week with @DanPaul000, the Executive Director of @SolanaFndn! 🎉🎉😎. Celebrating blockchain in Ukraine!. So, we start!
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IMPORTANT ‼️. Accelerate attendees, the goal of Accelerate 2025 is simple: gather the sharpest minds in tech, finance, and policy to fast-track blockchain adoption in the U.S. Everyone knows someone who should be in crypto — smart, hungry, stuck in a tech or finance job that.
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Breakpoint 2023 is a wrap, and what a success it has been! The @solana community has been through fire and has emerged stronger, more resilient and more vibrant than ever. I cannot wait to see what the next chapter holds. See you next year in Singapore, fam!.
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louder for the people in the back. @drip_haus minted 962,000 compressed NFTs for $107 in fees. Only Possible on @solana.
1/ Over 2.7M compressed NFTs have been minted until now, with the largest collection, representing over a third of all the tokens, none other than @drip_haus Season #2. The 962k cNFTs were minted to 210k wallets, paying a total of 4.8 SOL ($107) in tx fees.
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In a 4d chess reverse rug, @solanamobile is shipping validator nodes to all the Chapter 2 purchasers.
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Launching a blockchain is hard hard hard. When we launched @solana, the critics were loud and the FUD was strong. Still is. Pay attention to those who build, worry not about those who only whine and don’t contribute. Congrats @AptosFoundation @moshaikhs and team!.
It’s exciting to finally bring Aptos to mainnet. Acknowledged that it could have gone better. Building a decentralized protocol from the ground up is tough! Aptos is fortunate to have a fantastic community that's constantly evolving together. Addressing some concerns below:.
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As the #solana network grows and evolves, the needs and goals of the developers who contribute to the protocol’s advancement change as well. @SolanaFndn is spinning up a community effort to fully specify the @solana protocol, and formalize an improvement/implementation process.
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By design, without a backlog of txns in a mempool and with continuous txn forwarding and parallel processing, @solana is less a traditional blockchain and more of a steaming transaction processing network. “Blocks” are just agreed upon checkpoints in the ordered txn history.
NEW: $77.8B AUM INVESTMENT MANAGER @vaneck_us ACKNOWLEDGES THAT @solana ENABLES QUICKER FEEDBACK TO THE USER THAN MOST OTHER CHAINS BECAUSE IT OFFERS CONTINUOUS PROCESSING OF TRANSACTIONS
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We are hiring at @SolanaFndn for a Head of Staking Ecosystem!. Help define and drive best-in-class decentralized staking strategies and tools within the organization and in the @solana ecosystem at large!.
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Massive shoutout to the @solana community in Dubai this week, and your flexibility in dealing with a (sadly) cancelled day 2 of the Hacker House due to insane weather and flooding in the city. Coming soon to a city near you: Underwater Hacker House: Liquidity Crisis.
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I turn 37 tomorrow. While I don’t feel “young” in the way that I was as dumb and reckless as I was in my 20s, I fortunately haven’t lost my physical health or my enthusiasm for the world and its range of experiences. I definitely feel like a wiser, more level headed version of.
The 30s is an interesting decade as you come to recognize your youth is slipping away at the same time that you grow fully into your adult power.
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1 year ago today, I reached the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro. Do fun things. Do hard things. Have awesome weekends.
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Amazing! While human validator operators are all over the world (including some in Africa), it's awesome to see the physical nodes located in ever more geographically distributed locations.
Ending 2023 with a bang 💥 .Solana’s first Validator in Africa 🌍 is up and running from a state of the art facility in sunny Cape Town. Proving the ability to produce blocks in Africa paves the way for growth of Solana on the continent. 👉 Stake with us!
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Thank you so much to @incrypted and @KumekaTeam and the whole Ukrainian crypto and Solana community for making our visit so welcoming and a great Ukrainian Blockchain Week!!!.
Shortly after the main event of Ukrainian Blockchain Week, the Incrypted Conference 2024, we met with Dan Albert (@DanPaul000), Executive Director of the @SolanaFndn , and recorded a big interview 👀🔥:. See the video and text format of the interview in the thread⬇️🧵:
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Are you pumped for the very last presentation of this year’s @SolanaConf Breakpoint? Get over to Left Curve Stage now! I’m debating for the dissolution of @SolanaFndn, the very org I’ve poured my heart and soul into for years.
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Txn landing issues right now really hurts a lot of UX today. I feel your pain. The Anza devs are full-on continuing to improve Solana for all. The kind of traffic loads the network is seeing would have knocked it over a year or two ago. We've come a long way, and have lots.
1/ Here is a preview of the upcoming Agave v1.18 that will be released to mainnet in the next few weeks. It’s an incremental release that paves the way for Agave v2+. While not a silver bullet for current congestion issues, @anza_xyz devs and other core contributors are heads.
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Our job is done, pack it up, victory is neigh.
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2 million daily on-chain transactions on Star Atlas alone! Thanks to @solana 's parallel transaction processing and isolated fee markets, users of all other apps such as payments, DeFi, NFT marketplaces, DePIN, etc, don't notice a thing. Blazing fast confirmations and a smooth.
✨Star Atlas - Daily Transactions Soaring🚀. @StarAtlas SAGE Labs - Day 17 Stats:.🔹15.01% of @Solana's daily txs.🔹17.08% peak of Solana's hourly txs.🔹2.29M daily txs (Oct 8, '23).🔹16.03M total txs (Since Sept 21, '23).🔹1440 daily active players. Source #1:
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Good chain, good people, good tech, good products, good vibes. See you tomorrow fam, let’s close out Breakpoint strong.
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To anyone just now thinking “we’re so back”, let me be very clear:. We. Never. Left.
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Who wants to build an NFT collection that auto-issues to @solana validators that participate in governance? (I'm looking at you, SIMD-96). A non-revokable "I voted!" pin collection showing a validator's historical active engagement in helping direct the network.
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Hey @solana validators!.
First Frankendancer release ready for Solana mainnet. Probably nothing. 👀 . #Breakpoint2024 #Solana.
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Some really insightful analytics from the #Solana community on NFT user growth. Thanks @flipsidecrypto analysts!.
There has been some AWESOME work done by the @flipsidecrypto community leveraging the free to use Solana data to create compelling NFT analysis. Here were some of my favorite things I saw over the past couple weeks. I will be doing another thread on defi bounties soon!. 🧵👇
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Don’t blind sign with a hardware wallet. EVER!. Transparent/clear sign simple transfer txns from your main holding wallet only to a hot/warm/temp wallet. Then do your stuff from there.
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@George_harrap @aeyakovenko We love our @hackerhouses , but to be truly scalable , these ultimately need to be run by our community. @SolanaFndn is here to help and support but @mtnDAO @GrapeAthensDAO and @MetacampDAO have already proven the community can knock this out of the park.
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Backstage at @SolanaConf , listening to @jnwng tell us how we can put all the worlds information on @solana using generalized state compression!
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Calling all security researchers and bug bounty hunters! Help find bugs and exploits in Firedancer, @solana 's newest validator and get rewards!.
New Boost alert! 🚨. @jump_firedancer v0.1 is launching a Boost on Immunefi, kicking off on July 10th!. With up to $1m available in rewards, you’ll want to get involved. Get ready to hunt — and earn big! 🤑 LINK in the tweet below 👇
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Join me now on twitch for an overview workshop on RPC and Validator infrastructure:
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