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The Promise of Solana and Other Top Layer 1 Blockchains “Solana is shaking up the crypto market with a new blockchain architecture that is designed from the ground up to try to address many of the traditional weaknesses in Bitcoin and Ethereum by making vast improvements in the areas of transactional speed, number of possibleRead more

Put simply, a blockchain’s ecosystem is a network of participants/decentralized application (dApps) in a blockchain that share business objectives and processes. Some would consider the network structure is also considered to be part of the ecosystem, but for the limited purpose of this article, we will not be delving into that aspect. What differentiates SolanaRead more

Recent Solana Spotlight Blogs Solana Mobile: The alpha on SMS with its lead engineer | Image credit: Solana.com Solana: Monthly Community Update | July 2022 “I’ve been doing software engineering for almost 20 years now,” says Steven Laver. “And in that time, I’ve worked on a lot of mobile devices and consumer electronics. But it’s been aRead more

Since the creation of Bitcoin in 2009, more than 10,000 active cryptocurrencies have been created as of 2022, and all of them utilizing blockchain technology as the foundation to enable transactions to happen. Bitcoin utilizes a blockchain architecture called Proof of Work (PoW), with most later coins using Proof of Stake (PoS). Both are relativelyRead more

A real life physical store of Solana is opening a store in New York City! Take a look at Fortune.com‘s article about it below.  *** In the expansive world of Web3, there isn’t much use for anything IRL, right? Wrong. Just ask the team behind Solana, which is opening a permanent physical retail space dedicatedRead more

Here’s a detailed research report of what’s on Solana for Q2. Originally published on Messari.io. Key Insights While ecosystem growth strategies continued to catalyze Solana network adoption, challenges regarding network reliability persisted during Q2. Core developers focused on network updates and building out QUIC and a novel fee prioritization mechanism to improve the network’s reliability.Read more

I believe that the most powerful thing about crypto is the proliferation of public/private key cryptography for normal, everyday people. For over a decade, the most powerful self-custody experiences in crypto – the ones where users are signing transactions as easily and often as they can send emails – have been stuck on desktop. AfterRead more

Solana Mobile: The alpha on SMS with its lead engineer “I’ve been doing software engineering for almost 20 years now,” says Steven Laver. “And in that time, I’ve worked on a lot of mobile devices and consumer electronics. But it’s been a long time since I was this excited about building something like the SolanaRead more