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Deep Dive: Solana DeFi - June 2024
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Sig Engineering - Part 3 - Solana’s AccountsDB
AccountsDB is Solana’s custom accounts database. This post contains a high-level overview of core concepts and explains the Sig implementation details.
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Deep Dive: Solana NFT Market - May 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana DeFi - May 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana DePIN - May 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana NFT Market - April 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana DeFi - April 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana NFT Market - March 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana NFT Market - February 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana NFT Market - January 2024
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Sig Engineering - Part 2 - Progress on AccountsDB & more
This post is Part 2 of a multi-part blog post series we'll be releasing periodically to outline Sig Validator's engineering updates/milestones. Find Part 1, covering the Gossip Protocol, here.
This blog post details major progress in Sig's journey: we have made significant headway
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Solana NFT Market Report - December 2023
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Solana NFT Market Report - November 2023
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What is an RPC Node?
How RPC Nodes Integrate with DApps on Solana
Blockchain technology has brought about a revolutionary change in the way we handle data and transactions, introducing a new level of decentralization and security. A crucial component of this technology is the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) node. These nodes serve as the
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A Solana Renaissance
Compressed NFTs are Driving Solana Forward
After nearly two years of an NFT market that trended down only, things are finally beginning to look up for Solana.
Collection launches are rising, mint volumes are trending higher, and secondary activity is shifting.
Why?
A new Solana innovation: Compressed NFTs.
To begin,
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DApps on Solana
Why Do Blockchain Developers Choose Solana?
Decentralized applications, or DApps, have become a prominent feature in the blockchain ecosystem. These applications leverage the benefits of blockchain technology, such as transparency, immutability, and security, to provide users with a decentralized and trustless experience. Solana, a high-performance blockchain, offers developers a robust
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What is Solana?
A Highly Scalable & Efficient Blockchain
Solana is an open-source blockchain network that hosts highly scalable decentralized applications (DApps). It was founded in 2018 by Anatoly Yakovenko and others with the goal of addressing the scalability and speed limitations of existing blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Overview of Solana
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The Successful Implementation of Solana's Token-2022 Standard
The Token-2022 standard has garnered attention over the last couple of months as a vital new tool in the Solana program developer’s toolkit. The data shows that Token-2022’s new functionality can successfully incentivize holding. So far, we’ve had a few examples of popular tokens built on the
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Sig Engineering - Part 1 - Solana's Gossip Protocol
This post is Part 1 of a multi-part blog post series we'll be releasing periodically to outline Sig Validator's engineering updates/milestones.
This blog post marks a major milestone completion in Sig's journey: The initial implementation of the gossip protocol. This post will contain
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Introducing Sig by Syndica, an RPS-focused Solana validator client written in Zig
What is Sig?
Sig is an intelligently optimized Solana validator implementation written in Zig, a cutting-edge low-level programming language.
Sig is a step function improvement in RPS
For every ‘write’ sendTransaction RPC call triggered on a node, 25 'read' calls are triggered. According to data covering a 2+
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Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital Co-Leads Investment In Solana-Based Startup Syndica
Syndica, an infrastructure developer company focused on scaling Solana blockchain's ecosystem, raised $8 million in seed funding to build the cloud infrastructure of Web 3.0.
Revealed exclusively to Forbes, the round, co-led by Social Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded by billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya,