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Developer Spotlight: Brave

Meet the First Wave of Speakers for Breakpoint 2024: Visa, Bybit, Circle, Helium, Fireblocks and More

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Solana

Some more Solana changes from Nick & Jonas.

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Solana StackExchange weekly rankings:
 - https://stackexchange.com/leagues/714/week/solana/2024-06-02

SIMD-0153: ZK ElGamal Proof program
 - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/153

Commits:
 - Feature-Gate: Migrate Address Lookup Table program to Core BPF - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1380
 - quic server: disable GSO, reduce reply data allocations 10x - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1647
 - test-validator: Try to reset deployment slot on all cloned accounts - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1706
 - Add option to record transactions to ledger-tool - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/181
 - Validate transaction fee payer earlier - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1529
 - Syscall: `GetEpochStake` - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1152
 - Update requirements.md - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1232
 - rpc: Include interest-bearing configuration for UI amount calculation - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1549
 - Program Test: Add BPF program account helpers - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1614

Resources:
 - Making Vanity Program ID generation faster - https://x.com/cavemanloverboy/status/1800885825715982791
 - Solana/Phaser Template updated - https://x.com/breadheads_nft/status/1800994784749748492
 - Blog post on optimizing Stockpile - https://www.programderived.com/blog/optimizing-stockpile/

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- Jonas:  https://twitter.com/SolPlay_jonas

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DISCLAIMER
The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Changelog - Test validator fix, new Syscall, RPC updates, and more

In this episode, Austin chats with Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet) about the history of markets and the evolution of the math which underpins them. Over the course of their free-form conversation, they cover everything from the ancient history of futures (literally) to the impact of computers on finance in the 80's to the creation of financial products on blockchain that couldn't exist in TradFi. According to Tarun, DeFi will succeed in the long run not by emulating TradFi instruments onchain, but by forging these net new opportunities. 

0:00 - Intro
1:04 - How Tarun got involved in crypto
7:03 - Tarun's days in HFT 
10:02 - Fundamental differences between POS assets and POW assets
13:26 - Innovations in TradFi from the 1960’s to the 2010’s
17:02 - The impact of greater access to computational power on options and futures
19:08 - Impact of post-WW2 property rights on options and futures
21:43 - Computers and finance in the 80’s
24:47 - All models fall short of reality
28:18 - The wildcatters of 2010s web2 tech
32:42 - Onchain properties that change how the math of TradFi works
34:58 - Why DeFi should not try to merely represent TradFi instruments onchain 
43:54 - Why has it taken TradFi players so long to enter crypto?
50:19 - What financial products has crypto created that are not possible in TradFI?
55:10 - The relationship between non-financial and financial metrics
59:09 - Memecoins as an incentivized ranking algorithm
1:04:42 - Crypto as a dis-intermediator


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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

A Crypto Native's History of Markets w/ Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet)

Some more Solana changes from Nick & Jacob.

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Solana StackExchange weekly rankings:
 - https://stackexchange.com/leagues/714/week/solana/2024-05-26

SIMD-0152: Precompiles:
 - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/152/files

Commits:
 - Make borsh optional in sdk and program crates - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1576
 - sdk: fix replace_signatures for variable signer ordering - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1608
 - Solana ping tpu client - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/923
 - Runtime: Core BPF Migration: Add support for upgrading Core BPF programs - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1140
 - Runtime: Core BPF Migration: Explicit upgrade authority checks in migration - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1509
 - Add Compute Budget Crate - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1121
 - refactor: collect rent from account - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1527
 - Extract solana-poseidon crate from solana-program - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/999

Resources:
 - Solana's web3.js - Tech Preview 3 (TP3) - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-web3.js/releases/tag/tp3
 - New web3.js version to include logs! - https://x.com/SolPlay_jonas/status/1798325403892822467

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- Nick: https://twitter.com/nickfrosty
- Jacob:  https://twitter.com/jacobvcreech

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Changelog - Optional Borsh, Precompiles, and new Web3.js

In this episode, Chase chats with Dean, founder of Zeus Network, a framework which allows for the deployment of DApps on Solana for Bitcoin integration.

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Chewing Glass - Dean (Zeus Network)

What a week at Consensus 2024!

PayPal USD is now live on Solana: hear from Solana Foundation Head of Payments and Commerce Sheraz Shere, Edwin Aoki, PayPal CTO of Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies, and Ronak Daya, Head of Product, Tokenization at Paxos, about why they chose to issue PYUSD on Solana.

More on the news and permissionless payments on Solana: 

https://solana.com/news/paypal-pyusd-on-solana


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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Paypal USD on Solana

Some more Solana changes from Nick & Brianna.

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Solana StackExchange weekly rankings:
 - https://stackexchange.com/leagues/714/week/solana/2024-05-19

SIMD-96: Reward full priority fee to validator
 - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/main/proposals/0096-reward-collected-priority-fee-in-entirety.md

Vote for SIMD-96 has been approved by majority vote of validators:
 - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/34731#issuecomment-2134110784

Commits:
 - refactor: reuse calculated fees - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1462
 - [banks-server] fix: Enable CPI tracking by default - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1504
 - Adding a variable sort_results to Rpc config while doing getProgramAccounts - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/629

Resources:
 - Solana Documentaion for Fees udated - https://solana.com/docs/core/fees
 - Guide: Getting started on Solana with Rust experience - https://solana.com/developers/guides/getstarted/rust-to-solana
 - Fibonacci sequence in Solana eBPF assembly - https://github.com/deanmlittle/solana-fibonacci-asm/blob/master/src/fib/fib.s
 - Metaplex's Kinobi now supports generating Anchor types - https://twitter.com/MetaplexStatus/status/1794049052981547073

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- Brianna:  https://twitter.com/b_migliaccio

If you have a resource you've built or anything that improves the Solana Developer experience, please reach out to us!

DISCLAIMER
The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Changelog - Faster getProgramAccounts, SIMD-96 approved, and Anchor types in Kinobi

In this episode, Austin visits Jump Crypto's office in Chicago (The Pit) to talk about Firedancer, Solana's second independent validator client. They discuss its roadmap, its rollout, and the ways in which it will optimize and improve upon the architecture of Solana's existing client. Kevin elaborates on his unconventional views on programming languages, scaling solutions, data flow optimization, and much more. 

0:00 - Firedancer rollout and roadmap 
3:50 - Performance increases moving from Frankendancer to Firedancer
6:20 - Kevin and his team's view on networking stacks
9:30 - How Firedancer improves upon inefficiencies in Solana's existing client
14:08 - Are Kevin's paradigms compatible with configuration differences in decentralized systems?
20:30 - The importance of locality in Firedancer and Kevin's worldview
30:24 - Long-term vision for tile architecture 
38:15 - Frankendancer's transition to mainnet
42:18 - Will the existing Agave client be a limiting scale factor?
47:48 - Status of Firedancer
50:32 - Aspects of building Firedancer that surprised Kevin
53:50 - Kevin's views on the social and philosophical sides of crypto

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Firedancer w/ Kevin Bowers

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana at Consensus 2024

Some more Solana changes from Nick & Jonas.

Subscribe to the newsletter: https://solana.com/newsletter

Solana StackExchange weekly rankings:
 - https://stackexchange.com/leagues/714/week/solana/2024-05-12

SIMD-0084: Disable rent fees collection:
 - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/84

Amend SIMD-0089: Update program upgrade process
 - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/150

Commits:
 - [zk-sdk] Add equality, pubkey validity, and percentage-with-cap instruction data - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1467
 - CHANGELOG: Add breaking change for Borsh 0.9 removal - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1457
 - feat: deserialize new epoch stakes bank snapshot field - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1397
 - CI: Add Anchor v0.30.0 as a downstream target - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1441
 - Feature-Gate: Migrate Config program to Core BPF - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1379
 - Feature-Gate: Migrate Feature Gate program to Core BPF - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1375
 - implement SyscallGetSysvar - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/1307

Resources:
 - Trident - a rust-based framework to fuzz test Solana programs - https://twitter.com/AckeeBlockchain/status/1792631392402018788
 - web3js socket issues proposed fix - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-web3.js/issues/2726
 - Unruggable wallet - https://github.com/hogyzen12/unruggable/tree/main

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/solana_devs

- Nick: https://twitter.com/nickfrosty
- Jonas:  https://twitter.com/SolPlay_jonas

If you have a resource you've built or anything that improves the Solana Developer experience, please reach out to us!

DISCLAIMER
The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

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