HIP VS solana

I am completly new to the Blockchain and Helium world (and reddit as well), but the idea about a decentralized mobile network fascinates me and I would love to get into it. I did some reading in the Helium Documentation and HIP-51 and HIP-53, but still have many questions.

🎙️ICYMI, the Foundation will facilitate a fruitful discussion about the future of the Maker Program, MCC, and other details in HIP 99 during 2 live forums on Wednesday, December 6, 2023.

Hey everybody, remember when people were pissed because of the HIP 83 that severely narrowed the chances of many hotspots to be chosen for witness rewards allocation? Behold! Here is the HIP 94 mainly developed by one nice guy from GitHub (disk91) in order to fix these ridiculous changes, which always benefit the same pool of hotspots and requires response rate that is completely unjustified for the LoRaWAN usecase and is more suitable for online FPS or Moba gaming. I am not affiliated with the proposal but have been following the discussion/criticism of the HIP 83 since June or so. Many thanks to disk91 for spending his time and presenting the proposal. Just wanted to notify you guys so you could stay aware and support the HIP when the time comes.

The true source is here https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0051-helium-dao.md

Solana (9700 GitHub Stars) https://github.com/solana-labs/solana

EIP Core standards: Changes to Solana’s core code go through “feature gates” in the Solana repo. Yes, it’s much less organized than the EIP pages you are used to, and a headache to understand or keep up with. A cost of the speed of development, I’m told.

I visited the project on github (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana), and tried to get an overview of the ~800 open issues and ~100 open PRs.

Solana

With the introduction of new and advanced blockchain platforms in the Web 3.0 scene, the narrative around Ethereum has slowly shifted towards its younger “Ethereum Alternatives”. Solana, Avalanche, and MultiversX (former Elrond) are some of the crypto blockchains that are given this terminology, as they share similar features but are comparatively cheaper and better than Ethereum.

I understand this initiative is connected with Solana network [1] in some way?

[1] https://solana.com/

They do, actually: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/security/policy

Not sure I understand your question, but if you want the source code you can find it on github (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana)

Some topics that may be discussed in the next call include @ShinobiSystems Timely Vote Credits proposal (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/master/docs/src/proposals/timely-vote-credits.md), @elusivprivacy new built-in cryptographic operations to accelerate ZK verification (for privacy tech), and feature activation coordination standards.