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288 | 136 | |
11,842 | 865 | |
4.2% | 3.5% | |
10.0 | 9.4 | |
3 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Rust | Erlang | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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solana
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Projects to contribute to
Solana (9700 GitHub Stars) https://github.com/solana-labs/solana
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DuneAnalytics - A Guide to Solana for Ethereum Analysts
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.
- Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
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Top 10+ Blockchain Networks to look for in 2023
Solana
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Blockchains: Ethereum vs Solana vs Avalanche vs MultiversX (Elrond). What are the differences?
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.
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Solana Foundation just held the first-ever core dev community call with engineering teams from across the ecosystem, here's what was discussed!
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.
- Can Solana defeat the bears? Its development activity suggests….
- Real Question: Is Solana losing developers?
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Recent positives around Solana's network performance and things that I'm looking forward to :)
2) Improved throughput. There are a few different algorithms that have been developed by Jito Labs and Solana Labs to improve the amount of parallelism happening during block packing (when a leader validator builds a block from transactions) and replay (when other validators replay blocks to make sure they're good). Solana validators have super good hardware but we don't even use that many of the cpu threads for actually executing transactions, and the current block space limits (48 million compute units) were conceived for the use of 4 cpu threads (our validator server has 48 cpu threads). The older block packing algorithm was also really bad at handling situations where a certain transaction type was spammed heavily (nft mints for example) and degraded parallelism. Anyway, it seems that these newer replay algorithms are over 2x better than the current implementations -- you can find more about them in the depths of github or discord. Some seem close to production-ready and I think we will see faster confirmation times and increasing of the block compute limits. ABIv2 is another architectural change that will substantially improve throughput as well (afaik) but I know less on this subject. I'm not sure when this will be ready but I've heard that the earlier half of the year is the target https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/27384. There are other upcoming changes to look forward to, but it's probably best to summarize in another post.
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Popular Youtuber (InvestAnswerts) spreading Algo fake news / incorrect metrics / general fudding all while shilling SOL
Lastly, Algorand IS fast: 6k TPS with 3.7s blocks, soon 10k TPS with 2.5s, and in a not-too-distant future 46k TPS, all of which with instant finality. Algorand IS cheap, and actually exactly as cheap as Solana now ($0.00025/txn: https://solana.com/ & https://metrics.algorand.org/#/protocol/), but with the added benefit that all transactions (whether they're NFTs, non-native assets, or using smart-contracts) are handled the same by the protocol, so same speed and same fees as regular payments. Lastly, Algorand IS clean: it's so clean in fact that it's almost carbon-neutral on a regular basis, but really it's carbon negative because fees are automatically used to offset the remaining carbon emissions with ClimateTrade (see this report, even though it doesn’t take into account recent upgrades in scalability and not comparing smart-contract transactions, so Algorand would be first on top in reality: https://arxiv-export1.library.cornell.edu/pdf/2109.03667).
arweave
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How Web3 Decentralization Can Dismantle Big Tech Monopolies in 2024
For example, decentralized data storage projects like Filecoin, Arweave, and Sia posted 50-100% user growth, providing blockchain-powered alternatives to AWS, Google Cloud, and Dropbox for distributed app data security.
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A Million Ways to Die on the Web
There are a few solutions:
https://www.lighthouse.storage/
To me, they seem like the most useful stuff coming out of the blockchain industry.
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POKT Network and DePin
Familiar DePIN initiatives include Helium, a Decentralized Wireless Network from 2019, Filecoin or Arweave for Cloud Storage.
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NFT Payload Storage Options
Arweave is a permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger.
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SKALE Ecosystem Update. Explore the Thriving Ecosystem that is Driving Innovation on SKALE
Arweave
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Publishers Carpet-Bomb IPFS Gateway Operators with DMCA Notices
IPFS isn't the right use case for a dropbox clone. It behaves like a CDN with no persistence guarantees.
Arweave is better suited to archival storage. There are options for participants to ban particular types of content which may be illegal to host in their jurisdiction. This was designed to prevent the spread of CP, terrorism related info, etc. but that means it is also susceptible to DCMA issues too.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Solana Web3 Stack
Arweave is a community owned, decentralized and permanent data storage protocol. You can check it out here.
- Are Ordinals Good or Bad for Bitcoin? Supporters and Opposers Raise Voices
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Can decentralized storage compete with traditional cloud? Analyzing the available decentralized storage options
Arweave
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Does decentralized technology have a place in the future of the internet?
I'd say so yeah, it's basically dot.com 2.0 right now with decentralised technologies. You have gazillion of blockchains, but also distributed data storages like IPFS / Arweave or Secure Multi Party Computation like Nillion. Along with Zero-Knowledge proof stack, it stands to reason you could redo many of the current services (not just payments) in a way which is anonymous and not owned/controlled by a single entity, whether corporate or institutional.
What are some alternatives?
opensea-js - TypeScript SDK for the OpenSea marketplace
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
solana-docker-mac-m1 - Docker config for Mac M1, to support development on Solana
cardano-node - The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.
cosmos-sdk - :chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
mx-chain-go - ⚡ The official implementation of the MultiversX blockchain protocol, written in golang.
trezor-firmware - :lock: Trezor Firmware Monorepo
metaplex - A directory of what the Metaplex Foundation works on!
nano-node - Nano is digital currency. Its ticker is: XNO and its currency symbol is: Ӿ
Zilliqa - Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
mina-vrf-rs
example-helloworld - Hello world on Solana