The mission of this blog is to follow the journey of the Solana Blockchain as we draw near to MainNet launch, through to project adoption and ultimately disrupting industries with the power of a truly scale-able blockchain.

Welcome to the Solana Blockchain Blog

**There has never been a more exciting time in the Solana Ecosystem then now!**

SOL Update: Solana Auction Completed, SOL Listed on Binance, Awaiting MainNet

Rather than listening to the hype, it is better to show the stats of the Solana blockchain. Even though we are only in MainNet Beta and not fully launched, you can see Beta is blazing fast already ...

Show Me the Solana Blockchain Statistics !

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"\"Proof of History\" is Solana's Secret Sauce"

After many years of dealing with unscalable blockchain technology, there are many blockchain projects who have had enough of waiting around. They are building their own blockchains, using third-par...

Why Ethereum Projects That Need to Scale are Choosing Solana Blockchain

The [Solana document repository](https://docs.solana.com/) (powered by GitBook) is extremely thorough and should be your first port of call when learning about the Solana Blockchain. This post cove...

Inside the Solana Docs - Why Solana and What is $SOL?

_tldr; It can get really fast as it is only limited by hardware constraints (ie: CPU/GPU, memory & bandwidth)_. _But hey, we can 'claim' what we want. Let's analyse at the real-world TestNet & Main...

Seriously... How Fast Can Solana Blockchain Get?

> _A crypto wallet is a device or application that stores a collection of keys and can be used to send, receive, and track ownership of cryptocurrencies._

Inside the Solana Docs - App, Paper and Hardware SOL Wallets

To build a web scale blockchain that can enable future decentralised applications that will disrupt and help automate many current industries, we need a truly scalable blockchain. We covered this a...

POLL - Which Blockchain Will Scale to 1,000,000 TPS First ?

As we found in a previous post, [Why Ethereum Project's That Need to Scale Are Choosing the Solana Blockchain](https://solana.blog/why-ethereum-projects-that-need-to-scale-are-choosing-solana-block...

How Could Solana Blockchain Help the KIN Project?

In this part of the [Solana Documentation](https://docs.solana.com/cli), we explore how to interact with a Solana Cluster via the command line. For this you will need to install the [Solana Command...

Inside the Solana Docs -  Creating Wallets, Airdrops and SOL Transfers

In order to build one of the fastest and most innovate blockchains, Solana partnered with many teams distributed around the world to provide high-performing and secure blockchain infrastructure. Th...

The Independent Validators that Make Solana Blockchain Decentralised

In the interests of more SOL liquidity, Solana are participating in an upcoming voting competition over at [Gate.io](https://www.gate.io/poll/votelist/20) to get SOL listed!

Help Get Solana Listed on Gate Exchange !

Welcome to the first post in a series about the announced partners that Solana has teamed up with. These partners will help Solana scale, integrate into other platforms and enter into new industry ...

Solana Partnerships Analysis - Pocket

Solana should be available for everyone. It will be one of the most high-speed and scalable blockchains in existence. The future of Web 3.0 billion user decentralised applications will be hosted on...

Which Exchange is Next for Solana?

As each year passes the blockchain industry is maturing. Positive sentiment is growing and both consumers and businesses are showing greater awareness and confidence in the underlying blockchain te...

How Solana's Speed, Scalability and Low Fees Can Enable the Next Billion User Blockchain Application

You can Stake your SOL tokens to validator nodes who help secure and run the Solana network. When you delegate your stake to the voting account of the Validator, you get rewarded in an amount of SO...

When is Solana Staking Going to be Enabled?

You can view a dynamic list of exchanges where $SOL is listed at [CoinMarketCap](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/solana/markets).

What Exchanges is Solana $SOL On?

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is an opportunity to bring about a more resilient and transparent financial system where people are in control of their assets. Through the use of blockchain, programma...

7 Reasons Why DeFi Projects Will Build on Solana Blockchain

**Solana Tour De Sol Testnet Event Update - Hitting 500+ TPS, 0.38s blocks, 251 Validator Nodes and 156,000+ $SOL Compensation**

Solana Tour De Sol Testnet Event Update - Stage 6

As we mentioned in our previous post, [Reasons Why DeFi Projects Will Build on Solana](https://solana.blog/reasons-why-defi-projects-should-build-on-solana-blockchain/), the Serum project just anno...

Decentralised Derivative Exchange Serum is Building on Solana !

Don't forget, buy at least 5 SOL over at FTX and go into the running to win $SOL Airdrop or even... the Tesla Cybertruck !

FTX Exchange SOL Listing - Airdrops and Tesla Cybertruck to be Won!

The last submissions to the [Great Reddit Scaling Back-Off](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/hbjx25/the_great_reddit_scaling_bakeoff/) were submitted with the deadline being the 31st of J...

How Solana Can Help the Reddit Cryptocurrency Scale

As blockchains scale there is a need to store data permanently. As Solana is so f'kin fast, running at ~50,000 transactions per second, it is estimate that this would generate a requirement to stor...

Solana Partnership Analysis - Arweave

There is a lot of buzz happening in the Twittersphere right now with DeFi Swap Protocols, with suggested Exit Scams and Paralyzing $50 gas fees. The competition is fierce and we are seeing the whol...

How Solana Will Help DeFi Swap Protocols

The [Solana Wormhole Hackathon](https://solana.com/hackathon) kicked off on the 28th October 2020! It will finish up on the 14th November 2020 with a total of $200k USD prizes up for grabs. Let's e...

Solana Wormhole Ethereum Bridge Hackathon Update

On 30th October 2020, Audius announced they will be migrating to the Solana blockchain. Audius is a music streaming protocol that will allow artists to get directly paid from their fans and is comp...

How Audius Will Redefine the Music Industry on Solana

On the 9th October 2020, the Chainlink Blog announced that it is accepting proposals from developer teams, with the first grant being for the purpose of integrating with the Solana Blockchain. The ...

How Will Chainlink Nodes Running on Solana Be Better?

Just follow the [7 Step Solana Dapp Deployment Guide](https://www.decentology.com/blog/decentology-simplifies-solana-dapp-development) on the official Decentology Blog, or you can follow this guide...

Deploying a Solana Dapp in 15 Minutes with Decentology

Tomorrow the Solana DeFi Hackathon starts, where developers & future business builders deliver a product at the end of a 2 week period. This is a global hackathon completely run online by both Sola...

2000+ Participating in Solana DeFi Hackathon Kicking off Tomorrow!

It has been an incredible month in the Solana DeFi Community with Serum DEX crossing $1 Billion dollars in transaction volume since inception and and beautiful Automated Market Makers (AMM's) being...

Oxygen DeFi Lending and Borrowing Coming to Solana

Nearly a month after the [Raydium Protocol](https://raydium.io/) launch on Solana, it is crossing $160 million TVL, $7.6M 24 hour volume and seeing massive growth and adoption.

$163 Million Reasons Why Solana's Raydium is Killing it!

Don't risk becoming **BEACHED** with legacy gas fee paying swap products. It's time to get fast and cheap swaps with Orca, one of the most beautiful and trust swap providers of the Solana Ecosystem!

The Giant of the Seas Orca DEX hits $40M TVL!

A global hackathon with $1 million in prizes and seed funding. There has been over 1000 registrations already!

Solana Season Global Hackathon with $1M Prize and Funding Pool!

Yesterday we launched our first Solana Development Training Course over at Solhack.com! We have had 20 people enrol in the course!

Free Solana Development Training Now @ Solhack.com

Just a week ago the $SAMO coin was launched !

Memecoin Samoyedcoin Launches on Solana Blockchain!

Solana TV on Twitch just dropped video two chatting to a Crypto featuring Jason Choi, Santiago Santos, and Imran Khan. These guys are also on the Solana Hackathon judging panel! So Hackers need to ...

Solana Season Video 2 Just Dropped on Twitch SolanaTV

Solana Season is well and truly here! There are so many projects launching daily, some with new tokens. You can try your hand with providing new token liquidity to get some sweet APY. You can put o...

How to Track Your Solana DeFi Bags

You've probably heard of Phantom Wallet if you've been following the Solana Ecosystem over the past few weeks. They are currently in beta and releasing soon with a very exciting product with many f...

Could Phantom Become Better than Metamask?

Kinland is a mobile game where you run around and collect $KIN. It is friendly for all ages we hope that it really gets crypto out to the masses!

Kinland Development Update

Over the past week we have had 31 people join the [Rust Starters](https://solhack.com/squads/rust-starters/) Solhack study group. A shout out to the Solhacker [Heiko](https://solhack.com/soldiers/h...

Learn Rust Programming with the Solhack Study Group

At [SOL X Ventures](https://solx.ventures) we absolutely love the Solana ecosystem. So much so, that we starting building for it! Our latest project is a futuristic shooter that will integrate in-g...

Cyberwars Project Announced

On the 22nd June 2021, Bonfida launched the Solana Naming Service! The aim of this decentralised naming service, is to help with censorship resistance, so that no person, company policy or governme...

Bonfida's Solana Naming Service Launches .SOL Domains

_Here at the [Solana.Blog](https://solana.blog) and at the [Solhackers](https://solhack.com/squads/hiro-finance/) community, we pride ourselves on helping each other BUIDL cool shit on the Solana e...

Building on Solana – The Experience of a Hackathon Participant

At the end of March 2021, the [@CryptoKickers](https://twitter.com/cryptokickers) word started spreading on Twitter about CryptoKickers NFT's. It has been amazing to watch how many CryptoKickers ha...

The Rise of Cryptokickers NFT's

Metaplex was announced on the 3rd June 2021 with the mission to "elevate creators and artists above the influence of traditional gatekeepers". It released open source code that anyone can deploy, s...

Solana Metaplex Tutorial - Deploy Your Own Store, Mint NFT's and Setup Auctions!

On 12th July 2021, Power Ledger announced they will be [migrating their Powerledger Energy Blockchain from Ethereum to a Solana-based blockchain](https://www.powerledger.io/media/power-ledger-launc...

Power Ledger Moving to Solana-Based Chain

**Join Solana leaders, builders, and innovators in Lisbon, Portugal - November 7 -10th 2021**

Solana Breakpoint Conference Nov 2021

Great to see a fellow Aussie team presenting in the [Solana Ignition Hackathon](https://solana.com/ignition) workshop. Tristan from the Zeta team, presents a whole heap of awesome tips on how to ge...

Zeta Workshop at the Ignition Hackathon Workshop

There were a huge amount of teams submitting 568 projects with over 6000 participants in the latest Solana Ignition Hackathon. The quality of the projects and teams were outstanding and really show...

Katana Wins Out of 568 Projects Launched in Massive Solana Ignition Hackathon

Huge day for Solana at the Breakpoint conference in Lisbon. The whole Solana team is here, along with a lot of the Solana ecosystem, including projects, partners and investors. Watch the full day o...

Solana Breakpoint Conference Day One

A new report has been published by Solana that compares how much energy Solana uses when compared to other blockchians. It is interesting to note, it found that "

How Environmentally Green is Solana Blockchain?

There has been some huge news in the Solana gaming space in recent months and this latest news is massive! When the co-founder of Twitch builds a startup you know you have to pay attention!

Fractal Joins the Solana Gaming Community

Just a massive shout out to the whole Solana Ecosystem for smash 2021. The growth in the Solana ecosystem has been phenomenal to watch! I love the comparison snapshots that Solanians do. It is grea...

Solana New Years 2022

Solana Hacker Houses are the epicenters of innovation for the Solana Ecosystem. These Solana Hacker Houses are spawning all around the world much like [Fight Clubs during the expansion of Project M...

Solana Hacker Houses are Taking Over

A couple of times a year, there is a Solana Hackathon that gets bigger than the last. This is now the 5th Solana Hackathon! There are loads of quality projects born that then go on to raise money a...

Solana Riptide Hackathon

It's a big week in Oz with [Blockchain Week](https://blockchainweek.com.au) kicking off! Big sessions from Sam Bankman-Fried and Anatoly Yakovenko along with 200+ other speakers! It is both virtual...

Blockchain Australia Week Kicks Off!

Marinade Finance is a liquid staking (no $SOL lock-ups) solution running on Solana, that launched on the 2nd of August 2021. It initially launched with a self-imposed staking limit of 100,000 SOL a...

Marinade Finance Introduces DAO Governance and NFT

The global Riptide Hackathon has now finished and there are a load of new projects who have won prizes and received recognition for their efforts over the past 6 weeks! This 7000 person strong even...

Riptide Hackathon Winners

There has been a lot of hype around Magic Eden taking over as the leading NFT Marketplace in the crypto space lately. It has taken over 90% of total market share of Solana NFT's and due to the low ...

Is Magic Eden NFT Marketplace Taking Over?

We have been following Solana Naming Service (.SOL Domains) for a while now - pretty much 1 year ago when they launched! Since launch, 176,738 .SOL domains have been created. Back then though, we f...

.SOL Solana Naming Service Updated !

Solana has a new official link to get the latest status updates for the three major improvements that are rolling to the Solana network to improve resiliency, stability and performance. They also s...

Solana Network Upgrades - QUIC, Stake-Weight QoS &amp; Fee Markets

Back on the [24th June 2022 Solana announced they will "change everything"](https://solana.com/news/solana-mobile-stack-saga-anatoly-yakovenko) with their new Solana Mobile Stack SDK and a new hard...

Solana Mobile Phone Saga is Coming 2023

> We just started our YouTube Channel ! If you are a project who has successfully completed the Summer Camp Hackathon please hit us up for a podcast interview!

Solana Summer Camp Hackathon Winners

The Solana Buildooor community is strong! Check out this cool Timeline that [Reddit user Frido Van Driem](https://www.reddit.com/user/frido_van_driem) created.

The Solana Timeline

Since the [first Genesis block was created on Solana MainNet on the 16th March 2020](https://explorer.solana.com/block/0) there has been over 100 billion transactions completed! We have been follow...

Solana Reaches 100 Billion TX - So What?

On the 30th of September 2022 the [Solana Network had an outage](https://solana.com/news/09-30-22-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-report). This was caused by bug in the consensus algorithm, where a sing...

Solana Outage Report Released - WTF Happened?￼

A new CRM solution that is specifically designed to help NFT projects grow their communities by saving time and resources through backend process automation is hitting the market. The team at [Simp...

New Web3 CRM - Simpl3r helps NFT Projects Scale, Grow & Save Money

It's been a crazy couple of weeks since Breakpoint. The crypto world imploded with FTX declaring bankruptcy and the resultant contagion effect affecting markets and projects across the entire Web3 ...

Buildooors Will Keep Building

The biggest movement in 2023 will be the rollout of Solana Mobile. The DVT-1 are already shipping to developers in late 2022 so they can ready their apps to deploy on mobile. Several thousand phone...

Bring on Solana for 2023

Solana’s token extensions launched on January 26, 2024, and they’re a game-changer. These aren’t just upgrades—they’re a modular toolkit that turns tokens into programmable powerhouses. Think priva...

Solana Token Extensions: Programmable Tokens Just Got Real

Just wanted to highlight the great work done by the Solana Compass dev recently. For the LamportDAO Sandstorm Hackathon they updated their [Solana Decentralization dashboard](https://solanacompass....

How Decentralised is Solana?

Since the 2nd February 2023 buildooors from around the world have been signing up for the latest Solana Hackathon - the Grizzlython. They have 6 weeks to build their team, product and present a fin...

Buildooors Fighting the Bear in the Solana Grizzlython

[Kin](https://www.kin.org/) has been around since the middle of [2017](https://medium.com/kinblog/announcing-kin-a-cryptocurrency-for-an-open-future-98f1da2f498a) and was one of the earlier project...

Can KIN Rise from the Ashes?

Last week was huge for the Solana Australia Community of Buildooors! It was a pleasure to see a huge amount of people building on Solana all at one event in Port Melbourne, Australia. The [Melbourn...

Hacker House Melbourne Wrap-up!

Since the start of February 2023 more than 9000 people signed up for the latest Solana Hackathon called the Grizzlython! Over 800 projects from all around the world have submitted their project to ...

Grizzlython Finished with 800 Projects Submitted

Over 6 weeks 10,000 registrants from around the world participated in the biggest Solana Hackathon to date. With 813 project submissions from 79 countries there was a huge amount of winners and hon...

Solana Grizzlython Winners Announced !

Solana SAGA Mobile is revolutionizing the world of Web3 with its cutting-edge features and premium hardware, making it easier than ever for users to seamlessly transact across their favorite Solana...

Solana Mobile Saga Launched!

Solana Foundation announced today a series of initiatives related to artificial intelligence (AI) on Solana, ranging from chatbots to accelerators to grant programs. **Anatoly Yakovenko**, the co-f...

Solana Dapps to be Powered by AI

Introducing the ChatGPT Plugin by Solana Labs for the Solana blockchain! This powerful tool simplifies interaction with Solana. In this guide, we'll explore its features and how to use it effective...

Solana ChatGPT Plugin Released

The team over at [https://tiplink.io/](https://tiplink.io/) have built something impressive. NFT Collectooor's can now use AI to generate images and then use Solana NFT Compression to mint them for...

Solana Compressed NFT's Drive Minting Costs to Near Zero! TipLink Demo

The team over at Metaplex have released an excellent tool to enable artists and creators to release NFT collections without knowing any code!

Metaplex Creator Studio to Power No Code NFT Collection Launches

We have been huge supported of the KIN vision at **Buildooors** over the past several years! In fact, we only discovered Solana as KIN was one of the first few projects to move across to Solana, du...

KIN is Now Decentralised!

31 Track Prizes in OPOS Hackathon by LamportDAO

Much of Solana's success has been its ability to attract new developers to the space. Yet again we have another massive Solana Hackathon upon us! Between the 6th Sept 23 to the 15th Oct 23 several ...

Solana Hyperdrive Hackathon Biggest Yet!

The annual Solana Breakpoint conference returns to Amsterdam, featuring industry speakers and events at TAETS Arts and Event Park. Get details on the agenda, livestream options, and how to follow the event.

Breakpoint 2023 in Amsterdam is Here!

Firedancer hit the stage at **Solana Breakpoint 2023**, and it’s live on testnet. Built by **Jump Crypto**, this validator client is a ground-up rewrite, designed to crank Solana’s performance to t...

Firedancer: Solana’s Performance Beast Unleashed

**Hivemapper** dropped a big update at **Solana Breakpoint 2023**: they’re building on Solana. This decentralized mapping network is tapping Solana’s speed and low fees to power its global contribu...

Hivemapper Joins Solana: Decentralized Mapping Gets a Boost

The **Solana Mobile Saga** phone just sold out, and it’s a big deal. Launched in 2023, this web3-native device is built for the Solana ecosystem, and its sell-out proves demand is real. Builders, t...

Solana Mobile Saga Sells Out: A Win for Builders

SquadsX launched in late 2023, and by January 2024, it’s reshaping multisig operations on Solana. This web-extension wallet lets multisigs interact with dApps securely. Builders, here’s what you ne...

What SquadsX Means for Multisigs and DAOs

Colloseum just announced the Solana Renaissance Hackathon, a virtual event for builders. It runs from March 15 to March 22, 2024. Here’s what you need to know to join.

Solana Renaissance Hackathon Kick Off

Decaf ([@Decaf_so](https://x.com/Decaf_so)) is not about coffee—it's about financial freedom. Built on the Solana blockchain, this non-custodial wallet is making waves by helping people in over 184...

Decaf: Financial Inclusion on Solana

The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) are key technologies for executing smart contracts on their respective blockchains. This post compares them to help you understan...

Comparing EVM vs SVM Ecosystems: A Deep Dive into Ethereum and Solana

The Solana Renaissance Hackathon, a global online event, concluded with an impressive showcase of talent and innovation. On May 6, 2024, Colosseum announced the winners, highlighting projects that ...

Solana Renaissance Hackathon: Celebrating the Winners and Their Innovations

New innovation released by Dialect team: **Solana Blinks (Blockchain Links)**. This innovation, built on Solana Actions, aims to make blockchain transactions as simple as clicking a link. Let’s exp...

SOLANA BLINKS! Simplifying Blockchain Interactions with Solana Actions and Blinks

Breakpoint 2024, held September 20-21 in Singapore, brought together 5,000+ attendees to showcase Solana’s growth. Here’s a breakdown of six key areas for builders, per [Solana’s State of Breakpoin...

Solana Breakpoint 2024 Breakdown

The Solana Radar Hackathon winners were just announced on November 12, 2024, showcasing the best of Solana’s builder talent. Organized by [Colosseum](https://colosseum.org/), this global event drew...

Solana Radar Hackathon Winners: Top Projects of 2024

2024 was a massive year for Solana builders, with hackathons, new tools, and performance upgrades. Let’s recap the highlights as of December 31, 2024.

2024 in Review: Solana’s Biggest Wins for Builders

Metaplex created 7x more fungible tokens than Ethereum and its L2s combined in 2024, according to a recent MessariCrypto post. But not all token creation is good—scam projects on Pump.Fun are a gro...

Token Spam: Metaplex’s 2024 Token Surge and Pump.Fun’s Dark Side

Solana faced a rough patch with three major scams in late 2024 and early 2025, each tied to high-profile figures, damaging its reputation. From Hawk Tuah to presidential endorsements, these inciden...

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