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Gaming

Streamers, talent, and gamers are gearing up for PlayGG – will you join?

Get ready for a celebration of games and innovation in San Diego

From racing to strategy, PlayGG hosts a wide variety of game types and experiences

Meet the winners and runners-up of the Solana NFT Showdown

Check out games you can experience at PlayGG

Solana

The Solana validator community discusses the mainnet-beta software update to 1.17.16, an upcoming validator educational workshop, and an upcoming community led validator call (https://hackmd.io/1DFauFMWTZG37-U7CXhxMg?view#Solana-Community-Led-Validator-Call-Agendas).  The marinade team presents protected staking rewards (https://medium.com/marinade-finance/protected-staking-rewards-rollout-details-bec46a4d32e2) and the scale3 team (https://scale3labs.com) presents their auto pilot platform.

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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 Community Validator Discussion - January 18 2024

Some more Solana changes from Nick & Mike.

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Commit highlight:
 - Solana program deployment failed because blockhash was expired - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34621
 - [TieredStorage] HotStorageWriter::new() - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34659
 - GitHub workflows: Disable cron schedule for forks - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34703
 - Fix program buffer account rent-exempt lamport calculation - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34722
 - cli: Use program length for deployments instead of 2x length - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34730

SIMD-0101: Halve Rent
- https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/101

Resources:
 - Luzid test validator - https://twitter.com/thlorenz/status/1742997352959582450
 - SolAndy's videos - https://www.youtube.com/@solandy

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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 - Jan 16 - Lower program deploy costs, Halve rent, Luzid test validator

Learn how to get started with local development 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.

Local Development on Solana

In this episode, Austin chats with Lev Gelfer and Serge Levin from DeVol Network, a low-cost, fully onchain option trading platform. Serge and Lev dive deep into complex trades and the advantages of bringing options to blockchain, but at a higher level, this episode is an exploration of exactly the kinds of projects that are only possible on Solana. It's a testament to how every step-function change in performance or cost unlocks entirely new use cases that were impossible to build before and how projects like DeVol are making use of these changes. 

0:00 - Disclaimer 
1:02 - What is DeVol Network?
2:13 - Why Uniswap doesn't work well for options
5:17 - Why existing models for options trading involve offchain activity
8:10 - What building a fully onchain options protocol entails 
9:39 - Why DeVol is only possible on Solana
13:01 - The value of a fully onchain options protocol
16:56 - Do hybrid off-chain/onchain solutions have value?
19:38 - The inherent unfairness of order books
23:00 - DeVol's "fairness" model
24:14 - DeVol's initial user base
28:56 - What are complex orders, and why are they suited blockchain?
32:06 - The professional option trader perspective on blockchain products 
34:06 - The impact of Solana's ever-growing compute on new features 
37:12 - The future of DeVol's impact function 


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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.

The Case for Onchain Options Trading w/ Lev and Serge from DeVol Network

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Nick.

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Commit highlight:
 - Deprecate account meta executable read/update in bpf loaders - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34194
- spl: Bump token-2022 to v1 - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34412
 - Upgrades Rust to 1.75.0 - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34607
 - [program-test] adding method warp_to_epoch - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34620

SIMD-0096
- Reward full priority fee to validators https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/96

Resources:
 - MtnDAO in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, February 2024 - https://twitter.com/mtndao/status/1734616165626851663
- Solana developmnet course from Rise In - https://twitter.com/solana_devs/status/1740746346104238444
 - Solana Crash Course education sessions in January 2024 - https://twitter.com/solana_devs/status/1742618267674612166
 - Solana Bootcamp - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilwLeBwGuK6NsYMPP_BlVkeQgff0NwvU

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

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 - Jan 10 -  Deprecate executable, upgrade rust and SPL token, MtnDAO

In this episode, Austin chats with Nabil Manji of Worldpay, one of the largest payment processing companies in the world. In a recent collaboration with Worldpay, Visa expanded its USDC settlement to the Solana blockchain. Austin and Nabil chat about the current landscape of card payments and what the integration of blockchain unlocks for large financial institutions. Why complicate the legacy fiat payment system if it seems to work so well? Drawing on the firsthand experience at Worldpay, Nabil discusses the due diligence behind adopting USDC, the way USDC rails work for merchants, the internal process of adopting blockchain at a large company, and more.

0:00 - Intro
1:11 - What are Worldpay and FIS?
3:16 - How Worldpay generates revenue
5:23 - The scope of WorldPay's payment methods
9:16 - How card payments work today (the 4 party system)
13:01 - Why disrupt the legacy payment system?
15:24 - Credit card transaction speed
17:05 - Why Worldpay adopted USDC
20:05 - Internal conversations at Worldpay about blockchain adoption
23:05 - Fee structure of using USDC vs. processing a credit card
26:25 - Is there demand for USDC on the consumer side?
27:50 - Speed of USDC settlement 
31:10 - USDC rails for merchants
34:55 - Are irreversible transactions impacting enterprise blockchain adoption?
38:15 - Long-term implications of blockchain payment adoption
39:10 - Worldpay's regulatory due diligence 
43:56 - Does Worldpay have interest in issuing its own stablecoin? 
46:20 - The "holy grail" of stablecoin usage

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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.

Why Payment Processing Companies Need to Start Thinking About Blockchain w/ Nabil Manji (Worldpay)

Hear from CEO Michael Wagner about Star Atlas, a web3 real time strategy game built on Solana 

#Shorts #solana #blockchain #breakpoint2023 #web3 #gaming #videogames #cryptoevents #technology #innovation #crypto #gamers

Star Atlas, a web3 real time strategy game built on Solana.

What is Hivemapper? 🗺️ Hear about mapping powered by the people at Solana Breakpoint 2023

#solana #blockchain #breakpoint2023 #devtok #web3 #businesstok #depin #techtok #developers #softwareengineering #cryptoevents #technology #innovation #crypto #developereducation #cryptok 

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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.

What is Hivemapper? 🗺️ Hear about mapping powered by the people at Solana Breakpoint 2023

In this tutorial you will learn how submit your dapp to the Solana Mobile Dapp Store!

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

Resources
Guide - https://docs.solanamobile.com/dapp-publishing/overview

Support
If you have a question, please feel free to post it on the Solana StackExchange: https://solana.stackexchange.com/

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

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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.

Tutorial: How to Submit Your Dapp to the Solana Mobile Dapp Store

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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.

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