Solana Foundation

Hackathon

Welcome to Grizzlython, the next Solana Hackathon

Anatoly Yakovenko & Raj Gokal

Memo

The Values That Got Us Here

Brandon Echter

Anatoly Yakovenko

Looking forward: What the Solana community will tackle in 2023 and beyond

Case Studies

Case Study: Change and charitable donations on chain

Solana Solstice

Solana Solstice 2022: Reasons to be excited for 2023

Solana

The Solana validator community discusses a tutorial from /dev/null | Pumpkin's Pool#8888 on validator identity transitions to a hot backup: https://pumpkins-pool.gitbook.io/pumpkins-pool/.  Next, Solana labs engineers discuss a validator panic on 1.14.x clients that occurred on February 1st.

Chat logs:

00:00:01.217,00:00:04.217
Dmitry Bykov: Hello

00:01:48.149,00:01:51.149
Zantetsu: Put the cat on screen

00:01:51.593,00:01:54.593
Zantetsu: Where is the cat

00:04:52.753,00:04:55.753
Michael Hubbard: yes it is

00:05:14.952,00:05:17.952
Michael Hubbard: there was never any proof that it caused issues other than the correlation of loss of vote credits with the use of this script

00:06:37.239,00:06:40.239
Michael Hubbard: I don't use this method

00:07:49.174,00:07:52.174
Michael Hubbard: mvines has clarified that gossip updates pretty quickly, I always suspected that it was a gossip issue.

GH issue for reference: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/24527

00:10:19.205,00:10:22.205
Michael Hubbard: the transition itself works great, very smooth, zero downtime, I'm just spooked by my issues in the past, but I hope they don't reproduce, so if enough others use this successfully I might try it again too :)

00:14:11.090,00:14:14.090
Zantetsu: Michael did you notice anything like what Blake mentioned where if the validator is not "healthy" then bad stuff happens when you try to switch identities?

00:14:21.524,00:14:24.524
Zantetsu: Where I suppose "bad stuff" is that the validator ignores the set identity maybe?

00:15:31.529,00:15:34.529
Michael Hubbard: nope

00:15:53.728,00:15:56.728
Michael Hubbard: as long as you somehow kill/stop the primary and run `solana-validator set-identity` on the secondary it has always worked for me

00:17:19.154,00:17:22.154
Blake Bartenbach: Yes, Zan. I think that is exactly the problem I have had. If the validator ignores the set-identity command, I think it needs to be killed.

00:17:49.483,00:17:52.483
Michael Hubbard: if the validator has crashed and is restarting then admin.rpc might not accept the set-identity command, perhaps that is the issue Blake?

00:17:59.181,00:18:02.181
Michael Vines: ya, thanks Blake!

00:18:03.219,00:18:06.219
Sol Blaze: Thanks for creating these docs, Blake!

00:18:38.639,00:18:41.639
Anish Nath: btw my handle is chatGPT in Solana discord and coming from rpcpool :) Brian/Linus Team

00:21:09.495,00:21:12.495
Tim Garcia: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/30060

00:21:11.589,00:21:14.589
Sol Blaze: Too much bad press surrounding early upgrading to v1.14, at this point we should just call it v1.15 haha

00:21:49.611,00:21:52.611
Tim Garcia: Bug description here: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/30060

00:22:12.931,00:22:15.931
Sol Blaze: I think it definitely shows that the incremental rollout strategy for Solana updates actually works in stopping these bugs

00:25:30.813,00:25:33.813
Tim Garcia: In discord #releng

00:30:37.453,00:30:40.453
Sol Blaze: There's also some stuff the Solana Staking Alliance is working on in terms of load testing on testnet/mainnet (nothing confirmed yet) so we could repurpose some stuff for testnet for continuous load in order to catch more bugs before new versions start getting incrementally rolled out on mainnet

00:31:16.768,00:31:19.768
Tim Garcia: kirill_l#4694

00:33:08.142,00:33:11.142
Sol Blaze: I am all for larger delegations from Delegation Program to those who do early upgrades. I'm planning to add a sort of "stake boost" on BlazeStake for extra stake to those running newer versions going forward, although that probably won't make as much of an impact, would love if other automated delegation systems joined in as well!

00:33:39.845,00:33:42.845
GNTHR: Will this be put on the youtube channel?

00:33:43.235,00:33:46.235
Sol Blaze: Yes

00:33:54.016,00:33:57.016
Sol Blaze: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilwLeBwGuK78yjGBZwYhTf7rao0t13Zw

00:33:57.735,00:34:00.735
GNTHR: Good, thank you

00:38:17.639,00:38:20.639
Zantetsu: Yes thanks Solana devs, much appreciated!

00:38:29.265,00:38:32.265
GNTHR: Thank you

Solana Community Validator Discussion - February 2 2023

It’s time to build in the bear and launch the next big project. Welcome to GRIZZLYTHON 🔥

Register and start building: solana.com/grizzlython

Grizzlython is an online, global Solana hackathon with $5 million in prizes and seed funding up for grabs.

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🎓 University Award by EasyA
🌳 Climate Award by Solana Foundation

And prize tracks in:

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Plus office hours, coworking spaces, and more.

No purchase necessary to enter or win. Void where prohibited. Participants must be the age of majority in their state/country of residence or older.

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.

GRIZZLYTHON Hackathon

Solana validators discuss security best practices.

Validator Educational Workshop Jan 25th, 2023

Some more Solana changes from Jacob, Joe & Colin.

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Proposal
- SIMD 0008: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/798dfe57f4f95f8dd26d3c2c5d0861005dc5407c/XXXX-fee-market-for-storage.md
Commit highlights
- Add fully-reproducible online tracer for banking: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29196
- geyser: add parent slot/blockhash to block: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29855
- program-test: Add token-2022 to default programs: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29878
Resources
- Bokken (debugger with breakpoints): https://twitter.com/MCGPetch/status/1617722563953831938
- Programmable NFTs - Colin: https://twitter.com/metaplex/status/1618436599616012288?s=20&t=pU3Toyp3wsjx7g6q2ph4Vg
Outro
- Solana U Ambassadors: https://twitter.com/SolanaUni/status/1617611591603851265




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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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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.

Solana Changelog - January 31, 2023 - Geyser Improvements, Program-Test, and Bokken

Permanent information storage is not just a means of preserving data, but a way to resist the grip of authoritarian regimes. According to Sam Williams, co-founder of Arweave, immutable storage systems are a revolutionary movement that will make a more objective truth accessible forever. 

0:00 - Intro
1:36 - What is a decentralized permanent storage system?
4:39 - Kryder's Law
8:11 - The philosophical impetus behind Arweave 
11:24 - Does Arweave decide what is "important" data?
15:24 - Why Arweave uses 200 years in its pricing model
17:15 - What kinds of things are people storing on Arweave?
24:12 - How Arweave's infrastructure makes disinformation campaigns more transparent
27:47 - Peer-to-peer communication vs. centralized communication platforms 
36:14 - The danger of information hubris 
42:50 - Arweave's endowment model
45:14 - How Arweave's design is gatekeeper resistant 




DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. The information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The information on this podcast is 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 on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.

Validated | A Decentralized Collective Memory with Sam Williams

Jacob, Joe & Colin are serving up the changes today from Solana.

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-(Proposal) SIMD 0005 - Bankless Leader: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/9a6c243333145bfe14956003ae41d6850609b31c/0005-bankless-leader.md

-Support monikers in solana-tokens: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29693

-Explorer: Fix misleading success log in explorer program instruction logs: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29735

-Explorer: Add toggle for raw tx logs (c): https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29765

-RPC getPerformanceSamples: Add numNonVoteTransaction (c): https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29388

-(Resource) Solana/Rust course https://careerbooster.io/courses/full-solana-and-rust-programming-course-for-beginners

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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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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.

Solana Changelog - January 24, 2023 - Bankless Leader, Explorer Updates, Nonvote RPC

Being a crypto journalist - a good crypto journalist - is hard work. When it comes to reporting, no other sector requires the same level of technical proficiency, an understanding of financial markets, and a primer in digital anthropology. In this conversation, Austin and Danny navigate a lot of complicated topics including conflicts of interest within crypto native media, reporting in an industry where everyone has a hidden objective, citizen journalism on Twitter, and more.

Episode Topics:

0:00 - Intro
2:39 - The role of journalists in the crypto ecosystem
3:53 - Why crypto and the media have an adversarial relationship
7:48 - Why being a good crypto reporter is hard work
10:33 - How crypto reporters navigate newsrooms' ethics policies
13:25 - Assessing the trustworthiness of sources
17:26 - When sources have ulterior motives
20:13 - The impact of Coindesk on the fall of FTX
25:11 - Crypto native media vs. TradFi media
27:19 - Citizen journalism on Twitter
30:52 - Should the tech industry and tech journalists have more empathy for each other?
38:41 - Why wasn't mainstream media harder on SBF?
41:39 - Conflicts of interest in crypto native media
47:26 - What should crypto journalists take away from 2022?


DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. The information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The information on this podcast is 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 on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.

Validated | How Crypto Journalism Actually Happens with Danny Nelson

The Core Community Call is a discussion between developers of the Solana Network.

Today we discussed:

-Program Runtime V2 - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/28755
-Transaction Instruction Limitations
-Call Notes can be found at https://github.com/solana-foundation/core-community-call
-Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q3n-hPXtfVWzCs3UAUEnajPnJZYYdgnZK20kUl1_jxI/edit?usp=sharing in the desc

You can discuss this call and future calls in the Solana Tech Discord under #core-community-call https://discord.gg/ZdpHxfJH

Solana Core Community Call - Jan 20th 2023

The Solana validator community discusses a recently identified consensus but that was fixed in version 1.14.12, the upcoming core dev sync on January 20th, and validator client updates. We also celebrate the 400th mainnet-beta Solana epoch!

Chat logs:

00:07:51.703,00:07:54.703
Steve Czabaniuk: Allesandro - can you give us the V2 teaser?

00:11:55.367,00:11:58.367
Code Monkey: Tim, have you thought of having these type of meetings geared towards RPC operators as well? There seems to be a big gap from the core team supporting the validator operators over the RPC operators. As someone that runs both, I would love to see some of the core team become a lot more involved on the RPC side.

00:15:11.052,00:15:14.052
Nick Garfield: For the security workshop, the date on the slide was Jan 20 (tomorrow). I assume this was a typo and Jan 25 was intended?

00:15:50.582,00:15:53.582
Tim Garcia: Yes, sorry typo.  25th

00:17:30.160,00:17:33.160
Emilio Oberg: party when 420 :d

00:17:40.917,00:17:43.917
Michael Vines: hi

Solana Community Validator Discussion January 19 2023

Jacob & Colin are serving up the changes today from Solana.

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SIMD 3 https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/4
Compute costs updated https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29610
GetRecentPrioritizationFees https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29562
Golana https://twitter.com/oxfeeefeee/status/1607431605521633280?t=mOmsnNVmo0MjkME66m5siQ&s=19

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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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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.

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News

Welcome to Grizzlython, the next Solana Hackathon

The Values That Got Us Here

Looking forward: What the Solana community will tackle in 2023 and beyond

Case Study: Change and charitable donations on chain

Solana Solstice 2022: Reasons to be excited for 2023

Solana Community

Learn in depth

Listen to the podcast

Wayfinding

Solana Collective

الفيديوهات المتميزة

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News

Welcome to Grizzlython, the next Solana Hackathon

The Values That Got Us Here

Looking forward: What the Solana community will tackle in 2023 and beyond

Case Study: Change and charitable donations on chain

Solana Solstice 2022: Reasons to be excited for 2023