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In this episode, Tommy Johnson discusses Armada, a collaborative project between PsyFi and HXRO that provides an open-source toolkit for launching tokens from inception to full decentralization. He and Austin reflect on the historical pain points of token launches, the evolution of tokenomics over the last several years, "governance-light" vs. "governance-heavy" DAO models, and more.

0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Early days of Solana hackathons 
6:54 - The impetus for creating Armada 
8:41 - Token launches: pre-2021 vs. now
11:01 - Challenges of knowing when to launch a token
12:50 -  Armada's sustainability plan
13:27 - The legal structure of Armada 
16:40 - Having two core contributing teams for Armada
18:53 - How to assess Armada's value 
20:57 - Why armada is open source
22:40 - How Armada navigated working with two teams
25:00 - When is the right time to bring in community into a token project?
27:04 - Sub-DAOs
31:16 - Armada's view on immutability 
34:47 - What is in and out of scope for Armada?
36:00 - How can Solana improve its infrastructure?
37:46 - More on the sustainability of Armada's model


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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.

Validated | An Open-Source Toolset for Token Infrastructure w/ Tommy Johnson

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.

"What Are You Building?" with SolLightning

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Nick.

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Resources:
- Confidential transfers quick start guide: https://spl.solana.com/confidential-token/quickstart
- GraphQL client resolver for the Solana RPC: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-web3.js/tree/master/packages/rpc-graphql

SIMD:
- SIMD-84 Disable rent fees collection: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/84

Commit highlight:
- Add a feature to disable rent collection: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/33945

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/solana_devs  
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!

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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. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Changelog - November 21 - Disable rent collection, GraphQL resolver, confidential transfers

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an on-chain game in 10 minutes. 
Use the command `npx create-solana-game [name]` to get started!

# Presenter
Jonas -  https://twitter.com/solplay_jonas

# Resources
Repository - https://github.com/solana-developers/solana_game_preset

# 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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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.

Tutorial: How to create an on-chain game in 10 minutes

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

Today we discussed:
SIMD 82 Relax Transaction Constraints - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/82
SIMD 83 Relax Entry Constraints - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/83

If you have an item to put in the agenda, please make a PR on the latest agenda found on github https://github.com/solana-foundation/...

If you want to attend the next core community call, they're open to the public. 
Public Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/...

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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. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Core Community Call - Nov 17th, 2023 - Relaxing Transaction and Entry Constraints

In this episode of "What Are You Building?"Jonas Hahn sits down with Orion to chat about the passkey-based 2FA he is building at Bunkr.

"What Are You Building?" with Bunkr

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Nick.

Subscribe to the newsletter: https://solana.com/newsletter

Resources:
- SIMD-82 Relax Transaction Constraints: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/82

Commit highlight:
- Blockstore: only return block times for rooted slots: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/33871
- Burn fees collected into invalid accounts: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/33887

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/solana_devs  
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!

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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. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Changelog - November 14 - Blockstore, Breakpoint, and Relaxed Transaction Constraints

In the early days of Solana, Justin Bons (Cyber Capital) was one of the network's biggest public critics. However, in the last several months, Justin has had a change of heart. In this episode, Justin opens up about both his disillusionment with the Ethereum L2 roadmap and why he has reconsidered his initial critiques of Solana. He also discusses the importance of approaching crypto with an interdisciplinary lens and how his philosophy background has encouraged him to stay open-minded, even if it means rethinking old beliefs. 

0:00 - Intro
2:31 - Why Justin publicly articulates his theses 
5:36 - Evaluating the fundamentals of a crypto currency
8:47 - Developing investment theses based on personal values
10:05 - The importance of crypto history when looking at the present
14:20 - An interdisciplinary approach to crypto
15:52 - How political science applies to blockchain
19:11 - The unsolved problem of governance 
23:19 - Justin's disillusionment with the L2 scaling roadmap 
26:08 - How L2's may a pose a corporate capture problem in the Ethereum ecosystem
27:51 - More on the disillusionment with L2's
31:13 - Why Justin believe the UX problem of L2's can't be abstracted away
35:37 - A reflection on why more people aren't considering these issues 
38:16 - Solana's social layer
44:46 - Overview of Justin's original critiques of Solana
49:08 - Why he changed his mind
51:36 - How studying philosophy allows Justin to change his mind


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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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