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Solana Foundation Validator Health Report: March 2023

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The bright future of ‘Play-and-Own’ games

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Case Study: ASICS builds loyalty program with Solana Pay

Anatoly Yakovenko

Plans to Improve Network Upgrades

The Solana SDK for Unity by Magicblock is available on the Unity Asset Store as a Verified Solution

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During the last bull run, legacy fashion brands raced to incorporate web3 into their strategy. Now, with consumer demand for web3 in hibernation, where does that leave marketers in the traditional fashion space who are still bullish on web3?  In this episode, Lisa Pillette (CMO of Fossil Group) discusses Fossil's venture into NFTs and how the company's attitude toward web3 has changed in the last year. Lisa remains bullish on the implementation of web3 strategies for both Fossil and other legacy brands in the long term, but only if those strategies are implemented for the right reasons.

0:00 - Intro
1:57 - The role of innovation at Fossil Group
3:28 - Why disrupt a successful business with a push into web3?
6:25 - Consulting on web3 native projects 
8:31 - Partnering with Staple on an NFT collection
12:19 - How has Fossil's thinking about web3 changed in 2023?
16:24 - Did fashion NFTs ever find product-market fit during the bull market?
19:07 - Digitizing luxury goods
23:21 - Fossil's future web3 strategy
29:20 - How web3 projects can market themselves to be more mainstream


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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 | How a Web 2 CMO Is Navigating web3 Strategy

Today’s guest is Jordan Sexton, an engineer at Solana Labs who has worked on the SPL Token Lending program, Solana Pay, Wallet Adapter and many more improvements to the Solana ecosystem along the way.

check out all the episodes of Chewing Glass here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilwLeBwGuK6JMfYiZJwzikPG2Jhjqdu3


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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.

Chewing Glass - Jordan Sexton - Ep #11

To skeptics, blockchain-based AI may sound like a solution in search of a problem. But to Humayun Sheikh, founder and CEO of Fetch, decentralized AI has the power to revolutionize how we transact on the Internet by creating truly peer-to-peer information systems. That sounds straightforward enough, but consumer-facing AI still in its infancy, and the industry faces many hard questions in the years to come. Humayun navigates these questions with nuance and diligence as he shares his compelling thesis on the future of decentralized AI.

0:00 - Intro
1:33 - Is the intersection of blockchain and AI real?
3:58 - What are the components of decentralized AI?
10:06 -Fetch’s value proposition 
12:26 - Does the Internet need blockchain and AI to become truly peer-to-peer again?
15:19 - How Fetch uses blockchain to coordinate its AI bots
17:46 - How do Fetch's AI bots (agents) work in practice?
22:24 - Eliminating centralized entities for online services that rely on data aggregation 
24:56 - What might attract businesses to decentralized AI solutions over centralized ones?
27:58 - How will decentralized AI resist monetizing user data?
32:39 - How can AI decentralize if centralized entities can monopolize data for better models?  
36:43 - Does eliminating aggregators also eliminate a layer of trust between transacting parties?
40:52 - What is the risk profile of open, unregulated AI? 


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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 | Does the Internet Really Need Blockchain-Powered AI?

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Joe.

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Proposal
- Priced Compute Units: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/eb8543a29b857d423112793dd770a93e41dc4ec6/proposals/0017-priced-compute-units.md

Commit highlight
- Validator's skip clean/shrink on startup: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30710
- zk token additions: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/29996

Resource
- Solana Developer Forum: https://forum.solana.com/

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Joe: https://twitter.com/realbuffalojoe

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Solana Changelog March 21 - Priced Compute Units and the Solana Developer Forum

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

Today we discussed:
SIMD 15 Epoch Rewards V2 https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/15

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/core-community-call

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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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 - March 17, 2023 - Epoch Rewards V2

The Solana validator community celebrates the third birthday of the Solana blockchain!  Anatoly joins the call to review new testing improvements.  Lucas from Jito presents their findings on spam transactions on the blockchain.

00:00 Intro and Agenda
00:31 Happy Birthday Solana!
01:00 Testnet restart on 1.13.6
01:51 Anatoly talks testing
07:18 Jito presents spam findings
32:00 Open discussion

Chat logs:
Tim Garcia: Blog post on testing https://solana.com/news/plans-to-improve-the-network-upgrades
melea crypto: Share link
Tim Garcia: mev spam investigation: https://medium.com/@Jito-Foundation/solving-the-mev-problem-on-solana-a-guide-for-stakers-7768308e93bc
melea crypto: Ty
Brian Smith: Presentation link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P9rA4NpC8ENBwn88LeV4VtDFc1Kxd9AY/view?usp=share_link
Overclock Validator: Why is spamming still a helpful strategy?
melea crypto: We are going to jito very soon !
Dan Albert: where can a validator see what other nodes are running jito-solana?  it would be helpful for adoption for public nodes to see which of their peers are already running jito, to gain comfort.
Brian Long: validators.app shows Jito validators!
Blake Bartenbach: Nice!
Brian Smith: https://jito.retool.com/embedded/public/3557dd68-f772-4f4f-8a7b-f479941dba02
Brian Smith: Validators.app, manystake, the above link and other sites hopefully soon will all flag Jito for awareness
Brian Long: See https://www.validators.app/validators?locale=en&network=mainnet&order=stake & look for the "Jito" toggle
Blake Bartenbach: Yep, I was going to say, I thought ManyStake also did https://www.manystake.com/validator-view?client=jito
Nick Garfield: Looking forward to jito-client!
Overclock Validator: Bullish on fee per cu base fee
Cyrial Kamda: ^
Overclock Validator: Sry gotta shill
Blake Bartenbach: Sorry, it's not always clear - who is Lucas B on Discord?
Ben Hawkins: Yeah economic incentives to make more compute efficient txns would make a lot of sense.
Tim Garcia: buffalu#8451
Blake Bartenbach: Oh that's buffalu! Okay, thank you!
Brian Long: Stats from Block Logic in the last hour:
212998 dropped_txs
73750 dropped_txs_WouldExceedBlockMaxLimit
139248 dropped_txs_WouldExceedAccountMaxLimit
Ben Hawkins: I've found that fee priority doesn't work reliably. e.g. higher fee doesn''t always beat out lower fee.
Sam Legends: Is there any public charts that show the % of dropped transactions?
Brian Long: Sam, no. That data exists only on the validators.
Sam Legends: Thanks Brian
Ben Hawkins: Further more, each validator view of dropped txns is different
Dan Albert: Anybody want to take a crack at updating the `solana validators` CLI to reflect solana vs jito-solana usage in the version readout?
Brian Smith: Discord link: https://discord.gg/jito
melea crypto: Thanks, nice presentation
Emilio Oberg: fix mic
Max Sherwood: Yeah Im here but outdoors haha
Blake Bartenbach: Dan - would be nice if the RPC service could return that information. getVersion doesn't differentiate currently.
Blake Bartenbach: Not sure if that's the source of making that happen
Dan Albert: yeah, makes sense.  PRs always open.  not sure if getVersion statically points to the labs repo or what.  haven't looked.
Dan Albert: or could pull from whatever build sha
Chris R: Initial focus is on follow-ups to post-mortem, will also add new topics as people propose them over time. Pull meaningful conversations out of Discord and provide some focus to help make them actionable.
Dan Albert: https://twitter.com/DanPaul000/status/1635763828385529857

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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 - March 16 2023

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Jonas.

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Core community call repo: https://github.com/solana-foundation/core-community-call

Proposal
- Tiered accounts: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30551/files

Commit highlight
- Anchor Update: https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0270---2023-03-08
- Debugging programs: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30632
- Compute budget instruction: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30506
- Reducing shreds: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30543

Resource
- Compression examples: https://github.com/helius-labs/compression-examples

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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 March 14 - Tiered Account Storage, Debugging Programs, and Anchor

Crypto venture investing has plummeted from all time highs, but maybe perceiving this as a "crypto" problem is the wrong way of looking at it. Through the lens of seasoned investors, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal (Acquired) help us make sense of the present moment of crypto venture and the future conditions under which investing in crypto will become attractive again. 

0:00 - Intro
1:55 - Ben and David's entry into the crypto space
4:12 - When VCs realized crypto was "real"
5:52 - How narratives affect venture investing 
12:07 - The current state of web3 venture investing 
19:57 - The numerator and denominator effects
27:39 - How does the market move on from its current state? 
29:57 - The principal agent problem in venture investing
34:20 - Why does venture even exist if average returns are negative?
38:00 Why do crypto investors see themselves as investors in technology instead of businesses?
41:34 - Does web3 have no revenue 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 | What the Hell is Going On in Crypto Venture Investing? with Ben and David from Acquired

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Nick.

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Proposal
- SIMD 16: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/45a1d264884ea3e7a1ad1f6b21e75d05a298d9d8/proposals/0016-simd-application-fees.md

Commit highlight
- Update geyser interface to not require write locks: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30380
- Break apart AccountInfo: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30505
- Not allow transactions request zero CU to update prioritization fee cache: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/30507

Resource
- Solana Verifiable Builds: https://twitter.com/ellipsis_labs/status/1630695723132940289

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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 March 7 - Verifiable Builds, Admin RPC, and Geyser

Running a blockchain network requires sophisticated hardware and software working together. The term "blockchain infrastructure" refers to any component of this system that actually facilitates the existence of a blockchain. In this episode, we talk with Aaron Henshaw, co-founder of Bison Trails, a pioneering blockchain infrastructure platform that was later acquired by Coinbase. Aaron shares his perspective on building infrastructure for different blockchains, running blockchain infrastructure at enterprise scale,  how infrastructure companies will have to adapt if legacy tech giants become competitive within the space, and more.

0:00 - Intro
3:05 - Early days of Bison Trails 
7:38 - What drove Bison Trails' success
10:46 - Building infrastructure for different blockchains
15:05 - Difficulties of running a multi-chain infrastructure platform 
18:55 - How crypto VCs drove up the demand for infrastructure 
20:52 - The engineering demands behind crypto exchanges
25:08 - Managing demand for increased read infrastructure 
26:58 - How do developers choose the "right" infrastructure?
31:18 - The future of decentralized layer networks
39:27 - Life after Bison Trails 

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 Community

Learn in depth

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News

Solana Foundation Validator Health Report: March 2023

The bright future of ‘Play-and-Own’ games

Case Study: ASICS builds loyalty program with Solana Pay

Plans to Improve Network Upgrades

The Solana SDK for Unity by Magicblock is available on the Unity Asset Store as a Verified Solution

Solana Community

Learn in depth

Listen to the podcast

Wayfinding

Solana Collective

Vidéos en vedette

Related

News

Solana Foundation Validator Health Report: March 2023

The bright future of ‘Play-and-Own’ games

Case Study: ASICS builds loyalty program with Solana Pay

Plans to Improve Network Upgrades

The Solana SDK for Unity by Magicblock is available on the Unity Asset Store as a Verified Solution