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Solana Apex: Cape Town, South Africa

Join us at America's Biggest Crypto Conference this May in NYC: https://solana.com/accelerate 🇺🇸

As the US undergoes a historic pro-crypto shift—with the SEC dropping lawsuits, David Sacks appointed as crypto czar, and a new national Bitcoin reserve—Solana builders face an unprecedented moment to accelerate the future of internet capital markets.

Accelerate 2025 (NYC, May 19-23) brings together Wall Street capital allocators and institutions, DC policymakers, and fintech leaders at America's biggest crypto conference. 

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What Does Accelerate Mean To You? Amir Heleem, Cofounder of Helium

Join us at America's Biggest Crypto Conference this May in NYC: https://solana.com/accelerate 🇺🇸

As the US undergoes a historic pro-crypto shift—with the SEC dropping lawsuits, David Sacks appointed as crypto czar, and a new national Bitcoin reserve—Solana builders face an unprecedented moment to accelerate the future of internet capital markets.

Accelerate 2025 (NYC, May 19-23) brings together Wall Street capital allocators and institutions, DC policymakers, and fintech leaders at America's biggest crypto conference. 


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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 Does Accelerate Mean To You? Mary Gooneratne, Cofounder of Loopscale Labs

What Does Accelerate Mean To You? Todd Wiesel, Cofounder and CEO of Baxus

Join us at America's Biggest Crypto Conference this May in NYC: https://solana.com/accelerate 🇺🇸

As the US undergoes a historic pro-crypto shift—with the SEC dropping lawsuits, David Sacks appointed as crypto czar, and a new national Bitcoin reserve—Solana builders face an unprecedented moment to accelerate the future of internet capital markets.

Accelerate 2025 (NYC, May 19-23) brings together Wall Street capital allocators and institutions, DC policymakers, and tech leaders at America's biggest crypto conference. 

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 Does Accelerate Mean To You? Cindy Leow, cofounder and CEO of Drift Labs

The Solana validator community discusses validator updates, an upcoming educational workshop in March 2025, SIMD225 and SIMD123 vote totals, Accelerate 2025 in May in NYC, the draft SIMD 257: Eliminate Vote Fees.

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IMPORTANT LINKS
Chat Logs and Transcripts: https://solanafoundation.notion.site/Solana-Foundation-Validator-Discussion-March-13-2025-1b5d36dad52d80d19a1edc558ac65850
Skip Rewriting Rent Exempt Issue: https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/issues/5250#issuecomment-2717868785
Feature Gate Tracker: https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/wiki/Feature-Gate-Tracker-Schedule
Accelerate 2025: https://solana.com/accelerate
SIMD Vote Dashboard: https://simd-votes.stakingfacilities.com/ 
SIMD 228 Vote: https://dune.com/kagren0/simd-0228-voting-status
SIMD 123 Vote: https://dune.com/kagren0/simd-0123-voting-status
Draft SIMD 257: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/257/files?short_path=43f7222#diff-43f7222f4941df564c7cfb2695499d0d77ed719c898be78d839cdade1abc07ef 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 Introduction and Agenda
00:45 Mainnet Beta Updates
05:50 Testnet Updates
06:57 SIMD 228, SIMD 123 Voting
09:34 Accelerate 2025
14:18 Validator Educational Workshop
09:57 Governance Intro
16:00 Draft SIMD 257 Eliminate Vote Fees

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Solana Foundation Validator Discussion - March 13 2025

What Does Accelerate Mean To You? Ariel Seidman, CEO & Cofounder of Hivemapper

What Does Accelerate Mean To You? Imran Khan, core contributor at Alliance

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The State of Solana at Breakpoint 2024

Energy Use Report: September 2024