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02-25-23 Solana Mainnet Beta Outage Report
On February 25th 2023 at approximately 05:46:16 UTC, the Solana Mainnet Beta cluster began to experience long block finalization times.
Read ArticleSolana Foundation introduces convertible grants and investments to support Solana ecosystem
New additions to the grants process will allow the Foundation to support commercial projects.
Boba Guys building customer loyalty program on Solana
Boba Guys seeks to enhance and scale customer experience with new program.
Meet the winners of Solana Grizzlython
Over 10,000 participants submitted 813 final projects, the largest Solana hackathon to date.
State compression brings down cost of minting 1 million NFTs on Solana to ~$110
With an innovative use of Merkle trees, state compression drastically lowers the cost of storing information on-chain.
How to use compressed NFTs on Solana, powered by state compression
A guide for developers.
Case Study: Dialect onboards the masses through decentralized social messaging and NFT stickers
Dialect uses compressed NFTs to onboard thousands of users for free.
Case Study: Crossmint scales NFT minting to unlock new use cases
Crossmint, an NFT tooling and API company, is using state compression to drop NFTs at a massive scale.
PlayGG is coming to San Diego! Don’t miss this free Solana games exhibition with over 50 games on site
Play Good Games with developers, gamers, and the local community in a welcoming, family-friendly environment this July.
Solana Foundation Validator Health Report: March 2023
A data-driven analysis of the health of the Solana validator network