Validator Health Report: October 2023

A data-driven analysis of the health of the Solana validator network.

Validator Health Report: October 2023 | Solana

Solana validators adopt the v1.16 update

Solana validators adopt the v1.16 update | Solana

Solana Permissioned Environments brings Solana tech to internal infrastructure

SPEs will allow enterprises and other institutions to build customizable Solana Virtual Machine environments.

Solana Pay Integrates with Shopify as New Payment Option to Transform Commerce

Millions of businesses and consumers now have easy access to decentralized payments on Solana.

Developer Educator Program: Cultivating the next generation of Solana builders

Solana

Some more Solana changes from Jonas, John, & Nick.

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Community Events Calendar:
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Hyperdrive Hackathon Demo/Pitch Practice: https://lu.ma/n5rhcj4q

Proposal Highlight:
 - SIMD 0065: Add `transactionSubscribe` to PubSub
https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/fc714c9d7f04ade9e19469d3fa22b908ef552dea/proposals/0065-pubsub-transaction-subscribe.md 

Resources:
- Solana development course: https://www.soldev.app/course
- Cryptographic tools 101: https://www.helius.dev/blog/cryptographic-tools-101-hash-functions-and-merkle-trees-explained

Commit highlight:
- [token-cli] Add confidential transfer mint commands: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-program-library/pull/5335

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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 - October 03 - Confidential transfers in token CLI, transactionSubscribe to PubSub

Private credit in emerging markets like Latin America generally lacks modern infrastructure. According to Thomas Bohner (Credix), blockchain is the perfect technology to bring these markets into the future. With a company like Credix, investors and borrowers are able to leverage smart contracts for things like instant settlement and frictionless cross-border transactions, all while operating within legally compliant frameworks. In this episode, Austin and Thomas discuss Credix's model and the broader implications of DeFi 2.0 projects, many of which heavily rely on off-chain components. 

0:00 - Intro
3:01 - What is Credix and what was its impetus?
4:58 - Dealing with off-chain logistics in LATAM credit market 
8:02 - How blockchain is actually creating net new value in the private credit space
12:25 - CeFi's lack of digitally native infrastructure 
17:23 - How Credix provides liquidity
18:41 - How Credix holds conversations with non-native crypto investors 
22:00 - Can Credix ever be completely premissionless?
25:07 - Why Brazil is an attractive market for Credix
28:52 - How LATAM's risky credit market becomes attractive to investors
31:38 - DeFi vs. fintechs that incorporate blockchain 
33:54 - Does DeFi 2.0 care about crypto's foundational ideals?
37:18 - Expanding into other LATAM markets
39:58 - Credix investors' ROI
41:22 - More on the efficiency gains of bringing blockchain to private credit 
45:12 - Credix' long-term competitiveness
47:11 - Future of stablecoins in LATAM

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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 Decentralized Credit Means for Emerging Markets w/ Thomas Bohner

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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 Hacker House Mumbai

Some more Solana changes from Jonas & Nick.

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Community Events Calendar:
- view tons of community run events, from workshops to meetups: 
- Planning an event? Know an event is happening? Submit it to the Community Events Calendar: https://solana.com/events

Hyperdrive Hackathon Office Hours: https://lu.ma/4syiap2l

Resources:
- Phantom Shortcuts: https://twitter.com/phantom/status/1704533381906624870
- Cross chain bridge comparator from Jupiter: https://twitter.com/JupiterExchange/status/1704380715402690679
- Helius' guide to QUIC: https://www.helius.dev/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-solana-and-quic

Commit highlight:
- Set loader-v4 program deployment slot at actual deployment: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/33278
- Feature - Enable Program-Runtime-v2 and Loader-v4: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/33294

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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 - September 26 - Bridge Comparator, Program Loader v4, feature gates, and more

In this episode, Chase breaks the usual format of the show by chatting with Brian Long - not a developer, but a key member of Solana's validator community and founder of Triton One and Block Logic. 

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Chewing Glass - Brian Long (Triton One, Block Logic) - Ep #17

Some more Solana changes from Jonas & Nick.

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- Planning an event? Know an event is happening? Submit it to the Community Events Calendar: https://solana.com/events

Hyperdrive Hackathon Office Hours: https://lu.ma/4syiap2l

RFP Highlight:
Request developers and teams to create a Real World Asset (RWA) protocol on Solana: https://forum.solana.com/t/unified-security-token-rwa-program/526

Resources:
- Overview of privacy on Solana using both Elusiv and Light Protocol: https://www.helius.dev/blog/privacy-on-solana-with-elusiv-and-light
- OPOS hackathon winners have been announced: https://twitter.com/LamportDAO/status/1701796529592512929

Commit highlight:
- Added sol_remaining_compute_units syscall: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/31640

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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 - September 19 - Real world assets (RWA), OPOS hackathon winners, on-chain privacy

Oracles are an essential part of how real-world data gets integrated into DeFi smart contracts, but historically, that process has been fraught with challenges. In this episode, Jayant Krishnamurthy (Duoro Labs) explains how Pyth is addressing these challenges and redefining how a blockchain oracle can work. Originally built on Solana’s L1, Pyth is a low-latency, high-frequency oracle that has expanded beyond the Solana ecosystem and now provides data feeds for over 30 blockchains. The way it does this is through Pythnet – the first network to deploy the Solana codebase for an application specific blockchain. 

0:00 - Intro
0:55 - What are oracles, and why is Pyth different?
1:33 - Pyth's data acquisition model
3:44 - Why are institutions interested in working with Pyth?
8:02 - How blended sources of data get represented by a single number 
10:49 - How different data contributors to Pyth are weighted
13:36 - Confidence intervals 
16:39 - Defining high frequency and low latency in the context of oracles 
19:17 - How Pyth's architecture achieves speed
21:42 - The move from the Solana L1 to Pythnet
24:19 - Modifying validators to run Pythnet
25:55 - Pyth's off-chain activity 
27:35 - The off-chain components of DeFi 2.0 more broadly 
31:55 - Initiating calls for price updates
33:45 - How Pyth interacts with the L2 ecosystem
36:10 - How the pull oracle model is key to Pyth's sustainability 
38:30 - How will oracles maintain their place in the market over the next few years? 
45:40 - Learnings from developing Pyth during the bear market

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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 Pyth Is Changing the Oracle Game w/ Jayant Krishnamurthy

Solana Hacker House Bengaluru

The Solana validator community discusses setting up SSH for better operations and security.  The workshop covers disabling root access to assh as well as password based ssh authentication.


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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 Validator Education - SSH Setup + sol User

Solana validator operators discuss setting up a backup validator and how to switch from your primary validator to your backup validator. Having a backup validator is useful if your primary validator has a hardware issue or if you'd like to upgrade software versions with no downtime.

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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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Validator Health Report: October 2023

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Solana Permissioned Environments brings Solana tech to internal infrastructure

Solana Pay Integrates with Shopify as New Payment Option to Transform Commerce

Developer Educator Program: Cultivating the next generation of Solana builders

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Validator Health Report: October 2023

Solana validators adopt the v1.16 update

Solana Permissioned Environments brings Solana tech to internal infrastructure

Solana Pay Integrates with Shopify as New Payment Option to Transform Commerce

Developer Educator Program: Cultivating the next generation of Solana builders