Solana Foundation – DIGIT INFO

R3 explores strategic options amid blockchain industry challenges

DIGIT — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:16:45 +0000

R3 started out as a consortium and grew fast. Now it is reportedly waiting to see where fate takes it next.

Solana Foundation defends decentralization amid patch coordination claims

DIGIT — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:01:14 +0000

Solana Foundation’s Dan Albert highlighted the network’s distributed block-producing nodes, arguing that coordinating a patch does not mean centralization.

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Solana Foundation Asserts Core Network Should Be Permissionless Regarding Offensive Meme Coin Issues

DIGIT — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:19:53 +0000

The Solana Foundation has given its take on the offensive meme coin issue that originates on the Solana blockchain. Austin Federa, head of strategy at the Solana Foundation, sustained that the core components of Solana should be permissionless while blocking some of these offensive assets should be left to individual applications. Solana Unlikely to Deal […]

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Blockchain developers launch $50M fund to increase Wormhole adoption

DIGIT — Thu, 18 May 2023 17:04:57 +0000

Wormhole is a cross-chain messaging protocol often used to transfer assets from one blockchain to another

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Solana CEO hoses down claims network outages caused by on-chain voting

DIGIT — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 04:43:30 +0000

Solana Labs founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko said claims that Solana’s network outages were caused by on-chain voting were born out of “pure ignorance.”

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Solana Spaces will close New York and Miami stores 7 months after opening

DIGIT — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 03:34:56 +0000

Norby said the “experiment” was part of a plan to onboard more people onto Solana, but the stores didn’t bring in as many users as they initially hoped.

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Prospects Don’t Look so Hot for Sam Bankman-Fried’s Invitation-Only Crypto Bahamas Event

DIGIT — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 21:30:43 +0000

Following the FTX collapse and amid the aftermath, people have been wondering about the company’s Crypto Bahamas conference that was scheduled to happen on April 17-20, 2023, at the exclusive Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, in Nassau. The event planned for April 2023 was supposed to be hosted by the now-bankrupt FTX and the Skybridge Capital-backed […]

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Solana reportedly hit by DDoS attack but network remains online

DIGIT — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:44:04 +0000

The Solana blockchain has reportedly suffered another DDoS attack that temporarily clogged the network, however the network appeared to remain online.

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Solana Labs co-founder: We don’t want to kill ‘beautiful’ Ethereum

DIGIT — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:11:37 +0000

Solana Labs’ co-founder thinks the fight between Ethereum and so-called “ETH Killers” is unnecessary, as the true aim for people working in crypto should be to onboard “every human” onto Web 3.0.

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Solana targets growth in Southeast Asia with a $5M grants scheme

DIGIT — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:00:51 +0000

The $5 million fund only allows projects with a physical presence in Southeast Asia to apply for the program which provides up to $100,000 plus technical and community support.

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