Updates, Announcements, and Explainers

Plans to Improve Network Upgrades

Delivering a fast, reliable and scalable network in order to move toward a better, decentralized web remains a top priority. The issues around last week’s 1.14 network update — which focused on improvements for speed and scale — made it clear how maintaining stability…

Announcing the Solana Foundation x Serum DeFi Hackathon

Bringing blazing speed, low fees, and…

Year In Review 2020

2020 was a difficult and challenging year for many. Despite the global challenges…

Solana Ecosystem News

A look into the growing number of projects building on Solana. This post will be updated on a bi-weekly basis with the…

Mainnet Beta Stall - Postmortem

On Friday, December 4th at 1:46pm UTC, Solana’s Mainnet Beta network halted new block confirmations, which resulted in a temporary outage. The core developer team and Solana validator community immediately responded and were able to successfully restart the network within 6…

Announcing The SOLAR Bridge

Bridging Solana ledger data onto Arweave’s Permanent Network

Solana Network Update — Live Updates

Solana network outage on December 4th, 2020

At approximately 1:46pm UTC on December 4th, 2020, the Solana Mainnet Beta cluster stopped producing blocks at slot 53,180,900, which prevented any new transactions…

Announcing the Winners of Solana’s Inaugural Hackathon

With over 1,000 registrations & 60+ project…