Bringing blazing speed, low fees, and scalability to Decentralized Finance — Register for the DeFi hackathon today at solana.com/defi for a chance to win up to $200k in prizes and an additional $200k in seed funding!** The Solana Foundation is excited to team up with Project Serum to host a global hackathon focused on DeFi! Registration for the event is now…

Intro 2020 was a difficult and challenging year for many. Despite the global challenges, the entire Solana ecosystem flourished and grew exponentially. Overcoming many exigent tasks, Solana saw its most accomplished year to date. From launching Mainnet Beta, to growing a dedicated global community of over 650k, to onboarding over 350…

A look into the growing number of projects building on Solana. This post will be updated on a bi-weekly basis with the latest news. There are now over 120 projects in the Solana ecosystem and counting! To celebrate these milestones, the Solana Foundation will be releasing a bi-weekly ecosystem update…

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 hours. …

Bridging Solana ledger data onto Arweave’s Permanent Network — Today, Bering Waters, a leading OTC, venture, and technology group based in Hong Kong, announced the “SOLAR Bridge,” a first-of-its-kind bridge linking Solana and Arweave. The bridge is now live and was entirely designed, built, and funded as part of Bering Waters commitment to the Solana and Arweave ecosystems. …

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 from being confirmed. The Solana team is actively working with the validator community to restart the network. No funds are at risk, and the team’s primary…

With over 1,000 registrations & 60+ project submissions from builders globally! — To accelerate the already rapid growth of the ecosystem, the Solana Foundation hosted its first online hackathon, bringing industry leaders and builders from around the world together for two weeks of hacking on Solana. …

Solana’s ecosystem has been expanding rapidly since the mainnet beta launch earlier this year. To accelerate the growth of the ecosystem, the Solana Foundation has started awarding grants to promising teams building projects ranging from protocol infrastructure to end-user applications. Today, the Solana Foundation is excited to announce the first…

Allocating 100 million SOL toward censorship resistance — This is the first post in a three-part blog series on initiatives the Solana Foundation is undertaking to enhance the network’s censorship resistance over the coming months. …