Solana

Hackathon

Meet the winners of the Riptide hackathon

Bringing the next wave of high-impact projects to the Solana ecosystem.

Events

Ready for Round 2? More Solana Hacker Houses are coming soon

Is a Solana Hacker House happening in your city?

Energy Use Reports

Solana’s Energy Use Report: March 2022

Average emissions per validator shrank, while Solana’s overall carbon footprint grew because of network growth.

Hackathon

Welcome to the Solana Riptide Hackathon

Let’s get building with up to $5 million in prizes and seed funding.

Events

Introducing the Solana Hacker House Inaugural World Tour

Bringing Solana into the real world, one city at a time.

Announcements

Solana Foundation announces blockchain is carbon neutral, thanks to carbon offsets

The Solana Foundation continues to make the energy-efficient network even more sustainable.

Announcements

Announcing the new Solana ecosystem directory

Now anyone can submit their projects and vote for their favorites.

Energy Use Reports

Solana’s Energy Use Report: November 2021

The average Solana transaction takes less energy than many other common household activities.

Hackathon Featured

Meet the winners of Solana IGNITION

With over 500+ project submissions from builders around the world!

Update

Solana Ecosystem News

UPDATE: Please note that this page has been depreciated. You can see the latest ecosystem updates here. [https://solana.com/news/tag/newsletter] 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

Announcements

9-14 Network Outage Initial Overview

On September 14th, the Solana network was offline for 17 hours. No funds were lost, and the network returned to full functionality in under 24 hours.

Solana Breakpoint

Announcing the Breakpoint Global Fellows Program

Solana Labs, in partnership with Jump Crypto, is proud to announce the Breakpoint Global Fellows Program.

Solana Breakpoint

Announcing Breakpoint: the annual Solana conference

Announcing Breakpoint: the annual Solana conference

Crypto Featured

Announcing the Solana Creator Fund

Announcing the Solana Creator Fund

Hackathon

Announcing winners of the Solana Season Hackathon

Over 13,000 builders registered for the hackathon and 350 teams submitted projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and beyond.

Hackathon Featured

Announcing Solana Season

A worldwide hackathon with up to $1m in prizes and seed funding

Announcements

Block Dream Fund launches 10m fund to support the Solana Ecosystem

Block Dream Fund, the investment arm of the exchange OKEx, launched a strategic investment fund that will bring $20 million of new capital to accelerate the growth and development of key projects in the Solana ecosystem. Block Dream Fund was established by theexchange OKEx in February. OKEx has allocated $100

Ecosystem

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 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

Defi Featured

Winners of the Solana X Serum DeFi Hackathon

With over 3,000 registrations & 100+ project submissions from builders globally!

Blockchain

Announcing the Solana Foundation x Serum DeFi Hackathon

Bringing blazing speed, low fees, and scalability to Decentralized Finance

Solana

Year In Review 2020

2020 was a difficult and challenging year for many. Despite the global challenges, Solana and the entire Solana ecosystem managed to…

Post-Mortems

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…

Solana

Announcing The SOLAR Bridge

Bridging Solana ledger data onto Arweave’s Permanent Network

Post-Mortems

Solana Network Update — Live Updates

Solana network outage on December 4th, 2020

Hackathon

Announcing the Winners of Solana’s Inaugural Hackathon

With over 1,000 registrations & 60+ project submissions from builders globally!