Colosseum Codex: Radar Analytics, Submarine Jam, SolQuest
Colosseum Analytics, Submarine Jam, Solana Zero, SolQuest, Parallel VMs, SOON, Token Metadata Optimization
📊 Colosseum Analytics
Colosseum has added a new Analytics page so the community can visualize real-time hackathon data, funnels, and more.
Data on the dashboard includes:
- New Users (30 days)
- Hackathon Registrations
- Countries Participating
- Registrations Over Time
- Top 10 Countries
- Most Popular Verticals
Additional metrics will be added as Radar kicks off.
🎸 Submarine Jam
Rubians announced the Solana Submarine Jam, a game development event designed to help participants kickstart their projects for the upcoming Radar hackathon.
There is no theme for this jam, just build your "little submarine" and swim into the ocean where hopefully you will be noticed!
The Submarine Jam runs from September 2 to September 8, 2024, and offers a unique approach by providing early momentum for developers. The event aims to foster community connections and make the hackathon experience smoother.
Participants who successfully submit their games by the deadline will equally share a prize of 420 USDC.
To qualify, developers must use the Godot engine and the Solana SDK addon.
0️⃣ Light Protocol Solana Zero Side Track
Solana Zero is a new side track for the upcoming Radar hackathon, focusing on ZK Compression technology.
Running from September 2 to October 8, 2024, the event offers $45,000 in prizes and is powered by Solana Foundation, Helius Labs, and Light Protocol.
Participants are encouraged to register, use ZK Compression, and submit their projects to the Radar hackathon.
Winners will receive personal assistance with VC introductions and go-to-market strategies and help accelerate their startup journey.
🗺️ Solana Quest
SolQuest is a new quest-based learning platform for Solana. It allows users to code, copy, and edit quests to build Solana dApps easily.
The platform also mints a portfolio for users, where they can manage completed challenges and social handles.
The first quest introduces SolQuest and its functionality, while subsequent quests cover topics like Solana on-chain operations, SPL token minting and transfers, building a lending and borrowing dApp, CRUD operations on Solana, and creating an escrow vault dApp.
Each quest provides hands-on experience with various aspects of Solana development.
🌊 Parallel VM Engines Compared
2077 Research, in collaboration with Eclipse Foundation, has published a comprehensive paper comparing high-performance virtual machines (VMs) designed for blockchain execution.
The study focuses on two major paradigms for scaling execution:
- Optimistic Concurrency Control (Block-STM)
- Pessimistic Concurrency Control (Sealevel)
The paper provides an in-depth analysis of both VMs, including their architecture, throughput, and use cases.
A comparative analysis reveals that Sealevel, used by Solana and Eclipse Foundation, outperforms Block-STM (Aptos) in performance benchmarks.
The research offers critical insights into the operational efficiencies and scalability potential of these VM models, highlighting SVM's superior performance.
Block-STM vs. Sealevel: A Comparison of Parallel Execution Engines
⛓️ Introducing SOON
SOON is a rollup stack built on the SVM designed to deliver exceptional performance across any Layer 1 (L1) blockchain.
By leveraging a Decoupled SVM instead of a forked SVM, SOON optimizes parallel transaction processing, boosting throughput and reducing latency.
This architecture provides superior security and reduces data availability (DA) wastage, making it a highly efficient solution for developers seeking to build scalable dApps.
SOON’s Decoupled SVM framework separates critical components, allowing for better customization compared to existing rollup solutions. The stack’s modular architecture, combining SVM and OP Stack, allows for flexible deployment on various L1s, ensuring robust security and optimal performance.
For Solana developers, SOON offers a powerful platform to deploy high-performance rollups on any L1, expanding the reach of SVM-based applications.
The open-source nature of SOON Stack means developers can easily spin up their own SVM rollups, leveraging a proven architecture with increased scalability.
🚀 Metaplex Token Metadata Optimization
Metaplex announced an upcoming optimization to Solana's Token Metadata, which will reduce the size of all future metadata accounts, lowering data storage costs and making Solana more cost-efficient.
Products that fetch metadata from Token Metadata (TM) might be affected by this change, so developers are urged to implement necessary updates to avoid disruptions.
The Rust SDK has been compatible with this update for over a year, while the JS SDK remains unaffected.
The update will be deployed on Solana's devnet on September 9th and on the mainnet on September 30th. Developers are encouraged to test and prepare for a smooth transition.
⚡ Quick Hits
Areas to Focus on for the Radar Hackathon: Business Model, Traction, and Niche - @tonyplasencia3
Top 10 DeFi Ideas for Solana Radar Hackathon - @superteam
Applications are open for Solana Labs Incubator Program Cohort 2 - Solana Labs
A Complete Guide to Wallets and dApps on Solana - Ari
Trident Fuzzing Framework Updated Docs - Trident
Solscan Adds Supports the Anchor 0.3 Framework - @solscanofficial
Backpack Learn is Live - Backpack
SpringX Solana Accelerator Cohort 1 - SpringX
⚙️ Tools & Resources
fastify-blinkserver offers bare bones support for Blinks on Solana using Fastify in the backend.
LazyAccount is an Anchor PR to add a new account type, LazyAccount, that allows deserialization of individual fields on-demand when you're running into performance issues.
Solana Target Switcher is a VS Code extension designed to help you switch between your default Rust build target and the "solana" target OS for developers working on cross-platform Solana libraries.
blinks-node-express is a Solana blink actions client implemented in NodeJS using Express and Bun.
💸 Funding
Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) has closed on a “co-builder” funding round for its Solana-based layer-2 scaling solution. Participants include executives from Solana Foundation, Solana Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Wormhole, Anza, and Superteam.
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Ore is hiring a Rust Developer
- xLabs is hiring a Senior Smart Contract Engineer to work on Wormhole
- Stardust is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build gaming infrastructure and AdTech products
- Anza is hiring a Software Engineer, Consensus to help build Anza's Agave client
📅 Event Calendar
- Solana Korea Blockchain Week Mixer, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 3
- QuickNode workshop for Solana Radar Hackers, Virtual Sept. 5
- Solana Spectrum, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 6
🎧 Listen to This
Crypto Conversation
Carrie Kellar is the co-founder and CTO of BAXUS, a global marketplace for the world’s most collectible spirits.
BAXUS modernizes the collectible spirits market by bringing it online and constructing a liquid marketplace that seamlessly connects buyers and sellers.
Built on Solana, the BAXUS Marketplace harnesses open Web3 payment infrastructure to reduce costs, increase transparency, and infuse liquidity into what has historically been a fragmented, offline market.
Leveraging blockchain technology, BAXUS ensures unparalleled transparency and access, enabling real-time authentication, storage, and trading.
BAXUS – The Peer-to-Peer Marketplace for Premium Spirits
Bonus Episodes
SkyTrade: Building The World's First Air Rights Market I Jonathan Dockrell - Unlayered
Jonathan Dockrell from SkyTrade, a project which is creating a marketplace for property owners to sell the Air Rights above their properties. SkyTrade utilizes novel RWA tokenization techniques on the Solana blockchain as well as a Depin-based Drone tracking app to bring into the light a previously opaque and illiquid asset class.
Crypto’s Instant Payments Breakthrough | Ben Mills - Lightspeed
Ben Mills, the Co-founder of Meso, joins Lightspeed to discuss peer-to-peer payments, the early days of P2P payment apps, how crypto can improve upon these web2 systems, building trust with users, the unique challenges crypto founders face, and how mainstream adoption is a meme.
Follow @mikehale on X or Warpcast!
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