Colosseum Codex: Steel Framework, Metropolis API, Squads Card SDK
Steel Framework, Jupiter Metropolis API, Blinkathon Winners, Wormhole Era3, Hypernative on Solana
The project portal for the Radar Hackathon is now open for teams to submit project details and track progress. The official submission window is open from October 2 to October 8 at 11:59 PM PT.
Participants are encouraged to create a Twitter account for their project to engage with the crypto community and take the time to prepare your slide deck and pitch video.
I can't wait to see the projects that come out of Radar and good luck to everyone!
Here's more of the latest news for Solana devs...
🏗️ Steel Framework
Steel is a new open-source framework developed by Regolith Labs (Ore) to simplify the development of programs on the Solana blockchain.
The framework originated out of a desire to streamline common tasks, reduce boilerplate code, and provide more efficient interfaces for Solana development.
Steel provides a collection of tools and helper functions to reduce the complexity of Solana program development by simplifying the handling of tasks like instruction parsing, cross-program invocations (CPIs), and account data validation.
It's a work in progress but already provides several tools aimed at improving the developer experience:
Entrypoint Simplification: Steel reduces the entrypoint boilerplate code by offering helper functions to parse instructions before dispatching to core logic, speeding up initial setup.
Loaders for Account Data: Steel includes loaders to parse and validate account data, which are expected to evolve to return mutable or readonly references to inner account data.
Simplified CPIs: Common CPIs such as creating token accounts, transferring, minting, and burning tokens are simplified, making interactions between programs easier and more efficient.
Features like initialization scripts, IDL generation, and a no-std-entrypoint for performance optimization are part of Steel's roadmap.
Steel encourages contributions from the Solana developer community to help it grow and evolve as more developers get involved.
🏙️ Jupiter Metropolis API
The Metropolis API Platform by Jupiter introduces a powerful set of liquidity tools designed to streamline access to liquidity on Solana.
The platform consists of three key APIs:
Token API: This API provides detailed token information, including enhanced token metadata and community-verified token tags. It serves as a reliable source of truth for developers and protocols, offering token data that users can trust when interacting with tokens.
Price API (V2): The second version of the Price API delivers enriched, real-time price data and historical swap information from Jupiter.
It includes features like Confidence Level, indicating the reliability of the price, especially useful for tokens with wide spreads, and Liquidity Depth, which shows available liquidity and potential price impacts on larger trades.
Swap API: Designed to facilitate seamless transactions, this API provides features such as Dynamic Slippage and Instant Routing. It helps developers access the best token swap prices and estimates priority fees for successful transaction completion.
Metropolis aims to simplify integration with Solana’s liquidity, empowering developers to build sustainable applications by providing real-time, accurate, and comprehensive liquidity data.
💳 Squads Card SDK
The Squads Card SDK leverages the programmability and security of Squads Protocol smart accounts, which power the self-custodial architecture behind Fuse Pay, a virtual Visa card that allows users to spend stablecoins in real-world transactions directly from their Fuse wallet.
When a user creates a card account, a separate smart account is deployed, with the main Fuse account acting as the signer.
The SDK will allow other projects to easily integrate similar functionality, enabling them to launch card products on Solana with full user control, customizable spending limits, and time-locked withdrawals.
For developers, the Squads Card SDK opens up new opportunities to build card-based products that merge on-chain assets with everyday spending.
Squads Protocol is actively seeking design partners to help shape the future of the Squads Card SDK.
By participating in the design phase, developers can contribute to the SDK’s development, ensure it meets real-world needs, and take part in creating the next generation of Solana-based payment solutions.
Interested developers can reach out directly to the Squads team via DMs or participate in discussions on Solana developer forums.
Squads Card SDK Design Partners Wanted
⛓️ Wormhole Era3
Wormhole Era3 brings upgrades to enhance cross-chain interoperability and improve UX, offering Solana developers new features to build on.
- Composable Intents: Developers can chain multiple cross-chain actions into a single transaction, allowing for seamless asset swaps, DeFi operations, and other complex tasks across multiple blockchains, including Solana.
- Native Token Transfers (NTT): A new framework that eliminates liquidity fragmentation by preserving the native properties of tokens during transfers, meaning assets maintain their intrinsic qualities when moved across chains without needing to be wrapped. This ensures secure and fluid token movement for projects and financial institutions building on Solana.
- Enhanced SDKs: The Wormhole TypeScript SDK has been revamped, making it easier for developers to build cross-chain applications with advanced UI/UX capabilities.
- Institutional Integrations: Wormhole's new offerings cater to institutional needs, enabling Solana developers to build applications that align with capital markets and RWAs, as seen with partnerships like Securitize and integrations with Google Cloud and AMD.
These improvements in Era3 provide Solana developers tools for building multichain dApps while ensuring security and flexibility.
Wormhole Launches Era3 Adding Intents Protocols and Major User Experience Upgrades
🔒 Hypernative on Solana
Solana projects now have access to Hypernative's platform, including a dedicated risk dashboard and incident response support to enhance security for Solana’s developer ecosystem.
Hypernative’s platform monitors a wide range of risks, including program vulnerabilities, phishing, scams, and market manipulations, offering real-time threat detection and response for both the network and projects building on it.
Solana is now among more than 130 Web3 projects that utilize Hypernative's enterprise-grade platform, which monitors over $37 billion in digital assets across 40+ blockchains.
Developers building or managing funds on Solana can request a demo of Hypernative’s platform.
Solana Network and Projects Building on It Are Now Secured by Hypernative
⚡ Quick Hits
Optimizing Solana Programs: How to navigate trade-offs between ease of use, performance, and safety - Het Dagli
How to write a Solana program in Assembly - Sol Play
Maximizing Helius for Solana Development: A Comprehensive Guide - Udoka, AM
Building a Compressed Token Minting System with Next.js, Helius API & light Protocol - Bigjoejs
Blinkathon Winners Announced - @thesendcoin
Lessons learned building Blinks - @captainkong_eth
dYdX Foundation CEO Praises Solana’s Builder Culture - Solana Floor
Deep Dive: Solana DePIN - August 2024 - Syndica
Interview with Jason Yeager on content, marketing, and distribution - Based Charker
GoPlus Security Launches the Solana Token Security API - @GoPlusSecurity
⚙️ Tools & Resources
AirShip by Helius is an open-source tool designed to simplify and lower the cost of Solana token airdrops with a web version for airdrops with up to 200,000 recipients, and a CLI version for larger distributions.
Steel is a new framework for building smart contracts on Solana with a library of helper functions, macros, and code patterns for implementing secure and maintainable smart contracts.
vulacana lets you send the same RPC request to multiple providers and let the validators determine which one arrives first.
push-comm-rust is a Rust implementation of the Push Protocol Communicator contract for Solana.
👩🔧 Get Hired
- Helius is hiring a Head of Product responsible for shipping high impact developer products.
- Loopscale is seeking a Senior Backend/Infrastructure Engineer to help build the future of on-chain capital markets.
- Orca is hiring a Smart Contract Engineer to build efficient DeFi smart contracts in Rust.
- Bridgesplit is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer to help build the future of on-chain capital markets.
📅 Event Calendar
- Superteam Founders' Villa Season 2, Dubai, Oct 6th - 26th
🎧 Listen to This
Boys Club
I don't think I've featured Boys Club before, but it's a very entertaining and interesting podcast. It's a bit Ethereum heavy, but does cover crypto in general too, and the hosts share that they are looking into Solana more and more!
On this episode of the Feelings Check-In, Natasha fills Deana in on her fever dream of a trip to Singapore, where she attended two crypto conferences, Token2049 and Solana Breakpoint.
She shares insights on the trends she’s seeing in the Solana ecosystem, the crypto industry at large, and the underground parties.
Feelings Check-In on Singapore Conferences Token2049 & Solana Breakpoint
Bonus Episodes
Crypto's Killer Use Case Built On Solana | Arnold Lee - Lightspeed
Arnold Lee joins Lightspeed to discuss how Sphere is accelerating global payments for fintech companies by leveraging Spherenet built on the SVM, the problem with global payments, permissioned vs permissionless systems & more.
How DRiP Is Upending Web 2 Creator Revenue Models I Vibhu, DRiP - Unlayered
This week, Sal sits down with Vibhu, the founder of DRiP for a live interview recorded at the 2024 Breakpoint Conference in Singapore to talk about DRiP's superior earning potential vs Web2 incumbents, their new iOS app, upcoming permissionless creator onboarding,and where he sees the project in 5 years time.
Solana Breakpoint Edition - [De]Weekly
In this week's [De]Weekly Solana Breakpoint Edition, co-hosted by DeGods Co-President @sunnymaanz and featuring Chase Barker from the Solana Foundation, explore how the Foundation decides which projects to fund, its approach to content creation, and what makes the Solana community so special.
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