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Data Wars, Oversized Backpack, Decentralised App Store & More
We Look At Solana's Discoverability, Data Wars, Solana Wallets, A Decentralised App Store & More.
Welcome back!
Since coming out of stealth mode, we received a wave of feedback and kind words from the community — thank you so much for that!
In this week's edition, we'll look at Solana's discoverability, data wars, Solana wallets, a decentralised app store and more.
Let's get into it!
In the news bites section, click on any underlined heading / hyperlink to learn more.
Spotlight
Solana's Discoverability
The discoverability of Solana — developer resources, NFTs, DeFi etc. — remains in its infancy. This makes it difficult for new users, regardless of whether they are new to web3/crypto or just Solana, to take their first steps in the ecosystem.
Web3 will fail.
That's because we’re making it unnecessarily difficult for people to understand the importance and benefits.
Here’s how to lower the barrier so that more people can be brought into web3 🧵
— J264G (@J264G)
2:03 PM • Aug 23, 2022
The sentiment appears to be changing, though, as developers seem to be shifting their focus to improving their marketing and communication efforts.
all devs focus on mastering technical skills (obviously)
but what's grossly overlooked is the ability to simplify & communicate highly complex technical topics to less technical people
specially in a field as complex (and full of jargon) like crypto, this is even more crucial
— mert | helius.xyz | 🔥 💃 (@0xMert_)
3:31 PM • Jan 11, 2023
Chart Of The Week
When in doubt, zoom out. @solana
— mattytay (@mattytay)
10:10 PM • Jan 11, 2023
News Bites
Data Wars: Both Dune and Flipside are popular data platforms for Solana. However, it appears that Dune needs significantly longer than Flipside when running the same query.
Real Estate Derivatives: Parcl — a DeFi protocol that allows users to long or short global real estate markets — is now live on Mainnet. Currently, the protocol only offers exposure to US markets, global markets will follow suit.
The Otherside: Phantom is going multi chain and has activated beta codes for community members that want to test out the new cross chain functionalities.
Oversized Backpack: Armani reveals several innovations the Backpack wallet will feature, most exiting of which are xNFTs, wallet to wallet messaging, Ledger-only onboarding, multi-mnemonic wallets and one combined interface for both Ethereum and Solana tokens.
Backpack. Where your ETH and Solana live together, happily ever after in 1 wallet.
— G.bonk 🎒💃 (@Crypt0xG)
4:24 AM • Jan 12, 2023
Decentralised App Store: Coral shares an MVP of its decentralised app store. Paired with Saga, this setup might truly be able to challenge the App Store and Play Store — or at the very least make Apple and Google reconsider their current stance.
Gigantic Galaxy: Jupiter continues to go from strength to strength and might now be among the top 10 most popular dApps across all chains. This is mainly due to the launch of limit orders, priority transaction fee support and the trading volume of $BONK. The protocol team also released Jupiter Terminal — an open-source and customisable swap UI that can easily be add with just a few lines of code.
Blockchain Illumination: Wireless Anon launches Lumina to bring about more transparency when it comes to Solana transactions.
1/ Introducing @lumina_labs
A new project to make Solana transactions more readable for everyday users.
— wireless anon (@wireless_anon)
9:51 PM • Jan 10, 2023
Community Gaming: After > 20,000 rounds of on-chain Pokémon, the costs are in: less than 45 SOL! What is more, accounts can be closed and all SOL can be reclaimed.
SLC Calling: From February 1 to 28 mtnDAO will be hosting its 3rd consecutive hacker house in Salt Lake City, which will mainly focus on the future of DeFi and NFTs.
Solana Winter School: From February 15 Ackee will run a 9-week online course for anyone who wishes to start their developer journey on Solana.
Jito 🫂 BONK: Jito launches the first BONK validator that will donate 100% of commission revenue to the Bonk community to buy and burn $BONK.
Monke King: Nom has been appointed as the new CEO of MonkeDAO. MonkeDAO is one of the oldest and most active communities on Solana, and with Nom — an innovative NFT expert and an early BONK contributor — at the helm, things might get exciting.
Keks & Giggles
"We've charged the Titanic with an unregistered iceberg encounter in order to protect its passengers."
— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees)
9:20 AM • Jan 13, 2023
That’s a wrap.
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