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Welcome
Solana September
- Welcome to the official launch of the Solana Monthly newsletter. Every month the highlights will be aggregated for developers to be easily informed on network and ecosystem updates. The newsletter is created by Solana U (University), a platform curated for Education, Blockchain Advocacy and P2P Learning. Solana U will be kicking off with Solana September, which will feature an online event with speakers from the ecosystem and developer workshops. More details on the official date and time will be available in the August monthly post.
Solana Network Upgrades - Numerous network improvements have begun rolling out. End of June, QUIC was released on testnet (soon mainnet-beta) to combine TPC with UDP for flow control (detection of malicious actors). Other changes are in-progress, which include Stake-weighted QoS and Fee markets to allow for bidding on top slots.
SMS and Saga Launch - Alongside the major network improvements, the Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) and Saga phone have been released and will be available for those that pre-order in Q1 of next year (2023). The Saga phone will feature the Solana Mobile Stack (open-source) and will allow developers to have full control of the new Android OS.
The Saga phone will feature SMS will be Saga from Solana (pre-orders will launch in Q1 2023), that features a 6.67" OLED screen, 512GB Storage, and 12GB RAM. The cost is currently 1,000 USDC and pre-order requires a 100 USDC deposit. Developer phones are expected to be shipping in October.
Development
SMS SDK - The SDK for Solana Mobile Stack was launched in parallel and is available for developers. Some key features include the new security layer for private keys (Seed Vault), integration with dApps (Mobile Wallet Adapter), and the new Solana dApp store.
xNFT (Backpack) - xNFT are eXecutable spl-tokens that allows the user to have NFTs that can interact with a wide variety of different dApps. The first release for xNFT is Backpack which manages private keys and connects to applications.
Token-List Deprecated - The infamous token-list repo has officially been deprecated and the new format allows you to update the metadata to the token directly on-chain! The new token docs (linked in the repo above) also contains a scaffold to easily create new tokens and update spl-token metadata: https://token-creator-lac.vercel.app/
Soldev - Module 3 Released - Since the original launch of the new coursework from Solana Foundation at the Active x Wormhole Hackathon. Two new modules have been pushed to soldev in June and module 4 is currently in development and will be available soon
Solana Playground (Browser IDE) - For new developers that are seeking for a browser IDE similar to remix, the Solana Playground is available in beta and the Solana CLI is now LIVE
Refreshed Anchor Docs - Coral just released the new refreshed anchor docs! For original anchor book, please refer to the following link: https://book.anchor-lang.com
StackExchange Passed Vote - In efforts to move the Q&A away from the Solana Tech discord, a proposal was submitted to aggregate questions into a StackExchange. In June we officially passed the StackExchange proposal and is in commitment status!
New Serum Dev. Tool Kit - Serum has pushed a ton of new content for developers, including SDK, CLI and Serum Explorer: https://github.com/project-serum/serum-dev-tools
New function 'realloc' to increase or decrease program owned accounts
pub fn realloc( &self, new_len: usize, zero_init: bool ) -> Result<(), ProgramError>Fund and rent-excempt account, then relloc account
pda_account.realloc(new_size, false)?;
Ecosystem
Phantom Integrates Coinbase - Phantom will have direct Coinbase integration and Coinbase Pay will utilize the phantom wallet $SOL
Magic Eden Raises 130M (Series B) - Magic Eden successfully completes Series B round at a 1.6B Valuation