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Flash sale tickets are available for a limited time over the next 72 hours for Solana Breakpoint 2025, the annual conference celebrating the Solana community ☀️ One year from today, Breakpoint comes to Etihad Arena in the bustling international hub of Abu Dhabi from Dec. 11 to 13th, 2025 🇦🇪 Solana Breakpoint offers an opportunity to learn from web3 industry leaders, get up to date on the latest from the Solana ecosystem, and connect with tech founders, developers, and investors from across the globe. The $250 flash sale is your opportunity to get tickets at an early bird rate. Starting Q2 2025, tickets will be available for: -$500 for general admission -$250 for developers and creators (application only) -$99 for students (application only) 🎟️ Learn more about Solana Breakpoint and get your ticket today: https://lnkd.in/gpci_7JG

Is Perena reshaping the state of stablecoin liquidity on Solana for the better? Perena's TVL steadily growing. Up nearly $1m since 12/17, and only 8 days after launching Petals (points) program. This is also less than a week after announcing their $3m pre-seed round led by borderless capital. As stablecoins continue to grow in both importance and adoption, the market has been plagued by fragmentation, inefficiencies, and poor user experiences. Perena’s innovative approach could be the blueprint for solving these challenges, especially as the stablecoin ecosystem matures. The $200B+ stablecoin market isn’t going away anytime soon. But for the average user, navigating it is far from seamless: • Liquidity is scattered across isolated pools. • New stablecoin projects face massive capital requirements. • Swapping between stablecoins? Often a headache with unnecessary costs. By introducing Numéraire, a stablecoin-focused automated market maker (AMM), Perena is creating a unified liquidity layer. Instead of stablecoin issuers needing to bootstrap their own liquidity, they can integrate into Perena’s hub-and-spoke model. This allows seamless creation and swapping of stablecoins while optimizing liquidity across the entire system. Take the Seed Pool, for example. It aggregates top stablecoins like USDC, USDT, and PYUSD into a single pool, represented by a liquidity token called USD*. Growth Pools then extend this functionality, enabling smaller stablecoin projects to tap into the same liquidity without risking the integrity of the core pool. All of this is built on Solana, a high-speed, low-cost blockchain that delivers an excellent user experience. Transactions are fast, affordable, and scalable—making it a perfect foundation for modernizing stablecoin infrastructure. But is this enough to address stablecoin adoption challenges at scale? The difference in stablecoin liquidity between Solana and Ethereum is staggering. Solana hosts around $4.5 billion in stablecoin liquidity, whereas Ethereum commands over $100 billion—more than 20 times the liquidity. While Perena is solving fundamental issues on Solana, the question remains: can this approach scale to compete with Ethereum’s dominance, or will the ecosystem’s relative size limit its impact? Fragmented liquidity and clunky UX have been holding the stablecoin market back for years. Projects like Perena could finally provide the infrastructue needed to make stablecoins and payments apps built on Solana more practical and accessible for mass widespread adoption. What do you think? Are we witnessing the start of something revolutionary for stablecoin infrastructure, or will the Solana vs. Ethereum liquidity gap limit its potential?

Big tech profits from static, outdated maps built with your data. It's time for an upgrade. 🗺️ Meet NATIX Network, built on Solana—where drivers create living, dynamic maps that update in real-time using sensor data on their phones. Every drive improves map accuracy, every contributor gets rewarded, and the community owns the result. Over 115m kilometers mapped so far and counting. If you want to learn more, check out the link below in the comments to get started with Natix.

Solana's Token Extensions unlock powerful tools for building permissioned tokens on a public blockchain. jon wong from the Solana Foundation explains how PayPal USD leverages Token Extensions on Solana to reduce risk, improve compliance, and streamline development. In this session from The Bridge conference, Nick Ducoff and jon wong break down Solana Token Extensions with real-world examples and use cases. Watch the full recording here: https://lnkd.in/eTJCm_-K

2025 will be a huge year for Abu Dhabi as more talent moves to the UAE. Phoenix Group, the first cryptocurrency firm listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, and Solana Foundation are great examples of forward-thinking teams that are already active here. Follow Superteam UAE to learn more.

As AI transforms industries, demand for high-performance computing has never been higher - yet access remains concentrated in the hands of a few tech giants. The irony? Millions of powerful GPUs sit idle in homes and offices worldwide, while startups and creators sometimes struggle to access the computing power they need. Enter decentralized compute networks on Solana. Teams like Render Network Foundation, io.net, and Arcium are building the Airbnbs of computing power – platforms where anyone can contribute their idle GPUs to earn passive income or access high-performance computing on demand. This isn't just about efficiency — it's about democratizing access to the infrastructure that powers innovation and reducing single points of failure. A global network of shared computing power, ready when you need it.

A new web3 startup is going head-to-head vs. Uber and Lyft. This secret unlock is giving them a MASSIVE edge 👇 Teleport works exactly like today’s ridesharing apps. Except they replaced the expensive, centralized middleman with an open-source program that runs on the Solana blockchain. Since launching in May, Teleport has onboarded 13,000+ riders in 4 major states, with no signs of slowing down 🏎️💨 This is the crazy part: Riders are PAYING LESS and drivers are EARNING MORE 🤯 For the SAME trip, riders paid ~21% less using Teleport: ❌ Traditional — $13.16 ✅ With Teleport — $10.36 AND the driver earned ~19% more using Teleport: ❌ Traditional — $7.36 ✅ With Teleport — $8.80 In fact, Teleport drivers earn on average 85% of the fare vs. other ridesharing apps that only give drivers ~56% 💸 Solana makes this all possible. Using Solana to transparently coordinate riders, drivers, and payments, Teleport can compete with traditional rideshare business models 🚕 Teleport is an incredible company in an emerging sector of crypto apps called Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs). At Helius, we’re helping the most ambitious founders scale generational startups across every vertical, including DePIN 🚀 If you’re building in Solana, migrating from Ethereum, or exploring ways to bring the benefits of blockchain to your company, get in touch. Our mission is to help you accelerate 🔥

Breaking News: Electric Capital's 2024 Developer Report shows Solana as the number one ecosystem for new developers in 2024! This marks the first time any ecosystem has surpassed Ethereum for new developers since 2016, with 7,625 new devs building on Solana this year. Dive into some highlights from the report, including significant community-driven international growth (number one developer ecosystem in India) and a look at onchain metrics — where Solana surpassed Ethereum in onchain settlement volume, with $574B equivalent settled across Solana DeFi this year.

Digital assets builders and issuers: Chainalysis now fully supports Solana SPL tokens 👏

A Technical Blueprint for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks on Solana 🏗️ Dive into the Solana DePIN architecture guide — a technical and product roadmap for crypto founders building decentralized physical networks. The Solana DePIN tech stack is maturing fast — here’s a few highlights: • ZK compression vs Merkle trees for rewards: At scale (5M users), you're looking at ~50% lower network storage costs. For networks with thousands of nodes, that's significant infrastructure savings you can reinvest in growth and product. • Token management with built-in treasury controls via Squads • Automated rewards distribution with permissionless "reward cranks" • Specialized proof engines (Witness Chain for location, Helium for coverage) • Modular governance frameworks ready for progressive decentralization Coming from a background working on Ethereum? Render, Geodnet, and Xnet have blazed the migration trail for EVM builders. Whether you're building wireless networks, mapping solutions, energy distribution tools, or sensor grids, the technical foundation for scaling DePIN with Solana is solid. Get started with the full guide here: https://lnkd.in/g9ircYVT