Sharing this story from
@TheBlock__
that highlights quite a few positive points regarding
@solana
and recent growth - increase in number of active addresses, transaction fees, and strength of the blockchain overall.
More of this 👏🏼
⭐️personal news⭐️
v excited to be joining
@SolanaFndn
as their Head of Comms!! tough shoes to fill
@Austin_Federa
but look forward to all the great work we will do together. 🫡
the last year w/
@21Shares
and
@hany
/
@OpheliaBSnyder
have been nothing short of amazing. thank you 🫶
gm, Some Personal News
When I joined the Solana community in January of 2021, there were about 35 programs on the network, and just over 20 people between Labs and Foundation. It seemed like a weird move at the time – Solana wasn't even a network I was thinking about until…
.
@Visa
published this really thoughtful deep dive about
@solana
. If you’re 🐂 about Solana, LFG. If you’re 🐻 about Solana, this if for you!
“While we believe that there will likely be multiple blockchain networks that the payments ecosystem will use, we see potential for the…
Lots of internal discussions were had with myself and those
@TheBlock__
. Some mistakes were made.
@TheBlock__
is trying to do right by us here. More good things to come.
We all learn and grow from our mistakes. I appreciate
@TheBlock__
for hearing us out, our community is…
WOW. Incredibly fast and seamless onboarding. This was insanely easy to port over from
@ATT
. Mind blown. 🤯
LFG
@helium_mobile
- can't beat $20/month. 🙌📱📶
👶Personal news👶
I’ll be going on maternity leave and returning back to work in January 2024. In the meantime follow
@meganenright_
or email press
@solana
.org for anything
@SolanaFndn
comms related. Thank you all! 🩵
I am just blown away by how supportive and amazing the Solana community is. Thank you everyone for your thoughtful answers! Safe to say we have a lot of work to do but excited to do it along side y’all & our amazing team. 🙏🏻
1/🏦Breaking: Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement Pilot to Solana
@Visa
is scaling their USDC settlement pilot to include the Solana blockchain, enabling enterprise-grade throughput at virtually no cost for Visa issuers and merchant acquirers on Solana.
Yesterday marked my one year
@SolanaFndn
🥳🎈
Some observations:
💜This community is resilient
📈There are SO many incredible teams and founders building really cool shit that will change the 🌎 as we know it
🧑🏼🚒Less FUD overall
Thank you 🫶
Gm. Nice article this am in
@FortuneMagazine
! Great content and more on the 🚀momentum we’ve been having these last two months.
Positive feature on
@solana
is a win. 👏🏼
BREAKING:
@SolanaFndn
WELCOMES MEGHAN HUGHES (WHO JOINED LAST MONTH) AS VP OF MARKETING AND
@ariellesobel
(WHO IS JOINING THIS WEEK) AS HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS -
@Austin_Federa
IS NOW FULLY IMMERSED IN HEAD OF STRATEGY ROLE
🤯🤯🤯🤯
@solana
x
@Paxos
"
@fortunemagazine
Exclusive: NY financial regulator approves Paxos expansion to Solana, allowing for its first stablecoin issuance beyond Ethereum"
It’s only Wednesday and my team has spent their week meeting & helping out 8+ incredible teams [w/ their comms] building on
@solana
.
This community is on 🔥.
This girl is 😴.
I love
@solana
💜.
Gm ☕️.
One of my first tweets when I joined
@solana
foundation…6 months later and I think we’ve made huge progress. This is not a solo effort, it’s all of us. It’s the community & the entire
@SolanaFndn
&
@solanalabs
team doing incredible work. It’s every ecosystem team, dev, creator…
I saw
@aeyakovenko
wearing army pants and flip flops, so I wore army pants and flip flops. (If you get it, you get it. If not, we can't be friends. jk)
Welcome little fren!
@drip_haus
@tensor
Come join us next week where we chat best practices & advice w/ the
@SolanaFndn
teams who run communications, events and social! 🗞️🎤🤳🏼
If you’re an ecosystem team building on
@solana
, you don’t want to miss this. 💜
Wow. So many of you reached out about the PR Toolkit and now have it! 🙏🏻💜
If I were to host a X space about
@solana
&
@SolanaFndn
communications/PR/media best practices would you be interested and want to attend?
Would be ideal for teams building on
@solana
and looking to…
big shoutout to
@__arielle__
who has been killing it w.r.t media relations and comms opportunities for Solana
I've noticed a big shift
absolutely give her a follow to stay up to date with solana comms
Please help me welcome
@meganenright_
to the
@solana
foundation comms team! Give her a follow and say hi! She is a comms super ⭐️ and already crushing it. 💜💪
Since joining the
@SolanaFndn
as comms manager, I've been blown away by the incredibly cool projects and teams building in the ecosystem. So grateful to play a role in telling these stories 🌟📰
"
@solana
's development illustrates how generative AI tools could feasibly be used to simplify a Web3 experience—which has been a major point of friction for traditional brands."
great story by
@asabhiken
in
@adage
.
GM, it’s week 4!! 🙏🏻
Biggest takeaways:
- I ❤️ the
@solana
community sm
- There’s so much to be done & I’m more excited than ever 🦾
-
@solanamobile
is beautiful 🥰
- Last but not least, the team is just incredible. I work with the smartest & most thoughtful group in the…
A day late but very thankful for:
-My new beautiful baby boy and becoming a Mother🧸👶🏻
-All the Mothers out there because YOU are incredible 💪🏼
-My family and friends 🥰
-This
@solana
community who became family and welcomed me with open arms & trusted me! I’ll be forever…
I’ve been so immersed in the sweetest baby land & I plan to stay here for a bit longer BUT just coming here to say…
SOLANA & BREAKPOINT 💜💜💜💜
Cheering y’all on from the sidelines and so excited to see all of the amazing content over the next few days.
Special shoutout to…
Gm & happy Friday. Incredible week! Quick re-cap for those that missed all the action:
💻Solang by
@solanalabs
(a compiler enabling developers to write smart contracts on
@solana
in Solidity, the primary programming language of Ethereum.)
🎮GameShift by
@solanalabs
(unified…
CALLING MY
@SOLANA
CREW 👇
What is your dream
@solana
headline/story? I want as many answers as possible! LFG.💜
I'd like to make some (if not all) happen in 2024. 💪
“Developer retention in
@solana
ecosystem increased in 2023, foundation reports”
🗞️10/10 article
📈Great release from the
@SolanaFndn
🚒Devs are on 🔥
Thank you
@TheBlock__
!
Come join us next week where we chat best practices & advice w/ the
@SolanaFndn
teams who run communications, events and social! 🗞️🎤🤳🏼
If you’re an ecosystem team building on
@solana
, you don’t want to miss this. 💜
3/ Upgrades such as stake-weighted Quality of Service (QoS) went live and improved network performance, with more in progress.
Network uptime was 100% in Q2 2023.
Track upgrade progress:
Wild Techcrunch article on Solana
Chapter Two already has more sales in 30 hours than Saga did in an entire year 🤯🤯
huge props to:
@bonk_inu
, the solana community, and the labs team for taking ambitious swings in the face of adversity
future of mobile crypto is on Solana
I’m always here to listen and receive feedback but our community team is also an excellent resource. The only rule: be kind. 🫡
Check the community team out 👇🏻
The Solana Foundation is here to listen!
Have ideas, suggestions on what we could be doing better, or just want someone to talk to?
Slide in the DMs of the community team, and we will make sure your voice is heard:
@chrisdotsol
@raffdotsol
@MetaPsilo
@KricoyLL
@Alevtina_Y
***Engineers have already found the resolution and the patch has been released. We are just waiting for mainnet-beta validators to upgrade and restart.
@laurashin
would be great if you updated your article and tweet accordingly. Thank you!
🚨 Almost a year after one of its most significant incidents, Solana is going through a major outage again. Performance issues halted the blockchain, with engineers and validators actively working on a fix.
🖊️
@juampiaranovich
🔗
Day in the life of a comms professional working at the
@SolanaFndn
. Since we made this fun little graphic we’ve had about 20+ more articles to correct. 🧑🚒🧯
And to clarify, Solana did not have an April 2023 outage. 🙄
FUD fighters never stop. 🫡
it's really nice to see the media covering the network congestion in a factual way. the headlines are neutral to (dare I say) even positive.
we still have a long way to go but it's moments like these where we know progress is being made. 🫡
"We see this as a catalyst for a wave of new users to discover the usability and power of the Solana network—and stay for the long term." -
@Austin_Federa
Thanks
@FortuneMagazine
and
@niamhrowe7
🫡.
Gm gm ☕️
Changed my twitter handle & then realized all the tweets I was previously tagged in don’t work 🤦🏻♀️. Solana fam help me out here and point ppl in the right direction if they can’t find me. 🫶
Day 3. LFG 🚀
gm 💜
First official day back to work after maternity leave. Bittersweet but excited to dive back in. Thank you
@meganenright_
for holding down the fort!
What did I miss fam? What are some things we need to crush in 2024? Where should the comms team be focusing? We already have…
Solana blockchain mainnet-beta is experiencing an outage due to an issue which caused the cluster to halt.
Engineers across the ecosystem worked diligently to release a new validator software release v1.17.20, which includes a patch to address the issue. Mainnet validator…
STEPN x adidas: Step into the Future.
We are proud to announce that we are teaming up with
@adidas
and
@altsbyadidas
for a long-term collaboration, to revolutionise the lifestyle app ecosystem, and bring global adoption to
@fslweb3
.
This groundbreaking partnership will contain…
My people!! 💜
So proud of this team! The amount of brain power and energy that went into planning this year’s Breakpoint is unbelievable. They absolutely crushed it!
Special shout out to
@Meg_Hughes
who was the conductor behind the scenes for the last 6+ months, you’re a…
GM Amsterdam! Bittersweet to end this great week. It was so wonderful meeting you all in person and getting time to collaborate IRL. Solana’s community is unmatched and this team here is the best there is out there. On to the next!!
👇More reports out! All here - ECR - despite an industry-wide downturn, Solana remains as top non-EVM chain for new developers. With 10x growth in monthly devs since 2020, Solana is one of the fastest growing dev ecosystems in web3
This was my first HH ever & wow it did not disappoint. Getting to meet so many of you IRL was for sure the highlight. From the epic women in web3 brunch the
@SolanaFndn
hosted to the countless happy hours (
@helium
@solanamobile
) it was an A+ week. I ❤️ NY!
Former
@solanalabs
members have formed a developer shop "Anza," which will release a new validator client for Solana called Agave (forked from the original Solana Labs client)🍴
After
@jito_sol
,
@jump_firedancer
,
@tinydancerio
, client teams on Solana continue to expand. More on…