everything you need to know about Solana's newest upgrade

We wrote about the new Agave 2.3 update: - New TPU Client - Big reductions in disk I/O - Slashable event verification - Leader schedule keyed by vote accounts - Greedy scheduler enabled by default - Snapshot enhancements - Upgrades to gossip - Faster epoch transitions

Steel is a lightweight, modular framework for writing native Solana programs with minimal boilerplate and maximum control. In this article @OkohEbina covers: 🏗️ What Steel is (and isn't) 🏗️ Steel macros and helpers 🏗️ How to create a token with Steel

our new transaction sender is absolutely cooking land faster and more reliably, anywhere - network-optimized endpoints for 7 major regions - send to both jito and swqos in parallel (or just pick swqos) - get access to the highest staked validator on solana - costs 0 credits

the best talent continues to join solana and helius manlets, please welcome and follow zain — our first lead product manager, coming from EVM land will play a big role in shaping the future of solana

TL;DR: I’ve joined @heliuslabs. We’re hiring across GTM and Engineering. If you’ve got a “let’s fucking win” attitude, hit my DMs. I’ve joined Helius as Lead Product Manager, focused on empowering developers to ship performant, capital-efficient systems for the next generation of capital markets. This move is about positioning at the front of the S-Curve, where small, ambitious teams have maximum leverage to innovate quickly and drive market leadership. Helius checks every box: lean team, no passengers, and an unrelenting focus on customer outcomes. I've seen firsthand the "in the trenches" culture: founders in support threads, running down bugs, and sprinting with the team. Helius is playing to win. The obsession with latency, ease of integration, and demand-side thinking reflects a core belief at Helius: the developer experience is the product. That’s why elite trading teams use Helius. Nothing else meets their bar. I'm fired up to build alongside @0xMert_, @liamvovk, @nick_pennie, @deepatalwar1, and the entire Helius crew. Together, we're going to scale this thing 10x, and then do it again. If you’re driven to help developers ship faster, smarter, and without compromise, now’s your moment. Let's talk. We're actively hiring across GTM and engineering. And if you're building on Solana (or thinking about it) and performance is non-negotiable, my DMs are always open. No ask is too big or small. Value transfer/accelerate.

Meet gill, a modern TypeScript library for developing Solana apps on any JavaScript-based environment. Ship apps faster with: 🐠 less boilerplate 🐠 access to low-level primitives 🐠 helper functions and transaction builders Start building with gill's creator @nickfrosty 👇

I'm officially joining @heliuslabs as DevRel. This was only possible thanks to my friends at @SuperteamDE and the countless others who have supported me along the way. More than excited to join @mert and the team!

soon — you'll able to search solana history in reverse order no more traversing back 5k times from the most recent signature you'll also be able to search by slot ranges finally, you will NOT need to call both getSigsForAddress + getTxn — they will now be combined soon

Institutions can now stake $SOL with @heliuslabs, Solana’s leading validator, 0% commission, 100% staking earnings. No middlemen. No missed MEV. Just maximum rewards from the team driving Solana’s fastest RPCs. Now live on the BitGo dashboard. Learn more: