1/ It's #SolanaSolstice once again ☀️ 2022 was the year for shipping and scaling — and building the real-world tools that will onboard millions of users.
3/ ☀️ @solanapay launched a brand-new, frictionless payments protocol.
Since its launch in February, it's been adopted by stores and brands alike (like @FastAF and @ASICSamerica), and sparked the growth of a whole new payments ecosystem.
4/ ☀️ What was once chewing glass is now more like surfing glass.
Massive upgrades to developer tooling and education in the Solana ecosystem has made it easier for new builders and founders to get started. solana.com/developers
5/ ☀️ Developer developers developers.
Those new educational tools has led to explosive growth in the number of Solana devs.
As of November, there were 2053 total active developers working on Solana, with 1654 of those working on Solana-only projects. solana.com/news/measuring…
6/ ☀️ Students are building on Solana.
The word is out for the next generation. @solanaU Ambassadors are spreading the word about the Solana community to college campuses around the world.
Not only are they running their own block-producing validator, but Google Cloud will be extending Blockchain Node Engine support to Solana, and indexing Solana data to add to Big Query.
After announcing it at @SolanaConf 2021, Brave completed their Solana integration this year — making it much easier for non-native users to get started in web3.
10/ ☀️ The network keeps getting better and better.
The network averages around 4,000 TPS.
The Nakamoto coefficient is 30 with 1,911 validators.
Thanks to upgrades, the Solana network performs well under pressure.
The average nonvoting transaction on Solana has the same energy impact as a few Google searches
The entire Solana network uses less energy than one Bitcoin transaction, and that impact is entirely offset. solana.com/environment
13/ ☀️ The Solana community is focused on the real world.
This year @solanaspaces opened two location in the United States that are introducing the power of the ecosystem to everyone — and is rewriting the franchising game with @spacesdao.
14/ ☀️ Solana @hackerhouses kickstarted building around the globe.
Thousands of builders attended 24 Solana Hacker Houses around the world — and the 2023 schedule is already announced. Will we see you there?
15/ ☀️ Breakpoint showed the power of the Solana ecosystem.
This year's @SolanaConf was the biggest Solana gathering yet, with nearly double the attendees as the previous Breakpoint. All were there to see what's next for the Solana network.
Solana has an active and robust ecosystem of builders. The network is strong. @solanaconf demonstrated that the energy and commitment and range of projects is stronger than ever. That hasn’t changed in the last 48 hours.
The vision remains the same. A thread 🧵
2022 has been a year of unprecedented developer activity on Solana across Mobile, Games, NFTs, DAOs, Payments, and DeFi.
Ten new Solana @hackerhouses were announced for 2023 – all for builders – spanning Istanbul, Melbourne, Taipei, Tel Aviv and others.
2/ If you're just starting to learn how to build on Solana, the Solana Cookbook provides essential material and references to quickstart your development. 👩🍳
1/ Introducing Solana Pay, a decentralized, secure, and open-source payments protocol for the next generation of merchant payments 💸 #SolanaPay solana.com/news/solana-pa…
2/ Launching today, Solana Pay makes it easy for merchants worldwide to accept digital dollars like $USDC, and any other #Solana SPL Token, for a fraction of a penny and without any intermediaries
3/ The Solana Pay spec lets merchants generate transaction requests with relevant metadata. Users can approve this transaction via their web wallets, or scan a custom-generated QR code – now supported in @phantom, @slope_finance, and @ftx_app.
3/ Your first step is to read the Solana docs. As a web 2 developer you may not be familiar with many of the concepts, but that's ok. docs.solana.com will be your reference point on this journey.