New episode of The Stack with @nocircuit@deanmlittleΒ fromΒ @blueshiftΒ talks why Solanaβs architecture is uniquely suited for parallelism and how better tooling and education can unlock the next wave of apps on Solana.
Check out the full episode π
Announcing SpeedBuild 2026
ββ London. $20k on the clock.
ββ Race across checkpoints to rebuild agentic finance on @solana.
ββ 1 winner. 3 blind AI challenges. 12 hour live stream.
Register below. next transmission coming soon. π
huge shoutout to @solana_devs for shipping the new subscriptions program.
i finally got around to building with it, and it's one of those features that looks simple until you realize how much it changes.
before this, SPL token delegation had a pretty annoying limitation.
a token account could only have one delegate.
approve merchant A, then approve merchant B, and merchant A loses access. that's just how SPL delegation works.
that made recurring payments surprisingly awkward.
spotify, netflix, your ai agent, your gym membership... they all couldn't independently pull from the same USDC account without custom programs, extra signatures, or off-chain coordination.
the new subscriptions program fixes that in a really elegant way.
instead of every merchant becoming the delegate, your token account delegates once to a Subscription Authority PDA (one per user + token mint). that PDA then manages separate SubscriptionDelegation PDAs for every subscription you create.
the nice part is what this enables.
you approve once.
then you can subscribe to as many services as you want from the same token account. each subscription has its own limits, schedule, and lifecycle. merchants only get permission to pull what you've authorized, and you can revoke or resume everything fully on-chain.
i wanted to understand it properly, so i built a small Next.js demo around it.
it comes with two plans (spotify-style $2/month and netflix-style $5/month) using devnet USDC.
users can:
β’ subscribe
β’ cancel
β’ resume
merchants can:
β’ see subscribers
β’ collect recurring payments
there's also a bootstrap script that creates the merchants and plans for you, so you can be testing in a couple of minutes instead of wiring everything up yourself.
building it also helped me understand how the authority PDA, delegation PDAs, collections, and recurring limits fit together under the hood.
if you're thinking about building saas, memberships, ai agents, payroll, or literally anything involving recurring payments on solana, hopefully this saves you a few hours.
full walkthrough:
https://t.co/kx09lGyUoH
github:
https://t.co/ZonCSPuaNP
happy to answer questions if you're building with it :)
Something's brewing in KL this July π
Superteam Malaysia is teaming up with @solanaspaces and @Superscrypt to host a curated half-day activation during @MalaysiaBCW π«‘
Builders, founders, and ecosystem partners in one room.
Here's the lineup π
Second security audit for the Subscriptions & Allowances program is done and slotted to be deployed.
Nothing scary, no security issues, mostly new functionalities, improved UX and some housekeeping.
BUT, sadly there are a few breaking changes, so make sure to read below π§΅
βοΈ Anchor Community Call Tomorrow in Discord
July 8 @ 12PM EST
Agenda:
1. Key events:
- V1.1 (lang) - released, key changes
- Final V2 audit wrapping up in ~2 weeks
2. V1 roadmap:
- V1.1 (spl) audit pending to start in ~2 weeks (after v2). Key changes
- V1.2 (lang) audit pending to start in ~Aug. Key changes
- Any questions re v1 (released, or roadmap)
- Solana Foundation IDL spec repo
3. Misc: V1.1 docs pending depending on ownership transferral final bits
4. Any walk-ins re V1 or V2
Call link: https://t.co/fPzyzIjmDY
.@ExaAILabs endpoints are live on x402! Pay for the best AI search using stables on @solana, no API key or account required
Demo finds the best vcs investing in agentic payments using exa, claude, and https://t.co/LoNcerzqXd
Ryder Is Building a Native C++ SDK for the @Solana Ecosystem
Open-source, permissively licensed, and built for embedded systems and hardware wallets.
This is what being deeply embedded in Solana looks like π
Indexing years of transfers or replaying old market conditions gets expensive fast. With @Sam0xSol from @anza_xyz, we wrote a guide for the route that's free:
1. Backfill your own copy of Solana history with Jetstreamer, @anza_xyz's open-source replay engine
2. Feed it from Old Faithful, our public-good CAR archives of the full ledger from genesis
3. Stream everything into Superbank's ClickHouse schema with the ready-made plugin
4. Query history locally against your own storage, over JSON-RPC with gTFA, gRPC, or raw SQL
Parallel decoding streams the data at over 4M TPS, with no rate limits and no per-request charges. Ready to try it out?
Step-by-step walkthrough: https://t.co/G6Z6LG0ern
San Francisco is far from dead and still has one of the highest concentrations of developer talent and ambitious builders.
The excitement from our events last week proved one thing: SF wants more Solana.
Appreciate everyone who came to Demo Night, and the teams that presented:
@unruggable_io@Vishwa_lab@flovia402@clawpumptech@BlockRunAI
San Francisco's dead.
All the real builders have moved to Miami or Austin.
So we probably shouldn't host a demo night in SF with free food and drinks for builders in AI, agentic payments and stablecoins.
Because no one would show up.
Right?
https://t.co/r7JBM4Lauv