Pete

Building new Solana defi project @ergonia_. Spare time keys, microtones, scifi, tabletop, languages.

[Dean 利迪恩 (⚛️,🐱) | sbpf/acc @deanmlittle]

just support cracked devs and ignore all of these other distractions. it’s actually that simple.

[mtndao 🗻 @mtndao]

AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AT @SolanaConf, DAY 1:

- @ellipsis_labs introduced Phoenix Perpetuals, a high-performance perpetuals exchange following their work on @SolFiAMM and @PhoenixTrade

- @coinbase announces that every @solana token will be instantly tradeable on coinbase by their 100M users

- @multisig @altitude announces the CFO stack and supports BTC as a first-class asset for Altitude business banking

- Solana celebrates being 5 (HBD 🎂), crossing 200B (with a B) transactions, AND being where the fastest companies to reach $100M in HISTORY have been built

- @JupiterExchange announces jupUSD and like 4 other things

- @KyleSamani clinches @BitRobotNetwork win against @mdudas hours before taking the stage to talk ACE and Solana's Internet Capital Markets vision, WEARS SOLANA SHOES ENTIRE TIME

- @rajgokal TAKES DOWN @toly in @BitRobotNetwork WIN, TOLY: "Training data form this fight is what tipped the scales towards skynet"

- @solflare launches Solflare Shield, every @SolanaConf attendee gets a free one (automatically??)

- The country of Bhutan announces tokenizing their sovereign gold reserves on Solana

- Marketnode and Lion Global Investors announce tokenizing their Singapore-vaulted physical gold on Solana

- @doublezero announce validator referral program and that 15 core contributors are dedicating fiber cables DZ

- @keel_fi announces $500m fund for Solana RWAs

- @Scaramucci: "We could be at Solana Breakpoint next year and BlackRock, Blackstone, and JP Morgan could be using this network to transact." (Note: enormous news)

- @shadddowfax talks @Sunrise_DeFi stats: "In just 24 hours, MON trading on Solana outperformed Hyperliquid and exchanges like Kraken, KuCoin, Bitget, and Gate."

- @xStocksFi launches Lore MAG-7, mirroring a basket ETF for the Magnificent 7 but fully onchain

- GSIB @StateStreet, with $50 trillion in custodied assets, is tokenizing SWEEP in partnership with @galaxyhq (Note: Ridiculously enormous news)

- @blockworks launches investor relations platform Lightspeed IR

- @chainlink announces PT-SUSDE to solana

There is simply one best place to build, and it's on @solana.

See you in February.

[Max Resnick @MaxResnick]

Today was a resounding success for the Solana Blockchain and a vindication of the idea that you don't need a modular aproach to scale. Work done by @anza @jump_firedancer @triton_one @heliuslabs @phantom and all of the other infrastructure providers working to make Solana the #1 blockchain over the past 2 years paid off big time today.

if we are grading on a curve, Solana gets an A++. If we are grading in absolute terms, there are still things to work on, and we know what those are now so back to work.

Building a block chain to house global markets requires a committment to extraordinary quality of service, specifically on days when markets move the most. Of all the chains, layer 2s and exchanges impacted by today's volatility, Solana performed by far the best.

[Pete @_rustopian]

Similar story: my team’s bid didn’t place at all, yet in the end that Colosseum event had 1000x more life impact than wins at smaller ones.

Now I get to build next-gen core Solana programs with the legends @anza_xyz.

Feeling stuck but have good ideas & grit? Build at @colosseum

[Jacob Creech @jacobvcreech]

If you're on the fence about whether you should build for the Colosseum hackathon, do it.

Story time.

When I first built something on Solana, I built for the early 2021 Solana Hackathon. I noticed a missing piece on Solana and quickly hacked together a solution, shipping it.

I didn't win the hackathon. I didn't even get honorable mention.

But I met a ton of great Solana developers, joined the community, and eventually was offered a job at Solana Labs.

You don't have to win the hackathon to change your life. The opportunity is there with Colosseum again to make a name for yourself.

Take a chance. Join the arena. Build on Solana.

[Anza @anza_xyz]

1/ Agave v3.0 is almost here. The release brings several performance improvements and protocol upgrades for validators. Here's what's new 🧵

[Pete @_rustopian]

@producerTJeski Yeah failed to get a regional expert to review 🤷‍♂️

[codee @ihatecodee]

My doctor said it’s a miracle that I’m still alive. But I said the miracle is that I get to talk and help other people that had an accident like mine and got paralyzed and let them know it’s a new adventure. Not the end of life.

[Cat McGee @catmcgee]

3 years ago lmao

I was going to delete this... but I think it’s a good reminder of how far Solana has come

- 100% uptime for over a year
- Still the most performant blockchain
- Some of the most incredible builders & engineers have come over to this ecosystem

I was a big skeptic and now I work full-time on making Solana better 💜💚

[Pete @_rustopian]

@lennysan Game mastering (and other worldbuilding).

Track characters, plot elements, themes, locations, etc. in dedicated markdown files.

If it’s session or chapter based (as in my case), those are their own files too.

Easy to include reference texts if it’s shared lore, like D&D.

[Anza @anza_xyz]

1/ Today we're launching comprehensive new documentation and API reference for the Solana Javascript SDK at https://t.co/kZm34pjGvy. This completes our transition to Kit, a reimagined way to build Solana applications and interact with on-chain programs 🧵

[trent.sol @trentdotsol]

if you're a solana program dev, learn what no_std rust is today. you will thank me tomorrow

[Anza @anza_xyz]

1/ Introducing the largest Solana Protocol change ever: Alpenglow, Solana's new consensus protocol conceived by the Anza Research team. Say goodbye to Tower BFT and Proof of History. Say hello to Votor & Rotor 🧵👇

[Pete @_rustopian]

Do board games count

[ruslan @ruslanjabari]

if you ever meet someone who at one point was globally ranked in a video game

hire them immediately

[Pete @_rustopian]

Excellent new vid from @3blue1brown.
One common explanation of quantum computing is it "considers all solutions at once, then collapses to the right one."

This sorta-true simplification leads to bad conclusions.

https://t.co/wi7NLX3o4R

[Pete @_rustopian]

👀

[Maxim @maximschmidt94]

We freakin' done it. Solana now has a proper Debugger.

[Pete @_rustopian]

Typical day on the TL

[Pete @_rustopian]

It is related to rotation, which is why they kept the word “spin”: it’s how the particle’s quantum state changes when rotated in spacetime.

We’re used to thinking of something being back to starting position when it’s rotated 360°. That’s true of bigger, classical objects. But some particles aren’t like that.

- Spin-0 (scalar field): Doesn’t change under rotation (e.g., Higgs boson)
- Spin-1/2 (Dirac field): Requires a 720° rotation to return to its original state (e.g., electrons, quarks). This means a 360° rotation only goes halfway; it flips the wavefunction’s sign
- Spin-1 (vector field): Transforms like a normal 3D vector in macro space (photons, W/Z bosons). 360° = 360°
- Spin-2 (tensor field): looks the same every 180° (e.g., the graviton). So after just HALF a full turn, it looks the same

This isn’t just funny math: it has physical implications we have to observe when working with electrons or with interference experiments.

[Pete @_rustopian]

It is related to rotation, which is why they kept the word “spin”: it’s how the particle’s quantum state changes when rotated in spacetime.

We’re used to thinking of something being back to starting position when it’s rotated 360°. That’s true of bigger, classical objects. But some particles aren’t like that.

- Spin-0 (scalar field): Doesn’t change under rotation (e.g., Higgs boson)
- Spin-1/2 (Dirac field): Requires a 720° rotation to return to its original state (e.g., electrons, quarks). This means a 360° rotation only goes halfway; it flips the wavefunction’s sign
- Spin-1 (vector field): Transforms like a normal 3D vector in macro space (photons, W/Z bosons). 360° = 360°
- Spin-2 (tensor field): looks the same every 180° (e.g., the graviton). So after just HALF a full turn, it looks the same

This isn’t just funny math: it has physical implications we have to observe when working with electrons or with interference experiments.