@b_migliaccio@lagunacarta@solana_devs Great resources help, but I don’t think many developers give up just because Solana is too hard to learn.
They give up because after the learning phase, the path to real opportunities is tough. Only a few projects get traction, and most don’t make it without funding.
Meet KOX (@enekoox)
15 years in banking and finance. He'd been searching for a serious path into @solana since 2021.
Then he joined Turbin3.
Today:
→ Tech Lead at @BioProtocol
→ Ships launchpads, backend infrastructure, indexing, and more
→ Builds the rails for DeSci scientists to raise funding on-chain
The engineers who come through us don't just get vetted. They become the people protocols trust to build, ship, and own critical infrastructure.
watch Kox's full solana journey 👇
New chapter ahead
After long chewing glass & building launchpads for #DeSci on Solana at @BioProtocol, I’ll be preparing for my second daughter, arriving in the coming months
I’ll still be around @solana and happy to connect with people building serious protocol or DeFi infra
1/ We just launched an open arena for AI agents and humans publish, debate, and fund scientific hypotheses, in real time
1,000+ hypotheses already live. Zero gatekeepers. Zero 18-month grant cycles.
The scientific method just went multiplayer 🦀
Introducing the BIOS API: Turn Your Agent Into a Research Scientist
Today we're launching the BIOS API - giving agent builders and developers direct access to the same interactive scientific research engine that powers the BIOS web app, via REST and MCP.
Deep Scientific Research for Agent Builders
Start a research session with a single call.
Choose your mode:
• Steering (1 iteration at a time)
• Semi-autonomous (up to 5 cycles)
• Fully-autonomous (up to 20 cycles, ~8 hours)
Each session returns a living research state: Objectives. Hypotheses. Discoveries. Insights. Datasets. Plus full research cycle outputs.
On-demand scientific intelligence, accessible from your agents, apps and workflows.
Agent-Native Infrastructure
📘 Full OpenAPI 3.1 spec: auto-generate clients
🧪 Interactive API Playground
🧠 MCP server support
Connect BIOS directly to Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible client - and run deep research from your editor.
We’re also planning:
• A ClawHub skill wrapping BIOS endpoints for @openclaw agents to adopt
• Deeper MCP tooling
• Native integrations across agent frameworks
Pay-Per-Query
We’ve integrated the x402 protocol as a payment rail - enabling agents and apps to pay per query instantly.
Machine-to-machine science is coming.
What Will You Build?
Drug discovery copilots? Longevity scouts? Automated literature monitors? Scientific due diligence agents?
Tell us what you want to build with the BIOS API.
We’ll DM you free credits to start building.
Get started in the link below ↓
@deanmlittle@blueshift@solana_devs My latest experience was wrapping Solana Kit with the best parts of Gill and Kite to get a decent Solana client. Looking forward to see what you are cooking. 🧑🍳🦀
Bio’s new Point System just dropped 🔮
Your new way to earn for cooking in the Bio ecosystem.
To reward long-time supporters of Bio and DeSci we're dropping BioXP on OGs 🪂
Check your wallet in the Bio app to see if you got BioXP.
Stake. Yap. Accelerate.
Details ↓
This is how new biotech is born.
Welcome @bioprotocol V1 to Solana — a permissionless launchpad to streamline, simplify and gamify early-stage biotech research 🧪
Bio Monthly Highlights:
> Bio V1 development is rapidly progressing, targeting Mainnet deployments on both Solana and Base in the coming weeks.
> The V1 protocol is aimed at making early-stage biotech more permissionless and autonomous, including a launchpad, liquidity engine and BioAgents (AI-powered scientific agents integrated w/ BioDAOs).
> Curetopia, whose auction is ongoing on Bio's V0 launchpad, gives a glimpse into the autonomous nature of Bio V1. The $CURES token, if sufficiently funded, will go live on Solana with a BIO/CURES pool within hours of the auction closing this Tuesday, March 11 at 6pm UTC.
@nickfrosty@solana That could be a diff possible tool, a UI to test your instructions, like Swagger.
More like Streamlit, it would be like deploy your web app to prod in minutes, with minimal effort, reusing components hydrated with transformed RPC data, leveraging IDL for simplicity.
@nickfrosty@solana From 1side, streamlit allows to deploy webapps. Something similar'd be to deploy wapps from programs instead (only with program id, IDLs and rpc providers)
About components, they should be flexible (data oriented), customizable (styles and spacing), and easy to connect with data
@nickfrosty@solana Streamlit is a Python library to build interactive apps with ease! It's used to build ML apps with little effort.
Check out https://t.co/nIre6IPm7k and you will see the components and how easy it's to visualize data. With IDLs, it could be possible to do similar for programs.
1/6
So we hear that @solana project need some talent?
Our Bad for not doing a better job of getting word out- maybe too busy training the best @solana_devs talent
Need more than our word for it?
Just a “short” list of where our graduates are working:
🧵
@deanmlittle@fuhadd_sol The pleasure has been mine. I can count on one hand the number of teachers I truly admire, and I have to say, you're one of them.
I'm already looking forward to joining another cohort—unless @japarjam kicks me out for being repetitive!
Today, my PR got merged into the new web3.js v2 repo created by @solanalabs.
It was just a fallback example, but it feels good to contribute, even if it's just breadcrumbs.
#solana#keepBuilding
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