Seeing quite a few posts calling the recent Solana rent reduction an “airdrop”, which is a bit misleading.
Solana is reducing rent by up to 90%, with the first reduction already live.
When you created token accounts in the past, you had to lock up a certain amount of SOL to keep them rent exempt. Since the required amount is now lower, those accounts are overfunded and the excess SOL can be withdrawn.
For SPL token accounts this can be done using the Token Program’s new WithdrawExcessLamports instruction. It withdraws everything above the new rent-exempt minimum without closing the account or touching your tokens.
So this isn’t free SOL being distributed to users.
It’s SOL you already owned and had locked in your accounts, which you can now reclaim because Solana made onchain storage cheaper.
🏆 The ZeroClaw Challenge results are in!
After reviewing 176 submissions and re-verifying every finalist’s code, tests, custody claims, and onchain proofs, we’re excited to announce the winners of the Bounty in partnership with @zeroclawlabs:
🥇 1st — 1,800 USDG
zeroclaw-x402 by OUTIS
The only x402 implementation among all 176 entries: an agent completing daily paid jobs on mainnet, with byte-level verification before signing, strict allowlists and spending caps, plus six merged PRs to ZeroClaw core.
https://t.co/irsyUXne4W
🥈 2nd — 1,200 USDG
Portfolio Sentinel by Radion Maksymenko
An unsigned stake builder that never broadcasts transactions, backed by 224 tests and nine upstream issues identified during development—most of which have already been fixed.
https://t.co/BfdAzMTjHg
🥉 3rd — 1,000 USDG
govscan by Pedro Gomes
One of the most original mechanisms submitted: it treats DAO proposals as untrusted bytes, decodes what their instructions will actually execute, and fails closed when verification is not possible. The only submission focused on governance.
https://t.co/zUKZvh3PhV
🏅 Honorable Mentions — 250 USDG each
• Subscriptions & Allowances Suite — Ubaidullah Shuaib
https://t.co/krfp33xvsA
• Clawpay — Charis Oburu
https://t.co/51zdLhe3wA
• fecho — Mohit Kumar
https://t.co/yRET4XSwWz
• KirimRasa — Rani
https://t.co/x7WeqE0DBx
⚡ ZeroRouter Builder Bonus — $100 in credits
Ubaidullah Shuaib, recognized for four merged PRs and 22 issues submitted to ZeroClaw core during the bounty.
A huge thank you to everyone who built, submitted, and joined the live demos.
LFBUILD!
holding your treasury has a solvency you can never check. It just slows withdrawals before it halts — and your raise wired there, not to your multisig.
Free, in the browser, new run daily:
https://t.co/64q6CNlZjP
Weekend project: a game where you run a Solana startup for 12 months.
Farm your user count with a points program. Rent your TVL with emissions. Raise on the numbers you inflated.
Then find out who's still holding them in month 12.
Exit Liquidity — Day 240 · DEX / AMM
A business · month 11 of 12 · 2383 pts
How much of my headline was air, two months running:
🟧 4% users
https://t.co/zvguX81BSi
Onyx is building the financial layer for life without borders.
Today we're excited to announce our partnership with @Wirexapp to bring global banking directly into Onyx.
🇺🇸 USD accounts + ACH
🇪🇺 EUR accounts + IBAN
💳 Onyx Visa
🪙 Stablecoin funding
🌎 Global connectivity
Connected. Funded. Ready to move.
🚨we're activating 1st slot time reduction on mainnet
help ensure devs are ready because the transition period is wonky...
1. We have NOT updated some sdk constants like `DEFAULT_MS_PER_SLOT` to reflect new values. Note we will push a release with updated values post activation
2. these features are on a 1 epoch delay. This means feature goes pending epoch E, activates E+1, and _effective_ epoch E+2
if your app relies on SDK constants matching mainnet reality, transition period is going to be rough.. recommend some pseudo feature gate switching on epoch slot boundary at the time the reduction goes effective
Couldn't leave @islanddao without a taste for governance.
So I built one for @SuperteamBR's ZeroClaw bounty: an agent that reads the instructions a Solana proposal will execute, not the title on it.
9 DAOs, 353 executed proposals audited.
https://t.co/J8vHTfpRg3