🌞 Encode Summer Hackathon Schedule

The Encode Summer Hackathon sponsored by the Solana foundation kicks off next week!

(I’m excited for this one since I’ll be submitting my own project Vanward!)

Whether you’re taking part or not, Encode is hosting a set of informative events for all Solana developers:

• Getting Started on Solana

• Intro to Solana Pay

• Build Private dApps with Elusiv

• How to Integrate with Pyth Data

• Minting Compressed NFTs and Indexing On-chain Data

• Compression on Solana

• Signing Offline Transactions with Durable Nonces

If you’re taking part, please let me know! I want to do a roundup of projects being entered.

Encode Summer Solana Hackathon Launch Event

🏫 Devsnest 12-Week Solana Bootcamp

Devsnest Tech School is hosting a 12 week Comprehensive Solana Bootcamp covering everything from Front-end development, NFT's, Rust, PDAs, Anchor, and a lot more.

It’s free and targeted to new developers or those just getting started in Web3 with:

• Regular Live sessions

• Build Dapps and 5+ Projects

• Peer Learning in Groups

• Tech Talks and Sessions with Experts

• Freelancing, Internship and Potential Job Opportunities with top organizations

• 30k Discord mommunity

The bootcamp kicks off on July 1, and ends with a capstone project and action-packed demo day.

Register

💎 Solana Developer News

How compression On Solana is a game changer for NFT Scalability - Article

What You Need To Know About Token22 - YouTube

Deep dive into the process of building blocks in the Solana Labs validator - Article

WTF is Mad Lads xNFT Soul Abstraction? - Tweet

An Introduction to Account Abstraction: Solana vs. Ethereum - Article

Light Protocol’s private UTXO model explained - Tweet

The ultimate Airdrop toolkit for Solana founders - Article

Glasss Protocol stops development on Solana in shift to Ethereum - Article

SIMD-0052: Add Transaction Proof and Block Merkle for Light Clients is the first step to implementing a light client for Solana from Tinydancer - Tweet

Underdog Protocol (Grizzlython Grand Champion) examples to mint an NFT using AI and On-chain NFT report card.

⚙️ Tools & Resources

sns-sdk crate provides everything you need to integrate Bonfida’s Solana Name Service (SNS) and for resolving domain ownership and records.

Tachyon is an advanced math library for Solana.

cNFT_airdropper is a CLI example to airdrop compressed NFTs.

solana-durable-nonces provide an opportunity to create and sign a transaction that can be submitted at any point in the future.

Add Transaction Proof and Block Merkle for Light Clients is the first step to implementing a light client for Solana from Tinydancer.

🗓️ Events

Solana Summer Fest

Nashville, TN
August 4-6, 2023

The Solana Foundation and blockchain ticketing company Rove are hosting Solana Summer Fest in Nashville this August.

You’ll be able to buy NFT tickets with credit cards or tokens and use the Rove app to get access to events.

Solana Summer Fest AMA Recording

🎙️ Listen to This…

The Next Billion

In this episode, Superteam DAO co-founder Kash Dhanda shares his unconventional journey from studying political philosophy to becoming involved in cryptocurrency and entrepreneurship.

Kash explains the motivation behind creating Superteam DAO, which focuses on emerging markets and leveraging community and crypto-economic incentives.

He mentions that Superteam aims to cultivate diverse talents and empower individuals to become financially independent while providing support through grants and bounties.

Superteam: Creating Crypto Communities with Solana

Thanks for reading ✌️

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