Issue #7: Solana Decoding on Dune

Plus a Solana Setup toolkit, developer news roundup, new docs, and The Zeitgeist podcast with Austin Federa.

May 18, 2023

🔎 Solana Decoding is Live on Dune

Dune now supports decoding for Solana programs, the first time a non-EVM chain has been decoded on Dune.

Dune makes Solana transaction data accessible by fully decoding the instructions and inner instructions to create program specific datasets.

“Dune’s new capabilities decoding Solana increases transparency for the ecosystem and improves usability and understanding of the programs transacting on Solana. This is a big advancement for the Solana ecosystem."

~ Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs.

Some example dashboards already built using Solana transaction data include Candy Machine, xNFT Backpack Ecosystem, and Orca Whirlpools.

Submit your program’s IDL here.

🧰 Solana Setup Tool

One of my classmates in the Web3 Builders Alliance Q2 Solana Developer’s cohort has built this handy tool to quickly setup and install everything you need to get started to develop a Solana application.

Solana Setup is a CLI tool to streamline the developer experience on the Solana blockchain.

It simplifies the processes of installing, updating, and configuring your development environment, and even creating a new project with a single command.

Solana Setup installs crucial development tools including:

  • Solana CLI

  • Rust

  • Anchor

  • Yarn

  • TypeScript

Seamlessly update all the tools to their latest versions and generate a new project with your choice of dependencies, such as solana/web3.js, project-serum/anchor, and solana/spl-token.

đź’Ž Solana Developer News

Solana Breakpoint 2023 speaker applications are open - Apply

A Deep Dive into the Automation Landscape on Solana - Article

Fixing the Devnet faucet problem - Tweet

Integrating a crypto on/off ramp with Meso - Tweet

Soltrek: An easy to use, node-based learning and prototyping platform - Tweet

⚙️ Tools & Resources

Solana-Programming-Resources is a “complete collection of all the Solana programming resources available for developers.”

Solana Program Examples is a repo with on-chain program examples covering basics, tokens, cNFT's and oracles in Rust and Python.

Solana Curriculum is the best path to get started with dApp development on Solana. Go from 0 to production-ready-skills with this curriculum.

đź“– Read the docs!

ANS Protocol Docs are now public - Docs

Solana State Compression docs are available - Docs

Helius Digital Asset Standard API docs released - Tweet

🎙️ Listen to This…

The Zeitgeist

Austin Federa is head of strategy and communications at Solana Foundation, responsible for setting the direction of the Solana Foundation and working with projects and developers building in the Solana ecosystem.

Austin discusses Solana's pragmatic engineering culture and the need for developers to focus on building things that are truly only possible on Solana.

He also highlights the Foundation's role in supporting infrastructure-level initiatives and turning R&D into stable, standardized solutions.

Finally, he stresses the importance for founders to focus on revenue and business models during the bear market and to build outside of the United States

Thanks for reading ✌️

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