Alpenglow: How Solana Swaps Its Consensus in One Slot
Solana consensus has been using the same design since 2020. Every validator publishes votes as transactions in the blocks, adds increasingly strong…
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Mintline: prove which Solana token came first
Mintline: prove which Solana token came first A public, hash-chained origin registry for Solana token identities - assayed with an open-weight model…
Tokenizing Vietnam’s Real Estate
Turning Property into a More Accessible Digital Market: Vietnam has an enormous real-estate market. But what if investing in a property did not requ…
Confidential Transfers on Solana: What's Native, What's Helius Rings, and What's Actually on Mainnet
On September 7, Helius posted a demo: make a confidential transfer on Solana, right now. The question that followed it around was whether this is th…
You write one kind sentence. I donate a dime. A blockchain makes sure I do.
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition . What I Built Kindness Chain is one page. You write one sentence about a kin…
I built PadForward because sometimes you just need a pad
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition 💗 Live demo: padforward-generosity.vercel.app · Code: github What I Built A few days…
Solana's 4,096-Byte Transactions: What v1 Breaks and How to Fix It
Originally published on xroot.dev . Solana's transaction size limit — 1,232 bytes , unchanged since genesis — is being raised to 4,096 bytes . The c…
We scanned Wormhole's bridge as of the day before the 2022 hack. It found the bug. Then we scanned Cashio, and it missed.
Static analysis demos are usually rigged. You pick the bug, you write the check, you show the check finding the bug. Nobody learns anything. So we d…
Your dog walker says they went. This makes the walk say so too.
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition TL;DR — A walker records the walk on their phone, the route is hashed in the browser, a…
100 Days of Solana - 2
Day 2: Creating a Wallet and Checking Its Balance Programmatically What I Learned I learned how to generate a Solana wallet programmatically and the…
100 Days of Solana is a wrap!
Over the past 100 days, we’ve gone from the basics of wallets and transactions to deploying programs on Solana devnet. Some people completed every c…
The Solana Program Security Checklist I Wish I'd Had on Day One
I spent the last two weeks thinking like an attacker. I wrote tests whose only job was to make my own programs fail. I ran a fuzzer across thousands…
For the love of the game: a World Cup companion with on-chain betting and Snowflake-ready analytics
Submission for the [DEV Weekend Challenge — Passion Edition]. ( https://dev.to/challenges/weekend-2026-07-09 ) The prompt asked us to build; Somethi…
Every Sports App Resets Your Streak Eventually. Mine Can't. 🔒⚡
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built Loyalty Ledger — a fan loyalty tracker where your check-in streak, badges,…
Every Sports App Resets Your Streak Eventually. Mine Can't. 🔒⚡
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built Loyalty Ledger — a fan loyalty tracker where your check-in streak, badges,…
My Abandoned Cricket Kit Confronted Me. So I Built It a Voice
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition . What I Built Everyone will tell you about the passions they have. Nobody talks…
【Sofi_Log #032】ゼロ知識証明（ZKP）とデジタル免疫システム：国家とAI監視を『数学的に無視』する自己主権ID仕様
[Sofi_Log: #032] Status: [Bangkok: Night / JPY-THB: 0.22] Project: sofi.works [Zero-Knowledge Identity Setup] Active_Filter: Filter_R Darling, the t…
【Sofi_Log #029】情報の捕食者：Grok APIとLLMによるリアルタイム確率算出（オラクル）エンジン
[Sofi_Log: #029] Information Predator: A Real-time Probability Calculation (Oracle) Engine with Grok API and LLMs Bangkok's nights are a symphony of…
CPIs and PDA Signers: What I Built and What Actually Clicked
I spent four days building programs that move SOL and tokens on Solana. Day 71 was a simple SOL transfer through a CPI. Day 74 was a mint whose auth…
Building in Australia: An Ecosystem Deep Dive on Innovation, Investment and Competitiveness for Digital Economy Startups
A research note prepared for the Superteam Australia bounty program Why I'm Writing This If you've spent any time around Australian startup Twitter,…
I open-sourced high-performance open-source Bonkfun Bundler for Solana
high-performance open-source Bonkfun Bundler for Solana A high-performance open-source Bonkfun Bundler for Solana. It allows users to create a token…
I open-sourced Solana Web3 Jackpot Casino A fully decentralized jackpot casino game on Solana
Solana Web3 Jackpot Casino A fully decentralized jackpot casino game on Solana Solana Web3 Jackpot Casino A fully decentralized jackpot casino game…
I open-sourced A full-stack, peer-to-peer coinflip betting game on Solana
A full-stack, peer-to-peer coinflip betting game on Solana A full-stack, peer-to-peer coinflip betting game on Solana. Players connect a wallet, cre…
How I Built a Counter Program in Anchor and Learned to Trust My Tests
I spent a week building a counter program in Anchor — the Rust framework for writing Solana programs. By the end I had two instructions, one authori…
[Sofi_Log #016] Longevity Protocol: Refactoring Human Uptime via Biohacking
[Sofi_Log: #016] Status: Clear skies, piercing UV rays (UV Index 11) / 1 THB = 4.25 JPY (2026 forecast) Project: sofi.works [Phase: Longevity Protoc…
Drift Protocol $285M Exploit - North Korean APT Attack on Solana
On April 1, 2026, Solana's largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange Drift Protocol suffered an attack, losing approximately $285 million . T…
What Is Identity on Solana? (For Web2 Developers)
As a Web2 developer, you already have a comfortable mental model of what an "identity" is. When you build a simple app, a user's identity is just a…
Deploy Smart Contracts from Claude Desktop: ContractDeploy MCP Tools
Deploy Smart Contracts from Claude Desktop: Claude Desktop just gained the ability to deploy smart contracts through WAIaaS's MCP tools. With 45 MCP…
Indexing Solana Programs in Rust: Notes From a Python Backend Engineer
TL;DR I built a small Solana program activity indexer in Rust to pressure-test the patterns I rely on every day in Python — cursor-based syncs, idem…
Solana Explorer Explained: How to Read Blockchain Data Like a Developer
What Is Solana Explorer? If you've spent the last few weeks writing scripts to fetch account balances, decode transactions, and inspect on-chain pro…