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The platform, called LaunchLab, comes less than a month after news broke that pump.fun was developing an AMM of its own

The encoded timekeeping system improves proof-of-stake, allowing the chain to quickly validate transactions

New model aims to resolve trading inefficiencies with a single execution layer and market maker changes

Zeta Markets has shipped testnet for Bullet, a low-latency “network extension,” the team told Lightspeed exclusively

The company has now acquired three Solana validator operators since its September pivot into Solana

On the news that SOL would be part of Trump’s upcoming strategic reserve, SOL quickly surged before seeing an equally swift retracement

In an X Spaces debate, Lily Liu urged Solana to take a more holistic approach to inflation

“High value accounts” need purpose-built wallet solutions because sophisticated hackers can “potentially compromise any frontend,” Squads CEO told Blockworks

Pump.fun’s aspirations to create its own AMM has been spinning around the Solana rumor mill for some time

Underlying Solana’s rapid 2021 ascent was its precarious dependency on Alameda Research and FTX

The new layer-1 will only use the Firedancer client and will implement multi-local consensus

Nothing about Argentine President Javier Milei’s disastrous memecoin launch was that unprecedented

Anatoly Yakovenko in 2017 embarked on the technical challenge of solving blockchain’s scalability problem

The move is further confirmation that apps users can play with on their phones are becoming table stakes for crypto projects

“If we were to be successful, we would be on par with the Teslas and the DeepMinds of the world,” Frodobots’ co-founder said
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