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Anchor Development Framework anchor is an open-source development framework for Solana, similar to what Hardhat is for Ethereum. - From unit testing in typescript, forking, to boilerplating a lot of low level rust code. 7/

Some potential caveats as a Solana developer It's generally harder to integrate with DeFi protocols due to a few reasons: - Most DeFi infrastructure is not deployed on Solana Devnets. Reason for this is many things: - Swap aggregators like Solana’s Jupiter (🐱, 🐐)

What’s a solution? Test integration locally by forking mainnet via Anchor - Forking requires manually specifying programs and accounts in anchor's configuration file (.toml file). - Some negatives: requires maintaining a list of all accounts we are interacting with.

Addressing the Elephant in the Room Programs are stateless: upgrading is actually easy (natively) without the much added side effects akin to Ethereum smart contract proxy upgrades. This allows flexible development cycles and slowly mature your protocol. For certain cases,

Program Deployment The cost of program deployments are calculated based on how much computational units of storage it occupies based in SOL value, but do not scale well in terms of Solana's soaring token valuation, and may prove to be unaffordable for new developers joining the

Contract Verification Contract verification exists on Solana… but it’s not clear cut like Ethereum’s etherscan.eth. Verifying contracts on Solana is possible but it requires multiple steps to do so. The binaries for deployed programs are reproducible if these are available: -

Block Explorers While block explorers have been improving (Xray, SolanaFM, Solscan) for viewing transactions, not much has been achieved in terms of verification. - Ethereum has a centralised third party (Etherscan) facilitating this process by allowing us to upload

Storage Bloat - Solana’s blockchain size grows at tremendous rate in size (grows at 4 petabytes per year, that’s 4K Terrabyte). - Validators do not actually store this much data, and they can control how much of the ledger to store, with a default value around ~400-500GB of

Compressed NFTs (cNFTs) Uses clever magic of merkle trees to compress data, where only essential information is stored on-chain and additional data off-chain while ensuring data integrity. - Metaplex launched the 'Bubblegum' program, which brings down the cost of minting 1

Solang (Solidity compiler for Solana) Solana supports solidity contract development with Solang but it’s still very different and not directly transferable from the standard stack that Ethereum developers are familiar with. - Requires understanding of how Solana accounts work,

Client Development Brief overview: Firedancer ▶️ Second validator client on Solana written in C assembly, which only requires a consumer level hardware, and “1,000,000” TPS. - Tinydancer ▶️ A light client on Solana that uses DAS (Data Availability Sampling), which should

Food for thought Many actually have started to believe the end game design of Ethereum and Solana are actually diverging into one, where we will likely have beefed up block production (validator clients with crazy specs, gas limit to the roof, etc) and have some form of

The day has come when Ethereum's Dencun upgrade goes live, the largest fork since the Merge back in Sept 2022 ⏳March 13, 2024 at 13:00 UTC First off, why is it called Dencun ? Dencun includes Deneb, the upgrade on the Consensus Layer, and Cancun, the upgrade on the Execution

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