Crypto and Web3 have grown insanely over the past few years, especially in the Balkans, and Solana is probably the main vehicle for that growth. The Balkan Side of Solana. ^^

Unlike many networks, Solana users don't need to go into "bunker mode" ahead of an accelerated quantum timeline or classical attack provided by AI. Solana uses Ed25519, where each signing key is derived by hashing a secret seed. Breaking the curve, whether by a quantum computer or a classical attack, would expose the derived key, but not the seed, and seeds are never exposed onchain. With a one-time network upgrade, rightful owners could prove knowledge of their seed using a hash-based proof and move their accounts to a safe signature scheme. A working proof of concept already exists: github.com/anza-xyz/cryptogr…. Solana remains secure today and has a defined path forward.

Alpenglow is live on testnet ⛰️🎉

ONS doesn't single out a single "number one" motive for why people are leaving the UK So I'm finding out myself with an interactive microsite called the Brain Drain Wall I believe more founders should build & scale their business here. We need to stop ur best talent leaving the UK Here's an update on the mission so far. Latest submissions show: > 44% are leaving or already gone ✈️ > 56% are staying 📍 Caveat: Our data is massively skewed towards people still in the UK because we need more access to British expats overseas- if anyone has recommendations on how to access them, pls comment. Number 1 reason for staying: > Family is what keeps people here (44% ) Number 1 reason for going: > Quality of life (24%), just tax right behind (22%) Where they move to: > USA (New York and San Francisco) at 25%+ 🇺🇸 > Portugal (9%), Spain (8%) & UAE (7%) come next 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇦🇪 > Monaco, Cyprus, Thailand & Australia now turning up too 🇲🇨 🇨🇾 🇹🇭 🇦🇺 We've featured organisations who are refusing UK's decline & who have their own ways of giving more founders reasons to stay in the UK. Most people are interested in (by way of most clicks): > @Londonmaxxing > @formacity > @pluggedfounders > @Frontiertechs > @anglofuturismco & @LouisElton96's British Cræft Insights: > we're holding onto people through who they'd have to leave behind rather than anything the country is offering them > reason for leaving/wanting to leave: lack of job opportunities (16%), governance & freedom (13%), access to capital (11%) & regulation (10%) > 25-34 is the biggest group in our dataset + the only age bracket where leavers outnumber stayers > steepest exit rate sits with people 3-5 years into their careers at 59%. > not just a graduate problem–– 45% have 10+ years of experience, 35% are founders or CEOs, and 16% are directors or heads of function > as suspected, different demographics have different driving factors for leaving/wanting to leave > our main audience are tech founders because of what we do at @SuperteamUK, but since this is a national problem & we want to get other entrepreneurs/SMEs too The plan is to keep going until the data pool is big enough to present a solid policy recommendation to government. Every reason gets us closer to finding out how we can give them more reasons to stay. Send yours 👉🏽 braindrainwall.co.uk Special thanks to @solbound_dev for running the development of this website & @domdzienisz for designing everything 🙏🏽

V1 Transactions are coming to @solana and they are really cool! They will go live in a couple of weeks. Max transaction size goes from 1,232 → 4,096 bytes. Compute budgeting moves out of instructions and into the transaction itself. There are a few small breaking changes you need to be aware, and you can start testing locally today. 🧵

Solana processed 1.81M agent payments yesterday and 11M+ in August The network is now fully mogging Base in x402 transactions And @solana_ai hasn't even launched yet 👀