Excited to join the @JPoolSolana Validator Council! 🟡 It will be a pleasure to work with such experienced operators and to help the Solana validator community together.

Meet the JPool Validator Council 🟡 Five validator operators will now review Community Good applications and decide which contributions to the Solana ecosystem JPool supports. 🧵

First OXAR auction is closed. 9 spots on the Superteam Ukraine lead's tee. 30 bids, 19 brands. The last bid came 13 seconds before the end and pushed the close. Top spot: $40 after 8 bids. Now the logos go on the tee. Photos soon. Winners: 1. @echoes_fans 2. @vik_sol 3. @Loalana10 4-5-6. crazy @degenbidfun 7. @Orbital_Markets 8. @oxar_app 9. @JosipVolarevic2

Hey, it's Viktor! I finally changed my handle to something easier to remember and closer to my heart: hvzp3 👉 @vik_sol 🎉 So all roads now lead here 🙂

Daily update of our shirt for @SuperteamUKR It's great to see that people continue battle on the spot Singapore, Breakpoint soon 👀 List of leading project below: 1. @echoes_fans stays on first place from the first day 2. @pushuprpg 3. @riftatm (btw join them on the waitlist) 4. @hvzp3 newbie on the spot 5. @holdoutgg 6. @kumekateam 7/9. @JosipVolarevic2 one place is not enough for him 8. @oxar_app we outbid Josip's spot

We just had a successful Alpenswitch on Testnet. In case you missed it. 👀

Alpenglow is officially running on testnet ⛰️ The handoff completed at slot 444625255: Alpenglow genesis block formed and TowerBFT is retired.  Testnet now finalizes with Votor and votes have entirely moved off-chain. Devnet is next. Mainnet-beta after our observation period.

The Alpenglow feature gate activates on testnet tomorrow. Feature gate flips at epoch 1042, ~17:30 UTC Thursday Sept 24, starting a 5,000 slot countdown. ~17 minutes later, Alpenglow takes over. We'll post when countdown starts and when Alpenglow is officially running. ⏱️

Superteam Earn's site bright as hell at 3am. So @vevier_ & @blue_bird00091 built an extension for @superteamearn Superteam Themes (prev. Earn Dark) enables dark theme, full customization, more Live on Chrome, Firefox and Safari 🧵

250ms slots activation now pending on mainnet-beta. 400 → 350 → 300 → 250ms Reminder, SIMD-0525 features take effect one epoch after they activate thus will go live at the epoch 1037 boundary ~05:01 UTC, Friday Sept 18. - epoch 1035: pending activation - epoch 1036: feature active - epoch 1037: 250ms slots live 1 more step to 200ms.

2/6 🔬 CryptoVik | Alpenglow Deep Dive @hvzp3 published an extensive deep dive into Alpenglow, drawing on firsthand experience running a node on the community cluster since its first genesis. The article surpassed 120K views and was shared by Roger Wattenhofer, Anatoly Yakovenko, Anza, official Solana accounts, and 40+ ecosystem contributors. It was also highlighted by Superteam Ukraine as a “Member Win.”

LFG! ✌️ @colosseum colosseum.com/hackathon/soci…

v1 Transactions are now live on Solana testnet. I cover everything you need to know to be ready on the @Quicknode blog! quicknode.com/blog/solana-v1…

Meet 1 of 10 projects from the Superteam Ukraine Acceleraptor 🦖 Today: @riftatm How often have you found yourself in a situation where your crypto card simply doesn’t work in a specific country – and you didn’t prepare any cash? If you travel a lot, you probably know the pain 🧵

The Solana Summit in Belgrade was supposed to be a business trip. But I’m left with the aftertaste of the best vacation of my life. Wrote it down while it was still fresh. Curious if it lands for anyone else: opensolanahub.com/news/solan…

As a Ukrainian, I’m tired of explaining Why we hate the people Who keep trying to kill us at night.