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Where Solana meets in person

Hackathons, conferences and city meetups across the Solana ecosystem, plus the wider crypto calendar they sit in. Dates come from the organiser, and every entry says when we last looked.

Events

All events
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Meetup

El Encuentro, Madrid

Madrid

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Hacker House

Solana Hacker House London

Somerset House, Strand · London

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Summit

Solana Summit India

Mumbai

On now

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Residency

IslandDAO v5

Florianópolis

News

All news
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Upgrades

250ms slots, and smaller blocks

Solana cut its slot time to 250ms at epoch 1037 on 18 September, the fourth of five steps towards 200ms. Per-block compute fell from 60 million units to 37.5 million with it, so what this buys is latency, not capacity.

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Upgrades

Rent came down. Your accounts are over-funded

Solana cut rent, so every existing account now holds more SOL than it needs. A new Token Program instruction takes the surplus out without closing anything — and this is only phase one of five.

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Upgrades

The two gates Alpenglow needed first

Alpenglow targets roughly 150ms finality on Solana against today's 12.8 seconds. Two prerequisite feature gates went live on mainnet in July; the consensus change itself reaches devnet in Agave 4.3.