1. R&D
1.1. Direction
1.1.1. Web-Scale Blockchain. For fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
1.2. Official
1.2.1. Official Website
1.2.2. Blockchain Exploer
1.2.3. White Paper
1.3. Network
1.3.1. Mainnet-Beta
1.3.1.1. For early token holders and launch partners. No smart contracts or inflation.
1.3.2. Tour De Sol(Testnet)
1.3.2.1. For validators to stress-test the network for vulnerabilities
1.3.2.1.1. Stage 1: Performance( finished)
1.3.2.1.2. Stage 2: High performance smart contract execution( ongoing )
1.3.2.1.3. Stage 3: Fully-featured Testnet including Replicators(TBC)
1.3.3. Devnet
1.3.3.1. For developers to test the latest features
1.4. 8 Core innovations
1.4.1. Proof of History (POH)
1.4.1.1. a clock before consensus
1.4.2. Tower BFT
1.4.2.1. a PoH-optimized version of PBFT
1.4.3. Turbine
1.4.3.1. a block propagation protocol
1.4.4. Gulf Stream
1.4.4.1. Mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol;
1.4.5. Sealevel
1.4.5.1. Parallel smart contracts run-time;
1.4.6. Pipelining
1.4.6.1. a Transaction Processing Unit for validation optimization
1.4.7. Cloudbreak
1.4.7.1. Horizontally-Scaled Accounts Database
1.4.8. Archivers
1.4.8.1. Distributed ledger store
1.5. Investors&Partners
1.5.1. Notable investors (11)
1.5.1.1. Lead by Muticoin, Foundation Capital, NGC ventures....
1.5.2. Strategic Partners (11)
1.5.2.1. Lead by DDGX，CIVIC, DFUSE.,Chainlink, Akash...
1.5.3. Staking Partners (11)
1.5.3.1. Lead by Bison Trails, Stakefish, Certus.one....
1.6. Core Team
1.6.1. CEO
1.6.1.1. Anatoly Yakovenko
1.6.1.1.1. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols
1.6.2. CTO
1.6.2.1. Greg Fitzgerald
1.6.2.1.1. He created a bidirectional RPC bridge between C and Lua for the BREW operating system, helped launch the ARM backend for the LLVM compiler toolchain, and published a variety of open source projects .
1.6.3. COO
1.6.3.1. Raj Gokal
1.6.3.1.1. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance. He was a venture investor at General Catalyst.
1.6.4. Chief Scientist
1.6.4.1. Eric Williams
1.6.4.1.1. He studied particle physics at Berkeley and received his PhD from Columbia, led data science at Omada Health.
2. Social Media
2.1. discord
2.1.1. admin 3,team 7, attacker1, validator 58, community 151
2.2. Twitter
2.2.1. 51.3K followers, active
2.3. Medium
2.3.1. updated on April 16 , active
2.4. Telegram
2.4.1. 51,000+ members
2.5. Podcast
2.5.1. No Sharding - The Solana Podcast . active.
2.6. Github
2.6.1. 600+ stars, repositories 51, people 9.
2.7. Youtube
2.7.1. 400+ subscribes, updated on Mar 24.
2.8. Facebook
2.8.1. 312 followers
3. Token
3.1. Native token
3.1.1. SOL
3.1.1.1. All fees will be paid in SOL and will be burnt, reducing total supply.
3.2. Token auction(March 24,2020)
3.2.1. 8M SOL tokens were sold at $0.22 per token on Coinlist, securing a total of $1.76 million.
3.2.2. 1,416 registrations, 445 bids from 91 countries
3.2.3. 90% Staker Price Guarantee
3.2.3.1. Auction participants who stake their tokens will enjoy a 90% price guarantee on their staked SOL tokens.
3.3. Genesis block distribution
3.3.1. Genesis block distribution
3.4. POH Mining
3.4.1. Validator
3.4.1.1. Responsible for blocking, Yields about 10%, high hardware requirements.
3.4.1.1.1. Staking Validation
3.4.1.1.2. Testnet Competition
3.4.1.1.3. Storage Mining
3.4.2. Duplicator
3.4.2.1. Do not participate in blocking, but responsible for data distributed storage, Yields about 3%.
3.5. Purchaser and Distribution
3.5.1. -