How to use Solana's SPL Token Program in Rust

🌌 Pikamoon ($PIKA) Migrates from Ethereum to Solana: A Bold New Chapter 🚀 The Web3 gaming project Pikamoon ($PIKA) has announced a major strategic shift: a migration from Ethereum to Solana. This move represents more than just a chain swap — it’s a complete transformation of how Pikamoon intends to scale, secure liquidity, and build long-term value for its community. 🔍 Why the Migration? Performance & Costs: Solana offers lower transaction fees and faster throughput, making it a better fit for high-frequency gaming economies. User Experience: Smooth, near-instant transactions create a better gameplay and trading environment for players. Fresh Start & Liquidity Expansion: Relaunching on Solana means cleaner infrastructure, new exchange listings, and potential liquidity growth in a thriving ecosystem. 🪙 Migration Mechanics A one-way bridge (via Wormhole) allows $PIKA holders to swap ERC-20 tokens for Solana SPL tokens 1:1. The bridge is open for a 45-day window. After that, any un-bridged ERC-20 tokens will be burned, reducing overall supply. Vesting schedules and locked tokens are preserved in the migration process. ⚖️ Strengths & Risks Strengths ✅ Lower gas + faster gameplay transactions ✅ Supply squeeze from burned un-bridged tokens ✅ Renewed momentum with exchange and DEX integrations on Solana Risks ⚠️ Bridge security – Wormhole has history of exploits; audits are critical ⚠️ User friction – Non-crypto-native holders may miss deadlines or face complexity ⚠️ Liquidity challenges – Exchange support must scale to maintain stable trading 🔮 What to Watch Adoption Metrics: How many ERC-20 tokens get bridged in time? Liquidity Depth: Support on Solana DEXs and CEXs. Holder Confidence: Whether the community embraces the swap or hesitates. Price Action: Will reduced supply + lower costs translate into sustainable value? ✨ Final Thought The Pikamoon migration is a high-stakes bet on speed, efficiency, and scalability. If executed well, it could unlock new opportunities for the project’s Web3 gaming ambitions and cement Solana as the home for its growing ecosystem. But the real test will be in execution: clear communication, user-friendly bridging, and robust liquidity. The next 45 days will define Pikamoon’s rebirth. 🔗 What do you think: Will Solana give Pikamoon the competitive edge it needs, or will migration risks outweigh the rewards? Share your thoughts below 👇 #Pikamoon #CryptoGaming #GameFi #BlockchainGaming #Solana #Ethereum #Web3 #NFTGaming #PlayToEarn #CryptoTrends 🎮🪙🚀

The Pikamoon migration is a high-stakes bet on Solana’s speed and scalability. If done right, it could transform PIKA from a niche token into a competitive force in Web3 gaming. But execution is everything: user-friendly bridging, strong liquidity, and clear communication will determine whether this is a rebirth — or a stumble. #Pikamoon #CryptoGaming #GameFi #BlockchainGaming #Solana #Ethereum #Web3 #NFTGaming #PlayToEarn #CryptoTrends 🎮🪙🚀

🚀 MASSIVE news in the Solana ecosystem! Jupiter and Ethena Labs just announced a game-changing partnership to launch JupUSD, a native Solana stablecoin backed by a whopping $750 million commitment. Here's what makes this huge: 💰 Jupiter will progressively convert $750M USDC from its Liquidity Provider Pool into JupUSD 🔗 Full integration across Jupiter's entire ecosystem - DEX, perpetuals, lending, and mobile app 🏦 Initially 100% backed by USDtb (BlackRock's BUIDL-backed stablecoin) 📈 Could unlock massive growth in Solana's stablecoin market (currently just 9.27% of Ethereum's supply) This isn't just another stablecoin launch - it's Ethena's major expansion onto Solana and Jupiter's strategic move to become the center of Solana DeFi. With USDe already being the largest decentralized stablecoin at $14.8B, this partnership could reshape how we think about stablecoins in the Solana ecosystem. Launch expected Q4 2025. The race for stablecoin dominance just got a lot more interesting!

🔹 FastNode launches private #Solana RPC nodes at $2,000/month 🔥 For the node-provider market, this is a real game-changer: running a Solana Foundation RPC node means accessing one of the most high-performance, resource-demanding networks in the world. It’s not just infrastructure — it’s direct entry into the Solana ecosystem with enterprise-grade reliability. Why this matters:  ✅ Private RPC — your own Solana endpoint, not a shared one.  ✅ No DevOps hassle — we handle updates, telemetry, and monitoring for you.  ✅ FastNode reliability — automated upgrades, 24/7 oversight, and zero downtime.  ✅ Position in the market — Solana keeps growing, and having a dedicated RPC = you’re a participant, not just a spectator.  ✅ Opportunities unlocked — DeFi, NFT projects, staking dashboards, analytics, new integrations — all become possible only with your own node. 👉 For just $2,000/month, you get a plug-and-play entry ticket into Solana — without the operational risks. FastNode = 🚀 speed + 🛡 security + 💰 scalability. 📌 DM us today to claim your dedicated Solana RPC node: George Wilstein

"Forward Industries launches Solana validator, almost $1.7B SOL staked. Forward Industries staked its entire Solana treasury into a new validator, immediately joining the network’s top 10. Publicly traded Solana treasury company Forward Industries launched its first institutional-grade validator node on the Solana blockchain as part of its broader strategy to deepen its role within the Solana ecosystem.  The company announced the launch on Tuesday, saying that the validator runs on DoubleZero’s fiber network, which powers the validator and uses Jump Crypto’s Firedancer, a new independent Solana validator client.  Kyle Samani, chairman of the board of Forward Industries, said the move allows them to fortify Solana’s resiliency and help ensure that it remains “the standard for institutional adoption” in decentralized finance (DeFi).  Forward Industries currently holds the largest Solana-based crypto treasury, valued at almost $1.7 billion. The company is backed by crypto giants Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto and Multicoin Capital, and plans to be more involved in the network’s ecosystem.  Forward Industries joins Solana’s top 10 validators Forward Industries’ validator launch immediately put the entity in the top 10 biggest validators by Solana SOL tokens staked.  Block explorer Solana Beach showed that all of Forward’s SOL holdings, about 6.8 million SOL tokens worth almost $1.7 billion, were staked.  As a result, it managed to surpass long-standing players like Staking Facilities and Coinbase, whose validators rank behind Forward with 6.7 billion and 6.2 billion tokens, respectively.  According to Solana Beach, the largest Solana validators are Binance staking, Helius, Figment and Jupiter. All of these entities have more than 10 billion Solana tokens staked, ranking them the highest in terms of the number of tokens staked. " ... Cointelegraph extracted https://lnkd.in/eE8nkp-h

Optimizing Solana smart contracts by managing compute units On Solana, every transaction fee is composed of the base fee and the priority fee. The base fee is minimal and uniform across the network and the priority fee is optional and acts as a tip to validators, incentivizing them to include a transaction sooner. This priority fee is calculated as the price per compute unit (CU) multiplied by the number of compute units consumed during execution. The price per CU fluctuates dynamically based on network demand, but developers have full control over how many units their programs consume. Each instruction in a Solana transaction consumes compute units. Solana’s fees are generally low but most developers underestimate how CU usage scales at volume. For protocols or dApps processing millions of transactions, excessive CU consumption can translate into significant additional costs for users, especially when priority fees are used to guarantee faster inclusion during network congestion. To manage this, developers should measure and optimize CU consumption early in the development process. The simplest way to do this is by simulating transactions before execution, which reveals the exact number of CUs a program uses. This helps that inefficiencies like redundant cross-program invocations, unnecessary data serialization, or excessive account reads can be identified and minimized. Additionally, developers can use Solana’s ComputeBudgetProgram to set safe limits and prevent transactions from running out of CUs mid-execution. Setting realistic limits ensures stability while avoiding waste. In essence, lowering CUs leads to more efficient, predictable, and user-friendly programs with reduced operational cost at scale.

I recently started working on Solana, and honestly as a solidity focused developer the shift was tough. Before even touching the code, I had to stop rushing to write smart contracts and instead focus on understanding the core concepts first. That mental shift helped me a lot. But I’m going to share my learnings so far, focusing on how Solana differs from EVM chains. Hopefully, it helps someone who’s stuck in the same spot, and I believe it can also help me grow my knowledge by learning from experts. 🔑 Key Differences (EVM → Solana) 💻 EVM → Smart contracts ⚡ SVM → Programs ............ 📦 EVM → Contracts hold their own storage 📂 SVM → Programs are stateless, state lives in accounts ......... 🛠️ EVM → Remix IDE / Hardhat / Foundry 🚀 SVM → Solana Playground / Anchor .......... 🔗 EVM → Simpler transactions 🔄 SVM → Transactions can include multiple instructions across multiple programs ....... 💰 EVM → Smallest unit is wei (18 decimals) 💎 SVM → Smallest unit is lamports (9 decimals) ...... What is the account model? An account is like a struct that always contains: 👤 Owner → program id of a smart contract or another address 💰 Rent → lamports 📊 Data → bytes (can be executable) ✅ Executable → boolean This is just the start of sharing my Solana journey and I’ll keep sharing more from concepts to code. I’d love to hear how others experienced the shift from EVM to Solana. #Solana #Blockchain #Web3 #SmartContracts #Anchor

🚨Ethereum vs. Solana: The Fight That Shouldn’t Exist The Ethereum vs. Solana debate is everywhere. Who’s faster? Who’s cheaper? Who’s “winning”? To my mind, the truth is that it isn’t a zero-sum battle. Comparing ETH and SOL as if they were substitutes misses the deeper architecture of Web3. Ethereum is the neutral settlement layer. It’s where credibility lives: deepest liquidity, client diversity, institutional trust, and a scaling roadmap through L2s. If you need composable DeFi and the assurance that your protocol will integrate with others - you start on ETH/L2. Solana Foundation, on the other hand, is the consumer execution layer. It’s optimized for throughput, real-time UX, and micro-transactions. If you’re building gaming, social, or internet-like applications, SOL delivers speed and cost efficiency ETH simply doesn’t prioritize. In other words, if it is a tech question, builders would have preferred not to pick side. They’ll architect systems that settle on Ethereum Foundation and execute on SOL.  It’s all about interoperability. And in that architecture, both chains win.

PineappleDEX Upgrade: ANOTHER ONE. Fresh off last week’s Solana launch, we’ve shipped another major DEX upgrade in less than a week - faster, sharper, and built for precision trading across chains. Here’s what’s new: 💎 ETH + WETH Limit Orders: Limit orders no longer stop at USDT. You can now set exact buy/sell prices in native ETH or WETH across Ethereum and Base. Behind the scenes, a new price-tracking system ensures your ETH limit orders stay precise and efficient, even in volatile markets. 🟣 Solana: One Week In. Trade Solana tokens directly beside Ethereum, Base, and BNB assets in one interface. Pineapple now sources deep liquidity from Jupiter - but with zero fees, making trades cheaper than on Jupiter itself. 50+ Solana tokens already live, with more added daily. ⚡ Speed You Can Feel: Prices refresh in the background, quotes return faster, and swaps execute smoother. Network switching is now seamless, account syncing faster, and wallet sessions more reliable. The entire DEX now loads and responds quicker - from token search to order execution. 📱 Lighter, Cleaner App: A refactored codebase means faster load times, smoother mobile performance, and seamless navigation. We’ve optimized our pricing engine and API calls to deliver faster quotes and responses. Balances now refresh in real-time, powered by a smarter caching system that saves time and bandwidth. 🧩 Multi-Chain Expansion: With ETH, Base, BNB, and Solana now live, 10+ major chains are in the pipeline for deployment: Arbitrum, Avalanche, Blast, Linea, Mantle, Mode, Optimism, Polygon, Scroll, ZIG, and more to come. Cross-chain swaps, stop-loss orders, and further integrations next. 🪙Feel the difference yourself: app.pineappledex.com  📖Read more: https://lnkd.in/e-H23mKD

Project : BrewLabs Aggregator Services → Blockchain | Web Development Link → https://lnkd.in/diFgjBYU Client Problem –Core Requirements: Token swap functionality (users can exchange tokens directly). Wallet integration (MetaMask, WalletConnect, TrustWallet). Real-time price fetching and token data. Liquidity pool integration for seamless trades. Slippage, gas fee, and transaction confirmation features. Simple and secure UI/UX for both desktop and mobile. Our Solution – We proposed developing a scalable, modular Web3 platform on the Chain with the following core features: We helped him to build a swap platform similar to Brewlabs with: Secure smart contracts for swaps & liquidity pools Wallet integrations (MetaMask, TrustWallet, WalletConnect) Clean Next.js frontend with real-time prices & charts Admin dashboard for tokens, fees & analytics Result – After the Development he has a dream product which now is ready to get users and generate revenue for him. Now he wants to expand through us. We have partnered with him for the next module. Tech Stack – React + Next.js, Node.js, Solidity (Cronos Chain), MongoDB, WalletConnect/MetaMask, AWS hosting, IPFS for storage, OpenZeppelin for security. Client Review/Testimonial : “Partnering with this team was the best decision—we launched smoothly, scaled fast, and became a trusted platform in the Cronos ecosystem." "At CodixSol, we don’t just build software — we turn your ideas into digital products that create impact and growth." #CodixSol #SoftwareDevelopment #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #Web3 #AI #Blockchain #BusinessGrowth #TechSolutions #Crypto