Rent reduction is live on testnet.
Step 1 of SIMD-0437 just activated, the first of five feature gates cutting Solana's storage cost per byte by 90% overall.
End state after all five steps: lamports_per_byte drops 6,960 → 696. A token account's rent-exempt deposit goes from ~$0.16 to ~$0.016.
Cheaper accounts = cheaper deployments.
Rent-free forever. Shopify energy in its most distilled form.
Shopify Summit where we gather the company together for the largest hackathon in the world. And Dot Dev, two thousand partners gathering to talk about what we’ll collectively build for merchants. All in a week so we can get back to work fast.
We always come out of these with more energy, not less. Good thing the year’s only half over. Let’s go.