Solana Foundation Showcases Shanghai Office and Skyline Ads Solana Foundation Chief Strategy Officer Rachel Conlan shared images of a new Shanghai office and Solana advertisements across the city's skyline. Conlan joined the foundation in September after serving as Binance's global chief marketing officer. Binance founder CZ expressed surprise that Solana was able to advertise and even secure an office in China, noting that BNB Chain had not been able to do so. "Hopefully, what's good for one industry player is also good for the rest," he added.

Solana's security chief says attacks aren't hitting the blockchain anymore Michael Coates, the @solana Foundation's first CISO and previously Twitter's, told CoinDesk that most recent incidents came from stolen credentials and AI-generated impersonation rather than contract bugs. His view is that you can't train people out of it, since the cons have gotten good enough that anyone will eventually get fooled, so the systems have to hold up when someone does.

Solana the chain is neutral. But the Solana Foundation should not be neutral. All teams building on Solana don’t deserve equal attention from the Foundation, some teams are better than others and some markets are more important than others. Foundation should put its finite resources behind the teams that have the best chance of helping Solana succeed.

News: @Solana Foundation has launched SGPs, a new onchain governance mechanism for core protocol decisions. Validators with 100K $SOL delegated can open proposals, with votes weighted by stake and delegators able to override their validator.