🚨REPORT:
@GenesysGo
reveals in their latest blog that 2024 will be dedicated to shdwDrive v2. With mobile-powered shdwDrive, they aim to offer inexpensive storage and prepare for seamless deployment of compute services, leading to a truly decentralized DNS platform.
If
#Solana
continues dropping, you'll see the influencers leave. You'll see the "we're building the future of community" hype-lord con-artists leave. You'll see everything lacking substance leave.
Who will remain? The real builders, building real tech.
Bring the cleansing fire.
We've been bombarded w/ CEX's messaging us, asking to have $SHDW listed on their exchange. Everyone talks about getting a CEX listing as if it's the golden ticket.
Hot take, CEX listings post-IDO can rly hurt your project. See, we allocated a specific % of tokens to our IDO...
Here's my hot take... real
#Solana
builders and real projects don't need to name drop other existing projects and create forced comparisons.
The real ones don't lean on the names of other projects to create "hype". True builders let their code to the talking for them.
If you're building on
#Solana
and need RPC connectivity, hop into our discord and check out the "rpc-endpoints" channel!
We provide unlimited RPS, maximum throughput, web socket connectivity, and currently run 8k requests per second through our public network... at no cost. How?
Alright
#Solana
, here it is... it's only a few days overdue but I hear anticipation is half the fun...
The Shadowpaper is here... Hope you all enjoy!
There might be a little surprise alpha in there too 😉
(This is definitely not a whitepaper)
Incredibly crazy sad day... A lot of people weighing if this is the next entry point.
A thought if I may... Do yourself a favor, don't think of this as an entry point. Don't listen to anyone saying now is the big opportunity.
In short... Do not deploy capital more capital lads.
Fun fact, that closing rush of traffic during the $SHDW
#IDO
was powered entirely by our Shadow Operator Nodes (backed up by our main network in case something went wrong of course).
That's right, you just took part in the first
#Solana
IDO powered only by decentralized RPC infra
Not gonna lie… after weeks of hearing, “Token will crash” and “Tokenomics don’t make sense, going to crash right after IDO”… This feels good.
It’s still early but the first phase of our token’s implementation seems to be working.
True utility is the way
$SHDW begins trading on April 10th, 2024 at or around 12pm ET.
The SHDW token contract address is: SHDWyBxihqiCj6YekG2GUr7wqKLeLAMK1gHZck9pL6y
Please be wary of scams and verify the token address before trading.
#Solana
#DePIN
#web3
#Crypto
Coinbase will add support for Shadow Token (SHDW) on the Solana network (SPL token). Do not send this asset over other networks or your funds may be lost. Transfers for this asset are available on
@Coinbase
&
@CoinbaseExch
in the regions where trading is supported.
$SHDW Drive Testnet2 is live everyone!
Here are the only official links:
Community shdwStaking:
shdwOperator Rewards:
shdwOperator Uptime Leaderboard:
#Solana
#Web3
#DePin
2023 was a crazy year for $SHDW and
#Solana
! What's 2024 going to look like? There are many sub-bullets but our year can be broken up into two parts:
First half 2024: Finish D.A.G.G.E.R. and deploy shdwDrive v2 to mainnet.
Second half 2024: Marketing, marketing, marketing!
Testnet 2 is officially on its way! Here's everything you need to know in order to start getting ready!
· D.A.G.G.E.R. Testnet 2 Start Date:
January 16th, 2024 @ 6pm UTC
· shdwPoints Start Date:
December 28th, 2023 @ 2am UTC
· End Date: April 15th:
April 16th, 2024 @ 6pm UTC
A few hours from now we’ll be taking a snapshot of all
#Solana
wallets that hold a $SHDW balance >0.
No big deal… just doing things and stuff behind the scenes that will be driving other things and stuff in the future.
Wanna see what Shadow Drive’s capable of?
Live shot of $SHDW Drive serving snapshots to
#Solana
validators. Validators rebuild the chain’s state via snapshots.
Ya… that’s right… it’s live fam.
As we are find ourselves minutes away from the
#IDO
of $SHDW, I wanted to drop a thread consolidating all of the various resources for anyone just entering
#Solana
So, I would start here...
D.A.G.G.E.R. vs Filecoin - Round 2 is here!
In this installment, we compare $SHDW Drive's novel D.A.G.G.E.R. consensus protocol with the titan
#Filecoin
network.
Prepare for a detailed exploration of design philosophies, operational efficiencies, and
Markets crashing?
Find
#Solana
projects who are focused on their BUIDL and projects that you're comfortable hanging on to.
Market cycles come and go... builders though... builders are forever.
It's barely worth mentioning but I'll drop it here anyways.
All users of our RPC network now have full
#Solana
archival node access all the way back to the genesis block.
Unlimited RPS, unlimited data, full archival access. Zero cost.
Well
#Solana
, it may be late... but we weren't going to leave our terminals until $SHDW Drive was live on Mainnet... and now... IT'S HERE 🚀🚀
- The Shadow Drive CLI and supporting information/docs live in our gitbook (where all GenGo/SHDW info will live)
Auditor Nodes might be the thing we're most excited about in terms of D.A.G.G.E.R.'s architecture. 🧵
Auditor Nodes will allow anyone with a
#Solana
Saga to passively earn $SHDW simply by turning on an app!
After
@solanamobile
we plan to expand to all Android and iOS devices.
Today's the day
#Solana
fam!
$SHDW Drive's Mainnet Launch is taking place at 5pm PST (12am UTC)!
We will be consolidating all of our existing resources and web pages (which are definitely scattered around) into one comprehensive GitBook which will coincide with the launch.
If we're quiet today... it's only bc we're speechless... As we watch the
#Solana
community come together to support the scaling and expansion of the Solana ecosystem we are truly honored... grinds are rewarded on Solana and we're not finished grinding yet!
As more and more builders continue to discover that we are indeed offering our
#Solana
RPC network at no-cost, I am repeatedly asked... "What's the catch?" or "How is this not too good to be true?"
Let's talk about this... bc this is a fundamental difference about web3... 🧵
The $SHDW Premium RPC Network has been deployed for all of
#Solana
!
3 plans to start:
$0 , $325/month, and $795/month
Docs at !
100% of subscriber costs flow directly to the individual Shdw Operators who power the network. All trustlessly, all on-ledger!
Good morning
#Solana
! What a night...
I'm writing a thread to express just how incredibly grateful we are and what are next steps are from here...
However, first things first...
- SSC Holders can stake their
#SolanaNFTs
starting at 9am CST (3pm UTC)!
The
#IDO
date for the Shadow token is scheduled for Jan 3rd, 2022 @ 2pm UTC. Everything you ever wanted to know about GenGo, the Shadowy SuperCoders $SHDW, and how we help power the
#Solana
ecosystem!
Building a successful project is like building a skyscraper. The strength of the foundation is directly correlated with how large it can be.
The "WEN MOON" crowd wants you to spend the least amt of time on your foundation. Ignore them. BUIDL that foundation strong.
9 minutes to go... whatever happens during the IDO today, we just want to say thank you to the entire
#Solana
ecosystem! You hung on with us during near daily AMAs... read Medium articles ranging in the 2-4k word range... and have dove deep into the infra of Solana hard!
$SHDW Drive was and is completely unaffected by the
#Crowdstrike
issue.
#web3
infrastructure really showing its worth to the world right now.
#DePIN
#Solana
Hey
#Solana
check it out... we did a thing... 👀
$SHDW
Wonder what this is gonna be used for... over the next few days, big alpha dropping.
This has been an announcement that there is an announcement, thank you for your time!
...and in order to get a CEX listing you have to send them additional tokens for "liquidity" (and some extra for their purposes, whatever that is). First of all, we don't give out free tokens... we'll never give out free tokens. We're not going to dilute the tokenomics...
Are you a member of the
@solanamobile
who owns a
#Solana
Saga? Are you attending
@SolanaCrossroad
?
You might want to consider bringing your Saga with you to XRoads and attending
@Frank_theTrader
's presentation Friday afternoon local time (May 10th).
Just sayin' $SHDW
This is incredible!
shdwDrive v2's Testnet2 has been live for six days and already has 560 unique operators in 23 different countries running shdwNodes! 🤯
We could not be more hyped. Mainnet later this year is going to be 🔥
$SHDW
#Solana
#web3
#DePin
Excited to announce the addition of
@levicook
to the GenesysGo/SSC core engineering team! Levi brings a wealth of hands-on engineering experience, industry knowledge, and will be a great addition as we work with the
#Solana
team to continue scaling and improving network infra.
Two years and five months. That’s how long we’ve been building on
#Solana
. The list of projects as old or older than ours still in existence is a short one.
In that time we provided the ecosystem with free RPC servers for over a year when they were needed them the most, helped
Think about it like this... The $SHDW Net basically makes
#Solana
shardable... ephemeral isolated shards connected through wormholes... kind of reminds me of Multiverse theory... ya, that's right...
@solana
's going multiversal.
Snapshot of all wallets holding $SHDW is about to be taken. 👀
Why you ask? The SHDW rewards structure we have cooking for D.A.G.G.E.R.’s Testnet.
We’ll be publishing the details post-snapshot, so be on the look out in the next few hours!
#Solana
#shdw
#DePIN
#web3
The $SHDW
#SolanaNFT
standard for
#SolanaNFTs
is live in our github!
Key enhancements:
- It costs less rent for creators to deploy collections.
- It costs less rent for minters.
- The code is fully open source and forkable w/ apache2.0 license.
- It uses
It's a big day
#Solana
fam!!!
$SHDW Drive v1.5 launches in a few hours to Mainnet! We're putting the finishing touches on. Huge improvements to speed, cost, and overall user experience!
@Solana
might be the most misunderstood blockchain ever. I ended up writing an entire section in the SHDW Drive "Definitely-Not-A-Whitepaper" paper that attempts to explain why.
Possible
@aeyakovenko
and
#Solana
are massively ahead of their time. If true, then we all so early
Rule
#1
of building: Never fall in love with your own idea.
There's always something better. A better approach, better architecture, better something.
SDrive and $SHDW Net architecture is about to get sooooo much more amazing!
Shadowy Super Coder
#NFT
is up 3500% in 2 months. A testament to what’s possible when you focus on building something real.
Imagine what $SHDW will be capable of when we apply the same level of grind to the Shadow Drive…
Data storage on
#Solana
gonna get pretty exciting soon!
Unfortunately,
#Solana
apparently made a mistake... and they accidently nuked all RPC nodes running 1.8.14?
Why does this matter? It means any RPC providers who had not rolled up to the 1.9.13 branch are now dead until they can roll up.
getProgramAccounts might be nuked...🧵
A wallet draining event happened to
#Solana
some wallets bc a few software devs did something rly dumb. They were careless and dumb and ppl lost millions.
The software devs failed to secure user info and created an attack surface.
In infra, the attack surfaces are like 5x…
Super excited to be working alongside the
@metaplex
team on the next evolution of
#Solana
#NFTs
!
Shadow Drive and Shadow Cloud are helping bring this new digital asset standard to life and we're so here for it.
The days of web3 being a niche curiosity are drawing to a close.
We didn't spend all weekend at
#Solana
Breakpoint schilling our asses off to showcase DAGGER and $SHDW Cloud just to have everything shut down by two pissed off nerds doing unethical sh*t.
Our
@solana
infra isn't going anywhere and it's only getting stronger. 😤
We are gearing up for the launch of shdwDrive v2!
As part of our pathway to launch, we've updated our Discord invite to "".
Any other Discord servers claiming to be related to GenesysGo or shdwDrive are a scam and should be avoided.
This, seemingly small
We've gotten this far without any marketing spend...
The
#Solana
ecosystem not gonna know what to do with itself when we launch the new look/feel of SHDW's ecosystem later this year👀
Deploying cohesive professional branding and marketing - steady lads/ladies.
Things are being finalized for the launch of D.A.G.G.E.R.’s Incentived Testnet!
To the $SHDW Operators who have donated their time and resources to provide support during the unincentivized phase, we’ve an extra thank you planned.
Details and dates to follow!
#Solana
#DePIN
Today, the GenesysGo team would like to announce an aspect of the $SHDW Platform that we've kept under close wraps for awhile now... the
#shdwNFT
standard!
This new standard is to be ENTIRELY community governed and utilizes $SHDW for governance.
1/ Over the last several months, the Metaplex Foundation and the Solana Foundation have worked together and aligned on a framework to bring Token Metadata (TM) to its terminal state of completion and immutability 🧵
Happy Holidays to our immediate $SHDW fam and our extended
#Solana
,
#DePin
, and
#web3
family!
We hope everyone has an amazing holiday that is fun, restful, and filled with memories.
We're getting things geared up for D.A.G.G.E.R.'s incentivized Testnet launch! We'll be
With D.A.G.G.E.R. Testnet version 0.5.0 being released and the $SHDW Operators having executed a successful restart we're pleased to say the Testnet public dashboard is nearly ready for release!
#Solana
#web3
#DePIN
Like I said... I don't know what will happen w/ the future price of $SHDW over the coming weeks but if the price does drop then it will be bc of market influences and not bc a CEX suddenly thinks we're pretty.
$SHDW Drive was a great start for what we're doing and currently there are 3.5TB of stuff stored by
#Solana
developers!
Truly, this is amazing! If it seems like we've been quiet lately it's only because we're full on heads down BUIDL in preparation for
@SolanaConf
It's been a full year... Our Twitter acct went live a year ago today... this year has been more than we ever could have dreamed back when we first thought, "Hey... these
#Solana
validator things look cool!"
Thank you to everyone for letting us call this amazing ecosystem home ♥️
D.A.G.G.E.R. Testnet Phase 1 is deploying Friday, September 29th @ 6pm UTC!
- Litepaper & Supporting Documentation ✅
- Roadmap and Timeline for Testnet Phases ✅
- DAGGER Testnet Publicly Accessible✅
You'll learn what DAGGER is, what makes it so unique/innovative, and how it
Shadow Drive is
#Solana
's first native decentralized storage layer, powered by $SHDW.
SDrive provides faster upload speeds, bundles multiple uploads into a single transaction, and has an integrated network layer for serving requests.
This time last year we were deep into the launch of $SHDW! 2022 was a crazy ride for
#Solana
,
#crypto
,
#NFTs
, and our team in general!
Tomorrow marks the bonus unlocks for the SSC NFTs that have been staked for 365 consecutive days as well.
What's next? Let's set some context.
Gonna shoot completely straight on this one
#Solana
... was the
@wormholecrypto
hack a big f'ing deal? Absolutely. That should in no way be downplayed. Mistakes were definitely made. However, I respect a team that focuses on moving forward. What mattered was their response...
Sure, sex is fun... but have you ever dropped petabytes of bare metal storage with unthrottled cross site replication (in triplicate) and seen zero packet loss...
Very excited to have the opportunity to unveil the next major leap forward for $SHDW Drive on-stage at
@SolanaCrossroad
!
This will be a literal world first for
#web3
, don't miss it!
Crossroads tickets are 25% off for the next 48 hours only if you use code "solana" at checkout!
Istanbul awaits the Solana community in May! 🎉
🚀48-hours only: 25% off
@SolanaCrossroad
tickets with code "solana" at checkout.
🗓️May 10-11: Be part of the excitement!
🔗More info at
What the GenesysGo team do when we're taking a break from building
#Solana
decentralized storage? Well, we sit around and dream up future use cases for $SHDW. We're all about the utility folks... this one was a super easy lift so we figured what the hell?
That moment when it all clicks into place... love to see it!
The remaining piece is making sure that
#Solana
files stored on $SHDW drive are...
#1
: Validated via a consensus mechanism.
#2
: Permanently Stored and immutable if that's what the user desires.
Now I finally understand where
@GenesysGo
's Shadow Drive comes in. I think they will complete
@Solana
by creating a solution that allows you to efficiently store larger amounts of data ('files') on Solana. This would complete the comparison of Solana and a global filesystem.
It appears that
#Solana
has halted again.
Please note, reading data off of $SHDW Drive is unaffected. Writing data is reliant on Solana and so edits and new uploads won't work.
However, all data is fully readable. That's the cool thing about the way we've built SDrive 🙂
Hats off to
@MagicEden_NFT
for taking actions that they, frankly, didn't have to. If you ever doubted their sincerity towards supporting the community then you haven't been paying attention.
Backstops like this won't exist forever folks... don't let FOMO get the best of you
🧵We’ve decided to:
1. Derug Balloons
@balloonsville_2
2. Refund minters who sold below floor.
3. Offer an option for refund to holders
We consulted with members in the community and think this approach will serve the community most effectively. Learn more 👇
If
#Solana
's price takes a nose dive bc of today I will 100% be buying all the $SOL I can get my hands on... I'll use my money... my friend's money... will sell my house and work from a laptop borrowing wifi from the Starbucks my tent is next to so I can put it all into $SOL 🤣
Are you hoping to be a $SHDW Operator but are new to Linux? Or, do you just want a super easy overview of setting up a shdwNode?
@insightstake
has you covered with this awesome write up!
#Solana
#DePIN
#Web3
#SHDW
What do you think? Enough storage, RAM, and CPU cores to power a decentralized cloud?
Imagine when this network of $SHDW Operators goes to mainnet. 😤
Track yourself:
Join us:
#Solana
#Web3
#DePin
Shoutout to
@heliuslabs
and they're amazing webhooks!
Helius made it super easy to track every $SHDW transaction since the snapshot. There's even data enhancements making it easy to flag sus wallets trying to game the system.
It just works.
ngl… if you’re an “influencer” DM’ing us saying you love what we’re doing and you have a great opportunity for us… you’re one of eight (average) per day.
We instantly delete. Don’t read. Just delete. F*ck off.
So, all those “.sol”
#Solana
domain names we’ve been HODLing?
Well, we’ve been working closely with the
@bonfida
team to turn them into us usable domain names!
Yup, together we’re making decentralized DNS happen on
@solana
!
Been keeping a close eye on Shadow Drive: decentralized storage by the one and only
@GenesysGo
IYKYK, so it was a pretty easy choice to add a new update to our "Records" section, SHDW!
This allows you to point your
@solana
domain name to your Shadow Drive. Eeeek!
The D.A.G.G.E.R. Testnet moves forward as we drop binaries for ANYONE to connect to the network and become a $SHDW Operator who contributes storage to the network!
In the docs ⬆️you'll find everything you need in order to spin up a D.A.G.G.E.R. Wield node
The newest entry to the $SHDW Blog is live!
If you missed out on the videos from
@SolanaCrossroad
then check out the written recap of the mobile powered architecture powering shdwDrive v2!
The Proof of Concept app demonstrated at Solana Crossroads was
Nothing beats watching our logs and seeing some scumbag botter trying RPC endpoints and failing.
See, normally botters just scrape all
#Solana
RPC providers and then send calls with spoofed headers and/or API keys.
Hey 134.195.157.85, f*ck off... you're not getting in 🤣
The $SHDW token is coming on Jan 3rd!
What is GenesysGo?
What does decentralized storage powered by
#Solana
's Proof of History consensus mechanism look like?
Why is $SHDW critical to Solana's ability to scale?
@knox_trades
' and I dive deep
We talk a lot about what is upcoming with $SHDW Drive v2 and D.A.G.G.E.R.
This makes it easy to forget that shdwDrive v1.5 is a live fully functioning product providing data storage for the
#Solana
ecosystem!
Here's the latest stats for shdwDrive v1.5:
shdwDrive v1.5 is
🤣🤣🤣
First time we've seen concentrated FUD over an extended period of time directed at our hardware.
If GenGo scares you now... you're legit not gonna know how to handle what's coming next...
Your entire architecture is about to become obsolete. Pin it.
Can legit say that we had no idea this was coming... that said, totally having one of those moments where we're like "OMG!" bc we started having rly high level internal conversations about two weeks ago about how phones should be able to be Shadow Storage Nodes in v2 Shdw Drive.
As $SHDW Drive v1.5 continues to gain popularity amongst
#Solana
builders we wanted to give a quick primer on what makes Shadow Drive unique and how it utilizes
@solana
to provide you with highly performant, secure, decentralized data storage.
Links to the docs are included!
The GenesysGo RPC Network provides
#solana
devs with low cost Dev/Mainnet RPC resources. We don't charge for data, there are no rate limits, and we never throttle.
Feel free to DM for more details!
Why build on the world's fastest blockchain only to be limited by your RPC infra?
A mini-blog article about the D.A.G.G.E.R. Testnet, what the performance metrics mean, and why they matter.
Learn how $SHDW Drive meets and exceeds the performance capabilities of other
#web3
storage providers in the
#Solana
#DePIN
space!