Welcome to the third edition of Dean's Letter!
It was an exciting week for Solana, with several significant events taking place, such as the release of the Solana SAGA phone and the Mad Lads NFT mint. Meanwhile, the Dean's List DAO was also busy with important developments, having just concluded gathering user feedback for the xNFT Backpack wallet!
Keep reading to discover more about Solana's significant events in the previous week!
Network-at-a-glance📊
The Grape Vine 🍇
MarginFi Launches Crypto + AI Tool
Omni is a new Crypto + AI project that simplifies managing crypto assets and transactions for users. It uses simple text prompts to interact with the blockchain and answer questions about web3, with deep knowledge of the Solana ecosystem and support for all Marginfi actions. Omni is powered by the LLM stack and equipped with its own vectordb focused on web3. Users can access Omni at http://omni.marginfi.com and join the Marginfi Telegram for any questions.
Crypto is hard. Omni makes it easier.
With simple text prompts, it can:
• Interact with the blockchain
• Answer questions about web3
• Help you manage your crypto
Here's how it works
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Solana Mobile's Saga phone is Available For Order
Solana Mobile has announced that its flagship device, Saga, is now available for order. Saga is a security-conscious Android device designed specifically for interacting with digital assets, integrated with the Solana Mobile Stack to enhance on-the-go signing experiences and open up mobile web3 experiences. The device comes with access to 16 web3-native apps through the Solana dApp Store, including those from Audius, Ledger, and Mango Markets. Users who pre-ordered Saga can place orders now, and new orders can be placed starting May 8, with shipping starting in the following weeks.
Saga, the flagship, security-conscious, crypto-first Android device from Solana Mobile is now available!
A gateway to new experiences not just on mobile, but for mobile
Taking a Closer Look Into xNFTs
The Solana ecosystem team has launched tools that aim to decentralize the web3 stack, including executable NFTs in the open beta of Backpack, an open source wallet. These xNFTs can solve web3's problems of decentralization and distribution by combining executable websites and applications that run locally on a user's computer with a crypto wallet. They can bring interactivity to traditional collections and unlock new avenues for program distribution. The Solana ecosystem has seen many other innovations in the last year, including compressed NFTs and the launch of the Solana Mobile Stack. The community is encouraged to continue building and creating public goods.
The Mad Lads mint showed how xNFTs – not quite an application, not quite a website – can create new types of experiences on Solana
Solana keeps accelerating with ecosystem-born innovations like xNFTs
xNFTs are just the latest in protocol updates released by the greater Solana ecosystem.
Mad Lads Mint
Mad Lads 24H NFT sales volume is larger than those of the next 9 collections combined - $8,167,746 VS. $7,781,155
Helium Fully Migrates to Solana
Helium, the world's largest decentralized wireless network, has successfully migrated from its own blockchain to Solana, offering faster transaction speeds, new smart contract capabilities, and more resources for growth. The upgrade will benefit network users by introducing dynamic markets, lowering costs, and enabling access to DeFi. The migration to Solana will also make Helium's native token, HNT, natively compatible with other platforms within Solana's ecosystem.
This is an incredible milestone for the global Helium community and ushers in a new era for a highly scalable and resilient Helium Network along with a new world of utility on Solana.
blog.helium.com/a-new-era-for-…
Dean's List Updates🦍
Our network state GDP has reached ~$50K:
New dashboard up and running courtesy of @ledger_top
analytics.topledger.xyz/tl/public/dash…
We've completed our feedback round for the Backpack wallet:
Now that @MadLadsNFT launched successfully i would like to share some of the first Backpack feedbacks given by @deanslistDAO members.
Below are some examples UI feedbacks
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