Solana Monkey Business, Solana Pay, and marginfi lending

HadeSwap acquired Solana Monkey Business. marginfi started collecting funds for their new on chain lending protocol, and a SolDev redesign? Crazy week.

James and Nick discuss the upcoming SolDev redesign that Nick will be coding the frontend for. James gives his thoughts on the Solana Course he wrote, including Solana Pay and how powerful it is! James updates Nick on how Solana Pay works and it blows his mind!!!!

Nick also just had his last day at his previous job, and is gearing up for his next role….what could it be?

If anyone is interested in getting early access to the new marginfi lending protocol, you can message Mac Brennan on twitter for details.

Links from the show

• HadeSwap acquired Solana Monkey Business
• Two SMB sold for high prices on FFF swap:
  • #3875 SOLD FOR 3450 $SOL
  • #1088 SOLD FOR 7500 $SOL
• The best Solana Development course around (hosted on SolDev)
• New Solana API docs page! Made by Nick!
• SolDev’s Solana pay lesson
• Collector.sh (from Nate) - an NFT gallery app
• Margin fi starting bootstrapping their new lending pool
• Solend hack Nick was trying to articulate

Solana news from the week

• MetaPlex hosted a twitter spaces talking programmable nfts and royalty enforcement, with support from top projects throughout the ecosystem
• Ledger now supports versioned transactions
• Helium announced the date they plan to migrate to Solana (March 27 2023)

James and Nick welcome Vibhu, founder of Solana Spaces and the DRiP.haus, on to the episode where they talk about programable NFTs and the mutability of NFTs and data storage.

Nick seems passionate about some NFTs staying immutable, while Vibhu and James are less convinced. But everyone seems to agree the “wallet” terminology might need a refresh.