Solana Foundation is running Solana School's Fall Class from August 31 through October 16, a free, seven-week, cohort-based program that ships working code every session, three times a week. Unlike the summer cohort, which required a college email, the Fall Class is open to any developer who applies, ending in a Demo Day pitched as practice for Colosseum.
Nexus Mutual has extended DeFi coverage to Solana for the first time, with live listings for Kamino, Raydium, Orca, and Jupiter spanning roughly 90% of Solana lending deposits. The mutual has paid 100% of valid claims across more than $7 billion in cover written over seven years, all of it previously confined to Ethereum and other EVM chains.
Coinbase Developer Platform has brought its SQL API to Solana in beta, letting developers query SPL Token and Token-2022 activity with plain SQL instead of running an indexer. Two datasets ship at launch, with 500ms freshness to the tip of the chain and 1,000 free queries a month.
Kalshi's live order book is now streaming on DoubleZero Edge, making it the first prediction market to distribute market data over a multicast network and the second venue on Edge after Solana. Four feeds went live at launch, covering full L2 depth and top of book across every sports event contract and crypto perps market Kalshi lists, and Kalshi is waiving its revenue share for the first year.
