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Where Solana meets in person

Hackathons, conferences and city meetups across the Solana ecosystem, plus the wider crypto calendar they sit in. Dates come from the organiser, and every entry says when we last looked.

Events

All events
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Demo Day

Solana Demo Day London 2026

London

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Conference

200ms — Jito's MEV and DeFi day

Olympia, Hammersmith Rd, London W14 8UX · London

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Conference

Solana Intelligence Summit, London

Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA · London

On now

A long curved glass convention hall lit warm from inside at dusk, palm trees along its front and a few figures walking to the doors

Conference

Devcon 8, Mumbai

Jio World Centre, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex · Mumbai

A glass-walled booth in a dark exhibition hall, a tall screen of glowing pink tiles inside it and small cups of tea on its mint floor Editors' choice

Community hub

Agentic Hub, Devcon 8

Jio World Centre, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex · Mumbai

A hall at night with long rows of tables of laptops glowing mint under strings of small lights, a city skyline in the far window

Hackathon

ETHGlobal Mumbai

Jio World Convention Centre, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex · Mumbai

News

All news
A row of flat lilac paper blocks across a deep violet ground, one taller mint block among them and the blocks after it narrower and closer together, with a small cream disc high on the right

Upgrades

Alpenglow is live

Solana switched consensus from TowerBFT to Alpenglow on 21 October at slot 459,653,000, epoch 1064. Finality goes from 12.8 seconds to an expected 150 milliseconds, slots halve to 200ms, and vote transactions leave the blocks, which changes what every dashboard counts.

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Upgrades

250ms slots, and smaller blocks

Solana cut its slot time to 250ms at epoch 1037 on 18 September, the fourth of five steps towards 200ms. Per-block compute fell from 60 million units to 37.5 million with it, so what this buys is latency, not capacity.

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Upgrades

Rent came down. Your accounts are over-funded

Solana cut rent, so every existing account now holds more SOL than it needs. A new Token Program instruction takes the surplus out without closing anything — and this is only phase one of five.