Solana unveils Google partnership, smartphones, Web3 store at Breakpoint

During the ecosystem’s yearly gathering astatine Breakpoint 2022 successful Libson, Solana made a bid of motorboat announcements arsenic it prepares to spell mainstream. Cointelegraph’s crushed squad — contiguous during the league — shared insights into Solana’s roadmap, which includes the launching of smartphones, dApp stores and a concern with Google Cloud, among others.

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Solana Breakpoint, a four-day league scheduled from Nov. 4 to Nov. 7, attracted 13,000 radical successful conscionable 1 of the 4 venues it’s being held simultaneously.

QR Code giveaways and GeoNFTs for Solana Store

Fortunately for Cointelegraph’s crushed team, the venue featured Solana co-founder Raj Gokal and Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.

Soon after, Vibhu Norby, the CEO and laminitis of Solana Spaces, took the stage to present an interactive presumption portion asking attendees to scan QR codes to enactment successful a giveaway!

Norby further unveiled the Solana Store successful Miami, showcasing a walkaround video of radical checking retired the store, arsenic shown above. In addition, the CEO revealed that:

“Now anyone, anyplace tin physique their ain Solana Store.”

While explaining the process of gathering a Solana store, Norby announced the motorboat of GeoNFTs — a nonfungible token (NFT) implementation — that allows users to geo-tag an country successful their city. He further explained:

“If you person a GeoNFT, you tin redeem it 1-for-1 with the exclusive rights to unfastened a Solana store successful that region.”

With GeoNFTs, Solana aims to empower solo entrepreneurs that privation to get into business.

Solana smartphones disposable for pre-order successful aboriginal 2023

“It’s made for the people,” said the Solana mobile squad portion announcing the motorboat of its upcoming smartphones. Cointelegraph recovered that the preorders for Solana mobile phones volition commence successful 2023. However, the institution is yet to state an authoritative day for its availability.

A differentiating diagnostic of the Solana telephone lies successful its quality to securely store the backstage keys of crypto wallets. The Solana smartphone volition beryllium powered by a Qualcomm chipset sporting an Arm-based SoC, allowing for higher productivity.

Cointelegraph’s crushed squad managed to bring successful a sneakpeak of the soon-to-be-launched Solana smartphone.

Solana dApp store: A committedness of crypto-friendly policies

Gearing up for the Web3 disruption, Solana announced the motorboat of the Solana dApp Store. During the conference, a Solana spokesperson highlighted the request for a bully idiosyncratic acquisition successful Web3.

Supporting the cause, Solana’s dApp store promises to bash distant with charges, revenues and fees. Moreover, the institution confirmed with the funny participants that submissions would unfastened january 2023.

Google Cloud is soon to go a Solana node validator

While the supra announcements people a bid of milestones for Solana, the ecosystem’s concern with Google Cloud evidently stole the limelight.

Based connected the accusation collected by Cointelegraph’s crushed team, Google Cloud is gathering a block-producing Solana validator to enactment successful and validate the network.

Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine, which was archetypal announced connected Oct. 27, volition diagnostic connected Solana concatenation from 2023. The integration volition let users to motorboat a dedicated Solana node successful the Cloud.

Additionally, Google Cloud volition scale Solana information and bring it to BigQuery — a fully-managed, serverless information warehouse — by adjacent year, making it easier for the Solana developers to entree humanities data.

Related: Solana-based protocol seeking to decentralize ride-sharing raises $9M

On Oct. 11, Solana (SOL) users were attacked by hackers via a fake Solana wallet information update.

Hackers were recovered airdropping NFTs to users masquerading arsenic a caller Phantom wallet information update. However, the fraudulent update was a malware designed to bargain crypto assets.

Users falling for the fake Phantom update hack saw malware being downloaded from GitHub, which attempts to bargain browser information, history, cookies, passwords, SSH keys and different idiosyncratic information.