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Noah
Drift
@redacted_noah
Protocol engineering at @DriftProtocol. Opinions are my own.
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    Noah
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    Jun 4
    While it's been an epic few years at Helium, I couldn't resist the call of another migration-level challenge. Those of you who know me know I can't resist chewing some glass. As such, I am going to join @DriftProtocol team and help them relaunch. Why? Because I genuinely believe
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    Noah
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    Jul 9, 2025
    Replying to @WatcherGuru
    Well yeah, when you mark everything up by 20%, then show a crossed out "original" price 40% higher than that, we all know it's a sham.
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    Noah
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    Aug 1, 2025
    Replying to @unusual_whales
    The best way to ensure you're doing a good job is to fire everyone who tells you you're doing a bad job. It's important to build a circle of yes men around you so you don't have to ever confront reality.
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    Noah
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    Dec 26, 2021
    How I learned to program on Solana, updated with today's resources. A thread: Step 1. Read through the Solana docs docs.solana.com/introduction. At the very least, Wallets and Developing. Over the next few weeks, you will keep coming back here, so you'll want to know where things are
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    @redacted_noah
    Jun 21, 2022
    The Solend whale coming back to CT after his/her nice vacation
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    Dec 14, 2021
    A 🧵of things I wish I knew when I started developing on Solana. 1. A wallet isn't an actual data struct. It's just a public key. All tokens are stored in "associated" token accounts stored at addresses deterministically found by hashing the wallet and mint addresses
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    Nov 10, 2022
    Gentle reminder that Solana is the only blockchain where you can mint 1,000,000 NFTs for less than $100. If large companies get into dropping NFTs, there’s only one place they are going to go.
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    Noah
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    @redacted_noah
    Oct 20, 2023
    This is unbelievably cool. Giving authorities the ability to monitor an entire city in a disaster situation. Only possible with the kind of redundant coverage available through the @helium IOT network. Utility that could save your life. Only possible on Helium. OPOS.
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    @greenmetrics_ai
    Oct 20, 2023
    It's been a busy 72 hours for us. This is the Operational Command Center in Lisbon, where the Mayor, City Councilor and Civil Protection Director monitor the flood situation in the city using greenmetrics.ai's Early Flood Detection platform on the right side screen. 1/9
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    Apr 13, 2022
    Guys we’ve come so far
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    Jul 15, 2025
    For over a year now, Solana has just worked. No insane fees. No issues landing transactions. No congestion on my contracts. Vibrant dev community. It’s been a pleasure to work with I really don’t understand why you’d build anywhere else.
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    @redacted_noah
    Nov 2, 2022
    (1/9) I'm excited to announce that @StrataProtocol has been acquired by @HeliumFndn! Myself, and the rest of the Strata engineering team have already started building Helium's migration to Solana! A 🧵 on what's happening, and why we've made the move 👇
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    Strata Protocol
    @StrataProtocol
    Nov 2, 2022
    We're excited to announce that we are joining the @HeliumFndn. Effective immediately, Strata is becoming a public good. All Strata code is open source (always has been) and all launchpad fees have been reduced to 0! Read more about the acquisition here: blog.strataprotocol.com/helium-foundat…
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    Noah
    Drift
    @redacted_noah
    Dec 5, 2024
    Can’t believe people are still dumping time and money into L1s that are either slower than, or only slightly faster than Solana. If it isn’t an order of magnitude faster, it’s a complete waste of time. Nobody is going to build in a wasteland with no users just because the devex
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    Drift
    @redacted_noah
    Dec 8, 2023
    I know you all want SOL to flip ETH, but if it does the min rent cost to create a single PDA will be $0.60. Some common costs at $665 sol: Token account - $1.35 LP Position - $10 Program Deploy - Your first born child Lowering rent costs should be the next big coredev effort.
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    Noah
    Drift
    @redacted_noah
    Feb 24, 2025
    No one is launching tokens anymore. Timeline isn’t full of tickers. We’re so cooked Guess we’re going to have to go back to building useful things. Oh no.
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