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Hi Solana Community! It’s Matt here from the Kin Foundation. The purpose of this thread is to propose an adjustment to the logic of the Solana Rent Program to be responsive to the price of SOL Abstract The Solana blockchain introduces the concept of “Rent” for new account creations. As the documentation states: “Since validators on the network need to maintain a working copy of this state in memory, the network charges a time-and-space based fee for this resource consumption, also known as ...

The Kin Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded a bounty for the successful launch of a new tutorial. Contributed by community developer Xing Yi, developers now have a starter kit for Java (Android) and tutorial for Java (Android). Stay tuned for an iOS tutorial in the next few weeks!

An online, global hackathon with up to $1 million in prizes & seed funding.

Kik is a popular instant messaging app that allows users to take on any persona they wish to connect with friends over common interests, or make new ones. With millions of active users, Kik has boasted some of the highest engagement of any social networking app

The Kin Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded strategic ecosystem grants to community developer Beeman to support the execution of his proposal to develop a Kin Web Wallet for both users and developers, as well as both a Kin Web SDK and a React Native SDK to make it even easier to develop new applications with the Kin cryptocurrency.

The Kin Foundation offers Kin grants to qualified teams and individuals that can successfully bring meaningful contributions to the Kin Ecosystem. Our grant program is increasingly becoming more popular and we have received dozens of applications. As a result of reviewing a variety of applications, here are some tips to ensure your next grant application has the best chances of being successful.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a community-led developer tutorial site: https://kintegrate.dev! Kintegrate was launched by developers in our community and supported by the Kin Foundation. The goal is to help new developers understand and integrate Kin more easily into their apps. Currently, the tutorials cover integrating into Android (Kotlin) for the front-end and NodeJs for the back-end. They also have drop-in code that developers can use to immediately start testing their apps with Kin, by looking at the sample implementations. Head over to that website to check them out!

The Kin Foundation tracks a number of analytics and indicators throughout social and community channels to measure growth and interest around the Kin cryptocurrency. Across the board, metrics are trending upward. Check out this post for more interesting insights.

A KRE improvement proposal has been submitted for community discussion by the Kin Foundation. This proposal would adjust the definition of active user in order to combat bot behavior. Review and comment on the proposal here.