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An archive of Solar's official announcements and updates. Critical posts are captured as durable static snapshots so the record survives even if blog.solar.org is retired.
AllGovernanceProtocolProductStatus
20263 posts
Governance2026-01-30◆ SNAPSHOT
Governance Proposal Outcome
The community governance vote SXP-GOV-2026-01 did not reach quorum. No further protocol development is planned, and Solar remains open for any credible organization to steward.
Governance2026-01-26◆ SNAPSHOT
Solar Governance Update: Block Producer Proposal Initiation
Initiation of a non-binding, time-bound block-producer signaling proposal on an optional, voluntary path forward for the network.
Status2026-01-26◆ SNAPSHOT
Solar Project Status Update
A full account of the project's status: no further protocol updates are planned, and prospective successor teams declined after due diligence.
20253 posts
Status2025-11-28◆ SNAPSHOT
Resignation Statement — Nayiem W.
The project's lead developer announces resignation, citing conditions that prevented further progress and confidentiality that limited transparency at the time.
Protocol2025-11-25◆ SNAPSHOT
Solar November 2025 — Update #3
November 2025 development update. Core 5.0 reached approximately 90% testnet completion.
Status2025-03-28live ↗
Solar Q1 2025 Update: Full Speed Ahead
First-quarter 2025 progress across the protocol and consumer products.
20243 posts
Product2024-10-18live ↗
BrighterVPN Is Here
A crypto-first VPN with SXP login and payments.
Protocol2024-06-09live ↗
Core 5.0 — Alpha Testing & Performance Comparison
Core 5.0 alpha testing results and a performance comparison against the current stable Core 4.3.1 (~20x faster).
Product2024-05-30live ↗
Introducing Solar Enterprises
Bringing Solar Card, tymt, District 53, and BrighterVPN together under the Solar Enterprises umbrella.
20232 posts
Protocol2023-07-05live ↗
Swap Portal Officially Closed
The SXP mainnet swap portal is officially closed following the 1:1 token migration.
Product2023-02-12live ↗
Introducing Solar Card
A crypto debit card built around SXP, available across ~140 countries.
20224 posts
Product2022-08-14live ↗
District 53 — Pre-launch Announcement
A metaverse game on Solar; 90% of land-sale proceeds burned.
Protocol2022-05-30live ↗
Solar Core 3.3.0 Went Live
Solar Core 3.3.0 — adds a 5% dev fund and BIP340 Schnorr signatures.
Protocol2022-03-28live ↗
SXP Mainnet Launched
The Solar mainnet is live — a dPoS Layer-1 with 53 block producers and 8-second blocks.
Protocol2022-03-21live ↗
Get Ready for Mainnet
Preparing for the Solar mainnet launch on 28 March 2022.
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Posts marked ◆ Snapshot are captured as durable static pages held by the Foundation. The full post list is derived from the Ghost sitemap (sitemap-posts.xml). Links open the live post on blog.solar.org. Last reviewed 2026-06-20.
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