Solana is a blockchain designed to support scalable decentralized applications (gapps). One of the key distinguishing features of Solana is its Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus system, which is backed by Tower Consensus. This is a variant of the system known as Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), it allows distributed networks to reach consensus despite attacks from malicious nodes.

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Announcing the Solana Riptide Hackathon! 🌊

Jump in, the water’s fine. The latest Solana hackathon has $5m in prizes and seed funding.

💸 Payments presented by Visa
📈 DeFi presented by Jump Crypto
💻 Web3 presented by Google
🎮 Gaming presented by Samsung & TSM
🤝 DAOs presented by Mango & MonkeDAO

Plus dozens of community prizes, hacker houses, online events, and more. 

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Announcing the Solana Riptide Hackathon. Jump in, the water's fine.