1/ TapeDrive presents a compelling approach to onchain storage on Solana. After being named the Grand Champion in @colosseum's most recent hackathon and being being accepted to Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 3, the protocol is now live on Solana devnet with mainnet launch on the horizon.

2/ Tapedrive plugs into Solana’s validators for security and speed without the need for side-chains or additional consensus layers. Writers pack data into onchain “tapes,” pay once, and miners lock in storage forever with a novel proof-of-access. Pricing is currently set at ~1,400x cheaper than current Solana account rents.

3/ TIMD-001 overhauls economics: every write pre-funds 100 years of storage and streams those fees back to miners over time. - Mining shifts to ~1 minute blocks, one proof per miner, while a consistency streak boosts payouts for operators who never miss a block. - Target participant count and proof difficulty retune every ~10 minutes, keeping the cadence steady as demand scales.