SOLANA 2024 UPDATES
Over the last few months the Solana ecosystem has undergone some upgrades and updates. Here's the rundown of these lastest innovations

TOKEN EXTENSIONS:
- Confidential Transfers: One major use of this extensions are to enable confidential token transfers.
- Transfer Hooks: There are also custom programs to control token transfers.
- Metadata Pointer: This would help designate sources for token metadata.

NEW VALIDATOR CLIENTS:
- Firedancer: Built by Jump, optimizes networking and processing.
- Jito-Solana: Updated Solana Labs client by Jito Labs.
- Sig: Solana