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Record No. 2018-03-27-loom-renamed-solanaMilestoneVerified

Loom renames itself Solana

On March 27, 2018, the project's X account, which had posted as @loomprotocol, announced: "FYI, Loom is now Solana. Update your mental rolodex!" Within the hour a commit titled "Rename project: silk -> solana" renamed Silk, the open-source Rust implementation of Loom. The v0.4.0 release notes of March 31 said the team had renamed the project "to avoid confusion with the Ethereum-based Loom Network", in homage to Solana Beach, California.

Entities

  • Solana Labs
  • Loom
  • Silk

Sources & citations (6)

  1. https://x.com/solana/status/978742601883906048Accessed Oct 8, 2026Posted 2018-03-27 21:16 UTC; the account had posted as @loomprotocol in February 2018 and is now @solana.
  2. https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/commit/c8ddc68f133cabdce3d8d3cb2319d6954ba4ecb0Accessed Oct 8, 20262018-03-27 22:16 UTC.
  3. https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/tag/v0.4.0Accessed Oct 8, 2026Published 2018-03-31 20:47 UTC: 'Loom Protocol is no more!' The name pays homage to Solana Beach, California.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20180202103550/http://loomprotocol.com/Captured Feb 2, 2018Before the rename: 'Loom: A new architecture for a high-performance blockchain'. Original: http://loomprotocol.com/
  5. https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/88e270723fcdb1da116afc2f74ef2c2d4c42b0c9/book/src/introduction.mdAccessed Oct 8, 2026Solana Labs docs, Nov 2018: Anatoly 'called the project Loom'; it dates the GitHub rename of Silk to Solana to March 28th.
  6. https://x.com/solana/status/980255305966567425Accessed Oct 8, 2026Posted 2018-04-01 01:27 UTC; a retweet of it the same day reads 'RT @SolanaLabs'. Account now @solana.

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