cubicle monkey by day // nonCMO of @solana by night // Building: stakeware.xyz
Austin, TX
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
🎶 come on down, to epochtown 🎶
Announcing epochtown (pronounced ee-pak not ep-uck) a community for Solana builders, devs, artists, entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in building the future on Solana
As someone new to Solana it is sometimes hard to find like minded people to learn from, collaborate with and build with. Epochtown aims to change that, all newbies are welcome and no questions are too dumb to ask
If you’re just getting started, trying to find your way around, or want to find someone to collaborate with on the next hackathon, or maybe you’re building and have questions come on down!
Discord link in next tweet below
Huge huge huge thanks to @adlonymous for the discord magic, @jacobvcreech @nickfrosty for the motivation, @dhruvsol for the cute designs and @beeman_nl @metasal @0xnaga @SolDapper for being the OG fire starters :)
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gm solana austin folks!
I'm co-hosting the #Solanasummer kickoff with @RadiumBlock at the Salty Sow, this Thursday at 6pm.
Come hang out and talk all things @solana, RSVP below! Link in comments
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And with the imminent launch of the 9950x, seeing a *lot* of these deals pop up as DCs drop prices on older hardware, so now you can run on mainnet-beta for ~200/mo. God bless Moore’s law.
Outside of EPYCs, it'll also be interesting to see if adoption of AMD Ryzen CPUs on mainnetbeta further increases. These max out at fewer cores (16) but have high base and boost clock speeds (over 5GHz). A lot of validators currently see decent performance with the 7950x.
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Our vote on SIMD-228 & SIMD-123
tldr; split abstain/no on 228, yes on 123
as this nail biting vote comes to a close, and since we're probably not going to hear back from any other stakers, we just want to explain our reasoning for both votes
SIMD-228
Pros:
- reduce overpayment for network security
- could make defi more competitive with caveat (h/t nitter.app/tarunchitra/status/189…)
- somewhat fixes the leaky bucket (h/t nitter.app/MaxResnick1/status/189…) - (us only, and cexes will still dump REV although less emissions to dump h/t @kdipep)
- entice etf's
Cons:
- spook institutional/large sol holders who were sold a growth story by changing our minds overnight, feels like yolonomics ( h/t nitter.app/calilyliu/status/18977…)
- kill some current defi (nitter.app/solblaze_org/status/18…)
- some small validators may die (nitter.app/MaxResnick1/status/189…)
- yolonomics with simd's being bandaids (caveat: this is ok as long as downsides are actually considered and we move fast)
Meta:
The forum proposal was anemic, most cons weren't mentioned, some of these pro's which may have been obvious to the proposers (and some that were in the github discussion) surfaced later, the twitter name calling did not help either. however, we did get a more gradual decline in the curve, and a new simd surfaced to reduce vote costs. h/t here to @maxresnick @kankanivishal and @tushar_jain
But questions remain: Will it spook current institutional holders? current defi devs? large whales? are we ok with that if the etf's come, will they come anyway if we don't make this change? what good have etf's done for btc/eth anyway, tradfi playing tradfi games? and why the rush, why not take the time and build a proper staking etf? if this hurts small validators and sfdp has to step in, why wasn't that in the original proposal? why not a different curve? static low emissions? something tied to REV, not the one we copied from ethereum tied to staking rate?
Ultimately, no one knows what will happen, this is like pulling a giant economic lever and hoping for the best, which is the reason we're abstaining.
That, and we don't want to make a default choice for our stakers. One of our stakers wants us to vote no, so we will split their vote out.
The good thing is that whatever the outcome, we'll just stay nimble and vote on the next thing to fix whatever this breaks.
SIMD-123
This one's much easier, it removes the need for side deals, brings everything on chain and makes it transparent for stakers to see how validators distribute rewards. While it will lead to smaller validator margins getting squeezed, it will also make them more competitive on APY with larger validators.
So this is a yes.
For god & protocol.
Governance lessons:
Engage with proposals earlier, ask questions, don't be afraid of elitists or vote based on their opinions. probably better to do one proposal at a time, but no need for insanely long fruitless discussions.
I'd be remiss in not mentioning everyone else who engaged and provided context, @ShinobiSystems @trentdotsol @7LayerMagik @dubbel06 @c2yptic @knox_trades @maxekaplan @laine_sa_ @SolusRGB @jaskanwar_singh @cfl0ws
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Absolutely awesome to see @calilyliu breakdown our initial opposition to 228 here, and she’s on the frontlines selling Solana to institutions. 48 min in.
1. Why is no one applying rigor or systems thinking to this? We’re a mature $100b network doing economic policy with bandaids, did the same with 96 and look what happened #StopYoloEconomics
2. This kinda behavior adds uncertainty, makes institutions view us less favorably
3. We are still trying to win the market so being humble while moving fast makes sense
4. This change takes very little time to implement and 9 months to deploy can we take a step back and think about this change as an interrelated change affecting multiple ecosystems
Feedback from 228 caused the vote fees SIMD to be created, no one wants an omnibus bill with glacial implementation, we WANT to move fast! We just want someone to look at this holistically and say, this proposal will have downstream affects which are addressed in these upcoming SIMDs
Thankfully, we are getting there, the process is working.
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Hey @solana_devs!
devnetfaucet.org is now available. If you’re on the @ElectricCapital list of contributors to the Solana ecosystem you can claim 20 devnet sol every 24 hours, if you’re not on the list DM me!
Thanks to @SolPlay_jonas for the encouragement at @mtndao and letting me “borrow” some code and to @metasal for guniea pigging 🚀
Who wants some DEVNET SOL?
20 every 1440 minutes
Come get it while it lasts! devnetfaucet.org/
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We finally have the LONG awaited new delegation strategy for the JitoSOL pool
Definitely a big step in the right direction, if you’re a jitosol holder chime in! Forum links below ⬇️
Huge shout out to @brian_smith_0 @buffalu__ @Blockanalia and whoever else worked on bringing this to life
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Can we go back to IBRL and bull posting @alessandrod’s agave perf improvements now 😅
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If you run a solana rpc and don’t want to get caught with your pants down and blame @anza_xyz again, heads up
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dear @JupiterExchange do you mind voting on SIMD-0326? I voted religiously on every single jup asr proposal I could, so I'm sure you understand how important this is?
/cc @0xSoju @italoacasas
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Solid. Fucking. Gold.
Yes, the upgrade cycles are a pain and yes fd tends to get more attention but @anza_xyz core is absolutely killing it with these performance improvements
The amount of effort that goes in is unbelievable
Hats off 🫡
Assume that all assumptions are wrong (except this one).
Develop a principled system level understanding of the thing you want to optimize. You don't have to be an expert in every single area, but you must understand how things interact.
You can only act on measured data. Micro benchmarks are a waste of time. Never look at wall clock time, it's too inaccurate.
Instead, profile. Profile with prod load. Test load is garbage. Take more than one profile (3 is a good magic number) to account for variance.
Find the biggest bottleneck and study the root cause. You are not allowed to write code until you're confident you know the root cause. You must understand it or you risk implementing a solution that appears to work now but will fall off a cliff with a different load pattern.
Develop a theory for a fix, then implement it. Be scrappy don't spend a month to write the perfect code. Do the fastest viable hack to validate the idea.
Most ideas end up not working. If the fix doesn't seem to work, don't just throw it away. You must understand why it's not working. Once you understand though, yeet it asap, don't get attached to the idea or code you've written.
Try the next idea, repeat until something works and the bottleneck is gone. Once the bottleneck is gone don't go full autism into optimizing to death. Making one component 1000x faster when the next component in the pipeline allows for a global 2x speedup is a waste of time.
Find the next bottleneck, then go back to square 1.
Congratulations you're now a performance engineer.
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Raising stake for a validator is a much harder battle when you’re new to the ecosystem, especially with the large stakepools being either slow moving to sandwiches and sybils or being in max extract mode
Thank god for pools like @AeroPool_, not just for staking ecosystem teams but also for actually giving a shit about who they stake to and providing technical (and sometimes emotional :)) support to grow the ecosystem.
Excited to be on this journey, and incredibly grateful for the support
Starting your validator can sometimes be stressful and confusing.
Fortunately, there's an easy solution. @ferric, from @stakeware_xyz, has done all the hard research and published a comprehensive list of compatible hardware for Solana validators.
The right set-up can make a world of difference ⤵️
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Now you don’t ever need to leave tg😂 bullish
i've been working on this telegram bot and implemented a pump.fun token generation system
try it out t.me/Supapumpbot
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Solana stake pools, pop culture edition
Godfather pool - You come to my house on the day of my daughter's wedding, and you bring me a sandwich? Luca, make sure he sleeps with the fishes tonight
Sopranos pool - You want steak? I got steak, now give me all your profits, and your kidneys. Bada bing, bada boom
Squid Game pool - 500 of you will enter, 300 of you will starve or be killed. Let the games begin. Beep boop beep boop.
Tinder Swindler pool - Baby I'll stake you a private jet lets plan a billion dollar wedding, but can you pay off my credit cards and buy me a rolex first? My enemies!
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PS. This post is satire, please don't kick me out of your pools.
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Haha @alessandrod is shitposting IRL, but the perf improvements are insane
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Just wanna take a break from the shitposting and give a massive shout out to @jstrry for building and running vortex (app.vx.tools) - everyone running a validator who cares deeply about Solana performance would be lost without this. Hats off, and muchas muchas gracias
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Dear marketing @solana can whoever runs this account, actually .. run it?
Testnet Validators: Please upgrade to github.com/solana-labs/solan…
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Hat tip to Zan (@ShinobiSystems) and @anza_xyz for all the hard work getting this out 🫡
Really happy to see Timely Vote Credits get activated on mainnet today! This feature was proposed, implemented, and voted on by the Solana validator community with support from @Ashwinningg and the rest of @anza_xyz 🧵👇
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fuck, just got my side wallet drained. @nelo_66 @iarlacrewe the discord link on the pyra.fi website goes to a fake pyra discord with a collab.land drainer in the verify link, might wanna fix that!
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it’s @alessandrod
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Just gonna leave this here for anyone looking for testnet sol: testnetfaucet.org/ - bls don't drain #solana #solanavalidators - thanks to @pumpkinspool for the generous donation
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TFW you get used to losing money every epoch validating, and the @jito_sol delegation finally hits saving you
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- Impossible to get into jito pool
- higher core requirements than our current boxes
- perf tuning agave (to get into tvc sensitive performance pools) is much better understood
- hard to max tvc credits
- did I mention maxing the tvc credits? maybe I did
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Thanks for the shoutout @DanPaul000
I've been meaning to write this post for a while so I'll hijack this thread but after almost 6 months on mainnet(-beta) I am absolutely blown away by the incredible validator community that's been built around solana and by @SolanaFndn, thanks especially to the patience, hard work and support of @TimGarcia0 and @benhawkins to help us newbies.
I'm also incredibly grateful to literally every single validator operator who has helped me, and would encourage everyone to stake to these folks who push hard every single day to make sure the chain and their validators run incredibly well. These guys are the real heroes and deserve recognition. I put them in a list here:
nitter.app/i/lists/18561350984976…
And to the incredible people pushing hard on building everything we run especially the folks Anza, Jito, Paladin, and Triton.
Also thanks to @toly for being the best phone salesman ever. 😂
Nice work @ferric for putting together some helpful Hardware docs for Solana validators! Stake to your community validators!
solanahcl.org/
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Finally got around to watching this, and the leaderless take is super interesting but my favorite part is around 39:30 where Liam says “something awoke in @alessandrod”
Let’s hope whatever woke up the performance beast never ever goes back to sleep 😂
NEW GWART POD: Liam (formerly Firedancer) from Thru joins us to talk about building a high-performance L1 blockchain from scratch. We talk about why Solana has structural limitations, his leaderless consensus design, proof-of-burn mechanisms, and why economic security is overrated. Plus takes on trading, Fire Dancer's progress, and the future of DeFi.
@GwartyGwart @CantelopePeel
Subscribe to the newsletter! newsletter.blockspacemedia.c…
Timestamps
00:00 Start
00:12 Liam's background
02:18 Early trading
03:13 Firedancer experience
03:58 What's Unto?
05:40 Solana L1 limitations
08:07 Applications
09:51 CLOB wars
11:58 Proof of stake flaws
18:23 Multiple concurrent proposers
21:38 Burn design
25:27 Improvements in trading
27:47 Commodities on chain
30:08 Onto chain performance
32:52 Performant L1 chain competition
35:38 Desired apps
38:00 Firedancer progress & marketshare
42:10 Decentralization & price discovery
45:57 The value of a market
50:10 MEV on Solana
53:56 L1 token value
1:01:28 Through updates
1:03:42 Wrap up
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First grafana dashboard to not make my eyes bleed, good job guys 🚀🚀
Our new metrics dashboard is live at:
metrics.trulyhonestwork.io/
Inspired by the work of @maxekaplan in a recent dashboard he shared for @solstrategies , we decided to upgrade our internal dashboards too.
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I’d like to thank the academy, my mom and my dad.
Stakeware is now the best performing Solana validator, ranked #1 by vote credits in this brief instant, much love to everyone in the Solana community and all our stakers
h/t @bape_SOL for noticing
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also
/cc @phantom since melea shows up first in your stake list and I know you care about your community more than a commission rugging validator that is stealing from your users
Melea stakers - are you aware you're not earning any MEV rewards despite Melea's promise a few weeks ago to charge no MEV commission? He's deleted that tweet now but how do you feel about a validator promising a 0% fee then yanking it up almost immediately to 100%?
Don't believe me, check yourself, 400+ SOL per epoch that could be going to stakers. Check Jito's reporting here: jito.retool.com/embedded/pub… Search for melea's vote account GvZEwtCHZ7YtCkQCaLRVEXsyVvQkRDhJhQgB6akPme1e
Sort by epoch descending you can clearly see the change in MEV commission.
Stakers are often not checking on their validators daily, but if they knew, would they be happy? How do we raise awareness of these behaviours?
FWIW if you want to charge 100% MEV commission, that's fine, you won't be competitive on APY but you're 100% entitled to do so, but don't advertise a 0% fee then change it to 100% on-chain without further announcement!
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Not the best day, put eggs to boil & went into meetings, fire alarm went off
Opened backyard door to get smoke out & got locked there
Climb over my fence, wasp bit me.
Now locked in backyard crying with smoke filled house.
here’s all it taught me about validator marketing:
Absolutely nothing, happy fucking tuesday
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Brennan’s son is hilarious
And hell yeah shout out (14:08) @pumpkinspool for getting latitude to fix their shit 🚀
Wake up, new @ValidatedPod just dropped 🔊
In this episode, @temporal_xyz and @anza_xyz breakdown @Solana’s evolution and balancing real-world builder challenges with protocol development.
From infra failures and MEV to transparency tools exposing attacks, they explore what’s breaking, what’s adapting, and the path forward for the blockchain with ideas like concurrent leaders and more compute power.
Watch the full episode below ↓
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someone needs to write a new io scheduler...
(i) CPU performance is the primary bottleneck with the Linux storage stack with high-performance NVMe SSDs; (ii) Linux I/O schedulers can introduce 63.4% performance overheads with NVMe SSDs;
atlarge-research.com/pdfs/20…
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Well, Iggy didn’t show up but we all got @buffalu__ and some sick @jito_sol swag so that’s a massive W. Here’s us trying to look serious for the best @solana kickoff on the planet 😂
#Solanasummer24 #solanaaustin
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1.18.15 you are fuckin' glorious. hats off to the @anza_xyz crew and solana manager @trentdotsol 🫡
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Damn, @solblaze_org just dropped a nuke
Hyperbole aside, some good points in here
🚨 A dangerous proposal (SIMD-0228) threatens to DESTROY Solana's decentralization and cripple the DeFi ecosystem.
Validators will soon vote on SIMD-0228. SolBlaze Validator will be strongly voting NO.
Here's why SIMD-0228 is dangerous and how you can help fight back...
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when will this get merged so the rest of the cluster with swqos agreements can upgrade to 1.18, the masses want to know: github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pu… /cc @trentdotsol
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1.18.14 mainnet-beta rpc running all three indexes in RAM, usage requirement dropped from 1+tb to ~300GB. Hats off to @anza_xyz core 🫡
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Every time @_dhruvsol pings me, I get insanely more bullish on Solana and the validator ecosystem
Don’t sleep on this guy, always cooking big tings
@ferric
Chad knows every operator in the ecosystem, helping me with the <REDACTED>
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Can devs do something about this crime on chain
ILRB I guess?
the top five slowest solana validators, that intentionally delaying their blocktimes, stealing rewards from the next leaders and slowing down the entire chain
nearly 1 second of average block times at its worst
@anza_xyz please fix this. it’s getting out of hands
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I’m not sure how it suddenly got so toxic.
You, @laine_sa_ @maxresnick @kankanivishal were pretty thoughtful and engaged politely early on.
We had two spaces. Everyone has enough info now to know how to vote
Lots of lessons learned for sure
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hence, read the source… github.com/CompVis/stable-di…
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gonna be talking about solanahcl.org at the validator community call in 10min, come join us, it'll be a banger, agenda/meeting link in next tweet (post?)
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Is there anything else us validators can do other than running top of the line hardware and failover setups?
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This a normie, pointing out a normies biggest blocker to using eth, her self awareness is fine, yours is muddled
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Who has a @hylo_so code for me
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now there's an idea :)
Domain Name: mainnetfaucet.org
Creation Date: 2025-03-18T17:19:19Z
the plan is to start sharing validator block rewards in a way that incentivizes more open source development, folks like you, @metasal, @SolPlay_jonas, @nickfrosty are an inspiration for a lot of people
the goal is to close the loop from incentivize devs -> more open source -> more devs -> more apps -> more block rewards to incentivize devs
just getting started 🫡
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This thread is absolute gold if you want to understand what happens from the time the validator boots up, to when it’s caught up with the tip of the chain and actively validating, and where the current bottlenecks are
1/ There is a tug of war happening with Solana node catchup times.
Agave performance is a big focus right now, but this mean aggressively removing the "slack in the line" startup relies on in order to catch up quickly 🧵
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Can someone with a delivered seeker confirm? Does the native wallet lock you into staking to one validator? /cc @whosknave
I'm confused. Does the native wallet on the Seeker let you stake with any validator, or are you saying you can only stake to the SOL Strategies Seeker validator?
I would hope the Seeker's native wallet would integrate directly with any validator.
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ok this one by @TimGarcia0 should be an absolute banger, and extra juicy (esp if @knox_trades and @7LayerMagik show up to school us)
Solana validator hardware configuration workshop in ~20 minutes
discord.com/channels/4282953…
Previous recordings: piped.video/playlist?list=PL…
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Holy fuck … great job @junbug_sol & co 🫡
Tried @bulktrade for the first time 🤯
Basically a Solana DEX built as a tile inside the solana validator client software. Very unique design choice that enables high performance and high levels of decentralization.
- Account abstraction: Looks like it's using Privy to create subaccounts/PDA for your wallet. Deposit USD and you're good to go
- Good UX : Very clean, no complaints, hoping the team can maintain the clean-ness even when more features get added
- Lightning fast: this one surprised me. You have to try it to believe it. You can basically just tap trade. Feels like you're playing flappy bird or something. I actually assumed they're running a simulated order book for the alphanet but turns out I was wrong, all real orders and market makers
Things I would like to see (assuming most of these are already planned):
- More features (take profit, stop loss, lending market etc)
- More markets (currently only BTC, ETH, SOL)
- Spot trading (currently just perps)
- More deposit assets
- higher leverage (right now max is 20x)
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Based take, @mert can we get Nico on the spaces as well
The stake ratio doesnt explicitly state anything about the market. So this is not dynamic market based security payments at all - infact its just a punishment on the network for having security above 50% stake.
Solana's design means that actually 100% of SOL should be and CAN be staked, and all of defi and its applications can just use stake-accounts as the defacto format of SOL. This not only makes the network much more secure, but massively increases capital efficiency which is the goal of this post.
i think @KyleSamani and others who push forward this SIMD lack the real boots on the ground knowledge of this technical possibility - hence the creation of this SIMD. But overall its very stupid and EVM aligned and im happy to debate this in public forum.
There is zero reason why 100% of SOL should not be staked - its actually better for all metrics of the network outright, at any inflation ratio - Therefore you should start to ask the question, does amount of stakers determine the market rate for inflation in a meaningful way, absolutely not. Actual chain usage, growth of unique persistent users and onchain capital velocity should determine the rate for inflation.
As a validator ourselves, its very clear that this SIMD is put together very hodge bodged in an attempt to get more people to unstake and use defi. But this is just a peanut brain solution to a problem with an existing gigabrain design implementation that solves itself.
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I'm a smol validator
I don't have a megaphone
I don't have Venture Capitalzzz
I believe & invest in the future of the chain constantly
All I'm asking, for the love of god, is for someone to answer our questions with facts not hopes and dreams
Retar
dio
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Get ya feee virtual RustConf tickets now:
ti.to/rustconf/2025
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Make Australia great again @metasal
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Now that Breakout has begun, two quick updates to devnetfaucet for:
1. 2 devnet sol/day even if you're not already whitelisted
2. our new stake weighted rpc so you can deploy to devnet with ease
1/ The @Solana Breakout Hackathon has commenced!
Build breakout startups that bring the world's markets onchain and push the crypto ecosystem forward.
Up to 15 winning teams will each receive $250,000 in pre-seed funding and acceptance into Colosseum's next accelerator batch.
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Damn cavey and Ben on the same team. Extra bullish @temporal_xyz
Incredibly excited to be joining the illustrious team at @temporal_xyz to work on exciting problems and improve core infrastructure
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This is why we Jito 🚀🚀🚀
Absolute goat team constantly shipping and innovating. Between the Jito client and the stake pool, Jito is a god send for smaller and newer validators
Here’s hoping for an amazing 2025 and beyond!
From $3.5M to $674M in yearly REV: Inside @jito_labs and our vision for 2025
(link in next tweet)
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absolute banger, trust me
If you missed @DiscoKobi and @qkniep , part of the research team @anza_xyz, answering questions about alpenglow, check the video below 🧵
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Ok so I just got @sphere_labs and wow, can I say goodbye to the shitty cex on-ramps now? 5 day holds and $5-25 in fees? Bullish.
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dude… a second foundation?
Asimov would be impressed
in my head this isnt rocket science or new
find trustworthy people fork the foundation and create competition, and also try different models
this is what made the American economy the strongest economy in the world
SF can still do their thing too
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only three types of crypto side events:
- lame & empty
- lame & over crowded
- lame & didn’t get invited
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Watching this boomer vibe code is wild
- Raw dogged and wrote a non-Anchor solana program, wrote tests and deployed it to devnet
- Ended up opening nano inside cursor to edit files lmao
- wrote three clients (rust, python, js) only one of them worked
- turned on yolo mode and started playing guitar and eating pizza midway thru
- can’t wait for episode 2 😂
Anyone Can Build a Solana App: Vibe Coding w/ Kevin Ricoy nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1LyGBWjWW…
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tfw firedancer was supposed to speed up the network but it just sped up greed
Those validators — which seem to include Kiln, Galaxy, and Temporal, among others — saw a higher APY, but Solana had slower epochs, which is bad for staking rewards.
Under social pressure, some slow validators sped up again, and Solana's median block time went back under 400ms.
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PSA: for all datacenter providers who have availability for solana capable hardware, it's the number one question on the discord these days and @ax_1000x and I will be happy to add you to solanahcl.org/#datacenter-pr… especially if you'd like to offer free trials!
DMs open or send us a PR!
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WAT. Does this mean I get to run mother @IGGYAZALEA’s validator, help secure solana, onboard billions and stick it to the man or is iggy a @rexstjohn psyop? 😱
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Absolute banger. MUST READ for anyone who cares, which admittedly is a very small set now
Finally our article on SIMD228 is out!
We analyzed several aspects of this proposal, from implications on MEV to general profitability, always with a focus on security for Solana.
Despite the new curve may seem aggressive, we see the change as a net positive for Solana.
Thanks to @kankanivishal and @maxresnick for the discussions during these days.
If you want to dive more 👇
chorus.one/articles/an-analy…
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the real juice in RE investing isn’t cash flow but appreciation and then 1031 ad infinitum till you die to avoid taxes
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Finally, an ecosystem team in the top 3. In a year, the top 10 will be mostly ecosystem teams, LFG 🚀🚀🚀
wow
Helius is now the 3rd biggest validator on all of Solana — behind two giant public companies with billions
all thanks to the power of manlets
job is not done — but I'm grateful for all of you
we will never stop helping Solana accelerate
(Also note the version)
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oh they're already here... @AeroPool_ is on a mission to support solana ecosystem contributors ;)
aeropool.io/
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Maybe do raffles along with auctions too, for holders only, diversify the membership for people without as much $
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Read the source Luke, but atleast for SD: medium.com/@steinsfu/stable-…
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MAJOR ALPHA BELOW THE FOLD
Man, this is bittersweet. I’m not a big podcast guy, but listening to Solana across America was definitely my favorite ritual for the last few weeks
Not just because @Kyzer and @jnwng are just two chill hilarious dudes but because it finally feels like we have a real community of builders and there are so many amazing things happening in the ecosystem that go unnoticed
Like it was awesome to see @kdipep featured, dudes literally been chewing glass and shipping for ages.
Watch the last episode then go watch all the others
oh and major alpha:
Watch it on desktop, not mobile since they can then feature your chat message - free marketing to over 10k live viewers and milllions others who watch the tape!
🇺🇸 This is currently planned to be the last episode of this show.
If you’ve never tuned in…L.
It’s me and my genuine friend @jnwng shitposting irl while spotlighting cool Solana stuff going on in the USA.
If you like it, want it to continue, and/or want to be on future episodes, make some it known and make some noise publicly now to let us know.
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this whole talk is hilarious: destroyallsoftware.com/talks…
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so fucking cool, does this mean the jito BE can just send me tx's during my leader slots even if I don't run jito-client? will i be able to connect to multiple block producers? what happens to the tx sent to my validators tpu port?
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Casual reading, 🫡 @magicblock
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Mithril is sick, kudos @dubbel06 @7LayerMagik
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Well shit, o1-mini knows how to write @LightProtocol zkcompression code, guess we’re doing the radar hackathon now….
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Prezadent Kyzer y’all
Ok, challenge accepted - I am now the first President of $USA.
CTO is in effect.
Sounds fun, so why not.
Important notes:
1. I love the USA with all my heart; it is the most recognizable “brand” in the world, beyond any politician, corporation, or celebrity, and I can’t stand to see that a tokenized representation of the greatest country on Earth does not yet have the greatest community in crypto. That should be rectified and that is why I’m taking this on.
2. This is a decentralized project and community and I am not actually “in charge” of anything, I am basically just volunteering to contribute. Everything will still be done in tandem with the community and its mods & leaders.
3. In no way should you expect me to “pump” the price of this token or hard shill it or recommend anyone to buy it. There is no investment contract. I owe you nothing, in fact you all should owe ME for providing this level of entertainment.
4. This active contributor status is temporary. I will be stepping down in 69 days. I have a startup that I love and enjoy working on, am starting a family soon, and want to do more volunteer work with my church. This is nowhere near my top priorities, so have less than zero expectations.
5. I don’t actually know the people who started or ran this project until this point. I have been in crypto long enough to know that there are some smarmy cabals and greedy gamblers willing to do whatever it takes to make a quick buck — I am not like that nor do I intend to be used by anyone who is. In fact I hate when useless shitcoins dominate public perception of crypto. So expect zero pump and dump shenanigans.
This effort has zero affiliation with ALLMIGHT nor any company which I worked for in the past. I offer you nothing and am making zero promises. Gary Gensler can suck my balls but I’m not going to jail for y’all.
I intend to use this as a public experiment to show the world that tokens and communities can be used to coordinate positive change beyond speculation and inspire others to do the same. The goal is to build a diehard and resilient community with a shared mission.
I will almost certainly fail. But I don’t enjoy doing easy things so that is perfectly okay with me.
My presidency (access to the twitter) begins tomorrow.
It ends 10/16/25.
Thanks for coming to my inauguration speech.
God bless America 🇺🇸.
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These* lads are mad, live coding ultra fast agave tower transfers over quinn
LFG @dhruvsol @0xnaga
nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1mnxeNqDy…
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Why, glad you asked!
- single monolithic codebase - should've been rpc/validator split from the get go
- lack of rpc call standardization - seriously?! you guys all invented your own pfee, parsed accounts, pagination etc calls? why? i mean, i get vendor lock in. IBM would be proud.
- read only clients are hard to spin up and maintain cuz monolith
fix is easy:
- rip out the readonly client for finalized blocks (shreds etc can use shredstream or w/e)
- keep geyser
- open source it
- standardize the fucking rpc calls, especially giving devs the things they need not the mess we have right now (bonus: look at atlas)
i still use helius (cuz maintaining validator infra is hard enough, i don't want to maintain rpc's), but if you did this i would love you even more
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This agenda is so stacked, can’t wait for @SolanaConf to kick off soon
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The network is healing
Absolute chads @triton_one
My guiding principle for @solana transaction (TX) delivery is that the sender pays a fee and is fully entitled to indicate how the TX should be delivered. The sender should be able to skip over untrusted validators or opt out of bundles to avoid sandwiches.
Here are a couple of solution ideas:
1) After incorporating user feedback, we will upload our Yellowstone Block List program to mainnet next week. This permissionless program will allow community members to maintain lists of sandwiching validators, AKA a "naughty list." A sender will optionally indicate if they want to use a naughty list to skip over untrusted leaders when delivering their TX. At launch, @triton_one will support this program, and we'll encourage other RPC providers to join us in protecting users. (The program is open source and permissionless -- we want this to be a standard implementation across all RPCs. Look for a link to Github in a post below this one.)
2) I'd like to see MEV/TX delivery platforms (Jito, Paladin, & others) offer opt-out mechanisms for users to indicate when they do not want a given TX included in a bundle. The solution can be as simple as including an advertised sentinel account for write-locking inside the TX. If the block engine sees one of the sentinel accounts, it will refuse to accept the bundle. Write locking specific accounts is similar to the vote account hack currently in use but doesn't present a threat to consensus.
Most validators will choose the happy path and work with MEV platforms that honor opt-out requests described in solution #2. For any remaining validators who support sandwiching, users can refuse to send them transactions with solution #1. Those solutions align with the fee payer's interests. Of course, I'm open to all other ideas that respect fee-payers.
#LFG
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fiberstate, they'll build you one too. here's my affiliate link if you want kek: billing.fiberstate.com/aff.p…
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