Solana's monthly community-led validator call is on Thursday, 14:00 ET.
Fill out the form to get the invite: https://t.co/JFXQIPAK1M
No gatekeeping, anyone can join.
Open floor for questions, this is where a lot of the unglamorous protocol work actually gets discussed.
Agave v4.1 adoption jumped from 6.75% to 17.27% this week.
XDP now on 589 mainnet nodes carrying 4x more shreds than non-XDP traffic.
Intel E810 zero-copy still causing spikes.
Mellanox remains the cleaner path.
Full @solana validator Discord recap π
https://t.co/sduNAuI7EC
XDP is going default in August. Mellanox is the move. Hosting costs are squeezing independent validators.
This week's @solana validator Discord, distilled π
https://t.co/ppVYq6hQF2
GM. Be part of a $50,000,000,000+ governance VOTE. π³οΈ Calling all @solana validators! We are running a test VOTE, now on v4.0. Go VOTE and get comfortable with the voting flow and lock down your security setup.
There are some potentially SPICY votes coming up and you dont want to get left behind. πΆοΈ
Voting ends on epoch 982! β°
To vote via CLI, grab the repo here β https://t.co/NIwpsMXhQg
To vote via the frontend, head here β https://t.co/SqGkqNG7Sa
If you have any questions, please reach out here or in the Solana tech discord.
NCN by @exo_tech_ and svmgov by @solanaturbine
If you have any questions on governance there is an excellent breakpoint video discussing the current and proposed flow by @tushar_jain and @DrNickA
Find it here -> https://t.co/nvcNJicCND
This week on @solana:
- XDP testing went mainnet
- Operators built https://t.co/xilfXqMdpa
- Metrics privacy concerns kept evolving
- A critical @jito_sol bundle panic hit v4.1.0-beta.1
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The Layer33 coalition supports making Solana the fastest financial network in the world.
But SIMD-0525 comes with a serious tradeoff:
For faster slots: we get higher vote costs that put more pressure on independent validators.
That is a decentralization problem.
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In support of the ongoing community-driven efforts to test out Alpenglow on Solana, we're excited to announce an allocation of up to 50k SOL in mainnet stake to SolBlaze Verified Validators participating in the Alpenglow community cluster!
Read on for more details...
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People say DAD means Disciplined Agile Delivery
For me, itβs clearly Disciplined Agave Delivery
the upgrade to v4.0.0-rc.1 only confirmed it π
π Release Notes: https://t.co/cRU4PbWM58