God honors his favorites by crushing them, drops the whole insufferable wretched weight of purpose on their spines until they either snap into shape or snap entirely. the unburdened, those buoyant grinning vapid little phantoms drifting through their own lives without a single crushing thing to carry, they are forgotten
SWQoS: Stake-Weighted Quality of Service.
why do we even need this?
• It was created in response to the April 30th 2022 mainnet-beta outage, which exposed how badly Solana needed a way to handle transaction floods. It prioritizes network traffic based on validator stake, so unstaked senders can't overwhelm the network.
how does it actually work?
• When SWQoS is enabled, leaders identify and prioritize transactions proxied through staked validators.
A validator holding 1% of stake gets the right to transmit up to 1% of packets to the leader.
The leader's QUIC server splits its inbound capacity 80% of connection bandwidth is reserved for staked connections, while unstaked connections (RPCs without stake-pairing, direct senders) fight over the remaining 20%.
the part most people get wrong: they think a high priority fee guarantees inclusion. It doesn't.
• SWQoS controls ingress, priority fees control ordering.
• SWQoS decides whether your packet even reaches the leader's banking stage.
• Priority fees only decide where you land within the block once you're in.
almost every successful person I’ve known of have had some form of character defining trauma and struggle they went through to get successful
my character defining trauma is not being nyc based