What we watched on Sui this week as validators:
- A DoS fix shipped privately and patched fast
- Hashi getting close to mainnet
- AI agents getting limits they can’t get around
More of the @SuiNetwork ecosystem updates on our Substack 👇
https://t.co/he2hE2ANGI
We're not done shilling London events:
The day before Breakpoint doors open, in the same building: BlockZero, a community-led validator summit run by @ChainflowPOS and friends.
Small, high-signal, built around what it actually takes to run the network. Validators, request your seat.
Monad’s security team ran the same AI model over the same codebase 4 different ways. 26 real bugs between them.
None of the 4 found all of them, and one high-severity bug only showed up in one run. Worth the read, if you use AI for audits. The latest @monad pulse is out on Substack:
https://t.co/gY5Ggg1sQX
When we launched chainSOL, we decided not to charge our commission on top of the pool fee. Holders already pay for liquidity, and charging twice for the same stake didn’t sit right.
So we return it every epoch, on-chain.
https://t.co/0EJSbpKIDB
@ChainflowSol
BREAKPOINT 2026: 7 SIDE EVENTS WORTH WATCHING
Solana Breakpoint returns to London on Nov 15-17, but the real alpha starts earlier. For the most technical, builder-focused conversations around Breakpoint, here are 7 side events worth your time👇
- BUILDER & INFRASTRUCTURE
1️⃣ Nov 1–12 | Solana Hacker House London
Hosted by @SolanaFndn. Hands-on building across DeFi, infra & apps. Closes with a massive Demo Day (co-hosted by @SuperteamUK) on Nov 12 to pitch live products to investors
2️⃣ Nov 13 | 200ms
Hosted by @jito, 200ms focuses on Solana's market microstructure, MEV, and the evolving DeFi landscape for core devs and on-chain traders
3️⃣ Nov 13 | Solana Intelligence Summit
An invite-only summit by @SolanaFndn bringing together builders and researchers for workshops and live demos at the intersection of AI and Solana.
4️⃣ Nov 13 | Stable Summit IV + Capital Summit
By @stable_summit, the event brings two complementary programs together in London. Featuring speakers from Deutsche Bank and SAP. Covering everything from stablecoins and FX to liquidity and risk management
5️⃣ Nov 14 | Scale or Die
A technical summit focused on scaling Solana at ICC London by @SolanaFndn. Strictly focused on scaling infra: Firedancer, consensus, RPCs, validator performance.
- CAPITAL
6️⃣ Nov 15 | BlockZero 2026
Community-led summit by @ChainflowPOS. The ultimate gathering for validators and infra operators to tackle network economics, governance, and operations.
- AI BUILD
7️⃣ Nov 15 | CodeCup: AI x Solana Builder Arena
Hosted by CodeCupHQ. Hands-on coding competitions, AI workshops, and dev collaboration running alongside Breakpoint Day 1.
The best conversations often happen off the main stage.
Which side event is on your calendar? 👇
Quick question for delegators: do you know how your validator voted on the last proposal?
Most people don’t. That’s normal.
But the stake they used was yours.
If their record doesn’t match what you care about, vote yourself or move. 🌞
REMINDER: the @solana validator community call we moved is this Thursday, Oct 29, 2:00 PM ET.
Agenda and sign-up: https://t.co/Ma6k6vRT6U
P.S. Anyone can join & it isn’t recorded.
Sui ran a fire drill on its new address-freeze mechanism last week. The @SuiNetwork team froze an address it controls, checked it worked, and unfroze it. Also, @DeepBookonSui just passed $20B in volume, with 15+ Sui apps trading on the same order book 👇
https://t.co/LPbDqsPQ5v
Alpenglow went live on Wednesday, Oct 21 at slot 459653000. 446 validators in the genesis vote. One bug at the first epoch boundary, fixed in Agave PR 16302. Here’s what changed for operators 👇 https://t.co/E84ys2BubG
Alpenglow is live on mainnet-beta ⛰️ 🎉
Solana’s new consensus protocol: finality reduced from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, built by Anza.
Why this is important 🧵
And @ChainflowSol was there, just like we were for the original genesis block on March 16, 2020
While a lot has changed since then, we're
Still here
Still contributing
Still independent
🌞
Alpenglow goes live TODAY.
Tomorrow is the first validator community call after it.
On the agenda:
→ Updates from @anza_xyz, Firedancer, @jito, @doublezero
→ SIMD-605: enshrining local fee markets
→ Community Awards at Block Zero
How to join 👇
https://t.co/hWFwv1y1Ok
We’ll be at @LuganoPlanB this Friday, and @nicostery is there for us. If you’re building on Bitcoin, or curious about our work as a Strata bridge operator, say hello or DM Nico to set up a time.
Our new research moves us closer to letting anyone help secure BTC deposited on Alpen.
We survey permissionless challenging on Bitcoin & introduce polynomial soldering: a more scalable, efficient component for challenging the validity of proofs.
HackMD: https://t.co/bR50hbqPE2