Solana 🧭 Compass

Independent Solana validator since 2021

Info, guides and dashboards on the Solana ecosystem at - stake with us to support!

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

New: Biggest update in >1yr on Solana Compass

No longer just analyzing blocks & builders, but every transaction that happens on chain

Check out our new analytics that dig into which programs are gaining users, which DEX drive the most trading volume, token prices + much more!

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

Great work from @czamaru in developing a detailed response to the FCA's perimeter consultation. Here's to a bright future for defi in the UK

[Superteam UK @SuperteamUK]

The future of DeFi in the UK shouldn't be decided without the people building it.

Today, we submit our response to the FCA's perimeter consultation.

Backed by 20+ founders, all pushing for rules that can give DeFi a home here.

We fight for the progress we need. 🦾🇬🇧

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

@mert @CraigBurel yes

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

is that a yes, i should finally update my logo? 😅

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

@alessandrod they're all just tractors at the end of the day

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

@formacity alright me babber? video's gurt lush. proper job!

[Solana Research Institute (SRI) @Solana_SRI]

Solana Compass joins the Solana Research Institute as a founding member.

@SolanaCompass operates a validator on the network and runs the analytics platform used by over 300 media organisations and referenced by institutions including Visa to evaluate Solana's network performance, validator behaviour, and token markets.

Their joining the SRI brings independent on-network data and infrastructure-operator perspective into the Institute's research community.

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

The overall effect at the epoch boundary is a little more subtle: while the Token program is by far the most popular on the network, many other apps on Solana are considerably less efficient.

See https://t.co/55S33YyfDM to dig in

My per-program data is only stored per hour, not per minute, so I'll be back later today with a chart showing the drop

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

p-Token has just been enabled on mainnet, drastically reducing the compute used by Solana's token program.

This massively boosts capacity, creating space for the network to handle even more transactions, swaps and compute per second.

Here you can see the before and after drop in CU as epoch 471 started: from 4550 to as little as 112 CU per instruction

[Brennan Watt @bw_solana]

The best trading venue in the world will not be a centralized exchange.

It will be permissionless, globally distributed, high-bandwidth, low-latency, and predictably ordered.

Solana is that venue.

Trading Valhalla is the destination. The path is already being built 👇

[Solana Research Institute (SRI) @Solana_SRI]

The biggest single change to Solana's consensus mechanism is now running on a live test cluster.

Alpenglow takes time-to-finality from 12.8s to roughly 150ms. For institutional applications, including payments, settlement, and intraday liquidity, that further closes the latency gap between Solana and centralised transaction-processing systems.

Full coverage in Chapter 2 of A Financial Institution's Guide to Solana: https://t.co/1YpcEWX7t1

[Solana Research Institute (SRI) @Solana_SRI]

Non-stablecoin RWAs on Solana have topped $2bn.
BlackRock's BUIDL, YLDS, Apollo Diversified Credit, OnRe Reinsurance, Galaxy's tokenised US CP, Superstate's Crypto Carry Fund, and xStocks tokenised equity are all live on the network.

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

@toly Cheers toly!

[Solana Research Institute (SRI) @Solana_SRI]

A Financial Institution's Guide to Solana.

New from the Solana Research Institute. Seven chapters covering protocol, economics, governance, ecosystem, regulation, and live product, written for analysts at FIs being asked to evaluate it.

Some of what's in it 🧵

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

As a founding member of the SRI, I am thrilled to support independent, rigorous research that shows the institutional world why we believe Solana is a great place to build and deploy capital.

Give them a follow @Solana_SRI and check the link below 👇

https://t.co/ERvfvpHSWz

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

Very proud to be a founding member of the @Solana_SRI !

They just launched 'A Financial Institution's Guide To Solana'

This research piece is the first comprehensive resource on Solana written specifically financial institutions, covering the technology, economics, governance, regulation, and the institutional products already live on the network

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

@ansel_sol @karpathy Yes it was mine too, once!
I think I was much more aware before that starting this or that feature meant another few weeks so better to stop here and ship.
Now when it may even be possible in an afternoon its very tempting to just keep rolling, hard to keep the discipline

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

@ansel_sol 😂

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

Solana Compass validator is now up and running on Agave v4.0.0-rc

Excited to be on the cutting edge of Solana performance

[Solana 🧭 Compass @SolanaCompass]

New: Biggest update in >1yr on Solana Compass

No longer just analyzing blocks & builders, but every transaction that happens on chain

Check out our new analytics that dig into which programs are gaining users, which DEX drive the most trading volume, token prices + much more!