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[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@wedtm movie's not over yet

[Triton One 🌊🌋 @triton_one]

We've been working on this for a while, and it's finally here.

A better, faster way to query @solana history.

If your wallet history lags or your explorer spins on lookups, the bottleneck is usually the storage layer. Bigtable is used across most of the industry, but was never designed for how Solana actually gets queried.

It's slow for random access, nearly impossible to adapt, and hasn't meaningfully evolved since its genesis. And the egress costs? Don't get us started.

We couldn't patch it.
So we rebuilt it from scratch.

Hydrant is Triton's new Rust backend running on ClickHouse with:
→ columnar storage physically sorted for each query
→ materialised views created at write time
→ dedicated routing for hot addresses like USDC
→ head cache that serves recent data at 0.57 ms P50

Three methods live, dramatically faster and more cost efficient.

Pricing is flat across the entire ledger: $0.08/GB + $10/M requests, genesis to tip, same as any standard RPC request.

And as if that wasn't enough, it's soon going open-source under AGPL!

Full breakdown: https://t.co/i0srt9gimJ

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@wedtm

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@SteveCleanBrook @wedtm @solana @triton_one 🤔

[Happy Pirate | ソラナ | Triton.One @SteveCleanBrook]

Tomorrow I am talking with @wedtm about how to find your 4kb @solana transactions from 3 years ago in a 500 Tb heap of 4kb transactions in milliseconds.

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[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@addarg7 a lotta thought, hm?

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@wedtm @grok what does he need so much RAM for?

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@wedtm https://t.co/fdgO8RLJ82

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@wedtm Are you about to rebrand?

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@wedtm sRPC making a return?

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

@Tiger_Research_ like @corporealai ?

[corporeal.ai @corporealai]

Only 15 hours remain!

Have you locked in your #C3 yet, or are you going to be begging your friends for some?

[supermiles @wedtm]

We are signing 2 new robotics teams as charter members of the Corporeal Combat League.

I was planning on sharing them with you today but the docs are taking longer so tomorrow!

One last thing…

how many robots do you think we can destroy here?

[Motoko Robotics @motokorobotics_]

Beyond Robotics.
@corporealai x @motokorobotics_

[Doomtime @Doomtimer]

Real autonomous AI fighting robots + Mythbusters-style videos?
Yes please.
Need @donttrythis as a guest on there!

[corporeal.ai @corporealai]

Are you ready, soldier?

Let's build: https://t.co/RoXOZ4aPbn

[supermiles @wedtm]

@mattyp Check out what we’re doing with @corporealai!

BattleBots + MythBusters

[supermiles @wedtm]

If you've been following my combat robotics journey, now is your chance to join in the fun!

If not, here's a quick refresh: https://t.co/dheyqnrBjp

@addarg7 and I have spent countless nights and weekends the past several months figuring out how to bring the thrill of combat robotics to the masses.

[supermiles @wedtm]

Presale is live for @corporealai 🧵

[corporeal.ai @corporealai]

Are you ready, soldier?

Let's build: https://t.co/RoXOZ4aPbn