three months ago we started building @epochdotm as an experiment and ended up winning the @solana privacy hackathon, which landed us a sponsored @ns trip by @superteam to keep building epoch from there.
after arriving, it was a real rollercoaster, and the last month was especially hard, which is why we've been quiet.
still, we shipped. epoch is live on devnet (a private prediction market on solana powered by @arcium), picked up good traction, got submitted to colosseum, and recently got a mention in messari's solana q1 report.
so from now on, i’ve decided to document epoch’s journey and build in public. all the ups and downs, nothing filtered, everything raw.
here's ep 1. hope you enjoy.
Most Solana teams optimize RPC.
We decided to remove it.
At @brewlabshq_ , our latency requirements pushed us beyond Yellowstone and toward consuming validator data directly from the source.
Today we're open-sourcing part of that work:
Qlaster — Shared-Memory Data Streaming for Colocated Solana Services.🧵
for us, it’s been @arcium and @superteamin.
the support we got from this community changed everything for us. it gave us the conviction to go all in on @epochdotm.
thank you guys for believing in us this early and being the first believers of epoch 🫡
everybody needs a "first believer"
someone who sees something in you, before you fully believe it yourself
mine was @mickbirch and I'm forever thankful !
who was yours?