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 👇
If you’re a killer who got let go from Coinbase, reach out.
Solana Foundation stays lean and mean, but opportunities are always available for the right people.
We also have a huge ecosystem looking for the right people.
Whatever the role, shoot your shot.
Is it because every CS grad wants a 1m+ AI job? Hit me up if you are a Stanford CS grad that is actually looking for blood, sweat and tears level of work.
Introducing Constellation: a multiple concurrent proposers protocol for Solana. With proposers operating on a 50ms cycle, Constellation gives Solana the fastest protocol enforced economic tick rate of any blockchain.🧵
There will be a 'Solana Jobs' booth/area at Breakpoint where recruiters/founders/hiring managers from ecosystem teams will hang out to speak to anyone who's interested in chatting about jobz
See you there! 🥰
Thrilled to share that I've stepped into a new role as Head of Communications at @DoubleZero.
If I've learned anything during the last few years in HFT / crypto, it's that relentless performance optimization is what separates ideas from results. Since its inception, crypto has been running on infrastructure orders of magnitude slower than traditional markets, and largely unaware of it. We've underestimated the technical sophistication of big tech and TradFi. It's time to close the technical chasm.
The problem is fundamental: blockchains are running on infrastructure that was never built for them. No major player in TradFi or big tech runs mission-critical infrastructure over the public internet. They use private networks optimized for their needs. It's not radical thinking either, it's just perf engineering.
The reality is this: Web3 will never compete running over Web2 infrastructure. A system is only as fast as its slowest part... and we won't see real performance gains (as an industry) until every bottleneck is fixed. That bottleneck is now the public internet. Custom hardware acceleration and dedicated physical infrastructure have been table stakes in high-frequency trading for over a decade. The networking layer is truly the final boss to realizing blockchain at the speed of NASDAQ. And DoubleZero proposes the solution.
What we're building is a private, high-performance WAN for distributed systems and the first alternative to the only internet we've ever known. One month into mainnet-beta, we've onboarded ~34% of Solana mainnet stake: 600 devices across multiple cities and added ~2,200 Gbps of dedicated, ultra-low-latency fiber provided by 12 independent network contributors. This achievement is profound, but it's only the beginning. This is crypto's internet. And you're invited to participate in the build alongside a growing consortium of performance-obsessed nerds.
DoubleZero sets out to challenge the impossible. To place DeFi on the same playing field as TradFi and big tech... but do so in a way that maintains performance without sacrificing decentralization. For the first time in history, high-performance, ultra-low-latency connectivity will be accessible to all, and powered by multiple independent contributors.
This is the most ambitious, intellectually demanding work I've ever encountered. And the kind of work that pulls you in on a Sunday at 9:00pm (the time of writing this), not because you have to, but because you can't help it. I'm grateful for the opportunity to help tell the story of what high-performance networking means for this industry and beyond, and to work alongside a dedicated team of world-class engineers in the process.
Let's (keep) building. IBRL.
Today marks the end of the first major arc for Solana. Through all of the trials, Solana persisted, fixed the bugs, built the tools — and the apps that used those tools to bring value to end users. Now Solana has been accepted into the most exclusive private club in the word: US Markets.
But the story is only begining. The world is waking up to stablecoins as a tremendously valuable tool. In the near future nearly all global payments infrastructure will live on blockchains. But will they live on Solana or one of our competitors?
Similarly 500T dollars worth of global securities are ready and waiting to come on chain. With they be issued, traded, and settled on Solana or some other chain?
What we accomplish in the next few years will decide whether Solana becomes a central way point in all of global finance, or a footnote in the anals of economic history.
Now is the time where the right choices mean we truly win forever.
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS. PRESS DOWN HARDER TILL THE GAS PEDAL IS SO FAR UNDER YOUR BOOT IT NEVER WANTS TO GET BACK UP.
We cannot stop shipping upgrades to the chain or competitors will catch up. Avoid the temptation to rest on our laurels, accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate some more.
We are in the lead. Please do not stop running until we cross the finish line.
A few more hard quarters...