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[ᴠᴀʀᴍᴀ @the_varmax]

@galshirart would love to see that logo gal

[bitn8 @qubitn8]

@wedtm doesn't need an intro. Dive in if you want to become a goated Sol Ledger data!

[ᴠᴀʀᴍᴀ @the_varmax]

@solanaturbine @wedtm @triton_one @solana 🐐🐐

[Turbin3 @solanaturbine]

What does it take to make 400TB+ of Solana ledger data queryable in milliseconds?

We recently hosted Miles ( @wedtm ) from @triton_one for a deep dive into Superbank and @solana 's ledger infrastructure.

Miles walked our builders through:

→ 400TB+ ledger indexing at scale

→ ClickHouse-powered query architecture

→ Multi-layer caching strategies

→ Efficient historical RPC queries

→ Sharding and partitioning for high-throughput RPC

→ Lessons from operating infrastructure at scale

What made the session especially valuable wasn't just the technology, it was the candid discussion around the challenges, lessons learned, and architectural decisions behind building Superbank 🔗👇

[ᴠᴀʀᴍᴀ @the_varmax]

@Moses7054 @jkdotsol ATB guys🙌

[Jk | Vyra @jkdotsol]

Here is the capstone project for @solanaturbine SVM Cohort — driftwatch.

driftwatch is an eBPF-powered profiler that watches the disk where a Solana validator is running.

The idea is simple: instead of only knowing that your validator is losing votes, understand why it's happening.

The project combines a kernel-level disk profiler with an RPC poller to correlate disk latency with validator metrics like slot lag, vote credits, and validator health.

This lets us detect when storage starts becomes the bottleneck before the effects become obvious.

Still a lot to improve, but here's the first look.

[Turbin3 @solanaturbine]

Our SVM folks have spent weeks chewing glass in Solana internals.

Today, they each step up and show what they've been working on.

DEMO DAY 🔥

[ᴠᴀʀᴍᴀ @the_varmax]

@inspiration_gx @solanaturbine @Princeadxisrael @bergabman @dotslashapaar @qubitn8 🐐

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Turbin3 @solanaturbine]

Solana governance is now on-chain and verifiable.

Validators can propose.
Stakers can override their validators.
Every vote is stake-weighted and verifiable.

This is what staker-powered governance actually looks like.

Huge thanks to @exo_solana for the NCN implementation and @SolanaFndn for their support, and every validator who helped shape this.

Proud of the team that lived this every day.
This is why we build 🫡

[dhruvsol @dhruvsol]

Finally it’s out, been involved in the development for a while for this, it’s been fun and finally it’s ship to prod 🫡

[Solana Foundation @SolanaFndn]

1/ Solana onchain governance is live🗳️

Validators can now propose, support, and decide core protocol decisions via Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs)

These are fully onchain, stake-weighted, and verified by Merkle proof 👇

[bitn8 @qubitn8]

Right on queue. Two weeks ago I wrote that companies are going to start hiring again It's starting to reverberate. https://t.co/FyUuXEPx6c
"More companies are rehiring workers they replaced with AI after automation fails to deliver
Ford, IBM, and Commonwealth Bank are among the firms discovering that AI cannot always replace human"
https://t.co/yo60skNpJR

[bitn8 @qubitn8]

What a long road, chewing glass, And we certainly couldn't have done it alone. Thanks to @exo_tech_ @solana and all the validators such as @Bryan_TitanA and many others.

[ᴠᴀʀᴍᴀ @the_varmax]

@japarjam 🫂❤️‍🔥

[Turbin3 @solanaturbine]

How low can Solana's slot times realistically go?

100ms? 10ms? Lower?

@MaxResnick from @anza_xyz took our builders deep into how @solana actually reaches consensus.

→ Simplex & the skip-vote
→ Gatling & arbitrarily small slot times
→ Multiple concurrent proposers (Braid, MinCP, Constellation)
→ Asynchronous execution
→ What Alpenglow changes for all of it
and plenty more

There's always something special about getting Max in a room with our builders, the questions go deep, the back-and-forth gets real, and everyone walks out sharper.

This is the frontier of Solana consensus, explained by one of the brilliant minds building it.

Watch the full session now🔗👇

[Turbin3 @solanaturbine]

Excited to kick off Q2 Demo Day today 🔥

> Weeks of grind.
> Capstone-driven vetting.
> Office hours, workshops, and more.

Every quarter raises the bar higher than the last.
This one is no exception.

SHOWTIME

[Turbin3 @solanaturbine]

One of the most dangerous forms of AI washing is calling the elimination of junior engineers

"AI efficiency."

Because most companies aren't actually replacing junior talent with AI. They're cutting the pipeline that produces future senior engineers.

And that pipeline matters: the junior engineers you don't hire in 2026 are the staff engineers, architects, and engineering leaders you won't have in 2030.

[ᴠᴀʀᴍᴀ @the_varmax]

@avhidotsol @ordrtrade @Vinayapr23 @solana @colosseum 🐐s