Most people outside Solana dev circles probably have no idea how big LiteSVM actually is becoming.
$LITESVM slowly turning into one of the most important pieces of infrastructure for modern Solana development.
Before LiteSVM, testing on @solana was honestly painful:
• spin up validator
• wait forever
• heavy resource usage
• slow feedback loop
• repeat again and again
Now imagine running Solana program tests directly inside your test binary with almost zero overhead.
That’s what LiteSVM does.
Instead of booting an entire validator stack, it embeds the Solana Virtual Machine directly into your tests.
Result? Testing becomes insanely fast.
People are reporting:
• 10x faster
• 100x faster
And if you build on @solana, you already know faster iteration = massive advantage.
LiteSVM gives developers:
• near instant startup
• deterministic/reproducible tests
• minimal RAM/CPU usage
• transaction simulation
• direct account manipulation
• time travel with warp_to_slot()
• custom sysvars
• compute budget controls
• rich tx inspection
• custom syscall support
Basically making complex Solana testing way less miserable. Especially for:
• Anchor development
• vesting systems
• oracle logic
• time-based mechanics
• DeFi protocols
• advanced program testing
And the craziest part? This thing became the new standard insanely fast. It replaced older workflows like:
• solana-program-test
• bankrun
• excessive local validator setups
Now you see LiteSVM everywhere:
• official Anchor docs
• modern Solana stacks
• Anchor integrations
• Rust / TS / Python support
The community sentiment is also ridiculously strong.
Real dev comments:
“I can’t imagine testing Solana programs without LiteSVM anymore.”
“Feedback loop is like 1000x faster.”
Even @toly publicly said:
“LiteSVM is extremely based”
and
“pls support litesvm, it doesn’t suck”
I think that alone says a lot lol.
Based on @grok the project was created by Kevin Heavey (@dj_d_sol) and @exoaursen, and the GitHub has been moving fast with constant updates/releases.
One thing that also caught attention recently:
the maintainer openly posted a funding/support thread for continued OSS maintenance. Honestly I respect that transparency a lot.
Open-source infra is carrying huge parts of crypto, yet a lot of the most important tooling is maintained by small teams grinding nonstop behind the scenes.
If Solana wants better apps, better UX, and faster builders, projects like LiteSVM deserve real support.
Also for anyone confused about the CA, there's only 1 main $LiteSVM coin publicly claimed by @exoaursen himself, and he currently holds around 5% of the supply.
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Docs: https://t.co/l5JxPCmofh
GitHub: https://t.co/iCIreYJF3M
This is not financial advice. This tweet is intended for research purposes regarding $LITESVM.
@13eechamFR ts so tiring to watch man
braun playing any time Rudy is on the court is abysmal as well
“Great job play by play” like bro you hear this guy
“Why is sol dying?”
You used to have ppl flexing 6-7 fig PNLs on multi 8-9 fig coins and now we have people flexing $400k PNL from bundling 5-6%. Nobody is going to buy on top of you duvemeister.
People used to buy .5-1% and bag work hard. It’s all they needed. $1B coin owning 1% is $10m. As market has gotten worse, ppl realized they could increase % held and make the same money at lower market caps + it’s easier and coins are more likely to hit lower mc vs higher. This is basically when everything went downhill bc a high trust environment became low trust.
Now you have 500 people doing this 24/7 on every coin launched on the Solana blockchain and people wonder why nothing goes above $100k when we used to have daily 1-20m coins.
Stop being greedy. Less is more. Buy 1-2% and chill and you will make more money bc ppl will actually buy on top of you. There are always more opportunities but this will not be the case if ppl continue to drive away the players of this game we all love.
I am seriously asking people to please be better. Do better. Stop using sides. Stop bundling 30%, stop fucking vamping and rugging. See coin you like, buy 1-2%, hold, talk about it. You will be surprised but we would all make infinitely more money if we all were to abide by some simple, unwritten rules. I do think eth would help w bundling bc it would make us much more costly.
Nobody is coming to fix this place. It is on us. If it doesn’t get fixed we will only be able to blame ourselves.
The best form of managing this is group chat owners keeping tabs on ppl in their gcs. You find out someone is rugging/bundling/fucking over someone else in the group? Kick them and blast them on Twitter. Get them ostracized by others for being a shitty person and having no morals. This is how it used to be and what we should return to. It keeps ppl in line bc they want better flow of information and friends.
I will be starting a group chat eventually filled with people I think are good humans + have good intentions for the ecosystem + know how to hold.
End of rant. Plz give me your thoughts, especially if you’ve been around here a while.
-DLN
i have a question for @pumpfun@dexscreener@phantom:
you host thousands of tokens using racial slurs, nazi imagery, antisemitism, porn. none of it removed. ever.
one token about pump’s founder’s address from a public company registry: gone within a day. across all three of you. three separate companies. three jurisdictions.
why is this the one token, out of millions on your platforms, that got the cross-company treatment?
and pump, can you direct me to where your terms and conditions got not followed?
one other example: november 2024. a 13 year old rug pulls $30k on you, pump, livestreamed. the trenches dox his name, school, family address, mother’s instagram, dog. tokens get launched titled quant dad, quant mom, quant sis, lucy the dog. you, pump, removed none of it. alon’s public statement on the incident, reported by cointelegraph: “although we strongly stand for free speech and expression, it’s our responsibility to ensure users don’t see clearly repulsive/dangerous content.” (cointelegraph, nov 25 2024)
okay. free speech.
for a year and a half since, the racial slur tokens, nazi imagery, antisemitism, porn sitting on your front page, pump.
still free speech. got it.
then saturday someone tokenizes alon’s parents’ house, pulled from your own UK companies house filings, pump.
by sunday. you, pump, deleted the page. you, dexscreener, wiped the metadata. asked why, your moderator on the record: “you’ll need to direct your queries to pump.” you, phantom, marked a real token held by thousands of real wallets as spam.
pump support cites terms and conditions. the word “doxxing” doesn’t appear in your terms, pump. that rule exists only in your livestream moderation policy, scoped to livestreams. this wasn’t a livestream.
one day. three platforms. three jurisdictions. for a rule that doesn’t exist, citing a policy that doesn’t apply.
for a year and a half the trenches ate the doxxed children and the slur tokens on your platforms. told every time: we strongly stand for free speech and expression.
one day of perfect coordination for one of your own.
so again. my questions for @pumpfun@dexscreener@phantom.
why is this the one token that got the cross-company treatment?
and pump, where in your terms and conditions did this token violate?
hey
I launched a coin
it's called 'unc'
it's this guy
you're not allowed to buy if you're under 30
exceptions if you have back pain, collect pokemon cards or have children or sometimes pee in your pants
the coin is at 19.3k
I hold around 40% or so (mainly on fomo)
I will pay dex but there will never be a community or an official page, just random unc memes - hopefully people jump on this 'could-be-fun ride'
I will send $unc tokens to people based on how I like them
also if you like unc, boomer & zoomer memes you probably like wojak!
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