Validator
Around 150 Solana validators would lose their foundation stake under the new rule, perBlockworks Research estimates
A fresh market update from Blockworks Research highlights the ecosystem’s March pressure test
The company has now acquired three Solana validator operators since its September pivot into Solana
The new layer-1 will only use the Firedancer client and will implement multi-local consensus
Since November, validator revenue consistently netted at least $40 million every roughly two days, according to data from 21 co
The L1’s unique “proof-of-liquidity” consensus attracted $3.1 billion in pre-deposits
Some are calling for Solana to pump the brakes until validators are able to share the extra fees with stakers
Multicoin Capital proposal would likely drive down inflation but would also lower staking yields
The “main reason most validators aren’t running [Frankendancer] yet is because it doesn’t capture MEV efficiently,” a source told us
By enabling slashing, Solana would have a way to punish validators who slow down the network
A Solana researcher identified that the network’s top sandwich bot was pocketing millions of dollars a day from sandwich attacks
The two largest crypto exchanges respectively run the second- and sixth-largest Solana validators
Daily validator revenue has been in excess of $30 million every day since mid-October
The proposed amendment takes aim at Solana’s “compute budget” program, which was put in as a safeguard against computational waste
Solana’s second unique validator client, Firedancer, is widely said to be more performant than the Agave client
It’s not an easy living for small validators, and now thin margins have grown even thinner
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Every blockchain has a means of governance, but when it comes to upgrading Solana, the means are perhaps less widely-known