Validator

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

Accredited investors will soon be able to tap into a yield-bearing ETH fund

Plus, other stories you may have missed from Solanaland this week

Every blockchain has a means of governance, but when it comes to upgrading Solana, the means are perhaps less widely-known

The marketplace, which is not yet live, will have validators bid for delegation from some staked solana

Roughly 90% of validators have upgraded to the new software, and many have reported using the scheduler

Validators running private mempools are finding it harder to do business on Solana

Solana’s validators made almost $7 million in tips last week

Relm and Chainproof will provide insurance quotes to distributed validators

Guardian Council participants include the Solana Foundation, Everstake, Triton One, Juicy Stake and Kiln

Telegram bot users may come out as the latest winners for Jito’s mempool suspension

Ether isn’t exactly close to record highs, but some validators are still making a move

The club first launched its fan token with Socios in 2018

Chorus One, a majority validator at Dymension, ran into node issues

A halt of the Solana blockchain prompted the release of a software patch

Ethereum’s Nethermind client software saw a bug that pulled validators offline

Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) is a new category of MEV targeting the likes of Aave

Validation Cloud’s platform is SOC2 compliant and enables institutions to stake on-demand

Polygon is transitioning to a validium-based system supported by zero-knowledge proofs

Ten different staking dapps will be deployed when SSV.network launches its mainnet