Validator
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
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
Guardian Council participants include the Solana Foundation, Everstake, Triton One, Juicy Stake and Kiln
Ether isn’t exactly close to record highs, but some validators are still making a move
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
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