little liquidation b4 the big event. they would.

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so exciting. ;)) solanabeach.io/

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just a note about buying NFTs and the price of SOL. that's all. just a note.

rally ho.

just over half hour until epoch 1064. here's to an uneventful cutover. godspeed Solana people!!

for ETH folks monitoring Solana TPS. a note. Solana's public Transactions Per Second (TPS) dashboards will look like they crashed or collapsed. This is just an accounting change. Under the old TowerBFT system, validators cast their votes by sending actual transactions on the blockchain, which made up roughly 60% of all recorded TPS. Alpenglow moves validator voting entirely off-chain via a new protocol called Votor. User transaction throughput remains completely unaffected, even though the reported data changes.

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if ur staking w/ a validator who doesn't migrate to Alpenglow. The most immediate risk to your yield comes from validator readiness. To participate in Alpenglow, validators must pay a flat Validator Admission Ticket (VAT) fee of 0.8 SOL at the start of each epoch to be allowed to vote in the next. If your chosen validator fails to upgrade their client software or doesn't keep a sufficient SOL balance to pay this fee, they will be completely barred from voting and producing blocks for the next epoch. If they are locked out, you will earn zero staking rewards for that entire epoch. Roughly 20% of staked SOL was still sitting with unready validators right before launch, so checking your validator's status is critical.

btd.

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Fidelity Investments (the nation's largest provider) reports an average 401(k) balance of $155,800. This is up roughly 61% from their average of $96,000 back in Q1 2016.

The Middle Class: For the middle 40% of Americans, raw retirement assets grew due to market performance, with average 401(k) balances rising from $127,100 at the start of the term to $155,800 by mid-2026. However, their overall share of the national wealth pie actually shrunk slightly (falling to 28.8%) as the ultra-wealthy pulled further ahead.

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The Ultra-Wealthy (Top 0.1%): This group has been the primary driver and beneficiary of the wealth boom. In the 18 months following Trump's return to office, the net worth of the top 0.1% of households increased by $5.5 trillion. On an individual basis, that averages out to a net worth gain of roughly $40.8 million per household for this elite tier.

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