MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🎶 come on down, to epochtown 🎶 Announcing epochtown (pronounced ee-pak not ep-uck) a community for Solana builders, devs, artists, entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in building the future on Solana As someone new to Solana it is sometimes hard to find like minded people to learn from, collaborate with and build with. Epochtown aims to change that, all newbies are welcome and no questions are too dumb to ask If you’re just getting started, trying to find your way around, or want to find someone to collaborate with on the next hackathon, or maybe you’re building and have questions come on down! Discord link in next tweet below Huge huge huge thanks to @adlonymous for the discord magic, @jacobvcreech @nickfrosty for the motivation, @dhruvsol for the cute designs and @beeman_nl @metasal @0xnaga @SolDapper for being the OG fire starters :)

use this if u want to control expiry github.com/blueshift-gg/sola…

Don’t worry they’re going to fix your blockhashes expiring too quickly issues. Steady lads

1.2m sol successfully unstaked on solana. ~30k accounts ~500 transactions (60 instructions each) = total cost: just 0.0025 sol = ~$0.23 the largest position was 200k sol. 1.2m sol is now free to be staked again. screen: old solflare delinquent validator

we need more india on solana

📣 Introducing Sonata what if Solana was a song? every leader change is a note, and the next validator plays the next one. hundreds of nodes, one piece, consensus is just everyone agreeing on the tune. Song of finance? it's also the monitoring tool i wish i had when we were running a validator with Surfpool: earning and timing next tenure right from menu bar. github.com/lgalabru/sonata

You can now add up to 10 mutuals on solana.com/breakpoint/mutual… If this gets over 1000 connects I might cook something for the BP26 badges so we can use the dataset IRL

12ms on avg to replay a block on agave 4.4 btw

Solana has 40+ transaction senders but only two block builders. At @SuperteamIN's Solana Summit India, @sujithsizon showed what happens when more builders compete. Every 50 ms round becomes an auction, won by whichever builder pays the validator most.

bash scripts to build custom kernels on debian and ubuntu. specify your target kernel version and build. github.com/ax-x2/kernel

Validators! CVE-2026-98432 is patched in the linux kernel but not yet patched on ubuntu. Here's what you need to do if you're running ubuntu:

switch to debian/arch + install a stable kernel >=7.2.13

v4.4.0 delivers a huge performance boost. without any mods, our validator ranked 60th in voting and 54th in block production for epoch 1071. its time to upgrade, 280 validators are still running v4.3.2.

DoubleZero Edge for Builders is now on testnet. Edge for Builders is a permissionless way for third parties to publish their own real-time data feeds on DoubleZero Edge, reach their subscribers, and charge their own customers. It gives them the send-once delivery model traditional exchanges use for market data, on the DoubleZero network, without operating distribution infrastructure of their own. How it works: The publisher sends each update once, and DoubleZero's dedicated network links deliver it to every subscriber. Served over WebSockets and cloud APIs, every new subscriber is another copy for the publisher to send. Builders create their own feeds and publishers through the builder API, and sign every action with their own key. Existing Edge subscribers can add builder feeds on the connection they already have. Edge for Builders was announced at TOKEN2049. This is the earliest access, open now to ambitious teams distributing real-time data to many subscribers: exchanges and venues, data aggregators, pricing providers, and any project serving real-time data over WebSockets or cloud APIs. Docs: docs.doublezero.xyz/builders… About DoubleZero Edge: doublezero.xyz/edge

our latest vectorization SIMD design for solana speeds up onchain int8 mlp inference by 232x, keccak-f1600 by 28x, falcon-512 verify by 25x ONCHAIN AI IS HERE

Update on Solflare SOL staking The new Solflare validator is live. Your SOL is safe, and no user funds were touched. To migrate now, unstake from Solflare (Legacy) with regular unstake, and stake on the new validator. Or wait for an app update that will move you over in a few taps. Move your stake to our new validator, and we’ll cover the rewards you missed during the pause. We’ll share the exact period and more details soon.

Lots of news today about @solflare validator being hacked. Here is a wider picture: 4 Solana mainnet validators were drained by the same actor within the same window. Here's how it unfolded

Solana Agave 4.4 is here The 1st post-Alpenglow major client release: • The final 3 stages of Rent Reduction (90% drop) • Invalid Fee Payers: A key step towards async execution • Automatic program resizing to reclaim surplus rent Our breakdown ↓ helius.dev/blog/agave-v4-4