Living on the edge isn't easy, yet we do it anyway, because pushing limits is necessary to continue improving Solana's performance and resilience.
And our independence allows us to do it.
Because if we don't, who will?
And if nobody does, progress stops.
In epoch 1033, the SFDP bot hit a bug and unstaked Foundation stake from every validator running full Firedancer, including ours.
That's the third issue we've run into since moving over. It's the cost of being early, and we'd make the same call again.