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Most LSTs stack fees: the pool takes one, the validator takes another.
chainSOL doesn't. We return 100% of our commission and MEV to holders, every epoch, on-chain.
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250ms slots activate at epoch 1037.
Also this week: Two validators went offline this week while the validator process was completely healthy.
Full breakdown 👇
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This week's Solana Validator talks is out. Full breakdown with linked sources is on Substack.
The summary is here 👇
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Late, but worth it.
Solana's first governance round: SGP-0002 passed by 0.33%. The proposal defining the governance framework was still pending while proposals ran under it.
Full breakdown available on Substack, the link is in the article👇
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Frankendancer's end of life is confirmed: retired at Alpenglow activation.
Also this week: abstaining on SGP-0001 functions as a no, worth knowing before you vote.
Summary here 👇 Full breakdown on Substack.
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A busy week for Solana validators.
TeraSwitch took ~30% of stake offline, recovery took 40 minutes.
Alpenglow targets Sept 21 mainnet, audits concluded.
SGP-2 and SGP-3 go to a vote Aug 23.
The summary is here👇 The full breakdown - on our Substack 🔔
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A TeraSwitch outage sent 29% of Solana's stake delinquent on Aug 12, uncomfortably close to the 1/3 threshold that threatens consensus.
It also exposed something worse: automated failover producing duplicate blocks for the same slot.
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3 SGPs are on the floor. Votes open August 23. The process they'll run through started 3 years ago.
@cfl0ws wrote the history most of the Solana ecosystem never saw.
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SGP-0002 and SGP-0003 just became the first live test of Solana's new governance process.
It didn't go smoothly.
Also: the fee numbers behind SIMD-0553, and why 2,500 vs 5,000 lamports isn't a small choice.
Full breakdown in Solana Validator Talks 👇
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A high-transaction window pushed replay to 3.5s. Likely cause: a two-year-old RocksDB bug, fix coming in 4.3.
Also: slot times crept up via client patches, not governance.
Last week's Solana Validator Talks recap, a bit late 👇
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BLS enforcement went live this week. 85 validators missing keys got silently dropped from the leader schedule, zero effective consensus weight.
Also: a 1.4-second status-cache stall that had nothing to do with the network at all.
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