A high performance, homegrown Solana validator Developing the full node client Mithril Team: @7LayerMagik & @dubbel06
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1/ Ed25519 verification is a major cost in Solana block replay. Mithril is written in Go, and the standard Go library wasn't enough for the throughput we wanted.
Today we're releasing narya-ed25519. 5.8× faster than crypto/ed25519 at 4.7 µs/sig (Zen5).
github.com/Overclock-Validat…
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Overclock | Solana Validator retweeted
In order for 20 market makers to reliably quote JUST the S&P500 members at 10 quotes per second, the chain needs to support 100k oracle updates per second.
with the fd runtime, oracle updates execute with a mode of about 15 micros (load, execute, commit). verifying these signatures cost approximately 19 micros — more than the time it takes to execute — until now!!!
this optimization is a HUGE step toward making Solana the house of all finance.
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Thank you to @Allnodes for giving us a free Ryzen server rental to test these Zen5 benchmarks on!
1/ Ed25519 verification is a major cost in Solana block replay. Mithril is written in Go, and the standard Go library wasn't enough for the throughput we wanted.
Today we're releasing narya-ed25519. 5.8× faster than crypto/ed25519 at 4.7 µs/sig (Zen5).
github.com/Overclock-Validat…
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1/ Ed25519 verification is a major cost in Solana block replay. Mithril is written in Go, and the standard Go library wasn't enough for the throughput we wanted.
Today we're releasing narya-ed25519. 5.8× faster than crypto/ed25519 at 4.7 µs/sig (Zen5).
github.com/Overclock-Validat…
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10/ Regarding our work here, we want to say thank you to our AI overlords.
AI was deeply involved in the R&D (Codex, ChatGPT Pro, Claude) and helped explore code, analyze profiles/math, generate hypotheses and tests, write docs, and implemented all the code including assembly.
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1/ Mithril v0.1.0-frodo is here: our independent Solana client written in Go is now an active validator on Alpenglow testnet, producing blocks, voting, and running full Alpenglow consensus.
Try it via the alpenglow-dev branch:
github.com/Overclock-Validat…
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5/ Core validator features left to implement include: snapshot production, Turbine retransmit (ingestion is working), other networking and repair updates, broader validator hardening, and block builder integrations, among other things.
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6/ And with that, we'd be happy to see more contributors join the fellowship ⚒️
If you're interested, join our Discord and send word in our Mithril channels:
discord.gg/sHzb3EvmkR
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