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We are happy to welcome @circle as a Super Validator on @CantonNetwork (CIP-0041 | Weight 10) 🎊 Circle is the company behind USDC, a fully backed, regulated digital dollar with $37B+ in TVL. USDCx is now live on Canton. A USDC-backed stablecoin with full Canton privacy, built on Circle xReserve, the first time a USDC-backed stablecoin operates with institutional grade privacy and cross-application composability on a public L1. Institutions on Canton can now settle 24/7, atomically, with a familiar dollar asset that stays private by default. Fully interoperable across Canton apps via CIP-56. As a Super Validator, Circle helps secure the Global Synchronizer and govern the network while also providing the dollar settlement rail that institutional workflows on Canton actually run on. The cash leg and the governance layer, in one 🤝

Introducing Constellation: a multiple concurrent proposers protocol for Solana. With proposers operating on a 50ms cycle, Constellation gives Solana the fastest protocol enforced economic tick rate of any blockchain.🧵

Supernova is live on Battle Net. Here's what changed under the hood and why it matters. The paradigm shift nobody's talking about: Every blockchain in the industry is measured on two metrics: block time and throughput. Faster blocks = better chain. More TPS = better chain. ---------- Supernova breaks this framing entirely. For the first time in the blockchain industry, block finality is faster than block slot allocation. Let me explain what that means. How every other blockchain works: Traditional blockchains follow Execute → Propose → Vote. Validators must execute every transaction before proposing a block. The block slot is the clock. Finality can never be faster than the slot, because execution is in the critical path. Ethereum: 12.8s slot, ~12.8 minutes finality. Solana: 400-600ms slot, 13 seconds finality. Sui: variable, ~500 to 1000 ms for complex transactions. In every case: finality ≥ block slot. This is treated as a law of physics. It's not. ---------- How Supernova works: We flipped the model to Propose/Vote → then Execute. Consensus proceeds independently of execution. Validators agree on transaction ordering first. Execution results are notarized in subsequent block headers via inclusion proofs. The inclusion proof is the key innovation: it allows a block to be finalized with cryptographic proof that its transactions will execute correctly, before the execution itself completes. The virtual state tracker in the transaction pool maintains a deterministic view of account states (nonces, balances, pending transactions) so consensus can validate without waiting for full execution. Result: the block is finalized faster than the block round itself. 88ms finality measured in testing. Sub-200ms under real-world conditions. On 600ms block slots. Finality < block slot. First time in the industry. ---------- The throughput story: With the same hardware specification as pre-Supernova mainnet, the network now achieves ~120,000 transactions per second in burst mode. Same nodes. Same machines. 10x the block production cadence. This is the same validator infrastructure running fundamentally better software. The backpressure system (Execution-Result Inclusion Estimator) ensures this scales safely - dynamically adjusting per-block gas limits if execution lags behind proposals, so minimum-spec nodes never get overwhelmed. What this means in context: - Block time: 6s → 600ms (10x) - Finality: ~88ms measured (first blockchain where finality < slot time) - Throughput: ~120,000 TPS burst mode (same hardware) - Architecture: consensus fully decoupled from execution - Sharding: 3 execution shards + metachain, fully preserved - Validators: 3,200+ nodes, no hardware upgrade required ---------- Battle of Nodes is stress-testing all of this right now. $150K in prizes to find what breaks. Validators, security researchers, builders, and guilds pushing the limits. If Supernova survives this, it ships to mainnet. 150,000 lines of new protocol code. 20 months of engineering. The most significant upgrade since genesis.

Introducing the Pye Validator Dashboard. A new app where validators can configure rewards, manage lockups, and track performance, all without touching the Solana CLI. 120+ validators supported 🥧

@doublezero recently announced Phase 2 of DZDP — and a significant portion of DZ pool stake is set to migrate to regions in Rings 2 and 3. To make this easier to understand, we built a dashboard that lets you visualize these changes epoch by epoch. Check it out 👇

@mert @Helius Are you saying that small validators are not fast?

the top scoring validators in the top 15 are once again helius and bitwise both managed by helius if you want solana to go faster, you know who to stake with

@MarinadeFinance Never been 100 validators in the auction winning set in the last 50 epochs and current number of staked validators is 68, only 7 of them bidding in profit over the last 10 epochs.

The result: 100+ validators receive Marinade stake. No single validator dominates. If one goes down, minimal impact. Your stake auto-rebalances every epoch.

How does Marinade pick validators? Not randomly. Not by vibes. Here's the actual algorithm 👇

Introducing DoubleZero Edge. DoubleZero Edge is a new platform delivering real-time market data to traders and market participants, powered by multicast. Its first feed: raw Solana shreds directly from leaders, delivered over a high-performance fiber network. Infrastructure that levels the playing field for validators and matches traditional trading systems is here. Dive in ↓

@SolanaFloor @jito_sol Great news! Congrats!

SolanaFloor is back. As of today, we are thrilled to announce that SolanaFloor has been acquired by @jito_sol and will resume operations under the Jito Foundation’s ownership while maintaining full editorial independence. After announcing a wind-down in February 2026 following an exploit tied to our parent organization, we explored external financing and acquisition options. However, the team was unable to secure a viable path forward at the time, leaving a gap in independent coverage of onchain activity across the Solana ecosystem. Now, we can resume operations. While SolanaFloor will operate under Jito Foundation ownership, all editorial decisions including story selection, data presentation, and coverage priorities will remain fully independent of Jito Foundation’s activities, partnerships, and interests. The mission remains unchanged: documenting the ongoing rise of the Solana ecosystem and providing clear, unbiased research and journalism. It’s a critical time for the chain. Spot $SOL ETFs have crossed $1B in AUM. The ecosystem is gradually institutionalizing. New DeFi tools and integrations emerge every day. The need for independent Solana coverage has never been more apparent. “When SolanaFloor went dark, the ecosystem lost something difficult to replace,” said @brian_smith_0 , President of Jito Foundation. “This acquisition is about filling the gap with a platform that operates from a position of editorial independence. Jito has a long term stake in the health of the Solana ecosystem, and that means investing in the infrastructure and public goods that keeps the community informed.” Additional details on the relaunch -- including editorial structure, commercial offerings, and team updates -- will be shared soon.

@Layer_33_ @NickyScanz @Loopscale Great job!

indieSOL is LIVE on @Loopscale with added incentives! Support independent validators! Stake with Layer33! Loop with Loopscale!

One last push to 30% 💥

@MarinadeFinance @stakingindex “Marinade only gets paid when it beats @stakingindex yield.” You mean always

First part of MIP-18 is live. When you unstake from Native, mSOL, or Select, there's now a small 0.2% fee. The bigger change is coming soon. The fixed performance fee is going away. Marinade only gets paid when it beats @stakingindex yield. 1/2

Solana. SOLANA. Listen. This is the FASTEST blockchain anywhere on the planet. The absolute fastest. Nobody comes close. Nobody. Transactions? Lightning. Tremendous speed. They fly. Ethereum? Very slow. Painfully slow. Cardano? Even slower. Total disaster. Solana handles securities trading like nothing else. Perfect volume. Perfect cost. Perfect everything. Believe me. The slow chains want to drag us down. They want to stop the winning. But we do not allow that. We are building the Crypto Capital of the World right here in the United States. Solana leads the charge. It is the next giant step after the GENIUS ACT and the CLARITY ACT. Huge industry. Powerful industry. If we let the losers hold it back China takes it. We do not let China take it. We keep it. We win with it. Solana is WINNING BIGLY. The American people get the best. Solana IS the best. Nobody does blockchain better than Solana. Nobody. Thank you!

@MarinadeFinance @stakingindex Marinade APY always exceeds SSI, so what changes with this MIP?

@SharkPoolSol all your university validators run a vote lagging mod.. just saying

Next phase: Building the compliance & reporting layer institutions actually require. Not just yield dashboards. Actual capital-grade infrastructure. That’s how you scale university validators to billions. 🦈

You can’t route institutional capital into university validators without legal structure. So we built it. SharkPool is now a Delaware C-Corp. 🧵

@ghostofharvard @cavemanloverboy They are indeed above cluster, decoupled around epoch 913

@cavemanloverboy are harmonic avg block rewards actually 0.05??

when running harmonic, 4m USD worth of stake gets you a break even validator not too long ago, and before harmonic, this figure was closer to 30m usd

@Ay0h_Sol @solana @MarinadeFinance They either blind bidded or have some side deals

@ValidBlocks @solana @MarinadeFinance now they can figure out SAM's average bid is >150% average rev?

With our SAM dashboard you can track @solana validators bidding for @MarinadeFinance stake, check historical data and simulate different commission setups

Check it out at dashboards.validblocks.com/marinade-sam