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We're excited to announce the first cohort of JPool's updated Community Good Validators Program. Selected validators will start receiving additional JPool stake at the start of the 972 epoch. 1 Community Good Point: - SkipLine - Node1 - Stakr Space - Digital Energy - InfiniteSOL - SolanaBull 2 Community Good Points: - BetterStakeSol - Chainflow - H2O Nodes & RevTec - NUFI - Kevred - Superteam Brazil 3 Community Good Points: - Blocksize - Valid Blocks - Vladika - DawnLabs - LUX8 Validator 4 Community Good Points: - Hubra We want to thank all validator that applied to the Community Good Validator Program. If you haven't applied, then fill out the application now and get rewarded for contributing to the Solana ecosystem.

We experienced an outage at Coinbase last night, which is never acceptable. The root cause was a room overheating in an AWS datacenter when multiple chillers failed. We design our services to be redundant to downtime in any one AWS Availability Zone (AZ), and most of our systems worked this way last night, but not all. Our centralized exchange did not. Exchanges have unique architectures that optimize for latency and co-location of clients. It is possible to make exchanges resistant to AZ failures, but this can introduce latency delays that are not desirable along with breaking customer co-location. Given this incident, we'll revisit these tradeoffs to ensure we're giving you the best possible venue to trade. At a minimum, the duration of an outage should be able to be reduced considerably when an AZ move is needed. Thank you to the AWS and Coinbase teams for working through the night to mitigate the issue. We’ll share the detailed technical summary once it's ready.

A Financial Institution's Guide to Solana. New from the Solana Research Institute. Seven chapters covering protocol, economics, governance, ecosystem, regulation, and live product, written for analysts at FIs being asked to evaluate it. Some of what's in it 🧵