David | RockawayX Infra

We're excited to announce The Pod. 3 hours of technical programming featuring the deepest dives, happening alongside Accelerate. p-token, post-quantum, RPC 2.0, Quasar, agentic infra, security, and more. If you're a dev working on Solana's hardest problems, this is for you. Powered by @Rockaway_X

Solana Foundation is funding new ecosystem-wide security initiatives led by @asymmetric_re: - STRIDE. A comprehensive security program for all Solana DeFi. Includes hands-on evaluations and a public repository of findings. - 24/7 active threat monitoring for protocols above $10M TVL. - SIRN. A dedicated network of security firms for real-time crisis response. - Formal verification for protocols above $100M TVL.

Our @RockawayX_Infra team is constantly testing new clients and tools to stay on top of their game. We're pumped that BAM will be a key part of those efforts moving forward 🦾

Big week incoming. Huge even. Validators: turn your notifications on.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

OH: he’s not a crypto degen like us, he’s just so normal! When you message him on telegram, he doesn’t reply.

Building a dedicated internet, link by link. A new 100Gbps route between OSL ↔️ FRA is now live: contributed by @Rockaway_X. IBRL. 🫡

oh ye whysolana.com in the streets of NY ❤️

whysolana.com in NYC 🗽

“Tomorrow’s Finance Meets NASDAQ Today” This week, our CEO @msantoriESQ visited Times Square to see Solmate featured on the @Nasdaq Tower! Grateful to everyone who made this possible. We are just getting started.

The DoubleZero mainnet-beta network will be going live this month with 70+ links from globally distributed network contributors. For context: our testnet is currently running on just 8 links...

Run your validator on DoubleZero. It's faster.

Whitepaper Reading SBC 25 Session 3: Alpenglow Alpenglow @TheWattenhofer (@anza_xyz / @ETH_en ) was electric, focusing on the challenges and promises of 150MS finality consensus for Solana. 🧠Key Points: - Speed: 150MS for consensus finality. User experience varies depending on client internet speed. - The Bottleneck: A key debate was whether execution layers can keep up with faster consensus. - Decentralization: Addressed fairness with multi-proposer systems to boost geographic diversity. - The Promise: Researcher agree to protect geographic decentralization. - The Data: An interesting finding was that Ethereum and Solana node distributions are more similar than many assume. 📝Summary: docs.google.com/document/d/15p… Paper: anza.xyz/alpenglow-1-1 (thank you to @DiscoKobi and @qkniep for writing the paper and many innovations - love to speak with y'all in the future ) 🫶 Thanks to Sol node operator @EmiT87 (@RockawayX_Infra) & @matt_bitcoin (@RunningCKB @NervosNetwork ) for their fantastic real-world insights. #Solana #Alpenglow #Consensus #Decentralization #SBC2025

Can’t wait! 🙇🏻‍♂️✌🏻

We're live now talking about @ DoubleZero. Join @EmiT87 @Austin_Federa and @doublezero team!

Solana’s new consensus protocol, Alpenglow, is designed to reduce latency and improve block propagation under heavy load. It introduces a 2-stage commit process -> Still in R&D, but could be a game changer for scaling. anza.xyz/blog/alpenglow… #solana #alpenglow #firedancer

We made it impossible to run a solana validator in the cloud for a reason.

@Clapmaster420 @doublezero 18.6. is not a Friday :)

I’m going to @doublezero’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? twitter.com/i/spaces/1djxX…