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@jacobvcreech Noice ❤️

P-Token, SIMD-266, has been approved 🎉🎉🎉 This change will drastically reduce token transfer costs and in turn increase the capacity of the network ETA to mainnet - April

@nhanvp @mert @nick_pennie @japarjam @toly True. 👀 So some product-oriented questions wouldn't be too far off from target.

@codebender828 @mert @nick_pennie @japarjam @toly The disciplines of eng, product and design are merging. Everyone thought PMs were gonna become eng too but the reverse seems to be happening. As such: Staff/principal level only. Strong product/business sense, should be able to run a tech or product line independently

Founders, what is your engineering hiring strategy like today? Noticing an increase in the usage of AI interview tools when interviewing some candidates. Hard to spot, but there's a conviction that ought to follow the candidates affirmations when responding to questions.

@nick_pennie @mert @japarjam @nhanvp @toly Good note. Is the coding round peered (are you on the call with them?) Been giving take home exercises, and for each test, I have a passing criteria and I look for some things that would demonstrate depth of understanding, ownership and digging deep. Considering taking it sync.

similar to before: coding, sys design, peer chats adding a coding round w/ ai assistance to mimic on the job work and yes, conviction is important. the main goal of our interviews is to assessing fit, depth of understanding, ownership, ability to dig deep & think from first principles, etc

AI is cool BTW. This is not against it. We're literally using it at @DonutAI and @SonicSVM .

SONIC SVM is hiring a Senior QA Engineer⚡ Own quality across Web + Mobile, test on-chain trading logic, simulate real market chaos (gas spikes, failed txs, congestion), and use AI to push coverage further. $5,000 USDT referral bounty Know someone who’d crush this? Tag them👇

Nice. M4 CPU fans finally going brrrr...

7 days ago, D0 was just a concept. Today, it’s live. If you want early access, drop ‘D0’ below.

1/ SIMD-0321, authored by @realbuffalojoe and @deanmlittle, provides a direct pointer to instruction data in VM register 2 at program entrypoint. Programs no longer need to parse through all accounts in the serialized input just to reach instruction data 🧵

To be fair though most apps actually glorified forms.

Self-hosted. Self-custody. Solana.

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Just met cool guy @alanssol for dinner. Cool catch ups as always.

1/ A few thoughts on where we're headed with personal agents in trading (and why most trading apps will die): 🧵 2/ It's easier than ever to build a trading app with AI. But most will disappear. Instead, we'll delegate trading tasks to personal agents that work across exchanges, data sources, and execution layers. 3/ The idea that traders will use 100s of tools — TradingView, Coinglass, Telegram bots, Discord alerts, 5 exchange apps — is a dead end. Context switching kills edge. Instead: ONE agent that knows your strategy, risk tolerance, and handles the busywork. 4/ The trading UX we know — dashboards, chart tabs, alert configs — will fade away. The ultimate UX: → "What's the funding rate arb opportunity right now?" → "Set a martingale grid from 60k to 55k" → "Close my SOL if funding flips negative" No clicking. Just outcomes. 5/ This is what we're building at @DonutAI. D0 CLI is the execution layer — 100+ commands across trading, market data, macro, and DeFi: d0 hl positions d0 macro fear-greed d0 liquidations --asset BTC d0 order --asset BTC --side buy --size 0.1 6/ But CLI is just the foundation. The real product is the agent layer on top: → Persistent memory of your trading history → Learns your risk preferences → Executes across any venue → Knows when to ask vs when to act 7/ The requirements to build a great trading agent = hiring a great trader: → Executes fast when opportunities appear → Manages risk even when you're emotional → Tracks what's working, what's not → Available 24/7 across any device 8/ Nobody has built this end-to-end yet. Trading bots execute but don't learn. AI chatbots analyze but can't execute. Dashboards show data but require you to act. The agent that does all of it? That's the gap. 9/ What we're building: D0 CLI — Command layer (execution) WebApp — Trust layer (verification) Agent — Intelligence layer (compounds) CLI = power. WebApp = trust. Agent = leverage. 10/ The future of trading isn't "AI trading apps." It's one agent that knows your edge, executes your strategy, learns from every trade, handles the 90% so you focus on the 10%. 11/ If you're a trader frustrated with tool fragmentation, or a builder exploring this space — DM me. We're looking for early users who want to shape what trading agents become.

Gdonut

Solana Agave 3.1 is here! We wrote about the new update: - Reduced Disk I/O During Replay - 2x Faster Transaction Processing - Increased CPI Account Infos Limits - Faster Client Restarts - Validator Vote Account V4 - Reduced Turbine ChaCha Rounds

Going manic providing institutional grade price data for @ManicTrade’s high frequency markets 🔮

@bw_solana Congratulations, Brennan

1/ It’s a new year and a new Anza. I’ve stepped into the CEO role at the start of what is sure to be an exhilarating 2026. Let’s look at what Anza is cooking