Eden
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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.















SOL reasons to pump from here since no one's talking about it: It's just starting to break out from a 4-month-long consolidation. The main reason why it is breaking out NOW and not 1 month ago is that SOL is the token that represents how healthy crypto is. It is the token that shows if there's risk appetite or not in crypto. The current move is pricing in risk coming back. Strong holders regained control of the token while traders and tourists abandoned it, causing a sharp drop in trading volume. Any reasonable increase in volume will result in a shift in momentum to the upside. Strong Institutional onboarding and integrations with DeFi & RWAs (@onrefinance, @PreStocks, @xStocksFi, @HastraFi); Clarity Act will benefit Solana and $SOL the most. Solana had the most ups and downs in crypto over the last 4 years. It is down 70% from ATHs, yet it is still up 12x from the bear market bottom. It was one of the very few tokens that made a new ATH last cycle, and is the only blockchain with a robust ecosystem of Apps, Users, Protocols and use cases. The volatility created a massive number of token holders that did not have conviction on $SOL and just rode momentum. I believe the price action of the last months represented a shift in token ownership from short-term holders, traders and tourists into the hands of long term accumulators. The Accelerate conference in Miami marked a public focus on getting AI to happen on Solana, and thus I expect a strong influx of good AI developers in the next year. Memecoins will continue to happen on Solana. There is no better chain equipped for this. You may think otherwise because of Asteroid but one single day of onchain volatility will cause massive spikes in transaction fees just like literally every single time in the past. Even if market participants pay for high fees, they will be faced with the same type of user/trader that exists on Solana, and maybe finally understand that Solana just enabled the mass proliferation of memecoins, which requires products to cater to that crowd, such as Axiom, trading bots, etc.






























