Overclock | Solana Validator

1/ Two years ago, we set out to build a full node that could verify Solana Mainnet on modest hardware and home internet, making decentralization accessible. Today we're releasing the Alpha version of Mithril, our Solana full node client in @golang, and it can do exactly that.

@aceddeca1 @dev_jodee Yup it does, I'd skim this here overclock.one/rnd/unveiling-…

@dev_jodee @OverclockSol Sorry this might be a dumb question … but is this actually client diversity as it isn’t block building? Isnt it more just block verification? Or am I missing something

Full node on home internet. Go client diversity matters — congrats to the @OverclockSol team on shipping Mithril alpha.

@UPONLYFOREVER @golang @7LayerMagik This is a full node and not a validator, so no rewards 😅 This will be mostly valuable for security + blockchain data

@OverclockSol @golang @7LayerMagik Does this mean anyone can become a validator? And get paid in Solana? I want to understand the incentive for this. I have a powerful PC basically doing nothing.

1/ Two years ago, we set out to build a full node that could verify Solana Mainnet on modest hardware and home internet, making decentralization accessible. Today we're releasing the Alpha version of Mithril, our Solana full node client in @golang, and it can do exactly that.

@SolusRGB @golang @7LayerMagik Thank you mate

@OverclockSol @golang @7LayerMagik Congrats !

@cryptomeleabs @golang @7LayerMagik Thanks Melea!

@OverclockSol @golang @7LayerMagik Congratulations 🎉

@permaweave @StrategicHash Also, the large amount of Sol needed to break even is moreso an issue of voting fees being high rather than the hardware being that expensive

For now we aren't working on a validator but it sounds like Alpenglow will make it easier for us to eventually transition to that potentially. I think some have mentioned that the hardware requirements for Solana validators might go down with Alpenglow due to less fork management overhead. @bw_solana @toly would know

Solana just solved blockchain. The @OverclockSol team just built a home verification client written in GO to prove that you can now have both of the following and you don't have to just pick one - 1. A blockchain with 400ms slot times with a globally distributed validator set running all of finance with sub cent tx fees for the user 2. The ability for you to verify this blockchain from home using cheap hardware All this without zk or sharding or layer 2s. Solana will be the one giant global state machine for all of finance. Some additional thoughts: 1. This naturally makes $ORE the perfect $stORE of value (theoretically at least) because it's the only store of value that has a fixed supply, has a built in private storage value, can be moved around at the speed of light and can be verified from your home. I want every $ORE bull to run this if they actually believe in the sov thesis (@mattytay, @dchapman, @smyyguy, @treybuckingham) 2. Once Mithril launches the next version (more on that below), there is close to zero reason for Ethereum to exist for anything serious. And a few caveats: 1. You cannot use this home verification node for high frequency trading, you'll need your own dedicated data center node for that (just like you do for doing mev stuff on ethereum) 2. Right now mithril gets shred data from RPC calls but future versions of mithril will get it directly from Solana gossip Solana has the potential to finally achieve the goal of becoming other worldly technology.

@0xbyteful @golang @7LayerMagik Did you read until the end?

@OverclockSol @golang @7LayerMagik it’s cool but getting blocks via helius RPC calls?

@BloodReaver Try it! We probably need to make more performance improvements before that would be fast enough (especially with the gen3 nvme) but worth giving it a shot.

@OverclockSol This I already have and passive cooling is a big noise win but likely will throttle 😁

@BloodReaver That one looks like it will be a bit slow... I would look for one with a gen4 nvme and a faster cpu (ryzen HS series cpu's are good). The machine in the twitter thread is probably the best value right now.

@OverclockSol Can I run it on this: a.co/d/gEhwK5s

@toly We're building something very related to this for faster debugging already 🙂

Would be cool if part of the failover the system also checked the state root against mithril. So 2/3 clients agree then failover is safe.

@DanPaul000 @solana Thank you!

Home verification of @solana , LFG! Congrats @OverclockSol !

@BigCee734 @CryptoMiners_Co Whoever on Solana still has at least a $500 net worth

@CryptoMiners_Co @OverclockSol How many more people can realistically run nodes now that the hardware barrier is gone?

🚨Huge win for Solana decentralization! @overclocksol just dropped Mithril Alpha, a Go-based full node that verifies mainnet blocks on budget hardware (6-core Ryzen mini PC, 16GB RAM, 1TB NVMe). No more needing datacenter-grade rigs to run a validator-grade node. This makes it accessible for smaller operators and home setups. Excited to test this on some of our spare hardware. Real step toward a more resilient network!

@johnrobertreed @golang @7LayerMagik 🤝

@OverclockSol @golang @7LayerMagik Super cool project. Decentralized Verification made easy.

@aceddeca1 @dawninternet Ty sir 🙏

@OverclockSol @dawninternet Would be cool. Congrats on the fruits of all your hard work 🫡🥳

Inside the Black Box

@aceddeca1 @dawninternet We haven't heard of this before but based on the specs below I imagine it definitely would if another gen4 or 5 nvme could be added. shop.dawninternet.com

@dawninternet @OverclockSol would the Dawn Black Box be able to run Mithril?

@Alchemist042 @CryptoMiners_Co Nice! Let us know in Discord how it goes. The mini pc will need to be a pretty quick one. We hope with performance improvements that the hardware specs can be lowered a bit more

@CryptoMiners_Co @OverclockSol Testing it on my mini PC this weekend

@Ashwinningg Now that timely vote is going away people might be able to vote from one of these eventually 🙈

Verify Solana at home ✅ Big step forward on Solana decentralization from the @OverclockSol team!

@HardhatChad Let us know if there's anything related to Ore that would be helpful by the way. @StrategicHash is pretty eager to see some collab there

@HardhatChad Full node :) This fully executes blocks

Solana light client is here.