🚨JUST IN: @Solana Foundation announces new Delegation Program requirements for validators, focused on fair transaction ordering, no censorship, stricter timing rules, and limits on ASN and datacenter concentration effective May 1, 2026.
The changes aim to improve network performance and user experience, with monitoring support from @0xGhostLogs to track and publish network health metrics.
3/ A new revenue stream for validators is on the way.
DoubleZero Edge rewards participating validators for their shreds, meaning the shred data you already produce becomes added revenue.
Learn more: doublezero.xyz/journal/expand…
9.13 terabits per second now fyi
Including an ultra low latency link from Tokyo to Frankfurt at 134.1ms coming online very soon.
That's 128ms faster than the internet 🤯
⚠️ UPDATE: Flight operations at @DXB and Dubai World Central – Al Maktoum International (DWC) have been suspended until further notice.
Guests are advised not to travel to the airport, and to check with their airlines for flight updates.
The UAE Ministry of Defense has announced the successful interception of a second wave of ballistic missiles fired by Iran, with fragments falling on scattered areas of Abu Dhabi, including Saadiyat Island, Khalifa City, Bani Yas, Mohammed bin Zayed City, and Al Falah.
Solana Breakpoint vs Ethereum DevCon in nutshell:
Solana Breakpoint Topics:
DeFi, Trading, Internet Capital markets, Perps, Revenue
Ethereum Devcon Topics:
Privacy, L2 tech, censorship resistance, zk, ETH value capture, public goods.
#EASA has issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (EAD) for the @Airbus A320 family. This may unfortunately cause disruption to flight schedules and inconvenience to passengers. As is always the case in aviation, safety is paramount. easa.europa.eu/en/newsroom-an…
DevConnect Whitepaper Reading: DoubleZero (3rd discussion in 2025):
Context: 2Z targets the network layer as the core bottleneck to Solana’s long-term 1M TPS goal.
- Paul (Berachain): video streaming has highly optimized internet paths, but blockchains still rely on noisy, best-effort routing — improving this layer is an obvious engineering direction.
Adoption: interest from stakers + validators, but not yet enough critical mass.
- Key gap: Binance runs its infra entirely on AWS; AWS bandwidth pricing makes 2Z integration difficult.
- Infra setup: we discussed how 2Z is installed at data centers — typically by adding an additional switch + an FPGA-based ingress device near the validator.
- Validators run a small client/agent that routes inbound/outbound traffic into the 2Z network.
Future: We’ll publish a more detailed report on Double Zero later, including our conversations with Infra providers.
Thanks to the Juan Olveira, @eden_ and @JotaDotSol from @doublezero giving us your time and appreciate the @StakingSummit team @tobias_ju & Gab for hosting us!
Shout out again to @EmiT87 (@Rockaway_X) for providing the real world economics!
Summary: docs.google.com/document/d/1wM…
A new, faster internet is here.
DoubleZero’s high-performance global network is now live on mainnet-beta powered by 2Z.
Welcome to the world of high-performance networking.