9/ The main takeaway: SIMD-0525 is about making Solana more responsive. The path: 400ms → 350ms → 300ms → 250ms → 200ms with the goal of reducing latency while rolling the change out gradually.

im happy to announce that ill be streaming with @0xIchigo and @__lostin__ about SIMD 550, a proposal to double disinflation on Solana we will be talking about how inflation works on solana, what…

Solana is moving beyond flat transaction fees with SIMD-0553, introducing resource-based pricing for blockspace. The proposal could lift daily $SOL burn from ~648 to 7,500–9,000, while making…

2/ Solana Alpenglow Consensus Whitepaper, July 2025

Agave v4.2.0-rc.1 just went out as a Mainnet-Beta Upgrade Candidate. Mainnet feature activations start the week of August 17. Two headline numbers are going around: 200ms slots and 90% rent…

10 MiB. the live fight in SIMD-0177 review is whether solana's account size cap gets hard committed into the next runtime ABI. today a cap raise is a validator release. hard-committed, a cap raise…

every chain has a feature it wishes it never shipped. solana might be there with durable nonces. SIMD-0571 proposes a soft deprecation, and the review thread turned into a live fight on july 27 over…

solana merged a proposal to price the compute you request, not the compute you use. SIMD-0553 hit the repo July 20, still a draft, no feature gates live. it splits the old 5000 lamport signature fee…

deleting Solana's oldest program loader would strand about $900K, mostly in dead tokens. the number landed on SIMD-0499 July 17, the question had stalled it since June. around 130 mints still sit on…

💸 SIMD-0357 replaces vote fees with a per-epoch Validator Admission Ticket. Today: ~2.1 SOL/epoch in vote fees. VAT: 1.6 SOL/epoch, burned. 🔥 Net: ~0.5 SOL saved per validator per epoch. Same…