Deepa Talwar

friends and enemies, announcing our latest raise from the best of the best we have one purpose: accelerate crypto & solana app devs we're solving big problems in distributed systems at immense scale and speeds with the best engineers around — come join us now back to work

wow Helius is now the 3rd biggest validator on all of Solana — behind two giant public companies with billions all thanks to the power of manlets job is not done — but I'm grateful for all of you we will never stop helping Solana accelerate (Also note the version)

basically you're really gonna wanna stake with Helius' validator, starting now 0% fees (and 0% MEV fees), so you keep all yield main motivation is to improve network performance go to your fav wallet -> stake -> type Helius HEL1USMZKAL2odpNBj2oCjffnFGaYwmbGmyewGv1e2TU

The amount of insanely difficult distributed systems challenges on Solana is absolutely fucking insane lmao Massive scale, insanely low latency, crazy traffic patterns Recommend joining this ecosystem and becoming 1000x better as an engineer I and many others are hiring

we've raised a Series A to accelerate crypto development at @heliuslabs! in mid-2022, my co-founders (@liamvovk and @nick_pennie) and I left Coinbase & AWS to make a dent on a big problem facing crypto: a shortage of quality products it was (and still is) too hard to build fast, cheap, and scalable apps as a crypto developer Solana was the first real answer to this with its scale and performance, but it was hard to build on while everyone ruled it out due to vast information asymmetry — we doubled down on it, exclusively since then, we've grown to power the majority of the ecosystem, ranging from @helium's L1 migration to @MadLads' monumental mint and Discord/Shopify's first Solana integrations we've done this with a small team, while everyone called Solana dead and with a tiny fraction of our competitors' funding with this raise, we plan to accelerate the adoption of crypto-powered systems and Solana as much as humanly possible over the coming weeks, we'll be releasing important primitives such as generalized zk compression, next-gen RPC tooling and infra, and other surprises thank you to all who have supported us and Solana so far most importantly, thank you to all Solana developers who have trusted us to help them we have barely begun time to accelerate (p.s if this mission interests you, I'm hiring, DM me)

super proud of the @heliuslabs team and especially our CTO @liamvovk who is the most underrated builder on Solana we maintained 99.99999% (!) uptime while landing up to 4-5x higher % of transactions than the median with lower confirmation times due to our new transaction sending setup Atlas 2 months ago when I realized issues on the chain, I simply said: improving txn sending and reliability is our number one priority for the next while he did the rest (and even open sourced a new txn sending service) I do the talking, he does the work — the real hero you guys need to thank we are not out of the woods yet, there will be many more tests and the network itself has a long long long way to go but this is a good start for the future of this network brick by brick

ok so transaction sending on solana sucks right now want to make sure your transactions land onchain faster and with higher probability? we've figured out some ways to do it (you can see our graph below, your probability increases by about 4x!) after working on it for over a month how? - staked connections - priority fees - a new transaction sender (largely taken directly from the labs client) that we've open sourced called Atlas: github.com/helius-labs/atlas… we are offering this as an add-on for those serious about increasing their txn landing performance on solana we only have a fixed number of spots so get in touch asap if you'd like this by the JUP launch