Staking Operations Lead (SOL) @SolanaFndn
Connecticut
Joined July 2011
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Why should you be staking?
Token inflation is a fee on unstaked SOL, paid by users that need real-time security against double spends.
Users that are willing to stake and help guarantee that double spends do not occur are collecting the issuance.
Jake Burden retweeted
Solana's tech was already #1 for scaled crypto use cases. With Alpenglow, Solana is now light years ahead.
The audacity to replace the core mechanisms of the network while handling thousands of live TPS is uniquely Solana.
Congrats to the @anza_xyz team on shipping.
Alpha💧
no, we continue to aggressively pursue this direction.
incremental march:
- 200ms slots
- Alpenglow
- IBRL
- Geo-Aware Handoffs
- Market tick
- In-protocol ordering
- 2 Proposers
- The rest
2 primary changes since published Constellation design:
1. Prioritizing Geo-aware work. This provides some immediate benefits but also helpful for Constellation
2. Shipping multiple proposers before consensus leader / attestations
Jake Burden retweeted
Hylo closed a $1M strategic funding round led by @SolanaVentures with participation from @colosseum.
This marks Solana Ventures' 2nd and Colosseum's 3rd investment in Hylo, reflecting their continued conviction in our vision to scale leverage and yield infrastructure on Solana.
Jake Burden retweeted
1/8 There are rumors of a new kind of sandwich on Solana.
However, a sandwich needs one thing: knowing your trade before it lands.
We looked at the on-chain data and found no sign of that. What we see is a momentum bet.
👇🧵
Jake Burden retweeted
Validators, Alpenglow is almost here, activating epoch 1064 (Oct 21st ~15:00 UTC)!
Make sure to:
- Upgrade to an agave based release v4.3.2
- Turn off your vote mods
- Fund your vote account with enough sol to cover the VAT (0.82+ SOL)
more details here docs.anza.xyz/consensus/alpe…
Jake Burden retweeted
@solana is increasingly supporting real-world financial activity. Tokenized real-world assets using Solana as a distributed asset layer have grown from roughly $1 billion to $4.4 billion in a year, while stablecoin volume exceeded $2 trillion during Q1 2026.
Adoption is evident. How is the network infrastructure supporting that scale?
Read our latest report: fcatalyst.com/trends-and-sig…
A thread 🧵
#FCAT
Jake Burden retweeted
Random leader schedule leaves handoff latency on the table. That's an inefficiency.
SIMD-0675 provides a clever way of reordering it so nearby validators hand off to each other.
But the outcome is parameter dependent.
We don't want parameters to be a guess.
Our recent analysis provides a way to quantify what happens when you change these parameters.
You can now measure:
- handoff gain vs geographic persistence
- short-term regional concentration
- spillover for low-stake regions
- how much a fake location attack pays
Jake Burden retweeted
Operators, remember to keep your vote account topped up with at least 0.83 SOL in order to pay the VAT and be rent-exempt.
Details on the VAT here docs.anza.xyz/operations/gui…
And other notable changes here
docs.anza.xyz/consensus/alpe…
It’s time.
Alpenglow goes live on mainnet-beta Wednesday, October 21, ~14:50 UTC.
18 months of work for a migration that happens in one slot. Finality drops from seconds to ~150ms.
Make sure to follow us @anza_xyz as we countdown to go-live.
Details: anza.xyz/alpenglow
It’s time.
It’s time.
Alpenglow goes live on mainnet-beta Wednesday, October 21, ~14:50 UTC.
18 months of work for a migration that happens in one slot. Finality drops from seconds to ~150ms.
Make sure to follow us @anza_xyz as we countdown to go-live.
Details: anza.xyz/alpenglow
Jake Burden retweeted
200ms slots!!
By this time tomorrow, solana will have 200ms slot times solana.com/200ms
