Raiku ๐
@raikucom
Co-located execution for @Solana trading firms. Blackline runs your strategy on the same machine as our validator. rkuSOL for stakers.
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Solana in the last two weeks:
200ms slots โ
Alpenglow on Wednesday โณ
The block keeps getting faster. Distance to it doesn't.
Saturday reminder that the block doesn't take weekends off.
Neither does latency.
Some of our favorite things this week weren't built by us.
Art series on their 50th-plus drop, a dragon in a chef's hat, karaoke nights, bingo nights, and explainers clearer than some of ours.
To everyone who makes, hosts, explains and shows up... thank you. This is what a community looks like.
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Key takeaways from Solana Circuit #43# with @SDMikeCM of @domaprotocol:
1. Domains are the oldest online RWA. Mike calls them a $360B industry with very little liquidity.
2. Fractionalizing domains lets owners raise cash and cover renewal fees without selling the whole name.
3. Onchain sales put prices in public, in a market where big deals have usually closed under NDA.
4. The first ICANN round in 14 years is bringing new extensions like .agent, and Doma's Frontier gives stakers early access.
5. Doma's domain asset vehicles, index-style baskets of domains, plan to launch on Solana first.
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Stake SOL, get rkuSOL. Staking rewards plus validator MEV.
The bit people miss: stake decides how often Raiku's validators build blocks.
Use it on Sanctum, Kamino, Loopscale, Exponent and Jupiter.
Domains are the internet's oldest real-world asset, and @domaprotocol wants to bring them onchain.
On Solana Circuit #43#, @SDMikeCM explained how Doma tokenizes and fractionalizes domains through its own ICANN-accredited registrar, D3. The goal is to bring liquidity and transparent pricing to a market that has long run on NDAs and private escrow.
Mike also covered Frontier, which lets users stake on Solana to get early access to new extensions from the first ICANN round in 14 years.
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New Friday. New Raiku Townhall.
Be there or else.
This account is still bullish on @solana
We've spent the last year talking to trading desks about Solana.
The question that keeps coming up isn't "how fast is it?"
It's "where does my strategy sit when the block is built?"
That's what we're building at Raiku. More soon...
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Every risk committee's least favourite word.
There's $15.9B in stablecoins sitting on solana right now.
The 'boring stuff' is winning. That's how you know institutions are here.
Tokenized domains supercycle.
Join us for tomorrow's Solana Circuit where we chat with @domaprotocol about all things tokenizing the web!
The metric Ravi said he cares most about is not TVL or token price. It is how much capital @otus_finance brings onchain from people who have never held a crypto wallet before. The app is mobile-first, non-custodial, and deliberately built for someone whose only financial reference point is a savings account at their high street bank. That is a genuinely harder problem to solve than building for crypto natives, and a more important one for where the space needs to go.
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A trading strategy performs exactly as well as the infrastructure executing it, and no better. Speed matters, but co-location is the variable that most participants don't control. Raiku runs where the block is made, which means the execution happens at the point where the market is decided rather than one step behind it.
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On Wednesday's Solana Circuit, Ravi from @otus_finance made a point that cuts through most of what gets said in this space. Most people do not want to be traders. They want their money to work without having to think about it. Otus is built around that idea, using an AI agent to automatically diversify stablecoins across battle-tested DeFi protocols and target a consistent 5 to 7% APY, with no lock-up periods and full access to funds within seconds. Get rich boring, as they put it.
Catch up with the circuit here
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Raiku is execution infrastructure for Solana, built for trading firms and asset managers who need certainty when they execute a trade. Most execution layers are designed around speed, getting to the validator as quickly as possible.
Raiku takes a different approach: our infrastructure runs on the validator itself, not alongside it and that co-location means trading strategies deployed through Raiku have their slot secured before the market moves, rather than competing for it after the fact.
For institutional capital moving onchain, that's a structurally different proposition.
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This week rkuSOL climbed to #11# on @sanctumso LST leaderboard, with 183,768 SOL. When your liquid staking token is backed by the same validator infrastructure your execution runs on, the yield isn't incidental, it's a function of the same edge.
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SGP-0002 passed!
Lower issuance is directionally positive for $SOL, but a 2.6% reduction over six years felt modest relative to the uncertainty around how faster disinflation could impact Solanaโs broader market dynamics. Thatโs ultimately why we voted against.
Either way, seeing governance work at this scale is a net positive for Solana and a testament to the strength of the network.
Congrats to @cavemanloverboy and @Helius for all their work on the proposals today!
Long Live Solana.
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Most people don't think about execution infrastructure until a trade fails, slips, or arrives a moment too late. That's the moment Raiku exists to prevent.
