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@davidrhodus
David Rhodus @pipenetwork
Latency remover.
Electrician turned tokens-per-watt optimizer.
Previously exited to AWS.
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Well you're in for a treat
My third Solana validator client, pipe-thin, is stateless!
State and shreds are fetched on demand, no need for a massive local ledger or AccountDB
But you still control the validator: your keys, your vote account, voting, block production, execution, verification, and network propagation
Pipe is an additional fast path for state and data propagation alongside the decentralized public Internet not a replacement for it
The validator remains independently operated. We’re separating consensus compute from state storage and giving Solana data a second path through the network
Apps should indeed run solana validators, and it will be easy to do so
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Serving ~1% of all Solana mainnet repairs
Quietly keeping the chain moving ⚡️
We’ve been pushing our independently built, clean-room @solana validator client pretty hard.
PoH: 4.8 ms
Verification: 6.4 ms
SHA-256: 9.2 ns/hash
Replay: ~78 blocks/sec
Identical final bank hash.
Finalizing the client soon. Still more performance on the table.
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We spent 16 hours testing an app on Solana from an unstaked sender. The results surprised us.
The good: median tx inclusion was under 400ms, with no stake, Jito, priority fees, or stake-weighted QoS. p99 was ~2.8s. 597 of 647 validators accepted 90%+ of what we sent.
The bad: ~6.5% of transactions simply disappeared. And geography mattered a lot: same-slot inclusion was 78% when co-located vs. 56% from home.
The takeaway: Solana really is fast and deterministic. But for unstaked users, stake and geography still define the edge.
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