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The Solana validator community discusses getting a started as a new validator operator. This is part 1 of a 2 part series on important Solana validator concepts and the steps needed to get a new validator setup.  Part 1 focuses on key management, creating the vote account, hardware setup and briefly discusses the validator startup script.


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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Validator Education - Getting Started as a Validator Part 1

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Jonas.

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sRFC
- sRFC 00015: Interfaces - https://forum.solana.com/t/srfc-00015-interfaces/267

Commit highlight
- [zk-keygen] create cli utility and add new command - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/31641
- fix: addressTableLookups no longer serialized unless version set - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/31729
- Solang Solidity Compiler v0.3.0 - https://github.com/hyperledger/solang/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Resource
- Solana ChatGPT Plugin - https://twitter.com/solana/status/1661085311231770628?s=20
- Form Function resources - https://twitter.com/formfunction/status/1660698680469639169?s=20

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Changelog May 31 - Interfaces, Solang, Solana ChatGPT

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Hacker House Austin

Solana Hacker House Taipei

In this episode, Austin talks with Kevin Bowers, Chief Science Officer at Jump Trading. Kevin and his team are the brains behind Firedancer, Solana's second independent validator client. As Kevin describes the process of building Firedancer, it's clear that this episode is not only about building a validator client; it's about Kevins unique perspective on the 1% of computer science focused on making things as fast and efficient as possible. Throughout his interdisciplinary career, Kevin has again and again proven to be an iconoclastic thinker, unabashedly dissatisfied with the status quo. He expresses his unconventional views on programming languages, scaling solutions, data flow optimization, and more. 

0:00 - Intro
3:37 - How Kevin's journey into high performance computing got started
9:13 - Kevin’s early jobs
13:05 - Transitioning to working at a trading firm
19:23 - A reflection on the interdisciplinary nature of Kevin’s career trajectory
22:27 - Comparisons between working on  Solana vs. other decentralized systems 
27:44 - The need for fast computing in a market environment 
29:04 - Diagnosing bugs for regulators
31:35 - How Firedancer is optimized to run on diverse, cheap hardware
34:15 - Minimizing operations
36:48 - Optimizing data flow
38:04 - Blockchain vs. TradFi at the throughput level
42:36 - Building Firedancer while the Solana network is still live
47:05 - The impact of a second validator client for Solana 
48:26 - Where modern software paradigms have gone wrong
52:21 - Hardware shouldn’t be a solution for scaling
53:55 - Kevin’s frustrations with existing programming languages
54:33 - How hardware and software paradigms are misaligned
1:01:51 - Why Firedancer is built to make use of GPUs

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Validated | Rethinking High Performance Computing with Kevin F****** Bowers

The Solana validator community discusses the software version 1.14.17 being adopted by the mainnet-beta cluster, changes in version 1.14.17, the upcoming solana validator workshop as well as the upcoming community led validator call on May 31st.

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IMPORTANT LINKS
1.14.17 summary: https://forum.solana.com/t/version-1-14-17-release-summary/175
Accounts index: https://forum.solana.com/t/feature-accounts-index-on-disk-1-14-17/190
Compact vote state: https://forum.solana.com/t/feature-compact-vote-state-1-14-17/174
Educational workshop playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86zySQ5vGW8&list=PLilwLeBwGuK6jKrmn7KOkxRxS9tvbRa5p
Squads Protocol for validators: https://docs.squads.so/squads-v3-docs/navigating-your-squad/developers/validators
VAMP: https://github.com/bji/solana-vamp

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CHAT LOGS AND TRANSCRIPTS
https://solanafoundation.notion.site/Community-Validator-Discussion-May-25-2023-b8d15d55fddc43a78e68bc7ba1b5f57d

00:00 Intro
00:38 1.14.17 adopted by mainnet-beta
01:29 1.14 features for validators
03:26 Improved startup times - save state
04:54 1.13 startup time bug
05:35 Compact Vote State Discussion
07:44 Reminder to report bugs
11:58 Testnet updates
13:35 Education workshop validator setup
14:34 Community Led Validator Call
15:26 Quick VAMP overview
16:20 Open Discussion

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Community Validator Discussion - May 25 2023

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Colin.

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sRFC
- Programmable Smart Wallet: https://forum.solana.com/t/srfc-00009-sign-in-with-programmable-smart-wallets-using-off-chain-delegates/104/9

Commit highlight
- Allow future leader schedule to be fetched: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/31538

Resource
- Lite RPC: https://twitter.com/mangomarkets/status/1657912455278874629?s=20
- Idle Game Example: https://twitter.com/SolPlay_jonas/status/1656586704688496641?s=20

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Solana Changelog May 23 - Lite RPC, Programmable Smart Wallets, and Idle Games

In this episode, David Hoffman (Bankless) and Austin have an honest and multi-faceted conversation about the differences between Solana and Ethereum’s decisions, community, and future. David makes the case for an Ethereum-dominant future, and in doing so,  illuminates much about Ethereum's philosophy of design and the culture of its most fervent believers. Naturally, Austin makes a similar case on behalf of Solana. This is a conversation between two people who have mutual respect for each other, but fundamentally different opinions about how a blockchain should be built.  

0:00 - Intro
3:56 - David’s early days as a crypto podcaster
6:20 - The Bankless business model
13:02 - Managing ethical disclosures 
16:41 - How Bankless views its responsibility to the crypto industry at large 
22:46 - The historical animosity between Bitcoin and Ethereum maxis
24:50 - Disagreements within the Ethereum community about its own identity
27:49 - A debate on "slowness as a virtue"
30:15 - A debate on the long-term decentralization of L2's
36:57 - Solana's values of real-time censorship-resistance
39:32 - The exit to L1 design philosophy 
41:44 - More on the centralization of L2's
46:04 - Do current L2's meet scaling expectations?
47:19 - Narrative development of blockchain cultures 
52:08 - The fracturing of the Ethereum state
55:16 - Communicating between Ethereum's layers  
1:05:16 - David's first Solana NFT
1:06:16 - Why David feels confident commenting on Solana's architecture 
1:14:51 - A defense of Ethereum as a "constrained Layer 1"
1:19:11 - The hardware required to run Ethereum vs. Solana
1:26:52 - Why network downtime is not an existential threat to Solana   
1:29:06 - What different blockchain communities can learn from each other

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Validated | The Philosophy of Ethereum According to Bankless' David Hoffman

The Core Community Call is a discussion between developers of the Solana Network.

Today we discussed:
Optimistic Cluster Restart Automation - https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/46

If you have an item to put in the agenda, please make a PR on the latest agenda found on github https://github.com/solana-foundation/...

If you want to attend the next core community call, they're open to the public. 
Public Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/...

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The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, options, futures, or other derivatives related to securities in any jurisdiction, nor should not be relied upon as advice to buy, sell or hold any of the foregoing. This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.  Solana Foundation Foundation and its agents, advisors, council members, officers and employees (the “Foundation Parties”) make no representation or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information herein and expressly disclaims any and all liability that may be based on such information or any errors or omissions therein. The Foundation Parties shall have no liability whatsoever, under contract, tort, trust or otherwise, to any person arising from or related to the content or any use of the information contained herein by you or any of your representatives. All opinions expressed herein are the speakers’ own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of any entities.

Core Community Call - May 19, 2023 - Optimistic Cluster Restart Automation

Some more Solana changes from Jacob & Colin.

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sRFC
- IDL Standardization: https://forum.solana.com/t/srfc-00008-idl-standard/66

Commit highlight
- Debugging tools to ledger-tool: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/31346

Resource
- Dune Analytics: https://twitter.com/DuneAnalytics/status/1656311489093926916

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Solana validators adopt the v1.14 upgrade

‘AI will make Solana more usable and understandable,’ says Anatoly Yakovenko

Evolving Public Goods Protocols for the Long Term

Breakpoint returns for 2023 with a new campus, expanded ticket access, and more

Solana keeps accelerating with ecosystem-born innovations like xNFTs