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Good PUMP breakdown

Always appreciate being included in Lightspeed's One Good DM from @whosknave and @Blockworks_ 😃 🙌

Solana's slow validator meta is a pretty interesting yarn. Here's what's happening, with exclusive details on how core Solana folks are attempting to fix things:

What's the best way to improve Solana? We dive deep with Michael McGee on Firedancer’s TPS boost, Alpenglow upgrades, and how to IBRL

Full episode with @jump_ out now! We discuss: - The state of @jump_firedancer - The Alpenglow impact - Crypto vs TradFi markets - How to IBRL, TPS improvements & more! Timestamps: 00:00 Overview of Firedancer 05:14 Frankendancer & Agave 10:00 Katana Ad 10:59 Impact of Alpenglow 15:36 TPS & Performance Metrics 24:59 Compute Unit Limit 29:36 Validator Behavior 33:23 Katana Ad 34:21 Areas for Improvement in Solana 45:33 US Equities Market Structure 51:24 Stake Delegation Program 57:08 Infinite Mint Bug Risk 01:08:45 Future of Blockchain Design 01:14:14 Final Thoughts Links below ↓

hi, if you're in the solana validator community and understand/are willing to chat about the slow validator problem, please drop me a line!

people say @_ryanrconnor is too controversial publicly but they don't even see the things he DMs me in slack

Will the future of blockchain design look like Solana or something completely different? @jump_ @whosknave

Very hype about this one Lightspeed has done several episodes about Firedancer, but we were yet to have someone from Firedancer on the show Today, that changes. I brought on Jump software engineer Michael McGee to talk about Firedancer's status, expectations, and challenges ⬇️