Sealevel: Solana's Parallel Smart Contract Runtime Explained
Discover how Solana's Sealevel runtime executes thousands of smart contracts in parallel by analyzing state dependencies upfront and achieving 50,000+ TPS.
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Turbine: How Solana Propagates Blocks at Lightning Speed
Explore Solana's Turbine protocol—a block propagation system that achieves sub-second finality across thousands of nodes worldwide.
Solana Transaction Versioning: Legacy vs Versioned Transactions
Discover how Solana's versioned transaction format enables address lookup tables, reduces transaction size by up to 3x, and unlocks complex DeFi operations.
Understanding Solana Compute Units: Optimizing Transaction Costs
Learn how Solana's compute unit system works and discover proven strategies to optimize your on-chain programs for lower costs and higher success rates.
Stake-Weighted QoS: How Solana Prioritizes Validator Traffic
Learn how Solana's stake-weighted QoS system allocates network resources proportionally to validator stake, ensuring fair bandwidth and preventing Sybil attacks.
Inside Solana's Transaction Lifecycle: From Submission to Finality
Follow a transaction's path through Solana's network—from RPC submission to leader scheduling, execution, banking stage, and final confirmation.
Program Derived Addresses: Solana's Deterministic Account System
Learn how Program Derived Addresses (PDAs) provide deterministic, ownerless accounts that enable powerful design patterns in Solana programs.
Versioned Transactions on Solana: Address Lookup Tables and the Future of Composability
Learn how Solana's versioned transactions introduced Address Lookup Tables to break the 1232-byte limit, enabling complex DeFi compositions with 20+ accounts while reducing transaction size by 80%.
Turbine: How Solana Propagates Blocks to 3,000+ Validators in Milliseconds
Discover how Turbine, Solana's block propagation protocol inspired by BitTorrent, breaks blocks into packets and distributes them across validators using a layered tree structure for sub-second finality.
Understanding Solana's Account Model: How Data Storage Works Differently Than Ethereum
Explore Solana's unique account-based architecture where programs are stateless and all data lives in accounts with rent mechanics, fundamentally different from Ethereum's smart contract storage model.
Sealevel: Solana's Parallel Smart Contract Runtime That Processes 50,000+ TPS
Discover how Sealevel, Solana's parallel transaction processing runtime, enables thousands of smart contracts to execute simultaneously by leveraging transaction descriptions and SIMD optimization for unprecedented throughput.
Solana's Economic Model: Understanding Inflation, Staking Rewards, and Long-Term Sustainability
Explore how Solana's carefully designed economic model balances network security through staking incentives while gradually reducing inflation from 8% to 1.5% over time, creating sustainable tokenomics for validators and holders.