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Discover how Solana's Turbine protocol uses erasure coding and a tree structure to propagate blocks across thousands of validators in under 200ms, enabling true decentralization at scale.
Explore the economics behind Solana's validator network, including commission structures, inflation schedules, MEV opportunities, and the technical requirements for running competitive validators.
Discover how Solana's Sealevel runtime achieves unprecedented throughput by executing thousands of smart contracts in parallel, enabling true scalability without sharding.
The original SPL Token program has powered billions of dollars in value transfer across Solana, but its simplicity comes with limitations. Enter Token-2022 (Token Extensions)
Discover how Solana's Sealevel runtime achieves massive parallelization by requiring transactions to declare their state dependencies upfront, enabling thousands of contracts to execute simultaneously.
A technical deep-dive into how Solana processes transactions from the moment they're submitted to achieving finality, including the role of leaders, validators, and the Gulf Stream protocol.
If you've ever wondered how Solana programs can "own" accounts without having private keys, or how protocols like Magic Eden and
When projects like y00ts wanted to airdrop NFTs to their entire community, they faced a brutal economic reality: minting 15,000 traditional NFTs on Solana
On Ethereum, MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) has a reputation problem. Frontrunning bots, sandwich attacks, and opaque dark pools extract billions while degrading user experience. But
Staking your SOL doesn't have to mean choosing between security and flexibility. Liquid staking protocols on Solana let you earn staking rewards while
The cost of minting NFTs has long been a barrier to mass adoption. On Ethereum, minting 1 million NFTs would cost around $250,000 in
Solana's performance isn't just about technology—it's powered by a sophisticated economic system that incentivizes validators to secure the