Solana 🧭 Compass
@SolanaCompass
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Independent Solana validator since 2021 Info, guides and dashboards on the Solana ecosystem at https://t.co/muKSZAdjho - stake with us to support!
Joined September 2021
⚡ Validator scores on Solana Compass now take block times into account! As Solana strives to accelerate and maximize performance, faster blocks and higher compute limits mean we can process more of your transactions. 🚀 Where once we took more than the original 400ms goal to
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Solana Compass just turned 4 years old – 633 epochs since our validator's first vote! What a journey: from NFT mania + FTX drama to today's professional, performant chain trading tokenized stocks, powering Western Union's rails + seeing the first Solana ETF hit $69m on day 1
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BIG: The @BitwiseInvest Solana ETF set a new @NYSE record today: #1 in trading volume across all ~850 ETF debuts in 2025 🔥
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Imagine how much faster we could go if leader slot distribution was not just based on stake weight but block times.. 🤔
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Built a nicer interface to explore Solana SIMDs. enjoy. simd dot wtf
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71,690,000 in staked SOL switched validators last month. New stake, redelegations, stake pools + DATs lead to >$14bn in stake movements Where did it come from, where did it go? Check my new dashboard Explore the flows 👇
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When the largest liquidation event in crypto history hit last Friday, $ETH choked, but $SOL didn’t. During peak stress, Solana sustained 1,225 TPS, finalized blocks in 350ms, and saw average fees peak at just $0.25 before quickly returning below $0.01. Ethereum struggled to
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71,690,000 in staked SOL switched validators last month. New stake, redelegations, stake pools + DATs lead to >$14bn in stake movements Where did it come from, where did it go? Check my new dashboard Explore the flows 👇
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At peak- Solana: 3,200 TPS, $0.006 fees Base: 1/10 throughput, 500× the cost Ethereum: 1/100 throughput, 10,000× the cost There’s really only one viable chain for internet capital markets (yes that’s a log chart)
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Solana over here outperforming centralized databases. How the tides have turned.
JUST IN: Binance and Coinbase report degraded performance with transactions due to heavy market activity.
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as the dust settles.. let's check in on how Solana performed. ingesting around 100k TPS at peak
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A new, faster internet is here. DoubleZero’s high-performance global network is now live on mainnet-beta powered by 2Z. Welcome to the world of high-performance networking.
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Solana Compass has voted Yes on SIMD 0326 proposal for the new Alpenglow consensus protocol
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the treasury companies and ETFs are slowly coming out in conjunction with the biggest tech upgrades in Solana history and an increasingly competitive DeFi ecosystem all heading into the biggest Solana Breakpoint ever + rate cuts the stars are aligned, it's time to execute
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At 11:39:21 UTC today, the Cavey Cool validator produced several blocks on Solana Mainnet-Beta with a large number of transactions, resulting in a peak burst of 104,529 TPS.
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1/ Rotor is Solana’s new block propagation protocol introduced in the Alpenglow upgrade. It’s a single layer of relayers that replaces Turbine’s multi-hop, delivering blocks faster and more uniformly across the network 🧵
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21,883,306,477 That's how many non-voting transactions have executed on Solana so far in 2025 🤯
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Solana MNB adopted Agave v2.3 just before last weekend started which marks v2.2's end. Agave release cycle time has been trending down with v2.x, but v2.2 was the shortest in the last 3 years TLDR: Agave is continuing to introduce improvements and doing so at an accelerated rate
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We are constantly looking to strengthen the @solana ecosystem in South America in order to enable more financial freedom in LATAM, but running a Solana validator comes with a unique set of challenges, especially when it comes to how metrics are reported and interpreted. 🌐🧵
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