solana - toly 🇺🇸 vision

About 2.3 million SOL from Marinade's stake pool is now going to validators running Jito #MEV

man who can’t pass fizz-buzz critiquing engineering design of blockchains lol

what’re the most important startups being built right now?

imo OpenAI + Anduril Industries are very high up there

App-infra cycle: Last bull spurred lots of complex middleware solutions to optimize blockspace alloc. This phase, web3 UX still sucks & DeFi liq shrunk to tiny PvPs.

Without breakthrough in app-layer to onboard the next $b, middleware will suffer the classic 'no use case' agony

DavidHoffman.bedrock 🏴🦇🔊🔴_🔴 Arbitrum had a 7 hour outage last year because its single block-producing node, run by Offchain Labs, went down.

Optimism and Arbitrum both *still* have permissioned block production.

Ethereum L2s are consistently held to lower standards than non-Ethereum L1s.

Jito quickly becoming the dominant client on Solana

Biggest

whoever pushed that centralized shitcoin narrative needs an award in spreading misinformation

if Jito Labs (hiring) started a technical video series on solana, what would you want to learn about?

living in their heads rent free

hard to not be bullish on Solana when so many stacked teams are building:
Ellipsis Labs (future of DeFi), Tensor | Pro NFT Trading 📈⚡️ (ultimate NFT trading UX), Jito Labs (hiring) (MEV infra), Squads (SVM wallet layer), Dialect 🟣 (consumer crypto reimagined), Helius (🧱, ⚡) (peak dev tooling)...

giga-brain talk

Since multiple fillers compete for the same order, every fill leaves behind a trail of failed transactions that take up block space and cost bot operators tx fees. To help with this we've added experimental Jito Labs (hiring) support!

github.com/drift-labs/kee…

In 1971, Intel released the first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004, under Gordon Moore's leadership. This microprocessor was designed for a Japanese calculator company, Busicom. The astonishing part is that Intel wasn't originally a microprocessor company.

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A short thread on how Hivemapper is starting to use AI to make map building faster, easier, and more accessible...

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