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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
🎶 come on down, to epochtown 🎶
Announcing epochtown (pronounced ee-pak not ep-uck) a community for Solana builders, devs, artists, entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in building the future on Solana
As someone new to Solana it is sometimes hard to find like minded people to learn from, collaborate with and build with. Epochtown aims to change that, all newbies are welcome and no questions are too dumb to ask
If you’re just getting started, trying to find your way around, or want to find someone to collaborate with on the next hackathon, or maybe you’re building and have questions come on down!
Discord link in next tweet below
Huge huge huge thanks to @adlonymous for the discord magic, @jacobvcreech @nickfrosty for the motivation, @dhruvsol for the cute designs and @beeman_nl @metasal @0xnaga @SolDapper for being the OG fire starters :)
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
NEW | Samsung Wallet is adding USDC on Solana for 82M U.S. Galaxy devices
> Users can send USDC across borders directly from Samsung Wallet starting late October
> Solana powers the transfers behind the scenes, with fiat on/off-ramps built in
➡️ Watch consumer wallets put Solana stablecoin rails in front of tens of millions of phones
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
Alpenglow is now active on Solana mainnet 🏔️🏔️
Kudos to the engineers at @anza_xyz for years of hard work, to the validator operators in the test clusters, and to everyone who helped make this happen through contributions big and small!
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
With ~17 hours to go, over 90% of stake is ready for Alpenglow activation 🏔️
There are still validators on 4.3.0 or 4.3.1 that should upgrade to take advantage of performance enhancements, but they will work for the Alpenswitch.
Let's continue to push and get these last validators over the finish line 🏁
pumpkinspool.com/watchtower/…
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
New on npm: @solana-mobile/skr-domain.
Resolve .skr names with one call and show `beeman.skr` instead of a base58 address. 🤓
👉 npm.im/@solana-mobile/skr-do…
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
We’re hiring at Astralane/Audace Labs
• Frontend Engineer (React + design sense)
• Backend Engineer (strong fundamentals, fast-paced experience)
• Finance & Accounting (bookkeeping, reconciliations & financial ops)
Interested? DM me or tag someone who’d be a great fit in BLR
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
Track the rollout of Alpenglow in realtime here 🍿
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
1/ The fresh quarterly Bitwise staking report is out. Q3 was pretty busy (lots of big weeks!).
Here are some of the numbers that went up during the quarter:
The Bitwise Staking Report (Q4 2026) is live.
In our quarterly digest, we take a hard look at protocol metrics for @ethereum, @solana, @HyperliquidX, @Robinhoodcrypto, and @NEARProtocol.
TL;DR: Stake is up, costs are down, and rewards are down too.
Read the report: bitwiseinvestments.com/crypt…
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
The best free resources to learn Solana security in 2026.
Bookmark this:
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
I wrote up how validator incentives change as Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT + TVC..
1. In TowerBFT, the next leader waits up to 2 PoH slots for a late block, then builds without it. If the late block lands anyway, the next leader is forked off..
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
This means that a validator's reward APY will now primarily depend on luck.
So I updated app.vx.tools and the Vortex API to help validators and delegators compare reward efficiency more objectively.
Read more: blog.vx.tools/alpenglow-laun…
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
🚀 Watch Solana's finalization time drop LIVE when Alpenglow activates on Mainnet!
With all other clusters already running Alpenglow, this is your LAST chance to witness the transition in real time.
👀 alpenglow.stakingfacilities.…
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
Huge day tomorrow !
Yess!!! Public blocklist please
we've been hunting down orderflow leakers @fomo for a few months now.
our validator blocklist has grown quite a bit. should we make it public?
ferric | stakeware.xyz validator (marketing arc) retweeted
The adoption of Solana OFAs has increased over the past six months.
Read this article to learn about how they work, some issues we hear about from the top Solana apps, and brief thoughts on if these arrangements making Solana better for apps and users.
