I heard a lot of compassion in several Solana Events sessions for those flying in from California. Indeed, I wouldn’t be sure which day I’m on without checking.

I have to say, I really enjoy and learn a lot from the discussions between and Toghrul Maharramov 🇺🇦. What makes them especially fun is that both are extremely confident in their arguments, so you actually have to put in the effort to understand the context. The themes

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BREAKING: Banks are settling payments with Visa on Solana, already at $3.5 billion run rate 🔥

The most professional validator operators are indie

Coming: stablecoin settlement 7 days. Money moves when commerce does—weekends included. U.S. institutions can settle with Visa in Circle USDC over @Solana. Lead and @CrossRiverBank are the first US banks to join Visa’s pilot, more through 2026: vi.sa/4oY6H4b

We are working on this at Starke Finance Fund managers will be able to use our platform to create and manage tokenized funds, or leverage our API to consume the backend while managing everything from their own front end. The platform will include all configurations required by

Working on exactly this with Starke Finance ser…

Regulation and Trust. Regulators don't want proofs, they want defendants. They need a *human* to hold accountable when violations occur. If you run a normal KYC system, you can say “we checked documents and stored records according to policy.” If you run a ZK-KYC system and

Fantastic Deep Dive about Alpenglow. Enjoy the reading

New leader tracker. Becoming feasible sending txs directly to TPU

What are Proprietary Automated Market Makers and why they are revolutionizing Solana. Enjoy the reading.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from all of the Layer33 validators. No gifts needed, we already have the privilege of being the decentralization provider for the best blockchain in the world!

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A few epochs running Jito BAM and everything looks awesome so far! We and our starkers are enjoying it 😉

IndieSOL from Layer33 is now live on Loopscale. Loop IndieSOL and participate in Layer33's mission to ensure 33% of the Solana stake remains with independent, high-performance operators. Decentralization is infrastructure.

Did you know that just 19 validator operators hold enough stake to stall the Solana network? And only 81 validators can collectively control all on-chain voting. That raises an important question, how did we get here?

Happy birthday Bitcoin. 17 years since the genesis block.

Layer33 is a response to a concerning trend. As indie validators die, that stake funnels up to institutional nodes. Reverse the trend. Stake with IndieSOL and ask how you can support decentralization.

Starke Finance Validator contributed to the issue mitigation by seamlessly patching our node yesterday. Now we have upgraded to v3.0.14-bam. Kudos to Anza and Jito Labs for the discreet and quick reaction. Coordination is not centralization.