◆ Solana REV Report, Q3 2025 ◆ You've heard of Solana's $1B+/year Real Economic Value (REV) 💸 But after users pay to make transactions, who earns that REV? Let's dive into Q3's numbers. Shoutout Blockworks Research for the charts 🙏

ok so: - validators are onboarding to BAM 💥 - the DAO is making $22m/yr in revenue - the CSD quarterly update, dropping 🔜 - JitoSOL continues to lead SOL LSTs by TVL - a16zcrypto $50M strategic investment in Jito - Pipe Network deployed LovePIPE via (Re)staking 🏗️🥩🔄

If your blockchain went down today you should not be able to call yourself a blockchain

Pay attention, feedback is welcome.

I told you this was an interesting governance experiment! It’s a war zone right now ngl. Not sure if the community is equipped to make legitimate decisions. The meta governance hasn’t been agreed upon but proposals that affect economic policy are already in play 😬

After witnessing Chorus One express their concerns with NEAR Protocol’s most recent upgrade. I tried to make sense of it all here: medium.com/@occresearch6/… Feel free to give feedback or make corrections. Just wanted to give my 2 sats at the end of the day 🤷🏾‍♂️

I appreciate this take, it acknowledges the nuances that I feel both sides tend to overlook. Does the community want to prioritize implementation or legitimacy? What comes first, the chicken or the egg?

1/8 We just wrapped a WPRC workshop at Badger Build Fest a hackathon held by Tech Exploration Lab and Badger Blockchain UW–Madison — featuring Othman of WPRC NYC and a live session with @must_be_ash, Product Designer at Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️, walking students through x402, the new

Had the pleasure of running an x402 workshop at UW–Madison with Othman and Whitepaper Reading Club

my biggest fear as an industry has been that we are not attracting enough young people to come here as builders far and few college grads now compared to 4-5 years ago. we can’t have unc domination like this so i think investment in content, working closer with blockchain

Thanks for the shout out Jito 🙏 Let's see whether other validators will adopt the same strategy 👀

This is important work. I wrote a field report on Solana’s governance process, decision dynamics, and the design trade-offs shaping this effort. Publishing after one final review, stay tuned.

Here’s a deep dive on what’s been going on with Solana’s Governance. Interested to see how things play out in the next few months medium.com/@occresearch6/…