1/ Dear Binance, I saw your Solana staking and think you can do better. Here's what's wrong and how to fix it... 👇

Dear Phantom, let your users stake SOL with the 100+ best-performing validators in 3 easy clicks. 👇 Doing this may not double your customer base, but you will make your users' lives easier and help the Solana network to become evermore decentralized and robust.

1/ In the past 2 and a half years, I talked to hundreds of Solana stakers. I learned about their biggest challenges regarding SOL staking. Here are the 3 takeaways 🧵

Stake your $SOL & meet us during #Breakpoint2023 to get swagged up ☑️ Attending the @SolanaConf in Amsterdam? ☑️ Willing to support Solana at the base layer? Well then, pack your lightsabers, anon and join our Quest for Decentralization - Episode I👇 stakingfacilities.com/activations

#Breakpoint2023 in a nutshell. Staking Facilities IBRL/acc Solana

1/ What’s the current state of @Solana staking? (Part 1, Economics 💰) How does value flow between delegators and validators? Given the pie is only as big, how many of the ~2,000 validators actually operate at a sustainable profit? Let's see 👇 🧵

Breakpoint, THE @SolanaConf has just concluded. It was packed with many awesome announcements—a truly sparkling ecosystem. This is my personal summary on the side of @SolanaDevelopers. 💻👇🧵

MEV is such a lottery in Solana: Epoch 547: Jito +66 SOL, Marinade +138 SOL Epoch 546: Jito +226 SOL, Marinade +183 SOL Different delegations to MEV validators. How to account for this randomness when implementing delegation strategy? Just set and hope?

Cleaning up Solana since Christmas '23. Most permissionless deactivations for delinquent validators in a single day? 145 000 SOL solscan.io/tx/5mi8o6riBdW…

1/ Today at Solana Events our Head Chef repe spoke on Marinade V2 aka "The New Staking Meta" Solana V2 is solving the top three challenges of SOL staking today, here's how 👇

SolanaFloor Marinade 🛡️ wrong, let's count together: 7.52% (inflation) + 3.25% (jito tips) + 1.58% (block rewards) = 12.35% APY total staking yield block rewards (1.58% APY) go 100% to validators, while Marinade's auction lets validators share these back to stakers that's where the yield comes from

1/ In Q4 2024, Solana validators have captured $161M in transaction fees, making up 64% of their total revenue! 🚀 With no in-protocol way to share these fees, stakers miss out on this fastest-growing reward stream. So, how can they claim their share? Let’s dive in. 👇

Seeing Dan and Trent say goodbye to their first Solana validators also brought back some memories. Back in 2014, I and my high school friends launched a visual web analytics SaaS to make websites suck less. I raised the first money, got stuck at the YC S14 interview round,

🧑‍🍳 New Proposal! 🧑‍🍳 The chefs at Marinade 🛡️ have proposed a MNDE buyback program. Read the proposal and trade it below ⏬

🔥 30% of $MNDE supply is gone. 300M tokens, nearly $40M burned. A historic moment for Marinade. Supply cut, confidence rising, and the outlook has never been stronger. 👨‍🍳