Phase Delegation's website is now live. This affects both new prospective validators and current program members. More details below.

What if you raised your validator commission to 5%? What if SOL drops to $100? What if you get 50k more stake? Stop guessing. Simulate it. Built a calculator to help validators plan for profitability, or survival... solcalc.vercel.app Powered by @JPoolSolana data :)

🚀 Introducing solana-validator-ha, our open source, gossip-based high availability (HA) manager for Solana validators. While failover and HA tools exist, they either lack true automation or require extra dependencies and infrastructure that can introduce single points of failure and operational complexity. So we set out to build something different, completely leveraging Solana's own network. 🧵

Impressive work, @orangefincrypto, second MAINNET lockout violation in just 10 days. This time it cost me and others a serious chunk of vote credits. You were warned after the first one and clearly chose to ignore it. Stop testing in production at everyone else’s expense.

Impressed by the depth, transparency, and functionality of @JPoolSolana portals. Clear data, thoughtful UX, and tooling that genuinely raises the bar for the ecosystem. Kudos to the team, outstanding work!

Are you really profitable with @MarinadeFinance SAM? 📊 Only 29% are (with SFDP) 📉 15% without SFDP matching Find out here: marisam.vercel.app SAM = Stake Auction Marketplace

It would be great if SFDP validators could transfer or share their “stake entitlement” with other validators, effectively telling SFDP or a pool to delegate their share of stake to a different node of their choice. This could also work within existing stake pools (especially those that received SFDP stake), allowing operators to form cooperative groups. For example, five SFDP validators could combine into one stronger node, receiving 250k SOL total stake while keeping just three servers (mainnet, spare, and testnet) instead of fifteen. They’d spend about 2 SOL in voting fees per epoch instead of 10 SOL, share profits, and rotate operational responsibilities, dramatically cutting costs while keeping everyone active. This approach could help small validators (<150k SOL) survive and stay part of the network instead of being forced out in the coming months. FYI @TimGarcia0

@HypoNyms @temporal_xyz can you fix your node please? Its giving preference to only your terraswitch buddies and cohosters

💎 Using Direct Staking because you trust a specific validator? Here’s something you might not know: stake matching. For every $SOL you delegate, JPool adds the same amount (up to 20,000 $SOL per validator) — doubling your support for the validator you choose. And of course, the same applies if you’re direct-staking to your own validator. 🎥 Learn how it works: youtube.com/watch?v=7Gxi-_T5…

I raised this with @JaredDoubleZero: @doublezero applies fees on total SOL inflow, ignoring validator margins. A 200k staked validator loses ~50% to vote fees before profit even starts. Applying another fee there discourages small validators.

Validator Spotlight: Meyerbro ⚡ 🧵 Since 2021, @meyerbro has been more than just a validator; they've been a voice, a guide, and a builder in @solana ecosystem. ✨ Running on high-performance hardware and fortified with strong security, Meyerbro ensures reliability every epoch. 💪But what makes them stand out isn’t just their setup, it's their years of support instrengthening the ecosystem by supporting the community on Discord, helping new validators get started, contributing tools like sv-manager, and advocating for fairer, more decentralized pools. This is why Meyerbro has earned the trust of the community👇

Stake SOL → Mint dzSOL → Fuel IBRL @DoubleZero's staking site is now live 🥩 doublezero.xyz/staking

Thank you @solblaze_org for adding us!

1/ Big update for Sandwiched.me: We’re rolling out Sandwich Detector v2 – a major step forward in catching malicious actors who profit from extractive sandwich attacks

🙏 Big thanks to @JPoolSolana for the support through the Community Good Validator Program! I really appreciate the recognition and look forward to continuing to contribute to the Solana ecosystem together.

Soon to be a top sandwicher and most the unnamed accounts are linked to mr GPt2!

@MarinadeFinance says if you sandwich in >30% of your blocks you get blacklisted! Now the sandwichers can just stay below this number to safely fly under the radar... Plus there just isn't that many sandwichable txs nowadays (cluster average is 1.6%). Marinade once again paid lip service.

BTW, I use this to check: github.com/a3mc/vote-inclusi… Thanks to @art3mis_cloud for building it!