Haha thanks Seb, yeah I was wondering why I was getting downvoted. I had heard the team I linked is a very legit one (never tried myself though nor have I talked with them before) and heard of good results.

Oh hey Jeff

Sorry to hear :/ I’m not sure how much these guys cost but I hear they are elite. They are costing a lot of users. https://twitter.com/0xGroomLake/status/1729505208055591345?t=hpZTDvuXixEE727BKN5GOw&

Talk to Helius

You can see Pyth in phantom. Make sure its not some scam token Pyth as Ansi mentioned below

I think all of those are good from what I’ve seen. I think Xandeum is a bit newer but good afaik.

Use https://jup.ag/swap/ which is a DEX aggregator. I think phantom is more expensive than on Raydium but not positive

Madshield is another one which I think is good.

Do you have other suggestions? I assume the top apps use the better ones

They use APR rather than APY. Their APR calculation just looks at emission rate of sol due to inflation and also looks at the commission validators take but doesnt factor in the amount of supply staked or the performance of validators, both of which affect APY. When less of supply is staked, more emissions go to stakers, increasing APY. When a validator performs better APY is also higher.

I wouldnt, best security practice is always transferring to hot wallet

Top Solana ones are probably Sec3, Neodyme, and Ottersec. Trail of Bits isn’t as solana focused. Ackee I think does have more solana focus so might be good?

Shit :/ where did u find this? Was it related to the jupiter airdrop?

Lol don’t buy sol on eth. I think you can bridge from.avax to sol using wormhole and maybe all bridge? Then use https://jup.ag/swap/ to swap wrapped tokens for other stuff

Afaik it’ll be extremely fast. The zk computations are very quick. Some of the stuff they need will be on update 1.17

https://twitter.com/LightProtocol/status/1665735570608275458?t=CizgnZed3sGxBpl2ng3iNA&

How much Sol did you stake? It takes an epoch for stake to first activate. You can track epochs on stakewiz.com if you click on the three line menu bar.

Not to say it’s perfect but the network can support a lot of validator nodes (near 2k right now) and there are a lot of them despite the higher hardware requirements. The Labs software is getting more efficient so the requirements will probably decrease along with those of the Firedancer client. Light clients are also in the works which will help with verifiability/decentralization further.

Throughput can comfortably handle activity at this stage in crypto adoption with quite a lot of breathing room and local fee markets will be crucial for blockchain UX going forward (see this post:). Other chains continue to have a lot of issues combating rising fees.

The solana community is also pretty strong at this point and there are a lot of subcommunities within the ecosystem to find a niche for oneself (core engineers, app layer devs, artists/nft, etc). Hackerhouses and hackathons are a big part of the dev experience and for the dev social layer.

Happy to answer more doubts/specific questions