Greg Fitzgerald 🦀
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Technical cofounder of @solana . Obsesses over programming languages, especially @rustlang . Not here much; reality is the only thing that’s real.
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Bull runs aren’t my jam. Signal-to-noise drops off a cliff. It’s time I drop off too. Happy holidays y’all. See ya again when everything goes to shit.
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The Solana architecture will still be thriving 10 years from now. Library optimizations, compiler optimizations, and hardware optimizations will collectively outpace any need for sharding for the foreseeable future. There’s more tailwind than just Moore’s Law
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Using an SPL prefix to market something outside the Solana Program Library is not okay
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Firedancer makes Solana more scalable. Did its optimizations change the security model or will it centralize the validators? No. It’s just more efficient. Please revisit your belief in the scalability trilemma. It’s something that was said, not necessarily something that is.
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@0xMert_
It’s a damn shame so many people feel the scalability trilemma is as real as CAP theorem and not just some shit Vitalik wrote on the Eth wiki to explain why sharding comes with trade-offs. Fight the fight. Much appreciated!
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Seeing web3 apps written in Rust would be a dream come true. One language for apps, contracts and blockchain - devs freely floating across boundaries - that’d be a beautiful thing.
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Highly recommend for anyone that wants to work on
@solana
The 2nd edition of our book, Programming Rust, is out! New chapter on async programming, with an emphasis on how it really works. Updated through Rust 1.50. Check it out!
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Fun to ask non-crypto friends to install Phantom and let me send them a couple USDC. Compared to Venmo, odd things: what is this seed phrase and what do I do with it? what’s the difference between USDC and $? how do I move these dollars to my bank account?
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Sharding a blockchain is easy to start, hard to finish. Optimizing for hardware is hard to start, easy to finish. These guys get it.
Introducing Firedancer’s latest technical milestone: fd_quic 🔥💃
A high-performance implementation of the QUIC and Solana transaction ingest network protocols.
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A blockchain requires a clever combination of cryptography, distributed systems, operating systems and programming languages. Solana’s superpower was the the willingness to run away screaming from the most interesting problems in each discipline
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Probably goes like this: if you have an ETH contract and need something cheaper, try Neon. Need cheaper? parallelize for Neon. Need cheaper? compile with Solang. Need cheaper? port to Rust. Need cheaper? Consider C. Need cheaper? Hardcoded BPF bruh
@yashhsm
@solana
@solanalabs
Neon is eth L1 compatible, so code should be deployable as is, and metamask will work. It basically appears like another ETH L1.
solang will compile as a native solana program and will take some changes, you should probably have your auditor check delta. But the vast
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In 2019, most L1s had RFC processes. I felt standards bodies were unnecessarily slow and centralized. I created the SPL, a program library maintained by Solana Labs, in an attempt to set a precedent. Want a standard? Then popularize a library. No centralized standards body needed
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I just love open source so much. From my 2019 TruffleCon slides, back when SVM was called Pipeline
Introducing Ethereum's fastest L2, powered by the SVM.
We're excited to finally announce the Eclipse Mainnet architecture:
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@0xMert_
Meh, author of the first client came from there too (called Lucent at the time), and his client could only process short bursts at 400k TPS
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Solana-based projects should start thinking about testing their smart contracts against just SVM, not a full validator. The tests run waaay faster and would verify portability across any L1 or L2 that incorporates the same SVM version
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I love how members of the
@solana
community started calling themselves S◎Lmates. It was no one's job to come up with that. It inspires me to build beautiful things, if for nothing else, than to see the world react with positivity.
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If one wanted to contribute financially to Rust ecosystem development, where should they donate? Rust Foundation? DevX Initiative? Something else? Asking for a friend…
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To love open source is to both love collaboration and competition. They coexist well when the goal is the same: to explore new horizons
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@dominic_w
@IOHK_Charles
fwiw,
@aeyakovenko
and I were experienced Haskell and C developers before starting
@solana
. We felt both were inappropriate for a high-performance blockchain - so much so that we learned Rust to build our prototype, a huge scheduling risk. never looked back
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#MozillaLifeboat
, thank you for your years of service creating the open internet. At
@solana
, we stood on your shoulders to create a fast, borderless currency that's been open source since day one. Help us bring it to the world, like you did Firefox.
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Local fee markets is a feature I’d expect most blockchains will race to add. It’s critical in maintaining app isolation and means the end user can expect the next transaction fee to be about the same as it has been. The popularity of other apps won’t cause the fee to spike.
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New programming languages only reach escape velocity if they allow startups to do something that is otherwise prohibitively expensive. Rust isn’t succeeding because it’s just a better C++. Safety without sacrificing performance is just *that* important.
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A platform team needs to be continuously unblocking its devs. That can mean begrudgingly enshrining syscalls for the most needed APIs while also working on a feature that would allow devs do it themselves. When it ships, deprecate the APIs in an effort to return to minimalism
Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
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If you only have 30 minutes, watch this three times. This is the way.
His name is Kevin Bowers.
The project is Firedancer. 🔥💃
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Anyone working on making SVM more standalone? Don’t need the shitshow that is the SUI vs Aptos Move VMs
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@mxschumacher
@jwmares
And if so, does the Boulder Public Library on a summer day check them all?
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A door closes, a window opens.
@rustlang
, Wasm, and front-end devs, please consider
@solana
. DeFi is taking off, we need you! Message me if interested!
#MozillaLifeboat
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If an L1 enshrines the best tech from its L2s, is that stabbing friends in the back?
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Securing recovery phrases is such a chore. What you’re doing by hand is probably dumber than what
@Ledger
implemented. Storing in plain text? Full copies for redundancy? Tisk tisk. Good solutions exist but are cumbersome to use. Put down your pitchforks and ask them how it works.
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Happy Birthday Zcash! May you all continue to innovate and inspire.
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This isn’t the 90s. If your open source license doesn’t have an SPDX ID, you’re doing it wrong.
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Love blockchain discussion in this category: what financial incentives should the humans respond to such that the hardware can be fully utilized
SOLANA FEES, PART 1
In this series, we explore Solana's fee mechanism, a formalism for analyzing fee mechanisms under Solana's constraints, and some proposals for the system.
This first part by
@0xShitTrader
describes Solana's current fee mechanism and some of its effects.
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@0xMert_
The thing about Aptos that I can’t shake is that Move is a young language and so will need a lot of love for many years. I believe all its original architects are on the Sui side. So I’d expect the pace of innovation to be faster in Sui. BlockSTM is nice though…
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It was a huge month for blockchain Rust! It seems like we’ve all been productive sitting at home hacking. We’ve seen so many interesting developments
#rust
#blockchain
#hacking
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Inspired by a not-quite-right tweet, someone should prototype this: compiling down only as far as LLVM IR on-chain instead of BPF. This is how LTO works and could light up more compiler optimizations. MLIR would be interesting too!
One of the incredible things about Solana is it doesn't "run in Rust" like many people think. It compiles down to LLVM – meaning it's possible to build a front-end that lets developers program in any language 🤯
Today:
💚 Rust
💚 C
💚 Python
💚 Zig
💚 Solidity
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DeFi is hard. Too simple and it gets hacked. Too complex and nobody trusts it. In TradFi, you threaten attackers with life in prison, but the threat is limited to its jurisdiction. The sweet spots in DeFi are harder to find, but their value extends beyond geopolitical boundaries.
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A massive effort from our engineering team!
We're now exceeding 50k average TPS across all our reported GCP testnet configurations, an enormous improvement over v0.19.0
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General purpose languages like Rust are expressive enough to support EDSLs like Anchor. No need to go learning DSLs, which are typically rough around the edges, don’t benefit from a broader developer community, and won’t be useful to you outside the one domain
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When constraining execution to a safe bytecode, then C is a good choice to generate it. Otherwise a memory safe language compiled down to machine code will outperform it, lead to more open source, and be easier to audit. More on-chain compilation. This is the way
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Silver lining: hardware wallet integration in mobile wallets is now the obvious feature to flaunt
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Unpopular opinion: “proof of” means “proof of” and not “here comes the consensus name!”
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How fast can a normie with a bank account move from USD to self-custodied USDC and back?
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The real scalability trilemma is security, innovation and uptime
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Systems software engineer: hey Ed, I see you’re not eating all your bits there
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@matthuang
Can we get more blockchains to support the excellent general purpose languages engineers already know?
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Correctly notes that proof of history is used to optimize proof of stake and is not a consensus protocol on its own. My day is made!
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A company that formally verifies cryptographic protocols should propose embedding its favorite proof assistant into Solana’s runtime, such that any third party can submit a new protocol and charge a fee per use. Coq, Lean, Cryptol, maybe?
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There's a special place in hell for people who use main and not master.
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Vroom vroom
TPS Bursts over 100k
Sultans v0.21.0 released today with improvements including stability fixes to Tower consensus exposed in the most recent Tour de SOL dry run
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An attack from a staked validator. Trust no one. So thankful that
@ChorusOne
wore the white hat.
Congratulations to the team at
@ChorusOne
, who successfully executed the largest attack in Tour de SOL yet!
This week they managed to identify an attack vector allowing them to steal 500 million SOL tokens from the Tour de SOL test network.
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@P3b7_
@BanklessHQ
I’ve watched it. It assumes the blockchain trilemma is a real thing and not just something that Vitalik posted to the Ethereum wiki trying to articulate why sharding wasn’t a silver bullet. Anyway, is there a better decentralization metric than censorship resistance?
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Perfection everywhere would be super, but for as long as a PoS blockchain has one client implementation in the supermajority, perfection in the VM is more important than perfection in consensus. consistency > availability. Priority
#1
: don’t lose the money.
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Best terminology in blockchain. Wrong answers only. I'll go first, hard fork.
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The crowd has spoken! The term SVM has more meaning to the community as a high-performance smart contract platform than it does a single-threaded program interpreter. Let’s run with it!
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Smart contract compilers should move into validators. It’ll be a ton of work to make secure, but the result will be improved runtime efficiency, fewer enshrined libraries, and more open source contracts
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Hey
#MozillaLifeboat
, your tweets make it clear that
@mozilla
was a special place to work and the layoffs look especially painful. What made that gig so special? The mission? The people? Inclusivity? Innovation? Anything the rest of us can adopt?
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Been dabbling in Agda, Idris, Coq and Lean lately. All amazing but the winner for me: Agda via agda-mode in VSCode. I’ve been working through the online book PLFA by
@PhilipWadler
. What a joy. Highly recommend.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this. Touches on iterator design, async design, why it’s a good fit in Rust, and how it’d be different if Rust went a different way. What a gem!
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When composability isn’t part of the scaling strategy
nonsense. L2 ux is no worse than L1s for bridging from eth or exchanges, then its the same
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What many sw managers don’t realize:
If your engineers’ shit software can only serve a few hundred people before it collapses under the weight of its own complexity, it’s probably not that valuable. If it adds a fraction of a cent of value to millions of people, clarity matters.
What many sw engineers don't realize:
The majority of jobs do not hire you to write the highest quality code or produce the cleanest architecture.
They hire you to solve their business problems very efficiently. Sometimes this means high-quality code. Sometimes not at all.
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What to call the CLI tool that lets devs ensure their program is portable across SVM chains? Like a REPL that executes transaction instructions. No bad ideas here. Let ‘er rip
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ditto
things I don't regret:
learning rust✅
not forking evm✅
quitting caffeine✅
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Anchor, but with C preprocessor macros
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SVM is
Single-threaded
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technical gibberish
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@0xMert_
Regarding STM, I’m a longtime fan (you’ll find my name in the acknowledgments of this 2007 paper ). It’s not a zero cost abstraction, so a bit of a gamble, which is why I didn’t use it in SVM. But if good enough, it’s a nice win for smart contract devs
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@alessandrod
@read_rust
Very cool! You might also be interested in
@solana
's modifications to LLVM's BPF backend. It allows you to compile arbitrary Rust to BPF, not just the small subset that's safe for execution within the Linux kernel:
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If you run a node from home, what cryptography do you use to download the validator software?
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Will Sui or Aptos rename Move? Or are both expecting the other project fizzles out? Kind of a terrible name anyway, frankly
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Anyone talking to password managers like
@1Password
about adding a Seed Phrase category to store or generate BIP-39 seed phrases?
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@Altvm_Thesis
@AveryChing
gets the gold star today. Verifiable performance metrics:
Anyone spewing software engineering theory able to do that?
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@JustinBarlow
Back then we felt that if an 800-pound gorilla was going to put its weight behind an industry standard that could showcase parallel execution, we’d be happy to demonstrate what that meant to a parallel runtime like Solana’s. We pulled it out when the gorilla backed into the mist.
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Wonders if an NFT of Jordan’s shoes, sold by Jordan, would sell for a higher price than Jordan’s shoes
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RIP David Turner. Your paper on total functional programming and influence on the Haskell programming language had a profound impact on my career.
If you use Haskell, you are indebted to SASL (), KRC (), and Miranda ().
Sadly, their creator, David Turner has left us this week.
Thanks David, you had a huge side-effect on my life.
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In 2017,
@aeyakovenko
published a technique for managing shards with a trustless clock. I said we won't need that, but I'll take your clock. Today,
@solana
is live and flyin'.
$ETH co-founder
@VitalikButerin
explains changes he would make if building
#Ethereum
now,
@benjaminpirus
reports
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@gakonst
Hope someone does it! I’ll guess JIT’ed BPF wins in, then JIT’ed WASM, then interpreted BPF, then interpreted WASM, and finally in a distant last place, a mix between EVM and MoveVM benchmarks, depending on when EVM unnecessarily uses 256-bit operations.
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