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Solana Data on Validator Stake voted on a Block
Solana includes a lot of votes in each block and I wondered if there is some data around on how much % of the validator stake is actually voting on each block on average/histogram.
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Not to setup solana rpc node. -2.8 Slots Behind
A little guidance to trobuleshoot this issue would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
Server Specs:
CPU: AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor
RAM: DDR4 2666MHz 512GB (4 x 128GB 2666MHz RDIMM)
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im looking to create a MEV bot on solana, but i need help
ive recently noticed this wallet:
https://solscan.io/account/93gMmYdHDwK9JS8Xnj8ST4tG1HdpeDeS18tjkTLNn2xG#transactions
making hundereds of sol every single day. I found out that i need to be validator ...
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How sandwich transactions are still alive
I’ve been researching MEV(especially frontrunning and backrunning) after the moment I came across this account
https://solscan.io/account/D4zVhwuUsFbcaty7wJhNEZ7VEwPHXQ5d2heXPxM5yWhL?page=4#transfers
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Struggling to setup a Validator
I've recently began setting up a Solana Validator via an Amazon EC2 instance. I understand in the long-term, it is an inefficient strategy and once I launch it properly, I am switching to a data ...
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Run solana rpc node got error "connection timed out"
I am trying to run a solana rpc node of mainnet. I followed the aiticle how-to-run-a-solana-rpc-node due to I did not find the way of how to run a rpc node on mainnet on the solana's official website. ...
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How to listen to jito bundles
I am writing a analysis tool to check for mev attacks happening in jito bundles, for a live subscription to these attacks, is there anyway that i would be able to subscribe to the jito bundles being ...
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Sending transaction from different locations parallel, benefits?
I'm curious if for example I have server in Frankfurt which I send transaction from and the validator is located at New York, will it be faster if I would have sent parallel the same encoded ...
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How is the validator parallelized?
I was surprised to find that a Bank's load_and_execute_transactions method does not execute transactions in parallel (see here).
The purpose of an Entry is to batch transactions that can be executed ...
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Unable to catchup for more than 2-3 days with non-voting account-index extended RPC
I try to setup my non-voting account-index extended RPC and it can't catch up for more than 2-3 days.
I'm using AWS x2idn.16xlarge which means: 1TB RAM, 64 vCPU, 3 * 1900GBNVMe SSD, 50Gbps network ...
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How to enable admin RPC for solana-validator?
i want to call admin RPC methods, eg. "method": "rpcAddress" on the validator, however i'm only getting method not found erros. How to enable admin RPC methods on the validator?
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Transactions exceeding compute not included in blocks
Due to some limitations in my protocol I can't really estimate the budget needed for Solana transactions to successfully execute. I am using durable nonces so I want transactions to be executed so the ...
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Unable to withdraw money
I had a bot from which I regularly withdrew money through the contract after May 27, the withdrawal contract stopped working, more precisely, when I tried to call the contract, an error occurred why ...
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If I wanted to mess around with how compute units function on a validator node, how would I do it?
Let's say I have a testnet validator and I want to modify how it approaches compute units with the goal of gaining some insight in how compute unit requesting can be optimized. How would you go about ...
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How to pull all blocks from the genesis block to the local?
Now I need to do traceability business, I need pull all blocks from the genesis block to the local. May I ask if I need to build a validator node? If so, what params should I add?
right now I reserved ...
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i get error ERROR solana_net_utils] Received no response at tcp/8899, check your port configuration: timed out waiting on receive operation
I received this error while starting the validator node, I checked and these ports are not in use. Does anyone know how to fix this error?
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How Pyth is able to update each feed contract every block?
How they garantee the TX successful landing?
Running their own validator would increase the certainty of landing the tx?
Looks like they are sending the transaction here.
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Do validators get slashed if they go down?
We have some SOL staked with a validator and are wondering what will happen if the validator suddenly dies?
Are there rules they have to apply or is it the validator himself that needs to set up some ...
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Reduce number of connected nodes to my private rpc nodes
I wonder if there is a way to reduce the number of connected peers to my private RPC node. When I run the command solana gossip I see that there are around 5.5k other nodes. Does that mean that my ...
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own solana blockhain server to send requests
I would like to create my own “server” to handle requests such as: Track transactions without rate limits. I think this also relieves the load on the Solana network and contributes to the health of ...
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store more tx_data
I find that my node has a very low amount of data, what parameters can I use to ensure that my node keeps a month's worth of data . And the version of solana-valicator is v1.18.15.
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My Solana Rpc Node gets behind syncing
I have bought a ovhcloud server and setup node here.
System specs are :
CPU: 2× AMD Epyc 9354 - 32c/64t - 3.25 GHz/3.8 GHz
RAM: 768 GB ECC 4800 MHz
System: disks 2×960 GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID
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connecting to leader from a validator with small stake
good day, I have trawled the internet to try to get this info, no luck..
if we are running an RPC server and are using jito bundles to get our transactions through , they are pretty consistently fast (...
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account-index spl-token-mint blows up memory consumption
Trying to run a 1.17.25 RPC node on a 1TB RAM server, enabling various indices one by one:
--account-index program-id brought up used RAM consumption to ~200GB total
--account-index spl-token-owner - ...
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solana_net_utils::ip_echo_server Error
When I setup rpc node, error as follows:
and solana.log has not updated other logs.
The node started and downloaded the snapshot, and the startup process lasted about 6 hours, after which this error ...
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Are Transactions executed before they're forwarded?
To be more precise, I'm asking if transaction forwarding and execution takes place concurrently.
Imagine it this way:
Leader receives transaction XYZ and as soon as the transaction is scheduled, the ...
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Geyser notify_transaction pre broadcast
If you use a geyser plugin to notify_account and notify_transaction, does it only notify after track banking stage in broadcast stage? Or does it notify on validator receipt of transaction and account ...
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Geyser messages are being sent earlier to my local computer in compare with my server even though my server in the same place
I'm running rust code while when I'm running the .exe file from my local computer I get the yellowstone geyser messages like 1-4 seconds faster than the geyser messages that are being sent to my ...
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How does Solana handle the split brain problem?
How does Solana handle the case of split network?
I understand there is always one validator only at any moment, does that mean if you can't reach it you can't make any transaction on Solana?
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solana-sys-tuner not found
I build solana with v1.18.15 version, and run
./scripts/cargo-install-all.sh /storage
but solana-sys-tuner not found in /storage/bin.
How do I install solana-sys-tuner? Is my solana version wrong? ...
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solana -ud gossip | grep <Validator Address> does not show anything on devnet
it's my first time posting anything on stackexchange, so please ignore any mistakes I make.
I am trying to run a validator node on solana devnet. The node is working fine:
solana -ud gossip | grep ...
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MEV from solana
I have a simple question, can we do MEV directly from a validator, as in if we run a validator with almost no delegation is it even possible?
Sorry if my question is weird im very very new into Solana
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PoH handoff between leaders
I tried to understand how PoH works based on the whitepaper and various blogs: leaders generating hashes, adding to the ledger and transmitting entries and ticks as shreds before even finishing the ...
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Is it possible to run a Solana node with 128gb of ram?
I am curious if it is possible to configure a node so that it only requires 128gb of ram? Obviously I would have to cut a lot of things out in terms of what's in memory
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Solana RPC Node and Turbine Tree
Im reading Helius' blog post, Turbine: Block Propagation on Solana, and it lead to a couple questions.
The blog states, "The root node aggregates all active validators into a list, which is then ...
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Solana too many requests
I want to send multiple transactions, and I am using multiple recent block hashes in my code. With some time public RPCs get exhausted. Are there good alternatives for doing something like 100 API ...
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How to find the pool balance at the end of the epoch
I was trying to read pool balance from the end of the epoch and couldn't found any answer yet. My intention is to calculate the APY of given pool public key. I was trying with @solana/web3.js and @...
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Recent Block Hash Issue with Multiple transactions
I want to do multiple transactions at one, When I tried to execute the transactions it shows that block-hash not found, I guess due to expiration of the block.
How can I overcome this issue? Sometimes ...
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Difference TPU vs TPUQuic
I was testing some RPC api and invoking getClusterNodes I get this result:
featureSet: 3746964731,
gossip: '165.140.87.218:10000',
pubkey: '2xte5CBkCBEBLNviyAfvSaTkMy6tvg99Cy3XJj9EJJs2',
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Is it possible to send Jito Bundles without using their API?
Currently I am using their API to send my bundles to the validator. Is it possible to somehow directly send it, in order to improve speed?
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How to read validator information using the vote address?
I'm trying to read user staked validator information using @solana/web3.js. I was able to read the stake accounts for the given wallet address but having trouble with reading staked validator ...
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How to start a Solana-Validator?
How to start a Solana Validator and what are the requirements of running a Solana Validator node and how much a Solana Validator can make ?
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What are the implications of Solana's stake-weighted mechanisms when choosing an RPC hosting solution?
I have read that many Solana mechanisms are stake-weighted and I was wondering what would be the implications of this when using services such as Helius or Quicknode vs a self-hosted (non staked) ...
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Who owns the private key of delegated Staked Accounts?
I see on solscan.io account pages that most of them have isOnCurve false, but my delegated staked account has isOnCurve true.
Does this mean someone has the private key of this account?
Who?
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Solana validator doesnt start on port 8899 using it as rpc
I am trying to start an full rpc on mainnet.
I keep getting these logs.
what is rebuilt storages for 134832/414439 slots with 0 collisions
Apr 19 07:23:14 vultr validator.sh[28731]: [2024-04-19T07:23:...
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What's difference between (TPU) Transaction Processing Unit and (TVU) Transaction Validation Unit?
When reading docs about Solana validator, I stumbled upon these terms, and as far as I understand, both of them are the same hardware, but TPU is when it works in a leader mode, and TVU - when it ...
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Transaction history is not available from this node : Solana validator RPC setup
Even though i have successfully setup solana-validator(mainnet) RPC(--no-voting) node in my computer and the newwork catchup also success as solana-validator --ledger /mnt/ledger monitor also shows ...
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Why do I keep getting the past transactions with geyser?
I built geyser plugin with a no-voting validator, everything works fine, node catched up itself, but when I "tail -f" the log file, the geyser keep streaming to me the "...
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I cannot acces Solana Tech - Validator
how are you ?
i am trying to get access to the Solana on Discord, but I have no data at all. I cannot send message, actually, it looks like nothing is happening on the discord. Where can I find ...
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RPC solana node synchronization for only send tx
I configured a simple solana RPC node on a virtual machine with:
56 CPUS
512 GB Ram
2xHD 2T
1GB Bandwidth
Solana version 1.18.4
Shred Version 50093
custom sysctl.conf
fs.file-max = 1000000
net.core....
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