Long time, no write — did I get bored of Solana? Not at all. Yes, I did tell some of you (privately) I would write more development tutorials — specifically; Solana Smart Contracts using Anchor and CUDA bpf stuff. I am sorry, not realistic now… We’ve been doing Wormhole work…

Today I looked into using GPUs to generate Solana vanity addresses. I found an Ed25519 GPU vanity address generator, modified it a bit, and did some experimenting. What even is an address? Solana uses public/private keys to enforce ownership of funds. If you have the private key for an address, you can sign a transaction…

We all know how much Sol different validators have staked to them, but what about the Delegators? Code: https://github.com/mcf-rocks/active-stake-breakdown Active Stake Breakdown by Epoch can be seen here. The breakdown of active stake as delegated to validators is clearly visible on the Solana Beach website. What is not so forthcoming…

As a proof-of-stake network, 33% of the stake can censor the network, therefore the minimum number of validators with stake adding up to 33% could collude to censor the network. The Stake-o-Matic is a program that automatically delegates stake according to predefined rules. The idea is that if validators write…

NOTICE: this was the first ever developer tutorial for Solana, things have moved on — you should probably be using Anchor and contract checking tools like Soteria — the tutorial remains for the record. This tutorial explains step-by-step how to write, deploy, and interact with a smart contract on the…