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Solana's TPS counts user transactions only since Alpenglow, with 200 ms slots and 50 million compute units per block. This guide explains how TPS is counted today, why real and theoretical figures differ, and the throughput that actually matters for your application.
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Validators vote, take turns producing blocks, and share inflation rewards and MEV tips with delegators after commission. This guide explains the mechanics, the performance numbers that predict your yield, and how to choose a validator.
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Alpenglow replaced TowerBFT and Proof of History on 21 October 2026. Here is how Votor finalizes in 150 ms, what 20+20 resilience really means, how the one-slot migration works, and the exact list of things that change for RPC, gRPC, and shred consumers.
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Running a validator is an infrastructure business: current-generation bare metal near stake, a deliberate client and key setup, testnet first, permanent operations, and a runway until delegated stake makes it pay. The full picture and the honest alternative.
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Standard Solana nodes keep only days of history. Old blocks, transactions and signatures need an archive tier served through the same RPC methods. Which methods hit the archive, why there is no historical state query, and how to use history efficiently.
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Mainnet beta is production, devnet is the developer playground with free SOL, testnet is for the network itself. What each cluster is for, how to point wallets and code at them, what differs in practice, and the mistakes from mixing them up.
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