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Notes from the network.

Engineering, economics, and the occasional opinion about how Solana infrastructure should work.

Why we don't charge for RPC

Every Solana provider treats bandwidth as a cost to pass on. When your server lives inside our network, that cost disappears. Here's the economics behind included infrastructure.

June 12, 2026Read >

Engineering8 min read

ShredStream, explained

Shreds are the smallest unit of block propagation on Solana. Subscribing to them directly is the lowest-latency way to see the chain. A practical walkthrough.

May 28, 2026Read >