A 66% increase in Solana's network capacity + higher TPS is hiding in plain sightSolana Validators: opt-in to XDP now https://t.co/sChP5d8cpDBrennan Watt (@bw_solana):Solana folks claiming XDP will fix everything.Is it the REAL DEAL or nah? Let's find out.. 🧵 ...

Network Capacity - Starlink's larger V3 satellites, deploying from Starship, aim to provide gigabit connectivity to users [1] - The V3 satellites are designed to add 60 Tera-bits-per-second of downlink capacity to the Starlink network [1] - The added capacity of V3 satellites is over 20 times the capacity added with each V2 Mini launch on Falcon 9 [1]

Proposal Overview - Jump's Firedancer team proposed SIMD-0370 to eliminate Solana's fixed compute unit block limit post-Alpenglow [1] - The proposal suggests a dynamic throughput scaling with validator power, replacing static caps [1] Mechanism - Block producers would maximize transaction packing [1] - Slower validators would skip blocks, incentivizing upgrades [1] Impact - Producers could potentially earn more rewards [1] - Lagging validators risk losing rewards, driving hardware upgrades [1] - Network capacity is expected to increase as validators upgrade [1]

Solana devs eye 66% block limit increase to 100M compute units to further boost network capacity https://t.co/hLsEEMEseZ ...