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I’m all in on Solana

I’ve seen a massive amount of friend’s Solana validators shut down over the years

Every time I told myself: it’s all about being patient

After 2 years of running a validator, which was barely making it (taking all the costs into account with bear market prices) and running perfect ops around it

I finally got this @jito stake and was starting to see a future with Alpenglow where the validator was going to start making money

But one random day just before breakpoint

The SFDP changed the rules of who gets stake

Craziest part is that I understand and agree on the change

SFDP was keeping a big chunk of validators alive, in a blockchain that prides itself at not being a communist chain AND doesn’t need to motivate people to run validators to compete with Ethereum numbers

Solana is going to 200 validators, operated by financial firms and large companies

We are drifting further and further away from our 2021 NFT and DAO ideals 😅

But I guess each dev profile has a role to play at different moment of a chain’s lifetime

I will never forget the Serum fork when FTX crashed (and my Wired article lmao), helping all the companies in 2022 and 2023 stay afloat, winning Colosseum with Tokamai, all the people I met through solana’s amazing events in 2022/2023/2024/2025

My only worry is that the big validators of the top 30 did show a massive inability to keep their operations going when a few months back we almost had a network halt

Not my problem anymore I guess, tho

@solana, of course I still love you

(I hope many people will take this post as a bear market bottom signal)

For my last few days as a Solana validator

I’ve pushed so code to solv, a tool maintained by @gabrieldotsol to manage validator ops efficiently

I’d be really sad to have to remove the “solana validator” part of my profile

Was so proud to be a part of the block building chain of solana validators

But it seems this last SFDP update will be a rough one for validator around 150k staked sol

This fake europoor thinks he understands X

Interesting.