Sig Engineering - Part 8 - Sig’s SVM and Runtime
We're excited to announce that we have finished implementing Sig validator’s SVM and runtime. This post will explain what the runtime is, why it matters, and how ours works.
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Sig Engineering - Part 7 - AccountsDB & Gossip Memory Optimizations
This post is Part 7 of a multi-part blog post series we will periodically release to outline Sig's engineering updates. You can find other Sig engineering articles here.
This blog post details recent optimizations made to existing Sig components, including a new buffer pool implementation for AccountsDB and
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Sig Engineering - Part 6 - Progress on the Sig SVM
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Deep Dive: Solana DApps Revenue - November 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana DePIN - October 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana Gaming - July 2024
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Sig Engineering - Part 3 - Solana’s AccountsDB
AccountsDB is Solana’s custom accounts database. This post contains a high-level overview of core concepts and explains the Sig implementation details.
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Deep Dive: Solana DeFi - May 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana DePIN - May 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana NFT Market - April 2024
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Deep Dive: Solana NFT Market - January 2024
Sig Engineering - Part 2 - Progress on AccountsDB & more
This post is Part 2 of a multi-part blog post series we'll be releasing periodically to outline Sig Validator's engineering updates/milestones. Find Part 1, covering the Gossip Protocol, here.
This blog post details major progress from Syndica in Sig's journey: we have made
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Sig Engineering - Part 1 - Solana's Gossip Protocol
This post is Part 1 of a multi-part blog post series we'll be releasing periodically to outline Sig Validator's engineering updates/milestones.
This blog post from the Syndica team marks a major milestone completion in Sig's journey: The initial implementation of the gossip protocol.
Introducing Sig by Syndica, an RPS-focused Solana validator client written in Zig
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Sig is an intelligently optimized Solana validator implementation written in Zig, a cutting-edge low-level programming language.
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