Changelog
A dated record of corrections and updates to Solana Qubits research, validator facts, and dashboard references. Entries are added when something is materially fixed, refreshed, or expanded — not for every edit.
This log is informational. It does not imply endorsement, partnership, acceptance, eligibility, guaranteed stake, or guaranteed delegation. Verify current live sources before relying on any linked figure.
Research
Added a Jito-Solana note: the identity pays for tip-program transactions every epoch, and if it cannot, BAM leaders produce empty blocks and block-engine validators skip bundles. Includes the two log lines to look for and Jito's advice to keep at least 1 SOL in the identity. The rent figure was checked against the on-chain rent-exempt minimum; the rest is attributed to Jito's validator announcement.
Research
The JPool card now covers bond sizing, SOL and JSOL holdings, health bands and the migration path from JPool's bond docs. JPool's validator announcement sets the deadline: SOL stops counting toward bond health on November 1, 2026, so SOL bonds should move to JSOL by 23:59 UTC on October 30.
Research
Marinade's PSR documentation now states that MIP-23 took effect in epoch 1040, so validator bonds cover the full 0%-99% downtime range and the DAO reserve no longer covers any shortfall; the protected-events API shows the last reserve-funded settlement in epoch 1032. Added the Alpenglow changes: uptime from vote rewards, skipped leader slots as downtime, the 0.8198 SOL vote-account VAT requirement, the VatUnadmitted PSR event, and the corrected commission floor. The August 15 MIP-23 review is kept as a historical record.
Research
Rechecked the rollout status against the official Solana upgrade page: Alpenglow activated on mainnet at the start of epoch 1064 on 2026-10-21 (about 13:36 UTC), Tower BFT ran for the first 5,000 slots, and Alpenglow consensus began at slot 459,653,000. The guide now states that the migration required Agave-based v4.3.2 clients, that Rotor is not yet scheduled, and that the 150 ms figure remains a design target until measured. The client landscape and slot-time notes carry the same dated statement.
Site
Replaced moved source URLs (stakemap-sol research repository, StakeMap dashboard, DoubleZero data portal, Marinade Learn, Solana docs, Sanctum and Realms paths, Raiku news pages, Rakurai docs). Dated the unreachable SharkPool domain, the redirected docs.raiku.com pages, the closed JPool Community Good form, and the phase.cc outage instead of removing context. Rewrote author-facing notes as reader statements, unified preconfirmation and on-chain spelling, grouped the client comparison by implementation type and added Mithril, opened the client guide's table of contents and review dates by default, collapsed long governance and pool-note cards, added an age note to the Alpenglow rollout status, and fixed same-origin file links that triggered 404 prefetches.
Validator facts
Rechecked the three point-in-time validator facts. Estimated APY moved from 5.24% to 4.79% (StakeWiz total APY, staking plus Jito tips), validator commission stayed at 5%, and the Jito MEV commission displayed as 0% since July was corrected to the 10% currently published by StakeWiz and the Jito validator API. Values remain dynamic and are not a yield promise.
Research
Separated ordinary gauges from V-Pool opt-in, its 75% earnings fee and three-invoice limit, and the main buckets' 25% fee and temporary 20-invoice allowance. Added settlement-mint checks, holder snapshots, manual VLP claims and source links. Older token, treasury, mobile and pool metrics retain their dates.
Research
Added compact delivery and data-service notes, upcoming versus live preconfirmation boundaries, paid optimization and orderflow-publisher participation, transport and policy risks, and two tool-directory links. These are adjacent services, not independent consensus clients; no integration or account action was performed.
Research
Added MIP-22 rewards eligibility, daily-snapshot calculation, the Q3 voting and claim windows, and official claim and governance-staking sources. Details expand inside Marinade's DAO card and are included in search and JSON. Earlier token, treasury and MIP-23 checks retain their dates; individual wallet eligibility was not checked.
Research
Reordered the guide, shortened repeated wording and grouped navigation, tools and sources. Comparisons now use labelled rows on small screens; detailed participation notes expand on demand. Existing links, evidence dates and technical caveats are retained. This is an editorial update, not a new check of project status.
Research
Moved SpeedStake out of stake-pool opportunities into client-adjacent staking tooling. Rechecked Pye's reward-sale mechanism, approval and integration paths, lockups, authority and liquidity caveats; no widget is embedded and no delegation or revenue is promised. Other research snapshots retain their dates.
Research
Added the September 28 BAM roadmap: mainnet-node TLS availability, internal testnet Registry testing, planned session-bound TEE verification, and the distinct roles of preconfirmations, Verifier and Autobahn. Earlier client and infrastructure checks retain their original dates.
Validator facts
Added SolBlaze to Ecosystem Participation after checking the official Verified Validators list for Solana Qubits. The card links to that list without freezing a dynamic target-stake amount or implying partnership.
Research
Expanded client research with distinct BAM, Helius, Harmonic and Rakurai signals, TIN revenue accounting, landing-service trade-offs and v1 compatibility. Two finalized RPC checks establish the 250ms stage and txv1 activation; the 300ms overview-page discrepancy is explicit. Historical client checks retain their dates.
Research
Added the native gauge portal, voting and movement timing caveats, VoteX, automatic-voting guidance and official iOS/Android monitor links. Updated the Vault governance activity and manual review portal without refreshing historical token, treasury or pool-stake snapshots.
Site
Added nine tools for staking discovery, timing, economics, commission monitoring, landing telemetry and mobile monitoring. Each entry includes scope and evidence limits; selected tools also appear in the neutral reviewer kit.
Research
Replaced JagPool's legacy application guidance with its current direct signed application flow, preserving the published criteria conflict and no-guarantee boundaries.
Research
Added Trillium's per-epoch small-block analysis as a dated third-party diagnostic source, with attribution and explicit limits on client-adoption and causal-performance claims.
Site
Added the independent simd.mixy.one mirror for full-text SIMD and pull-request discovery plus preliminary mapped feature-gate monitoring. The guide keeps the official SIMD repository, Agave rollout sources, released-client requirements, and current cluster state authoritative, and explicitly separates document lifecycle, pull-request state, feature-account activation, and effective protocol behavior.
Research
Added StarPool's current eligibility gates, 50/50 equal-and-score-weighted allocation model, published bonus and penalty points, delinquency consequences, review cadence, per-validator cap caveat, and liquidity-reserve boundary. The January 11 scoring thread is retained as historical context; the current strategy page takes priority where its 90% vote-rate penalty threshold, Jito requirement, and automated allocation model differ from the earlier thread.
Research
Replaced the validator-specific BlazeStake economics and expired quote material with concise, program-neutral lock, signature, governance, and Alpenglow safety notes. Added MIP-23 as a source-verified Marinade forum proposal—not adopted policy—with the current PSR split, proposed validator coverage, historical settlement figures, three-epoch notice condition, and Marinade Select boundary.
Research
Added a source-linked 18-record governance catalog covering the 15-program stake-pool registry, supplemental rkuSOL, associated Sanctum infrastructure, and historical Lido on Solana. It separates receipt, utility, and incentive tokens from governance rights; tracks three full proposal DAOs plus Vault's limited gauges; and keeps Sanctum governance separate from control of rkuSOL. A daily read-only metadata collector creates review artifacts only and never auto-publishes governance outcomes.
Research
Added FireBAM's Firedancer/Frankendancer BAM path and Raiku's AOT/JIT client stack, including operator participation, monitoring, fallback, key-safety, economics, audit, and no-guarantee caveats. The update records the conflict between Firedancer's dated mainnet-ready release artifacts and its stale README, treats FireBAM's incentive and audit announcement as point-in-time evidence, preserves Raiku's vendor-mainnet versus roadmap/pilot conflict, and keeps Raiku distinct from Rakurai without treating release or rollout claims as independently confirmed adoption.
Research
Added a finalized epoch-1017 rkuSOL snapshot with one active validator and about 187.2k SOL, official Raiku/Sanctum sources, fee and UI-accounting discrepancies, pilot-only onboarding, and concentration and liquidity risks. rkuSOL remains outside the 15 actionable pool registry, and contact does not imply application, acceptance, allocation, stake, revenue, or delegation.
Research
Documented SolBlaze's conditional Alpenglow community-cluster bonus as a separate path within Verified Validators, including the 50,000-SOL total strategy cap, per-validator maximums, infrastructure and signature requirements, and non-guaranteed allocation caveat. Every one of the 15 current pool cards now includes a verified official website and X / Twitter profile.
Research
Documented the Verified Validators wallet-versus-identity signing boundary, the 5m veBLZE Constant-lock caveat, passed SBGP-0018, and dynamic target tiers. The current research keeps these as concise program-level requirements and does not imply acceptance, allocation, stake, or delegation.
Research
Replaced the former direct Google Forms link with DynoSol's official validator / stats section. DynoSol now controls the embedded application on the same page; the update does not imply that an application, review, acceptance, stake, or delegation is guaranteed.
Research
Expanded the comparison to 15 programs with StarPool and Layer33/IndieSOL, refreshed dated on-chain allocation observations, added explicit validator entry paths and status checks, documented JPool's validator-funded Incentives Market, and credited the SOFZP research and monitoring tools used for the broader audit. A separate historical appendix preserves Firedancer, SharkPool, Lido on Solana, archived Alameda-attributed stake, and the evolution of the still-active SFDP without presenting them as current public-entry opportunities.
Site
Updated the governance resource context to distinguish directional SGP decisions from technical SIMD specifications. As checked on 2026-08-06, SGP-0001 remained a Draft in an open, unmerged PR while its frozen commit was on-chain in the Support phase; it had not been ratified, accepted, implemented, or activated.
Research
Added Anza's research-stage post-quantum adaptation of Alpenglow to the validator-client landscape and Alpenglow guide. The update separates protocol research from client adoption, qualifies performance as analysis, simulation, and microbenchmark evidence, and does not claim a release, activation plan, or quantum-resistant Solana network.
Site
New source-linked education guide separating the SIMD document process from on-chain governance and explaining proposal support, snapshot preparation, formal validator voting, vote changes, staker overrides, and implementation or activation after a vote.
Research
Added Vault's public Allowlist requirement for allowlisted validators to vote on on-chain SIMD proposals. The criteria say that missing a vote may result in removal from the Allowlist. The 13-pool metrics remain the 2026-07-21 snapshot.
Research
New source-linked research snapshot measuring the Jito Restaking program directly through a public RPC endpoint: account counts, the NCN/operator opt-in handshake, named networks and operators, and a reproducible verification method.
Validator facts
A pre-deploy freshness check found the displayed APY had drifted from its linked StakeWiz source. Updated from 5.47% to 5.24% to match TrueAPY (estimate); commission and Jito MEV commission were rechecked and unchanged.
Research
ValidBlocks reorganized their site. dashboards.validblocks.com/validators-live and /stakepools both returned 404. Replaced with the current /svp per-validator profitability dashboard where a live equivalent exists, and removed the reference where it did not.
Research
Added the client-distribution dashboard (verified with a stated 704-validator / 428.4M SOL denominator) to the validator client landscape research, and the SFDP-filtered validator directory to the stake pool research.
Research
Added the virtual priority boost and post-pack confirmation mechanisms from Rakurai's own transaction-inclusion documentation, attributed as vendor-described rather than independently verified.
