Research
Updated JagPool's direct validator application guidance
Replaced JagPool's legacy application guidance with its current direct signed application flow, preserving the published criteria conflict and no-guarantee boundaries.
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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.
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Research
Added Trillium small-block analysis to client 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 a verified SIMD discovery workflow
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
Expanded StarPool scoring and delegation 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
Condensed BlazeStake research and added Marinade MIP-23
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
Published the stake-pool DAO and governance tracker
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 and Raiku to the validator-client landscape
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 rkuSOL as a monitoring-only stake-pool target
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
Added the SolBlaze Alpenglow bonus path and official pool links
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
Expanded BlazeStake application 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
Corrected the DynoSol validator route
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 and refreshed the stake-pool delegation landscape
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
Clarified SGPs, SIMDs, and SGP-0001 status
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 onchain in the Support phase; it had not been ratified, accepted, implemented, or activated.
Research
Added Quantumglow to the client and Alpenglow 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
Published a Solana governance and SIMD guide
New source-linked education guide separating the SIMD document process from onchain governance and explaining proposal support, snapshot preparation, formal validator voting, vote changes, staker overrides, and implementation or activation after a vote.
Research
Clarified The Vault governance participation rule
Added Vault's public Allowlist requirement for allowlisted validators to vote on onchain 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
Published Jito Restaking and NCNs 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
Corrected the displayed validator APY
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
Replaced two retired ValidBlocks dashboard links
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 two Sandwiched.me monitoring sources
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
Expanded the Rakurai section with documented inclusion mechanisms
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.