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The first of five cuts to Solana's storage deposit reaches mainnet this week, trimming roughly 9 per cent. A sixth feature gate exists purely to put the whole thing back.
The upgrade also lifts testnet throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 transactions per second and tightens the rules on how validator keys are retired.
SIMD-0525 shortens each epoch to 42 hours and rotates validators every 1.4 seconds. The change cuts confirmation latency without adding throughput; three more 50ms cuts are queued.
The $16.5 billion migration moves 8 million ether onto 0x02 validators and puts locked ETH bonds behind Lido's 34 curated operators for the first time in the protocol's history.
Kleros founder Clément Lesaege posted a 'Validator Redirected Revenue' proposal to ethresear.ch on June 21 that would let validators redirect 0-10% of staking rewards to public goods. If a majority signals support, the redirect becomes mandatory for the entire validator set.
DoubleZero Edge went live in public beta on Thursday, routing Solana block data over dedicated fibre to deliver latency improvements of up to 100 milliseconds in Asia, with 379 validators — 43 per cent of the network's stake — already publishing to the platform.
Visa will operate critical blockchain infrastructure on Tempo, the Stripe-backed layer-1 network built for AI-driven payments, alongside Stripe itself and Standard Chartered's Zodia Custody.
Ethereum's proof-of-stake participation rate passed 30 percent of circulating supply this week, with roughly 37 million ETH now committed to validators and the cost of attacking the network pushed beyond $120 billion in collateral alone.
