The fastest path to shreds is now live - and it's free Introducing: SolanaCDN • Open-source client with built-in acceleration layer • Redundant block delivery outperforms Turbine • CDN layer from Pipe, provided as a public good Here's how it works 🧵

Geography is the hidden tax on validator profitability. Your rewards aren't determined by your hardware. They're determined by your position in the network. A mid-spec validator that sees shreds early will outperform a beast machine that sees them late. Every time. Validators earning the most credits today have one thing in common: a faster path to shreds. SolanaCDN makes that available to everyone.

SolanaCDN ships performance improvements on day one. It's a fully compatible fork of Agave with Pipe-built optimizations baked into the client: • Fast Shreds: 5ms coalescing, data shreds before coding shreds, wider fanout for leaders • Snapshot downloads from Pipe's global network • Monitor progress with real ETAs during catch-up Open source, fully auditable, and free to run.

Optional CDN layer connects your validator to 35,000+ PoP nodes. Enable it and your validator gets a second, faster path for shreds. Shreds and vote packets route through Pipe Network's global mesh. Turbine still runs underneath - the CDN adds a parallel fast lane. • 3.8x faster propagation than standard Turbine • ~78ms P50 cross-region vs ~300ms baseline Completely free. Pipe is providing this as a public good for @solana.

Validator economics comes down to timing. Every millisecond between you and the current leader affects your vote credits, your leader slot revenue, and where you can afford to run. SolanaCDN compresses that gap. Earlier shreds, earlier votes, more credits. Faster propagation during your leader slots, fewer skips. Run from cheaper regions and still compete with validators in premium colos. Built-in Prometheus metrics and CDN vs gossip race data so you can measure the impact directly.

Faster propagation is a network effect. Every validator running SolanaCDN makes the entire network faster. • Shred propagation improves globally • Blocks finalize sooner • Fewer forks, fewer missed slots Better for your validator. Better for Solana.

One more thing. Speed is the first capability unlocked. What comes next changes how validators and users interact with the network 👀