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Holoworld Launches Agent Market: A Place for Every Community to Create Autonomous AIs Community get to create multimodal social agents like characters in a video game, and also monetize and co-create AI IPs on-chain with Agent Market
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The Agave client codebase has 357 individual contributors. The Firedancer client, developed by a small team under the leadership of chief science officer Kevin Bowers, currently has 57 contributors.
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The validator set is dispersed across 135 different hosting providers. The two leading providers are Teraswitch, a privately owned U.S. company hosting validators with a combined 24% of stake, and Latitude.sh (formerly Maxihost), a Brazilian-based provider of low-cost bare metal servers used by validators with a combined 19% of stake.
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68% of stake is delegated to European validators, with 20% delegated to North America. 50.5% of stake is delegated to validators operating within the European Union (European stake excluding Norway, Ukraine, and the UK).
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@chicken
Solana’s validator set spans 37 countries and territories. The largest concentration is in America, with 508 validators. Four jurisdictions each hold over 10% of stake: the US with 18.3%, the Netherlands and the UK, both at 13.7%, and Germany with 13.2%.
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The Nakamoto Coefficient (NC) represents the smallest number of independent entities that can maliciously conspire to cause a liveness failure, denying the consensus needed for new block production. Solana's Nakamoto Coefficient is frequently cited as 19. The actual figure is likely lower since individual entities can permissionlessly operate multiple validators anonymously.
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The Solana network is distributed across 4,514 nodes, including 1,414 validators and 3,100 RPCs (epoch 685). No single validator controls more than 3.2% of the total stake.
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@beautiverse
Measuring Solana’s Decentralization: Facts and Figures A quantitative and multifaceted approach to analyzing Solana’s decentralization based on facts and figures. This analysis covers: > Distribution of stake > Geographical distribution of nodes > Diversity of hosting providers > Client software diversity > Developer diversity > Governance processes and entities
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In many cases, Ethereum provides the most helpful benchmark as it is widely considered the most decentralized Layer 1 proof-of-stake blockchain. It is worth noting that Ethereum is more than twice as old as Solana, with its genesis block produced in July 2015, compared to Solana’s in March 2020. Decentralization is dynamic, and blockchains typically become more decentralized over time. Given similar conditions, it’s reasonable to expect older networks to achieve higher levels of decentralization.
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When appropriate, we will compare Solana network’s metrics to those of other industry peer proof-of-stake L1 blockchains. Peer networks serve only as benchmarks, providing a broader context for Solana’s decentralization journey and highlighting areas where it may lag or outperform expectations.
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With this report, we will take a quantitative and multifaceted approach to analyzing Solana’s decentralization, basing our analysis on facts and publicly verifiable information.
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As with many of Solana’s critics, Snowden offered no data to substantiate his statements despite being publicly invited to do so. In the following sections of this work, we’ll analyze the decentralization of the Solana network through data, highlighting areas where the network demonstrates relatively strong decentralization while identifying areas where further progress is needed.
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“When you look back at the Bitcoin whitepaper, I think what you see is an adversarial approach to the system and that’s really what you have to be considering. A lot of people, and I don’t want to name names but, Solana, are taking good ideas and going, well, what if we just centralized everything? It will be faster, it will be more efficient, it’ll be cheaper… You have to be thinking for the adversarial case as opposed to the convenient, easy early case.”
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Solana has been the subject of substantial criticism and misinformation from a vocal subset of the blockchain community regarding a perceived lack of decentralization and censorship resistance. A recent example being former American intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, who voiced concerns during a Token2049 conference keynote presentation.
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Decentralization can be summarized as the lack of a single point of failure within a system. This multifaceted concept spans many dimensions, including token distribution, the influence of key figures, permissionless network participation, control over development, and software/hardware diversity. Quantifying a blockchain’s level of decentralization has few universally accepted standards outside of Balaji’s Nakamoto Coefficient. Many metrics are imperfect. Moreover, discussions around blockchain decentralization, often rooted in political philosophy, give rise to deeply ideological and, at times, almost religious debates.
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Additionally, there is strong evidence of geographical diversity among the Solana developer community. The most recent bi-annual hackathon, Radar, drew 13,672 participants from 156 countries, with notable participation from India, Nigeria, the U.S., and Vietnam. SuperTeam, a network connecting Solana creatives, developers, and operators, has expanded to 1,300 members in 16 countries.
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The Solana Foundation, established in June 2019, is a Swiss-registered non-profit organization dedicated to growing and supporting the Solana ecosystem. The SF’s relatively lean team of 60-65 full-time employees oversees funding for grants, staking programs, and developer tools.
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Substantial changes to Solana’s core components undergo a formal and public Solana Improvement and Development (SIMD) proposal process. The most significant protocol-altering changes, especially those affecting economic parameters, undergo governance votes. So far, three such votes have taken place.
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The Jito client, a fork of the original Agave codebase that includes an out-of-protocol block space auction, currently holds a dominant 88% share of the network's stake. However, this is expected to change considerably over the next twelve months as the new Firedancer client is gradually introduced and integrated into the ecosystem. Solana and Ethereum stand out as the only Layer 1 blockchains currently offering multiple client implementations.
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