Hold Me Closer, Firedancer: Kevin Bowers on Jump's New Validator Client
summary
A new Solana validator implementation is under development as a modular “FrankenDancer” called Frank that stitches optimized components into the existing validator; current code runs on a vanilla GCP x86 host and achieves 1.2M raw tx/s and about 6M unique tx/s after deduplication. Designs remove atomic ops and heap allocations from the critical path (no allocations in critical path), add multihomed redundant NICs, and plan FPGA network offloads with SHA-512 at 100 Gb/s demonstrations.
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- 0:00Fire Dancer validator intro
- 4:21Jump Trading on Solana
- 7:55Speed competition in trading
- 13:12Price-time priority
- 16:45Jump’s ultra-low latency tech
- 19:53Speed of light computing
- 22:19Frank: first Franken Dancer
- 24:05Live demo results
