The Pod: RPC 2.0 v2.0 Update

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Solana’s RPC monolith is being ripped out and replaced with an open source stack hosted under Solana-RPC, moving read traffic into a GRPC stream and offering a Postgres-backed accounts DB module and a ClickHouse-backed historical archive module. About 3,500 RPC nodes exist on gossip today; Triton One wins grants for accounts and archive work and reports the indexer is production-tested and handles process/confirmed/finalized commitments, snapshot bootstrapping, and an auto-query tracker that generates indexes from traffic.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:12Solana RPC stack evolution
3. 6:23Community collaboration
4. 9:15Developer experience
5. 13:11Accounts DB module
6. 16:44Historical archive module
7. 19:58Q&A

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