Validators DAO Official Discord Surpasses 3,000 Members in Its First Year
Validators DAO Official Discord Surpasses 3,000 Members in Its First Year
ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO are pleased to announce that the Validators DAO official Discord community has surpassed 3,000 members, marking one year since its launch.
The community has grown into a global hub where experts engaged in Solana infrastructure development, node operations, and trading gather to exchange knowledge and real-world findings every day.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all members for their continued participation and support.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all members for their continued participation and support.
About the Community
Validators DAO is a technical community comprised of professionals active in the Solana ecosystem, including RPC and validator operators, high-frequency traders (HFT), bot developers, infrastructure engineers, and researchers.
Members collaborate to discuss node optimization, latency reduction, transaction propagation, and other key aspects of network performance, while quickly sharing updates and experimental results.
When incidents occur, participants work together to triage issues, compare performance metrics, and share configuration templates—contributing to a more stable and efficient Solana network.
This practical collaboration serves as the foundation for core projects such as SLV, ERPC, and elSOL.
This practical collaboration serves as the foundation for core projects such as SLV, ERPC, and elSOL.
Validators DAO Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR
Key Projects and Initiatives
SLV (Solana Validator Toolkit)
SLV is an open-source automation toolkit that streamlines the deployment, monitoring, and updating of Solana validators and RPC nodes.
It enables reproducible infrastructure management, allowing anyone to build a fully optimized node environment in minutes.
It enables reproducible infrastructure management, allowing anyone to build a fully optimized node environment in minutes.
The latest release introduces SLV Install, which automates the setup of backend systems such as Redis, TiDB, Grafana, Prometheus, and Kafka—all essential for Web3-era financial applications.
In addition, SLV Artifacts provides prebuilt binaries of Solana, Jito, and Agave clients, enabling instant setup without local compilation.
These advancements dramatically accelerate the development, testing, and operation of high-performance Solana infrastructure while ensuring full reproducibility.
In addition, SLV Artifacts provides prebuilt binaries of Solana, Jito, and Agave clients, enabling instant setup without local compilation.
These advancements dramatically accelerate the development, testing, and operation of high-performance Solana infrastructure while ensuring full reproducibility.
SLV: https://slv.dev/en
ERPC (Enhanced Solana RPC / Stream)
ERPC was developed based on node optimization techniques verified within the Validators DAO community and is continuously refined alongside SLV.
It provides a high-performance infrastructure platform that integrates Shredstream, Geyser gRPC, and RPC endpoints into a single zero-distance architecture, minimizing latency across the Solana network.
Each region operates within the same network as Jito Block Engine, eliminating external routing and achieving ultra-low latency performance.
It provides a high-performance infrastructure platform that integrates Shredstream, Geyser gRPC, and RPC endpoints into a single zero-distance architecture, minimizing latency across the Solana network.
Each region operates within the same network as Jito Block Engine, eliminating external routing and achieving ultra-low latency performance.
ERPC offers a range of configurations, including Premium Ryzen VPS and dedicated Ryzen Premium Shredstream environments powered by Ryzen 9950X CPUs.
Through solutions such as Stream Bundles, users can achieve redundancy and stability across multiple data streams with minimal setup time.
Together, these features position ERPC as a core infrastructure layer supporting real-time Solana trading and data delivery applications.
Through solutions such as Stream Bundles, users can achieve redundancy and stability across multiple data streams with minimal setup time.
Together, these features position ERPC as a core infrastructure layer supporting real-time Solana trading and data delivery applications.
ERPC: https://erpc.global/en
elSOL (Liquid Staking Token)
elSOL redefines Solana staking—not merely as a source of rewards, but as a communication resource within the network.
By leveraging Stake-weighted Quality of Service (SWQoS), elSOL transforms stake power into a mechanism that governs bandwidth allocation and network efficiency.
It also integrates with the SSP/VLD market, enabling validators, RPC providers, and developers to fairly trade communication bandwidth across the ecosystem.
By leveraging Stake-weighted Quality of Service (SWQoS), elSOL transforms stake power into a mechanism that governs bandwidth allocation and network efficiency.
It also integrates with the SSP/VLD market, enabling validators, RPC providers, and developers to fairly trade communication bandwidth across the ecosystem.
Validators participating in the elSOL network contribute 20% of their block reward profits back into the elSOL pool as an additional incentive, resulting in one of the highest APYs among Solana LSTs.
This structure not only strengthens validator incentives but also creates a sustainable, circular ecosystem in which stakers, validators, and developers all benefit while maintaining optimal network efficiency.
This structure not only strengthens validator incentives but also creates a sustainable, circular ecosystem in which stakers, validators, and developers all benefit while maintaining optimal network efficiency.
elSOL: https://elsol.app/en
Challenges Addressed by SLV, ERPC, and Validators DAO
- Transaction failures and latency fluctuations common in RPC environments
- Performance throttling imposed by general-purpose infrastructure providers
- The impact of network distance on communication quality
- Limited access to high-performance infrastructure for smaller projects
During the development of Epics DAO, an open-source Solana NFT card game project, we faced the challenge of securing a reliable, high-performance Solana environment that developers could easily access.
This experience led to the creation of our own infrastructure platforms—ERPC and SLV—built on the expertise gained through that process.
This experience led to the creation of our own infrastructure platforms—ERPC and SLV—built on the expertise gained through that process.
In the financial domain, milliseconds matter—latency and errors directly affect the user experience.
Solana’s distributed validator structure and Web3’s unique architecture make it difficult to achieve consistent performance, often resulting in instability or delays.
Solana’s distributed validator structure and Web3’s unique architecture make it difficult to achieve consistent performance, often resulting in instability or delays.
As Solana evolves with next-generation technologies such as Alpenglow, which enhances block finality and renews the communication layer, Validators DAO and its ecosystem projects will continue adapting to improve both the developer and user experience across the entire Solana network.
ERPC and SLV represent key pillars of this ongoing commitment.
ERPC and SLV represent key pillars of this ongoing commitment.
- ERPC: https://erpc.global/en
- SLV: https://slv.dev/en
- elSOL: https://elsol.app/en
- Epics DAO: https://epics.dev/en
- Validators DAO Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR
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