Solana Tech Roundup

This past week it was announced that versioned transactions and address lookup tables will go live at epoch 357, or approximately October 7th at 20:00 UTC. Be sure to check out how to use versioned transactions and address lookup tables on the integration guide.

As a reminder, if you're a developer going to Breakpoint November 4-7, make sure you apply for a discounted developer ticket.

Proposal Highlight

Private Peer to Peer Networks

There is a proposal being discussed within the #proj-private-p2p-network channel in the Solana tech discord. What the proposal states is there is currently an issue with RPCs and other non-voting nodes on the network eating up bandwidth through gossip, turbine, repair and more. These non-voting nodes do not participate in consensus and degrade the performance on the cluster.

The proposed solution is to move these non-voting nodes to a private network that has a gateway node to the cluster. Especially with some RPC providers having large amounts of nodes the RPC nodes could be put behind a gateway in order to not add traffic to the cluster. This proposal is still not drafted so be sure to read the information under the #proj-private-p2p-network channel on the Solana tech discord to learn more.