Colosseum Codex: Anza's Mission, Wormhole Settlement, Yellowstone Fumarole

🌵 Anza’s 2025 Mission

Anza is setting an ambitious roadmap for 2025 focused on ramping up the performance of the Agave client, which powers Solana.

The plan is to double block space and eventually hit 1 million transactions per second, thanks to optimizations designed to boost overall network speed, reduce latency, and provide a more robust transaction experience.

For Solana developers, these improvements mean a faster, more efficient blockchain that can handle higher transaction volumes without compromising reliability.

Some key areas of enhancement include:

• Optimized transaction scheduling that better prioritizes high-fee payers and reduces memory bottlenecks
• Enhanced block propagation through improved turbine performance and status cache management
• Faster data storage and retrieval in the blockstore, along with a shift to more efficient hashing algorithms

These changes not only promise significant performance gains today, such as lower slot times and reduced transaction confirmation delays, but they also lay the groundwork for a more scalable and responsive network.

Anza’s 2025 Mission: On the Road to 1M TPS

🌌 Wormhole Settlement

Wormhole Settlement is a next-generation protocol to power fast, institutional-scale digital asset transfers across chains.

Wormhole Settlement is designed as a multi-chain solution, but it uses Solana as its central orchestration layer for price discovery and liquidity distribution, which helps deliver fast and efficient cross-chain transfers.

With its launch, developers building DeFi apps can integrate seamless cross-chain functionality without sacrificing speed, security, or liquidity.

At its core, Wormhole Settlement brings together three key protocols that offer redundancy, composability, and competitive speed and cost:

• The Mayan Swift protocol introduces an onchain auction system that shifts competition from speed to price, ensuring users get the best rates when transferring assets.
• The Liquidity Layer leverages Solana as a central hub, enabling solvers to efficiently manage and distribute liquidity across chains, which minimizes the need for capital fragmentation.
• Mayan MCTP provides a reliable fallback, ensuring asset transfers continue smoothly even if the primary systems are momentarily unavailable.

Wormhole Settlement simplifies cross-chain asset transfers and enables developers to build faster DeFi experiences on Solana.

Wormhole Settlement: Powering Fast, Institutional-scale, Digital Asset Settlement

♨️ Yellowstone Fumarole

Yellowstone Fumarole is a new persistent streaming solution from Triton One designed to help Solana developers receive blockchain event data reliably. By aggregating data from several sources into a single, consistent timeline, Fumarole ensures that your applications do not miss important events.

The service is built to maintain high availability and persistence, storing blockchain data in a distributed system and tracking your position in the stream with consumer groups, so if your connection drops, you can easily resume without losing any data.

Fumarole also supports consumer group partitioning, which allows developers to scale their data ingestion and processing tasks more efficiently.

Fumarole is fully compatible with the existing Yellowstone Dragon's Mouth API, making it easy to integrate into current applications with minimal changes.

Additionally, developers can manage the service using the yellowstone-fume CLI tool (see ⚙️ Tools below) or through the Rust client, both of which offer straightforward ways to control consumer groups and stream events.

Introducing Yellowstone Fumarole

⭐ Highlights of the Week

Solana Across America
Solana Across America is a series of community-driven events designed to bring together builders, developers, and enthusiasts from across the United States to celebrate and foster collaboration on the Solana blockchain. Meetups, conferences, hackathons, and social mixers will take place in San Francisco, Orange County, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Texas, Miami, New York, and Boston.

MagicBlock x Pyth Lazer
MagicBlock and Pyth have partnered to deliver real-time DeFi solutions on Solana by combining MagicBlock’s high-performance network with Pyth Lazer’s 1ms real-time financial data feeds. Solana developers can now build high-speed, scalable DeFi apps that rival CEX platforms.

Solana read Layer, Accelerated
Trustless Engineering has rebuilt the Solana RPC with modern event streaming and server-side data transformations for better performance and reduced latency across servers, browsers, and mobile devices, while offering pre-built smart modules for flexible data transformation. During beta, usage is available at no cost.

⚡ Quick Hits

Solana Arithmetic: Best Practices for Building Financial Apps - Helius

The Open Source Price Layer: Introducing Insights Hub - Pyth

Boost Analytics on-chain insights beta is live - @getboostso_

Squads' Expansion from Multisigs to Crypto-Native Fintech Infrastructure - Delphi Digital

How Baxus & Molecular Science Are Fighting Whiskey Fraud - Forbes

Chainalysis Provides Automatic Token Support on Solana - Chainanalysis

⚙️ Tools & Resources

fume is a CLI tool to control your account in the Yellowstone Fumarole service to create or delete consumer groups, list metadata, and streaming.

fair-fun is a pump.fun clone program with Alpha Vault built in Anchor. Also check out the full video walkthrough.

node-script is a new template for create-solana-dapp that is a minimal template NodeJS script with Gill, web3.js v2, and a few others goodies like prompts/colors.

💸 Funding

Colosseum has invested in dev.fun, believing the convergence of AI and crypto will revolutionize app creation, discovery, and growth. Dev.fun lets anyone quickly turn ideas into viral MVPs by harnessing AI tools, tokenization, and open-source composability.

Shaga, a gaming DePIN protocol on Solana, has successfully raised a $4 million seed round led by IOSG Ventures to accelerate development of its decentralized cloud gaming network, enhance its edge computing infrastructure, and expand its network of nodes to ensure low latency.

Foundation Capital, an early investor in Solana and projects including Helius, Ore, elmnts, Cube, and Sanctum, has announced Fund 11, a new $600M fund focused on early-stage investing to support their "enduring commitment to founders".

👩‍🔧 Get Hired

• Helius is hiring a Rust Engineer (Remote North America) to build and scale distributed systems.
• Figment is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Staking Engineering to help build and enhance Figment’s blockchain staking infrastructure.
• Wormhole Labs is hiring a Solana Protocol Engineer to design and implement Wormhole’s core Solana programs.

📅 Event Calendar

Block Party: Solana 5th Birthday Bash, New York, New York, March 16
Celebrate Solana's birthday as we mark five years of innovation, community, and growth since block zero. Connect with builders, founders, and enthusiasts over ping pong, drinks, food, and festivities and toast Solana's speed, scalability, and success and look forward to many more milestones ahead.

🎧 Listen to This

The Web3 Prof

Join The Web3 Prof Podcast for an exclusive deep dive with Mert, CEO of Helius, as they unpack the most pressing topics in the Solana ecosystem and beyond.

From Solana’s network performance under stress last weekend to the groundbreaking potential of Firedancer and Jump Crypto’s role in client diversity, Mert shares his expert insights on what’s next for blockchain scalability and decentralization.

They also explore the sectors thriving on Solana, like DeFi, gaming, payments, and more, and discuss what’s still needed to push Web3 adoption forward. Plus, Mert reveals the protocol developments he’s most excited about for 2025 and how Solana Mobile’s Saga and Chapter 2 fit into the long-term strategy.

Tune in for a mix of technical expertise, ecosystem analysis, and a touch of humor in this must-listen episode for anyone passionate about the future of Web3.

Mert Unplugged: Solana’s Network Stress, Firedancer’s Game-Changing Impact, and the Road to Web3

Bonus Episodes

Is Social Trading Crypto's Next Big Thing? w/ Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu - Validated

In this episode, Austin chats with Ilmoi and Richard Wu about Vector, a social trading app that combines elements of Robinhood and Twitter. They dive into the core functionality of Vector, community-building strategies, Vector's technical infrastructure, and broader topics including the relationship between timing and PMF.

Why Solana Should Change Its Inflation Rate - Lightspeed

This week Lightspeed discusses SIMD 228 & it's impact on Solana's inflation, what is SIMD 228, is Solana overpaying for security, crypto's data problem, and Trump's strategic crypto reserve announcement.

Follow @mikehale on X or Warpcast!

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