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Incidents, architecture, and the second path that keeps a node on the cluster.

• Analysis · August 25, 2026

  What SIMD-0553 would have cost

  A per-transaction replay of the resource-fee burn proposal over ten epochs. 2.86 billion transactions re-priced: 3.56× the fees, all of the increase burned, and votes up almost sixfold until clients update.

• Architecture · August 18, 2026

  Relay Mesh Experiment

  A hop budget and an assignment rule on today’s Turbine → mesh → Path A/B path. Not a second protocol. Flag off on the paid mainnet fleet.

• Incident · August 15, 2026

  The interconnect failed. Solana didn’t.

  Terraswitch’s private interconnect dropped a default route across twelve European and Asia-Pacific sites. Solana kept producing and finalizing. SolanaCDN is the second path.