psd | helius.dev retweeted
I was existentially worried for the future of Solana for the past few years given its lack of privacy
so we took action, joined forces with the best ZK devs on Solana, and built the solution
importantly, execution is *on Solana*, not an L2 or secondary network
let's win
uh oh what is this?
make a confidential transfer. on Solana. Right now.
live on helius.dev/docs/privacy
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psd | helius.dev retweeted
today we completed the final clickhouse -> rocksdb migration for our historical data APIs
archival v3 is now live everywhere!!
performance is absolutely insane: p95 under 30ms (minus network) for all methods. getBlock shown below
enjoy
psd | helius.dev retweeted
The most important thing you can do over the next few years is REFUSE to outsource your critical thinking to AI
For all the ink spilled about the humanities being dead, if AI makes "what to ask" and "how to interpret" core skills, humanities students are quite well positioned
psd | helius.dev retweeted
this is one of the scariest hacks I've ever seen in crypto
a hardware wallet!
we must eliminate single-signer setups (even with hardware wallets) and make multisigs the norm (see @fusewallet)
will be releasing a new solution on solana soon
psd | helius.dev retweeted
this is one of the gnarliest engineering challenges that exists on Solana
so we solved it for everyone, scale
historical balances for any wallet, for any token, at any time
yes you read that correctly
it took years but it finally exists
psd | helius.dev retweeted
Get a wallet's balance at any point in time
The new balance-at endpoint returns a wallet's exact SOL or SPL token balance at a given date or slot
How much USDC did a wallet hold at 19:20 on Jan 10, 2025?
Now it's a single call
Ideal for PnL, charts, snapshots, and cost basis
Full circle moment! First met @swen_sjn @ananas_light during at a hackathon 4 years ago while @dlabvc now we get to work together. Up only
Big Solana news:
The Light Protocol team is joining Helius to help build Solana's most complete ZK privacy layer.
Private payments, markets, and finance -- at Solana scale.
Fully composable, fully onchain, fully open-source.
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psd | helius.dev retweeted
markets are information systems
if p2p info is broadcasted to all, then participants change behavior and information isn't fully reflected
solana solved perf, but crypto can't scale until this information problem is fixed
luckily, we've found a way
trillions soon
Just use Helius
Big IBRL week
We deployed archival v2.1 to our US clusters
Here are the results (p95 latency):
- getTransaction: 7ms -> 1ms
- getTransactionsforAddress: 350ms -> 30ms (!!)
- getBlock: 50ms -> 35ms
What changed?
1. Re-worked the transaction storage layer from the ground up
2. Implemented our own rpc protocol (over tcp) for storage <-> proxy communication
EU and APAC clusters will deploy next week. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Latencies are measured from within our network. To observe similar numbers, call our new Gatekeeper edge network from EWR or NY.
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psd | helius.dev retweeted
block explorers will be dead by EOY
before: click on static spreadsheet tables endlessly
now: talk to the chain in english. ask specifically for what you want. generate visuals live.
we are calling it @LanaAI, invite only as we iterate
only on Solana; invite codes below
psd | helius.dev retweeted
legendary engineers shipping legendary stuff
just another day at helius
last week, @Helius shipped a new custom index for getTransaction signature lookups (e.g. signature -> tx data pointer)
p95 latency: ~0.5ms
index size: ~493B rows
as a result, our p95 e2e getTransaction latency went from 30ms -> 5ms (for cache misses!)
signature lookup is the hardest optimization for historical RPCs because the primary key (signature) is random and not contiguous
now, the bottleneck is the data retrieval, but that's a much easier problem and we will have it finished soon
the next bottleneck is the speed of light itself
IBRL
psd | helius.dev retweeted
last year, @heliuslabs re-built the RPC API from first principles
we split it into distinct systems, each one optimized for performance from end-to-end: historical, account state, etc
the result? everything is faster. much faster.
for example, our getProgramAccounts is ~200 ms faster than any competitor
gPA comparison pictured below, helius in orange
psd | helius.dev retweeted
Helius by far the highest IBRL score of the top validators on Solana
we do not play short term games
I did not start this to milk marginal bucks, but to make Solana the arena for all finance
the only validator in the top that comes close to us is bitwise, also run by us
IBRL
psd | helius.dev retweeted
the new helius getTransactionsForAddress is up to 20x faster than existing RPCs
this is the most insane thing we've ever released
you can make your app faster literally this second with a single line of code change
if you don't believe me, ask claude to benchmark like below
