
Designing for the internet. ✦ Design Ops @helius ✦ prev. Design Lead @degodsnft
Joined February 2021
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I built Watchtower: a free, open-source security monitor for Solana programs
Point it at a program, and it grades your security, then alerts on admin calls, multisig proposals, and upgrades in real time
Built on @Helius Parsed Events + Parsed Streams
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Lana is now on X.
Tag @lanaAI_bot in a reply to any post and ask about the transaction, wallet, or token in it. Lana reads the post and answers in the thread.
Here it explains a tx from just a link, then traces who funded the wallet behind it.
BAM Preconfirmations are now automatically included in Helius Preconfs, adding an additional 34% of network coverage
Stream transactions the instant a validator commits to executing them (the earliest onchain signal) with preconfSubscribe
Get started: helius.dev/docs/pre-confirma…
BAM Preconfirmations are now live via @Helius and @triton_one
Get access to the lowest latency data stream from validators running BAM-compatible clients; covering over 34% of network stake
NEW: Preprocessed Transactions
Get decoded, pre-execution Solana transactions delivered BEFORE they reach the processed commitment level
No deshredding infra. No gRPC setup. One simple WebSocket subscription: preprocessedSubscribe
Live now in public beta for all paid plans
TL;DR
- Solana is positioned to take over and become the internet's capital market
- We are making progress on our weaknesses in monetary policy and derivatives
- Zcash remains the most asymmetric and important opportunity in crypto
- I love crypto
E179: Mert Mumtaz - $SOL at $8. zcash:native at $18. The framework that caught both, and the next potential gem
I sat down for the 3rd time with @mert the CoFounder of @solana and the CEO of @Zcash for a banger episode where we cut through the noise, understand the thesis for Solana and $SOL in 2026, why zcash:native is the last 100x in the large caps and why $NEAR might be the next $SOL at $8 and zcash:native at $18
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0:00 Introduction
4:05 Dating On Zero Sleep: Mert's Relationship Secret
7:30 The X Growth Hack That 6x'd His Following
8:51 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest
9:44 $SOL Crashed To $8... Then Everything Changed
15:48 Solana's Secret Leadership Shakeup
18:22 The Two Laws That Future-Proof Solana
25:47 Why Solana Wins By Default
28:05 Why Traders Are Blind To Solana
30:38 Partnerships: @KASTxyz @Trezor
31:43 One of Mert's Big Bets: Solana In 2026
36:42 How Solana Becomes The New Wall Street
42:45 The Countdown To Solana's Big Upgrade
44:23 Is Solana Actually Back?
47:31 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena
48:14 The Zcash "Scandal" That Wasn't
55:39 AI Is Coming For DeFi's Bugs
59:24 zcash:native 's 20X Case or more, Explained
1:04:40 @NEARProtocol : The Dark Horse Mert Is Watching 1:09:32 Closing Thoughts
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
Watching a wallet over gRPC used to miss its token transfers — they touch the wallet's token account, not its pubkey
The new tokenAccounts filter solves this:
It matches transactions where the wallet owns a token balance
Now live for LaserStream gRPC & WebSockets
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There are 2 seperate raffles for the 2 sizes available 👇
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Badges are LIVE ⚡️
- Unlock & Claim badges for your profile
- Each badge comes with a unique theme you can apply
- 13 badges available now — with more on the way
Wonder which holder can unlock all 13 right now 🤔
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bitcoin has died 431 times
if you invested $100 each time, you'd have $120,591,495 today
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