Notes from the network.
Compression internals, comparison studies, operator guides. Everything we publish runs against real mainnet blocks.
Why compression is the primitive: a thesis for decentralized blockchain storage
A long-form argument that compression — not consensus, not transport — is the missing primitive that makes decentralized blockchain storage economically inevitable.
Running a Vault gateway: a practical operator's guide
What it actually takes to run a profitable SolanaVault gateway in 2026 — hardware, networking, reputation building, and the operator economics.
Migrating a Solana indexer off hosted RPC: a 10-day field report
A practical, opinionated guide to moving a real production Solana indexer from a hosted RPC provider to SolanaVault, with the timeline and the surprises.
Byzantine consensus on block reads: how SolanaVault catches lying storage nodes
A practical explainer of the consensus and reputation system that protects SolanaVault clients from malicious or buggy storage nodes.
Inside the SolanaVault compression pipeline: how we hit 15-25:1 on mainnet blocks
A deep technical walkthrough of the multi-stage compression strategy that ships in vault-core, including the v3 production pipeline and the XGBoost-tuned variant.