Programs would pass each account as a 4-byte index and flags instead of 90 bytes of metadata. The proposal from Anza's febo follows a discussion that settled on index-based accounts.
The programme links Allfunds' distribution network of more than 3,300 managers with funds on Solana. Track A takes live funds, Track B funds in development, and there are no admission fees.
The mainnet-ready release adds a kernel-bypass driver for Mellanox NICs and Solana 4.3 features, and renames snapshot settings - operators must re-run configure after upgrading.
The new consensus protocol targets about 150 ms finality. On the morning of 26 September the Foundation's own dashboard showed devnet finality at 322 ms, and vote transactions gone from blocks.
SIMD-0376 now specifies the cofactored equation from Taming the many EdDSAs plus explicit rejection of non-canonical encodings and small-order A and R - because ZIP-215 alone accepts the all-zero pubkey.
The proposal now states that a published analysis puts a collision below 2^128 queries, and that the colliding sets would need more accounts than a valid ledger state can contain.
Rachel Conlan becomes Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees General Manager of Payments, as the foundation points at $5 trillion of 2026 stablecoin volume.
A five-year exemption is described as letting real shares trade on permissionless chains without exchange registration. The account is advocacy; the conditions live in the order.
The leader-info syscall proposal now documents pointer validation step by step: compute units first, then an unaligned-loader guard, then a direct rejection of input-region destinations.
A proposal merged into the improvement documents repository on 16 September moves detection of instruction trace overflow earlier, so a transaction that cannot succeed is rejected before the runtime spends on it.
