Solana Accelerationism

One chain. One state. The speed of light.

This summer Solana cut its block time from 400 milliseconds to 250. The creed behind that is four letters long: IBRL. Increase bandwidth, reduce latency, stop when physics says so. s/acc is the name for the people who mean it.

Read the creedOpen the hubTake your slot

The strip above shows live Solana mainnet values: current slot, measured block time, transactions per second, time to finality and epoch progress.

01 Live from mainnet

400 became 250. In four weeks.

For six years Solana's block-time target was 400 milliseconds. On August 21 it dropped to 350, a week later to 300, and on September 18 to 250. The next target is 200. Every number below is read from mainnet while you look at it.

  1. 4002020–2026
  2. 350Aug 21
  3. 300Aug 28
  4. 250Sep 18

Block time target in milliseconds. Dates are when each cut took effect on mainnet, one epoch after its feature gate activated. Read from the gate accounts on mainnet; background: Solana Foundation, September 28, 2026. The four gates have on-chain addresses that begin with iBRL. The creed is written into the chain; watch the next one.

transactions since genesis. It has not stopped while you read this.

Block time

—ms

— blocks every second, measured over the last three minutes

True TPS

—

user transactions per second. — counting validator votes

Finality

—s

— slots deep. Light has circled the Earth — times by then

Validators

—

—M SOL staked, —% of supply. Running v—

Epoch ——%next epoch in —

An epoch is 432,000 slots. At today's block time that is —. More instruments in the hub.

02 The Yakovenko scale

Kardashev measured civilizations by energy. We measure markets by latency.

Literally the goal of Solana is to carry transactions as fast as news travels around the world — so speed of light through fiber.
Anatoly Yakovenko, 2021. Source. Said about Solana, years before this coin existed.

Light circles the Earth in 133.7 milliseconds. Call that one lap. A market is as advanced as the number of laps it makes you wait before a trade is final. Press the button and wait with it.

0 laps of light0.00 s
Solana, after Alpenglowapproved by validators, not yet live
Solana, right nowmeasured live on this page
Ethereumtwo epochs, 12.8 minutes
Bitcoinsix confirmations, about an hour
Wall StreetT+1 settlement, one business day

Bars are drawn on a square-root scale so the slow lanes move at all. The countdowns are exact.

  1. Type 0DaysBanks, brokers, T+1
  2. Type IAn hourBitcoin
  3. Type IIMinutesEthereum
  4. Type IIISecondsSolana today
  5. Type IVOne lap of lightSolana after Alpenglow

The name is ours. Kardashev never met a blockchain and Yakovenko never asked for a scale.

03 The creed

Solana was designed around eight innovations. This is built on eight tenets.

I

Latency is the last tax.

Every second you wait, someone faster gets paid. We stopped paying.

II

Increase bandwidth. Reduce latency.

IBRL. Four letters, the whole plan. Everything else is commentary.

III

One chain. One state.

A market split across ten chains is ten small markets. It settles in one place or it does not settle.

IV

The floor is physics.

Light needs 133.7 milliseconds to circle the planet. We stop accelerating when it does.

V

The trenches are the test.

Every memecoin is a load test. The degens paid for the bandwidth and broke it in for everyone else.

VI

Chew glass.

The hard thing, shipped. Then the next hard thing.

VII

It died at eight dollars.

Then it came back. A chain that walked out of its own funeral does not flinch at a red candle.

VIII

No followers. Only leaders.

Every leader gets four slots, then the next one steps up. Same here.

Why this is a cult, and what kind.

04 Receipts

The acceleration so far.

  1. A clock before consensus

    Anatoly Yakovenko publishes Proof of History: a way for a network to agree on time without talking about it.

  2. Mainnet

    March 16. The target is a block every 400 milliseconds. It stays there for six years.

  3. A dog on Christmas

    BONK is airdropped on December 25, four days before the bottom.

  4. Eight dollars

    FTX is gone and SOL touches $8.00 on December 29. The obituaries are already written.

  5. The last outage

    February 6, five hours. Nothing since. — days and counting.

  6. First light

    Validators approve Alpenglow with 98% of the vote: finality in about 150 milliseconds, one lap of light. It is not live yet.

  7. Fire

    Firedancer, a second client written from scratch by Jump, is announced live on mainnet in December. Its first general release follows in August 2026.

  8. Bigger blocks

    Block capacity reaches 250 million compute units a second, about twice what it was in early 2025.

  9. 29% of the stake goes dark

    A routing fault takes it offline for half an hour. Blocks keep coming.

  10. 400, 350, 300, 250

    Three cuts to the block time in four weeks, with no downtime. Right now: — ms.

  11. 200, and the dawn

    A Solana Foundation review calls the 200 millisecond question "increasingly philosophical and economic, rather than purely technical." Alpenglow reached testnet on September 24.

Every line is sourced in the roadmap document and tracked in the hub.

05 The hub

Everything the chain is. Everything it is becoming.

A control room for people who want the machine itself: which clients hold the stake, which release the network is on, which upgrades are live and which are waiting on a feature gate, and what shipped this week.

LiveNetwork

Block time, throughput, finality and the epoch clock, with the client mix by stake and release adoption.

 LiveGate watch

Alpenglow and the 200 ms cut, checked against mainnet every few minutes.

 41 componentsThe stack

What the chain runs on, piece by piece, each with its status and source.

 4 documentsResearch

Where Solana came from, how it works today, and what changes next.

06 The mechanism

They started a think tank. We lock the fees until 2100.

The fees from e/acc are pledged to a new institute that studies acceleration. Ours go back into the thing being accelerated. When an epoch's fees reach one SOL they are split in half. One half is staked to an independent Firedancer validator under a lockup that runs to January 1, 2100: nobody can withdraw it before then, us included. The other half buys s/acc and burns it.

  1. 1

    Trade

    Every trade of s/acc pays a creator fee. The rate is pump.fun's schedule; we cannot change it.

  2. 2

    Offering

    Once per epoch, when the fees reach one SOL, they are split in half. The chain keeps the schedule.

  3. 3

    Stake and burn

    Half is staked to an independent Firedancer validator and locked until 2100. The other half buys s/acc and burns it.

  4. 4

    Validator

    The aim, never a promise: if the stake grows large enough, it gets a validator of its own.

Locked until 21000.00 SOL
Offerings0
Next offering—
EpochStakedStake accountProof
No offerings yet. The first one lands at the end of the first epoch in which the fees reach one SOL, and every one after it is listed here with its transaction.

What is not on chain is not claimed. Every offering links to its transaction and its stake account, which anyone can check without asking us. Holders have no claim on the stake or its rewards. Whoever holds the staker key chooses the validator, and that address is published with the first offering.

07 Take your slot

No followers. Only leaders.

On Solana no leader holds the chain for long: four slots, then the next one steps up. Take yours. The slot the chain is on when you press the button is yours for good, stamped on a card you can post.

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Reading the chain. Try again in a second.

08 The coin

Not launched. When it is, the address is here first.

Other coins have already borrowed this name. None of them is this. The contract address will be published on this page and nowhere before it.

Name
Solana Accelerationism
Ticker
s/acc
Chain
Solana
Supply
1,000,000,000
Venue
pump.fun
Transfer tax
None