Solana, right now
How to be faster on Solana?
If you trade on Solana, you’ve said one of these.
Same strategy as the next desk — only my bot fills late.
The price prints. I send. My transaction doesn’t make it.
I’ve swapped every RPC provider — and nothing changes.
What professional tuning
You’ve tuned the code. You’ve upgraded the box. Neither is the bottleneck — you’re chasing a leader that won’t stop moving, from too far away.
Hardware and code alone won’t win the slot. You win it on timing and location.
Speed you can buy. Understanding is the edge.
See how you get there first
The moving target
The fastest place to be never sits still.
Every slot, a different validator becomes the leader and builds the block — and whoever sits closest to it wins.
Unlike camping next to one matching engine, on Solana the fastest seat is never the same one twice.
~400 ms · a new leader every slot
The fastest seat, slot by slot
The leader rotates around the world, slot by slot. Win one, and the next is already somewhere else.
Watch it move
Solana RPC・Geyser gRPC・Shredstream
Epoch —
— countries
Leader
—
Live block producer
Distance is latency
Cross a continent, and you fall 100–300 ms behind.
Light through fiber and a stack of routers sets a floor no hardware can beat. Same rack is about 0.1 ms. Across an ocean it’s 100–300 ms — and a slot only lasts about 400 ms.
So when the leader is on your doorstep you’re inside the window — and when it’s a hemisphere away, you’ve already missed it. Being fast for every slot means being near wherever the leader lands.
Round-trip floor by distance · the physics, not a benchmark
What distance costs a packet
- Same network
- 0.1 ms
- Same datacenter
- 0.3 ms
- Same city
- 1 ms
- Neighboring country
- 5–10 ms
- Cross-continent
- 100–300 ms
A continent away is hundreds of times a same-rack hop — and more than a whole slot. Proximity isn’t a tweak; it’s the budget.
Coverage — why one city isn’t enough
The most crowded city is still only about a quarter of the network.
Frankfurt is where operators pile in — yet even the busiest city holds only about a quarter of the network, by validators and by stake alike. For most slots the live leader is somewhere else.
Covering everywhere is the ideal; budgets force a choice. So the question isn’t only who is biggest, but who is least contested. Amsterdam carries comparable stake to Frankfurt with far fewer validators competing — often the quieter, better seat.
Where Solana’s validators sit
Coverage — a node already next to every leader
Wherever the leader lands, a strong, Solana-direct node is already there.
The leader role circles the globe slot by slot — so the node that wins is the one already closest to it. A node in the same region skips the long-haul hop that adds the lag.
So we don’t lean on one place. We run a standing network on three continents — validator-grade hardware right next to Solana — with a global edge layer that routes you to the nearest node. The rest stay ready for the next slot.
Global Data Center Partner
速さは、Solanaとの距離で決まる。
地域選定は重要です。ただし、都市名だけではネットワーク経路は決まりません。同じ都市でも、外部トランジットや余計なhopで遅くなることがあります。ERPCはSolanaサーバーに近いデータセンターまで選定し、外部トランジットなし、ターボブースト状態で経路を短く保ちます。
ERPCプレミアム経路
外部トランジットなし
最小RTT
都市名だけで選んだ経路
外部トランジット / 7 hops
70倍遅い
- 01同じデータセンター地域を押さえたうえで、Solanaに近いデータセンターまで選ぶ。
- 02外部トランジットなし外部ASを跨がず、RTTとジッターを抑える。
- 03出力全開省電力を排除し、ターボブースト状態を維持する。
Stake-weighted priority (SWQoS)
If your transactions keep failing, you’re stuck in the spam lane.
Solana’s leaders split priority bandwidth in two. Staked connections get about 80% of it. Everyone else fights over the other ~20%— the lane that’s packed with spam.
Firing straight at the leader feels like the fast move — but with no stake, that’s the crowded ~20% lane, and under load your transaction never makes the block.
So the real answer is a staked validator. We run a top-tier one wired into high-quality RPC lines — hardware placed right next to Solana — so your transactions get through the wide lane.
A top-tier validator in our Shinobi Performance Pool
How Solana’s leaders split priority bandwidth
Stake rides the wide ~80% lane into the validator — before any fee. No stake, you’re crammed in the ~20% spam lane.
~80 / ~20 split set by Solana’s leaders, not by us
Measured benchmark
Same-class machine. Not the same speed.
AMD Turin, 4 vCPU, Amsterdam, Ubuntu 24.04 — the same on both boxes, one major cloud and ours. The spec sheet says they’re equals. The bench says otherwise.
node_bench · same run, same region
ERPC vs a major cloud · same spec
- CPU computesysbench · 4 threads · higher is better
- 1.9× more CPU throughput
- Memory bandwidthSTREAM Triad · 4 GiB · higher is better
- 3.2× more memory bandwidth
- Disk IOPSfio · 4K randread · QD32 · higher is better
- 16.6× more disk IOPS
- Disk latency · p99fio · 4K randread · QD32 · lower is better
- 25.7× faster at the tail
events/s
MB/s
IOPS
The whole environment, at the highest grade.
ERPC tunes every layer between your strategy and the slot — RPC, streaming, validators, the bare metal underneath — and places it all next to Solana. You just trade.