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Field Notes

Dated observations from the reading room.

Short notes on Solana concepts, written when something in the ecosystem became clearer to us. They are dated, left in place, and followed up when a claim changes.

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12 March 2026

Reading Proof of History

What the sequence of hashes in Proof of History is actually for, and why it is not a consensus algorithm.

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4 February 2026

Vote accounts, plainly

A short, plain-language walk through what a vote account holds and why it is not the same as a wallet.

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19 January 2026

Commitment levels in practice

What processed, confirmed, and finalised mean when you read an RPC response, and which one to wait for.

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