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@armaniferrante Solana is on a whole different level

@armaniferrante yes

@armaniferrante Forget general purpose, go all‑in on finance use cases

@armaniferrante 50 microseconds gets you a matching engine, not a global financial system

@armaniferrante Please don’t dump on my bags, Backpack is very good and hyperliquid is very good, let’s just enjoy this for a bit And yes my backpack bag >>>>> hype pouch, but please don’t dump on that pouch Thank you for your attention to this matter

@armaniferrante finance needs distribution too

@armaniferrante hl does not have half of the things I mentioned and i didn't even mention hl at all. in this tweet, in this proposal, anywhere.

@armaniferrante Those block times change everything for traders.

@armaniferrante microsecond latency is a pipe dream

@armaniferrante 50 microseconds wins the colocation demo, not a globally distributed financial system

@armaniferrante If 50 microsecond blocktimes are the real need, then a single data center setup is the only way to get there thats not a blockchain anymore, thats a trading venue with extra steps

@armaniferrante so the real ask isnt general purpose speed its a colocated exchange with a chain attached

@armaniferrante cmon bro don’t do that it’s racism

@armaniferrante colocating in one data center kills the whole point though. finance wants speed, everyone else wants decentralization, hard to serve both

@armaniferrante Totally agree, if high-frequency trading is the goal, decentralization trade-offs don't make sense and true low latency requires dedicated, colocated infrastructure.

@armaniferrante The problem is they are toast if they do not FOMO Hyperliquid. It is a lose-lose situation for solana.

@armaniferrante I would love your perspective on this: @fogo offers 40ms on SVM with DFBA(dual flow batch action) so what's something missing from it that it can't complete with Solana?

@armaniferrante Centralizing in a single data center yields sub-millisecond latency but destroys censorship resistance. Building high-performance DEXs requires optimizing state machine execution and deterministic clearing engines, not abandoning decentralized consensus to recreate AWS.

@armaniferrante I didn't see Hyperliquid on the quoted tweet or pertaining to it?

@armaniferrante sol is the legend so far

@armaniferrante Incidentally, exactly something @blinktrade is building afaik

@armaniferrante Hyperliquid

@armaniferrante 50 microsecond blocktimes sounds like a single data center tradeoff that kind of speed usually means giving up the distributed part

@armaniferrante 50 microsecond blocktimes only work if the whole system is colocated At that point you've traded decentralization for a single point of failure

@armaniferrante you’re preaching to the choir solana’s the venue, not the game

@armaniferrante Stop FOMOing Hyperliquid. Prepare FOMOing Backpack

@armaniferrante Yes pls. Global distribution isnt required for censorship resistance. You just need to be willing to move.

@armaniferrante The thing is, this SIMD doesn't actually make the network faster, it simply brings about a mechanical reduction in on-chain transactions via fees.

@armaniferrante fogo spotted

@armaniferrante A surprisingly refreshing take - now talk about your own thing, is BP going to house all of finance?

@armaniferrante Wen like Nasdaq <1 ms? Askin for hft quant frens

@armaniferrante whats the point of a blockchain at all if you're essentially going to run as an AWS server

@armaniferrante For finance, chasing the lowest possible latency probably matters more than trying to make the chain do everything.

@armaniferrante Totally agree! Latency is key; optimizing block times can make a huge difference.