Introducing Constellation: a multiple concurrent proposers protocol for Solana. With proposers operating on a 50ms cycle, Constellation gives Solana the fastest protocol enforced economic tick rate of any blockchain.🧵

2/ Constellation replaces today’s single-leader monopoly with multiple concurrent proposers, enabling censorship resistance and in-protocol rules for predictable transaction ordering. These rules are deterministic and verifiable by every validator.

3/ Validator economics remain largely unchanged. Transactions still pay inclusion fees and priority fees, both collected at execution time. Validators still build blocks and earn fees, just without exclusive control over inclusion and ordering.

4/ These fairness guarantees are enforced by the protocol design and not dependent on trusted third parties or modified clients. SIMD will be available soon. Check out the Constellation website and read the full whitepaper:

why did you film this in oman

Extremely based

brought him all the way out to the desert and there's not even an agave plant in the background. ngmi

TLDR: very bullish for solana

No matter what you say...how I see it is @therealchaseeb wrote an article and you felt the pressure...and now we have a paper out

it gives breaking bad vibes because of the background and the fact that they’re both cooking. let’s goooooo

Lol it's gonna kill TPS, increase failed transactions, decrease validator profitability, all with the added bonus of new complexity and more compute requirements. What's not to love!

That's our CEO 👏👏👏

@bw_solana LFG @bw_solana!! Solana IS haste

@solana_devs Faster proposer cycles could change how quickly markets react onchain

(filmed at temu joshua tree)

In person podcast sometime Anza team?

is it still called "shipping" if you're in the desert? well done, keep shipping

@toly Check the logo of Anza, is it just me or is that a head of a horse? I would understand, Solana loves horses, right @toly ?

alpenglow: 150ms finality constellation: no leader can front-run or censor IKA signs. Encrypt hides. Solana can’t be gamed. this is what “settlement layer of everything” actually requires …

@solana Very nice 🙂

@inspiration_gx Big milestone for solana 🦀

After reading the whitepaper, few questions raised: | Each transaction includes the set of target proposers (as a bitmap of p bits); proposers not present in the bitmap are not allowed to include the transaction. Is this bitmap gonna be part of the MessageHeader?

shipping 🛳️

👀

Based

finally, a consensus mechanism where my tx won't get sandwiched faster than i can read the whitepaper

Lfg @bw_solana and team. Make it happen

woah, 50ms? That’s pretty wild actually.

Concurrent proposers change ordering assumptions for every Solana program. Liquidations, oracle updates, auctions all need retesting. Security tooling like Trident will need to evolve with the protocol.

@solana Setting the record then breaking their own records

Brings us one step closer to Solana being the ultimate trading engine. W.

Redefining scalability on Solana 💜

Constellation's shift to concurrent proposers isn't just a technical upgrade - it's a philosophical one. When fairness is enforced by protocol design, not trust, the ecosystem becomes more resilient. That's why we built Flipper Season 1 around verifiable action: because sustainable participation requires transparency at every layer, from consensus to engagement.

the name Constellation makes perfect sense ⚡️

IMO, it doesn't completely eliminate MEV since the proposer validator can still change the order of transactions. However, since the leader can't do that, the scale of MEV decreases drastically.

need that merch

Fastest economic ticks deserve the strongest privacy layer — Aura FHE encrypts swap intent before it ever hits the network, so speed and privacy finally coexist on Solana. 🛡️

Solana has needed this