This past week there was a discussion between Austin Federa and Anatoly about upcoming changes to Solana. Featured were QUIC, User specified fee priority, increased fees on writable accounts, and stake weighted connections. You can check out the discussion here.
Ordering transactions by fees spent has been a controversial topic recently. This proposal outlines how the transactions are ordered, namely:
The scheduler will happen after the sigverify stage but before the banking stage.
You can now directly link instructions on the explorer to help debug transactions!
Compute units are defaulted each to 200k per instruction unless a compute budget increase instruction exists on the transaction. Compute budget increase instruction must be one of the first three instructions in order to work successfully.
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