{"id":42031,"date":"2025-08-13T17:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42031"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:46:41","slug":"gaming-the-system-how-solana-validators-can-boost-rewards-3-through-timing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42031","title":{"rendered":"Gaming The System: How Solana Validators Can Boost Rewards 3% Through &#8216;Timing Games&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Recent tests show that &#8220;timing games,&#8221; intentional slot delays combined with latency optimization, can raise <strong>Solana <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>) validator rewards by up to 3% annually, according to a new performance analysis by Chorus One.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChorusOne\/status\/1955615856580301252\">findings <\/a>challenge prior public remarks from Solana co-founder <strong>Anatoly Yakovenko<\/strong>, who said in May 2024 that incentives for such strategies were insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Benzinga has reached out to Solana for a comment.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that combining timing games and optimization produced a 27 basis-point uplift in annualized rewards, primarily through increased MEV extraction and higher fee capture. <\/p>\n<p>Timing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47100800\/gaming-the-system-how-solana-validators-can-boost-rewards-3-through-timing-games\" alt=\"Gaming\" the system: how solana validators can boost rewards through games>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent tests show that &#8220;timing games,&#8221; intentional slot delays combined with latency optimization, can raise Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) validator rewards by up to 3% annually, according to a new performance analysis by Chorus One. The findings challenge prior public remarks from Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, who said in May 2024 that incentives for such strategies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-42031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}