
Building weird shit on Solana 🔥 Founder @Ferno_ag · building @FireStrategy & @blockzilla_sol DeFi, data, security & way too much Solana history
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Breakpoint incoming 🔥
After my time at Triton ended, I took a step back.
I had three side projects and one rule: pick one, focus, ship it.
I failed the focus part. I built all three.
Turns out they needed each other. Together they became @firestratxyz, live on Solana now 🧵
It took us a year to build this.
It takes you one click to use it.
We built our first model with one job: beat every yield on the internet.
Now on Solana Mainnet
Watch 👇 firestrat.xyz 🧵
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Happy to be in the Hacker House and think about @Blockzilla_sol with @block_ach 🔥
Let’s fix the history of Solana.
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Direct mapping will come to mainnet soon. Make sure to test all you programs with the feature virtual_address_space_adjustments enabled. Either locally or against devnet. Some programs still have some divergence.
solana.com/upgrades/direct-m…
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This looks oddly familiar 👀 great minds think alike
Still prefer it fully on-chain with no human in the loop
• 0 KYC, open to any Solana wallet
• no lock-up, exit when you want
We need a way to pool stake and resources so indie validators can merge instead of shutting down.
Selling a validator business is nearly impossible. Selling private keys makes no sense, and merging multiple teams under one validator identity is tricky.
Maybe a challenge for @sanctumso ? 👀
I’ve seen a massive amount of friend’s Solana validators shut down over the years
Every time I told myself: it’s all about being patient
After 2 years of running a validator, which was barely making it (taking all the costs into account with bear market prices) and running perfect ops around it
I finally got this @jito stake and was starting to see a future with Alpenglow where the validator was going to start making money
But one random day just before breakpoint
The SFDP changed the rules of who gets stake
Craziest part is that I understand and agree on the change
SFDP was keeping a big chunk of validators alive, in a blockchain that prides itself at not being a communist chain AND doesn’t need to motivate people to run validators to compete with Ethereum numbers
Solana is going to 200 validators, operated by financial firms and large companies
We are drifting further and further away from our 2021 NFT and DAO ideals 😅
But I guess each dev profile has a role to play at different moment of a chain’s lifetime
I will never forget the Serum fork when FTX crashed (and my Wired article lmao), helping all the companies in 2022 and 2023 stay afloat, winning Colosseum with Tokamai, all the people I met through solana’s amazing events in 2022/2023/2024/2025
My only worry is that the big validators of the top 30 did show a massive inability to keep their operations going when a few months back we almost had a network halt
Not my problem anymore I guess, tho
@solana, of course I still love you
(I hope many people will take this post as a bear market bottom signal)
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that is why @YieldCompass matters btw.
Ach | Ferno 🔥 retweeted
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST STOP FOR THE UNOFFICIAL OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY
THE GREAT BRITISH PUB CRAWL
STOP 1: THE HANDS & FLOWER
PINTS POWERED BY @ikadotxyz & @RockawayX 🍺
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Looking for anyone who runs an RPC that can hook me up with a couple hours of 500r/s on Devnet - I have some heavy testing I want to do, but dont want to shell out for it just yet.
Upgraded this morning, absolutely seamless. Best UX as always!
Just missing a card to become my daily wallet. Already feels so much safer and cleaner.
Loved Jup Mobile at first, but all the new features, especially memecoin trading, made it way too cluttered.
Every Sanctum wallet is now a 2-of-3 multisig ☁️
A lost key no longer locks you out, and a leaked key is no longer enough to drain you.
Why this matters 🧵
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Nice opportunity at ~40%+ APY.
Wonder how long it’ll last a few hours? A few days? 👀
I should probably release our multiply script to the public.
Introducing the PT-ONyc USDG Market on Kamino.
Curated by @SteakhouseFi, the market enables users to borrow USDG against @ExponentFinance’s PT-ONyc, unlocking liquidity against fixed-maturity positions tied to @onrefinance’s reinsurance yield.
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New DeFi primitives to play with 👀
Tokenized long and short positions!
Introducing Ocelot.
Liquidation-resistant leveraged tokens for any asset.
Long, short, equities, commodities, and crypto. Trade ETH2S, NVDA3L, OIL2S, & 21 more assets.
Our beta is open with capped markets, and audits are underway. Start trading today and share your referral code.
Built on @solana and powered by @phoenixtrade.
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Ach | Ferno 🔥 retweeted
Introducing Ocelot.
Liquidation-resistant leveraged tokens for any asset.
Long, short, equities, commodities, and crypto. Trade ETH2S, NVDA3L, OIL2S, & 21 more assets.
Our beta is open with capped markets, and audits are underway. Start trading today and share your referral code.
Built on @solana and powered by @phoenixtrade.
Ach | Ferno 🔥 retweeted
Replying to @DefiLlama
Only 4? 👀 We cover 400+ positions across 48 Solana protocols. And it’s free.
Do you have an on-chain oracle or data stream? Would much rather use yours 🤝
firestrat.xyz/yields?filter=…
In London for the whole month! 🇬🇧🔥
Hacker House, Breakpoint, and hopefully meeting lots of Solana builders and degens!
🔥 @FireStrategy : bringing the best stablecoin yields to BTC, stocks, and more.
🦖 @Blockzilla_sol : a new database for the Solana ledger, storing every block from genesis in under 90 TB.
Curious about either? Let's chat!
This one was harder to pull off than expected, but I'm happy we got it done.
And you guys aren't ready for what's coming next on the roadmap. 🔥
Ach | Ferno 🔥 retweeted
Axiom's $55.7M "Validator Bribe" Rip-Off on @solana.
@AxiomExchange is deliberately extracting millions from its traders through misleading transaction fees.
I stumbled upon this piece of data while exploring our database, here's our analysis 👇
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2,4 M€ + 4 % de commission.
C'est le contrat de l'homme chargé de convaincre l'Élysée qu'une société americaine n'était pas un cheval de Troie.
Ce n'est pas moi qui le dis.
C'est écrit noir sur blanc dans une plainte déposée à New York le 22 juillet.
Exaion, c'était la "pépite" d'EDF.
Donc de l'État et in fine des contribuables.
En février, MARA, géant américain du minage de Bitcoin, en prend 64 %.
Deux semaines plus tard, il remercie l'homme recruté pour faire passer le rachat.
Une commission jamais versée, selon lui. Alors il attaque.
Et dans sa plainte, on trouve le PDG de MARA qui salue « la conquête de la Gaule ».
Le même qui écrit, 13 jours avant de boucler le rachat, qu'il est peut-être temps de
« plier la tente ».
Dans la vidéo, je reprends tout, pièces à l'appui :
– la clause imposée à EDF, retirée le jour même du rachat
– le rôle de Gérard Mestrallet, ex-patron d'Engie
– ce que la plainte raconte sur un ancien président de la République
– ce qui est prouvé, et ce qui ne l'est pas
– les 3 réponses que l'État nous doit.
MARA parle d'allégations fabriquées.
Les documents sont dans la vidéo.
À chacun de juger.
Elle est juste en dessous. (ou sur ma chaine youtube directement)


























