Solfate Podcast

Solid technical explanation of Raiku's architecture (sidecar, coordination node, ahead-of-time block auctions, inclusion signals) with several non-obvious concepts, though padded with intro plugs and some repetition.

“Raiku consists of two primary components. One is the sidecar which is working at the validator level”

“with Raiku you have what you can call differentiated block space”

Fresh framing around 'differentiated block space' as validator plugins and preserving continuous block building unlike Jito; genuinely niche technical thinking rather than recycled marketing.

“So essentially what it does is that it breaks continuous block building. Um, Raiku doesn't”

“think about it as plugins, uh, for like different use cases”

Founder/CEO with real background (2015 in crypto, Hyperledger research, Ethereum through DeFi summer) building infrastructure at the validator level, though the company is early-stage testnet with much still unbuilt.

“I've been in crypto since 2015”

“I started doing mostly research work in a project called Hyperledger”

Multiple concrete numbers and comparisons (latency figures, CU reservations, block percentages, dropped-transaction rates), though many claims about incentives and pricing remain hand-waved as 'still figuring out.'

“in the context of high frequency trading up to 96% of transactions are being dropped”

“they have reserved about 5 to 6 million uh, uh, CEUs or compute units, which roughly corresponds to I think 10% of the block”

Hosts ask sharp, technically informed follow-ups - pushing on the Jito comparison and the block-hash expiration problem - and summarize to verify understanding, though they rarely challenge the unproven claims.

“How is this different from something like what Jito does with Jito bundles”

“once the transaction is signed it has a shelf life. It has an expiration time in the form of the latest block hash... So how does that work?”