Epics DAO Solana Validator Reaches 3rd Place Overall Globally — Score 99.93, Global Top-Tier Solana Infrastructure Supports ERPC

ERPC, operated by ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO, is pleased to announce that the Epics DAO validator, which serves as the distribution source for ERPC's SWQoS endpoints and Epic Shreds, has reached 3rd place overall globally (score 99.93) among all Solana validators. It has also recorded 3rd place in the Shinobi Performance Pool.

Achieving 3rd place globally among all validators, including large-scale validators holding millions of SOL at the superminority level. This result demonstrates that the infrastructure supporting the quality of the ERPC platform is backed by world-class performance.

Validator Address: EpicsoqLdDP8qRn3wQRKTSKAXbjK9dUgFfNPRQS77MQD
Staking Page: https://epics.dev/ja/staking/

3rd Place Overall Globally — Top 3 Among All Solana Validators

The Shinobi Performance Pool ranking is a scoring system that comprehensively evaluates a validator's actual processing performance, including vote success rate, vote latency, skip rate, and Compute Units per block.

The Epics DAO validator recorded a score of 99.93 in this scoring, reaching 3rd place globally among all Solana validators, including superminority-class large-scale validators. It continues to maintain this level of performance while holding approximately 200,000 SOL in active stake.

Shinobi Performance Pool: https://xshin.fi/#Validators

ERPC Speed Powered by the World's 3rd Ranked Validator

SWQoS — High Communication Quality Thanks to a Top Validator

Stake-weighted Quality of Service (SWQoS) is a communication priority control in Solana that allows nodes with stake connections to utilize priority lanes. ERPC's SWQoS endpoints are supported by the stake connections of the Epics DAO validator, ranked 3rd in the world.

The higher the validator's processing performance, the more the speed and stability of transaction propagation via SWQoS improve. A world-class validator directly elevates the quality of SWQoS endpoints — this structure is the foundation of ERPC's transaction delivery quality.

Epic Shreds — Solana Shredstream Delivered with Minimal Hops from the World's 3rd Ranked Validator

Epic Shreds is an upgraded Solana Shredstream delivered with minimal hops from the Epics DAO validator. In measurements conducted in the same environment, it recorded a win rate of 95.82% and a speed advantage of approximately 234ms at P99 compared to conventional Solana Shredstream.

With its source validator reaching 3rd place globally, the reception and processing speed of Shreds has increased even further. A validator's low vote latency and low skip rate mean it can quickly follow the latest block progression and process and deliver Shreds faster and more accurately.

The speed of Epic Shreds is directly tied to the performance of its source validator. The 3rd place global ranking is the clearest indicator supporting the quality of this product.

ERPC Shreds: https://erpc.global/ja/shreds/

Solana RPC — Users Actually Interact with RPC

All applications using Solana access the network via RPC. Displaying wallet balances, confirming transactions, updating DeFi positions — the speed and quality of Solana that users actually experience are determined by the performance of the RPC.

We comprehensively operate both validators and Solana RPCs. The optimization knowledge accumulated from validator operations can be directly applied to ERPC's Solana RPC nodes, and reverse feedback functions as well. The performance improvement of the validator is delivered as an improvement in the quality of the RPC that users actually touch — this cycle is our strength in operating comprehensive Solana infrastructure.

The Peak is Not at Purchase — A Platform That Keeps Getting Faster as the Validator Grows

For many infrastructure products, the time of purchase is the peak of performance, and they become relatively slower over time. ERPC has a structure that overturns this common sense.

Validator improvements are directly reflected in the quality of SWQoS endpoints, the delivery speed of Epic Shreds, and the quality of Solana RPCs. Just as the validator rose from 6th to 3rd place in the world, the quality of the entire platform is also improving daily.

3rd place in the world is just a waypoint. The next goal is the top. And even after reaching the top, continuing to run at the top — this continuous cycle of improvement keeps making the entire ERPC platform faster.

Contribution to the Entire Solana Network

Solana is a distributed computing network. Its performance is determined by the sum of the performances of individual validators.

The improvement of our validator contributes to the enhancement of the processing speed and reliability of the entire Solana network. As each validator improves its performance, the processing capability of the entire chain is elevated — our improvements are a contribution to the entire Solana ecosystem.

Giving Back to Stakers

Solana's incentive design provides rewards based on validator performance. It is structured so that validators performing fast and accurate processing can earn greater rewards.

The Epics DAO validator adopts a policy of 0% staking fee (commission) and 0% MEV fee. It is structured so that the additional rewards from performance improvements are directly returned to stakers.

Why It Is Chosen by Professionals — Infrastructure That Never Stops Daily Improvements

The reason ERPC is supported by professional users of Solana infrastructure is not simply that the network exists. It lies in the fact that we advance minute tune-ups one by one and continue making improvements every day.

Hardware generational updates, OS kernel parameter optimization, network stack tuning, IRQ affinity adjustment, disabling CPU C-states, locking governors to performance — in every layer, we accumulate daily work to push the performance ceiling higher.

After two years of research and development, we have been able to raise our performance to 3rd place worldwide. However, we are not satisfied with this result. As a global top-tier Solana provider, we aim to achieve world-leading performance and lead the industry. We will continue to provide an innovative environment where our clients are freed from infrastructure worries and can focus on their strategies and code.

Buidlers Collective — Full-Stack Connectivity for Developers Supported by Epics DAO and Validators DAO

Buidlers Collective (BDLC) is the gateway within the Epics DAO and Validators DAO ecosystems that provides open-source developers and Solana Buidlers with access to ERPC's full-stack connectivity.

BDLC GENESIS is a limited edition community NFT with only 1,000 pieces. While holding it, you can use the Bundle Standard plan worth €698 per month — full-stack connectivity to Solana RPC, Solana Geyser gRPC, and Solana Shredstream (Direct Shreds) — for free.

When the validator's quality goes up, ERPC's quality goes up. When ERPC's quality goes up, the value of the infrastructure received by BDLC holders also goes up. Reaching 3rd place globally is a catalyst that further strengthens this cycle.

Buidlers Collective NFT Marketplace (Magic Eden): https://magiceden.io/marketplace/buidlersc

SLV — Publishing R&D Results via AI Agents in Open Source

The results of our validator research and development are published in a format that anyone can reproduce through the open-source tool SLV.

SLV is an open-source tool that consistently provides the operational foundation necessary for Solana development, from launching Solana RPCs and validators to operation, backup, and migration. Its core features support MCP servers and can also be executed via AI agents.

SLV Official Website: https://slv.dev/ja
SLV GitHub: https://github.com/validatorsDAO/slv

WBSO Approval for 5 Consecutive Years

ELSOUL LABO has received approval under the Dutch government's R&D support scheme WBSO for five consecutive years since 2022. Our continuous research and development regarding Solana RPC infrastructure, validator deployment and operational orchestration, and automation toolchains has been highly evaluated, and from this accumulation, the initiatives of Epics DAO, Validators DAO, and ERPC have been born.

Reaching 3rd place in the world demonstrates that the results of our two years of research and development are bearing fruit as tangible performance metrics. The results of R&D are cumulative, and the angle of improvement grows larger over time.

The Next-Generation Choice — AS200261 Solana-Dedicated Data Center

ELSOUL LABO has been assigned its own ASN (AS200261) by RIPE NCC and is advancing the opening of a new, top-tier data center specialized for Solana. Featuring a unified hardware configuration utilizing the latest 5th generation AMD EPYC, 5th generation AMD Threadripper PRO (such as the 9975WX), and 5th generation NVMe, along with optimal network routing design through our own ASN, it provides the highest quality infrastructure that surpasses existing premium data centers.

Scheduled to open next month, it will serve as the foundation for further acceleration of both our validators and infrastructure. The initial lot is sold out by reservation, but we will notify customers from the next shipment onward in the order of the waitlist.

Gratitude to Everyone

The reason we have been able to continue improving to this point is entirely thanks to your support and cooperation. The practical operational feedback we receive from our users has elevated the prioritization of improvements and the precision of our verifications.

As a global top-tier Solana provider, we will continue to prepare an environment befitting your high-performance application development and operations. We will continue to grow and improve toward providing an innovative environment where you can concentrate on your strategies and code.

Thank you as always.

Links

- Epics DAO Official Website: https://epics.dev/ja
- Epics DAO Staking: https://epics.dev/ja/staking/
- Buidlers Collective NFT (Magic Eden): https://magiceden.io/marketplace/buidlersc
- SLV Official Website: https://slv.dev/ja
- ERPC Official Website: https://erpc.global/ja
- Validators DAO Official Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR

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