SINKER BLOG

Engineering Notes

Deep dives into how Sinker is built — Solana infrastructure, Rust internals, and the decisions behind the smart transaction stack.

vigilrustsolanainfrastructure~7 min · June 2026

I built a Solana slot streaming crate from scratch — here's why

How vigil streams first-shred events over plain WebSocket, resolves leader identity locally with a ChaCha20 schedule, and detects Jito validators — with no gRPC subscription required.

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