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Switchboard’s new “Surge” oracle network goes live on mainnet today.

As Solana continues to reckon with competition from high-speed upstarts like Hyperliquid, one of the network’s biggest price oracles is getting much faster. The oracle will be free to integrate, and is claimed by the Switchboard team to be the fastest on Solana yet. 

How fast? Surge promises to deliver price feeds at a sub-100ms latency — a performance gain of about 8x faster and at roughly 1/100th the cost of existing oracle providers, according to the team’s press release.

That latency falls even lower to…

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