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I am touching grass today, so Jeffrey is stepping in with the story of how transactions make it to the blockchain.

It’s admittedly a little funny that all this complex infrastructure predominantly helps degens buy memecoins. It reminds me a bit of how liquor goes through a whole long distillation process just to get diluted by cranberry juice or coke. But I digress: 

The lifecycle of a Solana transaction

Solana tends to be so fast and efficient that transactions can feel instantaneous. But there’s actually a lot more…

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