Blockdaemon, the leading institutional staking and infrastructure platform and one of the most notable validators on Solana, is joining Raiku as a launch partner. As a launch partner, Blockdaemon's high performance nodes will support Raiku’s novel block-building architecture to bring fast, guaranteed transactions to Solana and its stakers, even in times of peak demand and high network congestion.

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Raiku makes internet capital markets as precise and dependable as physical systems, utilizing deterministic execution, guaranteed inclusion, and low-latency performance to ensure transactions go through exactly when and where they are supposed to, offering the certainty that developers and institutions demand.

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Raiku’s block building innovations create a new economic design space for validators like Blockdaemon, enabling them to offer predictable and tailored blockspace directly to builders, allowing validators to offer additional non-MEV revenue streams to their stakers. 

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This opportunity is one of the many reasons why Blockdaemon, along with five of the other most trusted validators on the network, have chosen to integrate with Raiku as launch partners in our mission to make Solana inevitable. 

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“At Blockdaemon, we’ve always focused on providing secure and scalable blockchain infrastructure for institutions. Partnering with Raiku extends that commitment by giving us the ability to offer developers guaranteed blockspace and execution certainty—capabilities that will be essential as Solana adoption continues to accelerate,” said Demo Skalkotos, Chief DeFi and Protocols Officer at Blockdameon.

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“Receiving the validation of staking leaders like Blockdaemon is just another sign of how major Solana leaders are recognizing the need for new economic models for validators and developers alike,” said Robin Nordnes, CEO and co-founder of Raiku.  “We are honored to work with Blockdaemon to advance a new paradigm centered around bringing institutional-grade certainty to internet capital markets.”

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What the Raiku-Blockdaemon partnership unlocks

By partnering with Blockdaemon, Raiku enables deterministic, reliable execution for Solana transactions. 

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Validators, users and developers are able to count on Raiku’s infrastructure and Blockdaemon’s node operation expertise to unlock significantly higher reliability in times of network congestion, increased financial incentive for stakers and the uptime and consistency Blockdaemon’s clients deserve. 

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Blockdaemon is a leading independent blockchain infrastructure platform, managing over 250,000 nodes across 60+ protocols and securing $110B in assets for over 400 clients, including major banks.

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Its unique experience working with major TradFi and DeFi institutions makes it a particularly strong fit to work with Raiku as a launch partner, allowing it to offer enterprise-grade certainty matched with the performance standards of Solana.

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Raiku uses the same validators that already secure Solana to ensure guaranteed block inclusion, offering certainty for app developers and users that their transactions will land in times of high stress. 

• Reliability that never fails under extreme pressure and scale
• Deterministic execution that guarantees outcomes for developers
• Low latency and control over compute when every millisecond matters
• Freedom for builders to design low-level application logic with unparalleled control

These breakthroughs solve a fundamental coordination problem on Solana, which was designed for high performance, yet can see as many as 75% of transactions fail during peak demand: inefficiencies that have made it unsuitable for mass adoption or institutional-grade finance to date.

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Validators integrating with the lightweight Raiku Sidecar are empowered to offer these benefits directly to developers, providing tailored blockspace for applications that demand institutional-grade precision, speed, and reliability, from high-frequency trading and gaming to AI agents, and more. 

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Join us in making Solana inevitable

When transactions are guaranteed to land at scale, Solana becomes the obvious and inevitable choice for future internet capital markets.

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About Raiku

Internet capital markets demand speed and certainty. Raiku makes Solana inevitable by unlocking high-performance block building, using Solana's core validators to ensure fast, predictable transactions with guaranteed block inclusion. 

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About Blockdaemon

Blockdaemon is the institutional gateway to Web3, securing over $110B in digital assets for 400+ institutions, including exchanges, custodians, crypto platforms, and financial enterprises. We offer institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure spanning nodes, APIs, staking, MPC wallets and vaults. Since 2017, our globally distributed infrastructure ensures unrivaled security, compliance, and scalability. For more information visit: www.blockdaemon.com

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*This announcement was co-authored with the Raiku team and was first published on X