Solana Historical State Verification Tool
Context
The Solana ecosystem currently lacks a comprehensive tool for verifying historical state transitions. As we’ve evolved from the Anza Google Bucket instance to more diverse and efficient archival solutions, there’s a growing need for end users to verify the accuracy of data received from various archive providers. While the existing solana-ledger-tool can reproduce transaction execution results, it doesn’t account for historical file formats, previous SVM versions, or past feature sets, leading to potential inaccuracies when verifying older data.
Please see the following RFP that outlines a request to create an open-source historical state verification tool for Solana. The Solana Foundation has proposed a set of solutions, but the specific implementation details will be finalized during grant negotiation between the grantee and the Solana Foundation.
Logistics
Take note of the application deadline (11/15/2024). The maximum grant amount is currently earmarked at $275k in USD-equivalent locked SOL. The final grantee will work with the Solana Foundation to decide on the final terms of the agreement, including negotiation of rigorous but attainable milestones.
Ground Rules
This thread can be used for comments, questions, praise, and/or criticism, and is intended to be an open forum for any prospective responders. This thread is also an experiment in increasing the transparency through which RFPs are fielded by the Solana ecosystem, so please be mindful that we’re all here to learn and grow.
Responses to this RFP are not required to be public (but recommended), but if it is helpful to share notes or combine forces, then please use this thread for such purposes.