[MYBW26 Learning Lab] Whitepaper Reading Club EP12: Firedancer
Solana’s speed is often treated as a finished story but the validator client underneath it is still being rebuilt. Firedancer is an independent, high-performance validator client designed to push Solana’s execution, resilience, and client diversity further. It has become one of the most important technical developments in the Solana ecosystem. But beyond the performance headlines: how does it actually work, why does a second validator client matter, and what changes if it succeeds? What we’ll cover: Firedancer
📅 30 July 2026
🕖 1.30PM - 2.30PM
📍 Level 4, Merdeka Hall, World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur
Paper / source: [DESCRIPTION COMING SOON]
Format
- Short introduction and context setting to start.
- A short walkthrough of the paper and its key ideas.
- Questions and discussion grounded in the original source.
- Moderator-led discussion with no promotions.
Session Guides:
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About Whitepaper Reading Club
We are a community of founders, researchers, and builders across Singapore, Malaysia, San Francisco, Bangkok, New York, Lagos, Taipei, and Hong Kong. We meet in person every month to read, discuss, and pressure-test the latest blockchain papers, protocols, and technical ideas.
We create detailed, easy-to-understand summaries for each paper and have held 80+ sessions since June 2023, covering Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, the Bitcoin ecosystem, and AI x Crypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit, and focused on projects with technical, product, or social innovation.
Event Website
https://luma.com/whitep-dzcl