SLV Now Supports the Allnodes Solana Validator Client

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO are pleased to announce that SLV, the open-source Solana development tool, now supports Allnodes' Jito-Solana–based client (allnodes-jito).

With this update, Solana validator operators who have preferred Allnodes' optimized client can now keep using that allnodes-jito client while carrying out the main flows — deployment, daily operation, and no-downtime migration — using either natural language conversations with an AI agent or direct CLI operation. There is no need to give up your favorite client to switch operational foundations. You can have both: the optimized client you have chosen, and the labor-saving operation that AI agents provide.

SLV Official Site: https://slv.dev/en SLV GitHub: https://github.com/validatorsDAO/slv

What Is the allnodes-jito Client — Jito-Solana–Based, Open Source With Vote Improvements and PoH / SHA-256 Optimization

Allnodes provides optimized open-source clients for Solana validators. There is a Jito-Solana–based one and a Firedancer-based one; what SLV supports with this update is the Jito-Solana–based allnodes-jito client.

The allnodes-jito client incorporates a set of optimizations to deliver high-performance, high-quality validation — including Vote logic improvements and optimization of the SHA-256 computation that underpins Solana's Proof of History (PoH). Built on the MEV-enabled Jito-Solana with further optimizations layered on top, it has a strong track record in production. Allnodes' validators are known for a low rate of missed slots and are counted among the highest-performing validators on Solana, and many performance-focused operators have chosen this optimized client. allnodes-jito delivers that proven, high-performance validation.

The environments where the allnodes-jito client can be run are limited. In addition to Allnodes' own data centers, ELSOUL LABO has also prepared an environment where the client can be used, in the Solana-dedicated data center it operates under its own ASN (AS200261), granted by RIPE NCC.

Allnodes Solana Clients: https://www.allnodes.com/hosting/solana-clients

The Previous Pain Point — A Choice Between "Your Chosen Client" and "SLV"

Until now, operators who preferred Allnodes' allnodes-jito client faced a wall when considering a move to SLV. SLV had supported the major validator clients — Agave, Jito, and Firedancer — but not the custom clients that layer their own optimizations on top of them. As a result, even operators drawn to SLV's AI agent operation had to give up the allnodes-jito client they were used to in order to migrate.

Performance, or operational efficiency — operators had to choose between the client they had selected and conversational operation with an AI agent. In fact, voices such as "I want to migrate to SLV, but I can't because it doesn't support allnodes-jito" had reached the Validators DAO official Discord. The very client chosen to achieve high performance ended up narrowing the choice of operational foundation. This was a dilemma that the more performance-focused an operator was, the more likely they were to face.

How SLV Solves It — You Don't Have to Give Up Either

With this update, that either-or choice is resolved. SLV now supports allnodes-jito as a validator client type. When selecting a validator type in slv v init, you can now choose allnodes-jito alongside Agave, Jito, and the Firedancer variants.

SLV — validator type selection now supporting allnodes-jito

Once you choose allnodes-jito, everything else — deployment, operation, and migration — can be carried out through conversations with the AI agent, just like the other clients SLV supports. Launch the AI Console and say something like "Build this validator with allnodes-jito," and the AI agent will select and execute the necessary steps. Corresponding commands are also provided for CLI-oriented users, fully supporting workflows that do not involve AI agents.

Keep using the client you are accustomed to, and move onto SLV's operational foundation. Performance and labor-saving operation are no longer an either-or choice.

Born From Collaboration With Allnodes

This allnodes-jito support was born from both SLV user feedback and the cooperation of Allnodes.

The Validators DAO official Discord receives daily feedback from SLV users, and requests to support the Allnodes client were among them. In addition, Allnodes reached out to us, and this support was realized through collaboration between both parties.

The voices of operators running validators in production, combined with the cooperation of Allnodes, who develops and provides the client. Together, these two opened the path for operators using allnodes-jito to migrate to SLV's AI agent operation while staying with the client they know and trust.

Eliminating Reinvention of the Wheel — SLV AI Resolves Duplicated Work Across Solana Projects

In the Solana ecosystem, many projects spend time on the shared work of operating validators and nodes, separate from developing their actual product. Building, deploying, monitoring, updating, and migrating clients — for every project, these are similar repetitions of the same tasks, a kind of reinvention of the wheel and duplicated effort.

SLV aims to resolve this duplicated work together with SLV AI. The allnodes-jito support is one part of that effort. By consolidating the operational know-how and manual tasks each project has built up individually into SLV skills for the AI agent, anyone can reproduce them at the same quality, through conversation alone.

SLV will continue to resolve, one by one, the operational burdens common across Solana projects, together with SLV AI. SLV's role is to create an environment where each project can focus on the essential development of its own product.

Lower Operating Costs, Even With the allnodes-jito Client

Customers using Allnodes' allnodes-jito client can now also lower their operating costs by using SLV.

Validator operation involves continuous work: building and deploying the client, monitoring uptime, restarting after incidents, and no-downtime migration. Doing all of this by hand requires people skilled in Linux and Solana operation, and that human cost is by no means small.

With SLV, much of this work can be delegated to the AI agent. By placing allnodes-jito operation on top of SLV's AI agent operational foundation, the complex manual work is structurally reduced. Use a high-performance client, while keeping its operating cost down — SLV makes it possible to have both performance and low operating cost.

Multi-Client SLV — Operate Any Configuration Through the Same Conversation

SLV is designed as an operational foundation that is not tied to any single client. Agave, Jito, the Firedancer variants, and now allnodes-jito added with this update — SLV can handle multiple validator clients through the same interface.

Whichever client you choose, the operations for deployment, operation, and no-downtime migration are carried out through the same conversation with the AI agent, or the same CLI. There is no need to relearn different procedures for each client. Change your configuration, and the operational experience stays the same — this multi-client support is precisely the foundation that lets operators freely choose the client they want.

Just like DoubleZero support and the SHA-256 optimization patch (the kagren patch), allnodes-jito support is one more effort to bring technologies used in production into SLV, in a form anyone can use through conversation alone. The more technologies SLV supports, the easier it becomes for operators to have both "the technology they want to use" and "easy operation."

Both CLI and AI Agent — Stability Underpins Both

SLV operates stably not only as an AI agent but also as a CLI. For users who prefer not to rely on AI agents, or who want to integrate SLV into scripted automation flows, SLV remains a practical operational foundation.

This CLI-level stability is precisely what underpins the reliability of AI agent operation. Every SLV feature is MCP (Model Context Protocol) compatible, and the AI agent invokes the same interfaces through MCP that the CLI does. When the CLI is stable, the AI agent is stable — this design principle guarantees the reliability of SLV's AI agent operation. allnodes-jito support, too, can be handled the same way from both the CLI and the AI agent, on the same MCP foundation.

An Operational Foundation That Backs a Commitment to Performance — Epics DAO Validator Ranked World #3

The Epics DAO validator, operated as the source of ERPC's SWQoS endpoint and Epic Shreds, has reached world rank #3 (score 99.93) in the Shinobi Performance Pool among all Solana validators, with vote-related scores exceeding 99%.

This result is the cumulative outcome of multiple improvements: hardware selection, kernel parameter optimization, network stack tuning, IRQ affinity adjustment, and the adoption of DoubleZero. With the same commitment that leads performance-focused operators to choose an optimized client like Allnodes', ELSOUL LABO has built up world-class validator operation. SLV consolidates that operational know-how into the AI agent and delivers it in a form anyone can reproduce at the same quality.

AS200261 — One of the Limited Environments Where the allnodes-jito Client Is Supported

The environments where the allnodes-jito client can be used are limited. One of those supported environments is ELSOUL LABO's AS200261 Solana-dedicated data center.

ELSOUL LABO has received approval under the Dutch government's R&D support program WBSO for five consecutive years since 2022, and as the culmination of that research and development, operates a Solana-dedicated data center under its own ASN (AS200261), granted by RIPE NCC. With a hardware configuration standardized on the latest-generation AMD EPYC (5th gen), AMD Threadripper PRO (5th gen, such as the 9975WX), and 5th-generation NVMe, plus optimized network path design enabled by its own ASN, it is high-quality, Solana-specific infrastructure.

In this AS200261 data center, you can use the performance of the allnodes-jito client together with SLV's AI agent operation. An optimized client, high-quality Solana-specific infrastructure, and labor-saving operation through an AI agent — everything performance-focused operators want, brought together in a single place.

In Combination With the ERPC Platform

SLV's allnodes-jito support works in any environment where the allnodes-jito client is available. ELSOUL LABO's AS200261 data center is part of the ERPC platform, and there you can use all three together: the allnodes-jito client, SLV's operation automation, and the integration of the ERPC platform.

ERPC suppresses distance-induced latency at the design stage by placing source validators, receiving endpoints, and processing nodes inside premium data centers where Solana validators are densely concentrated. Solana RPC, WebSocket, Solana Geyser gRPC, Solana Shredstream, Direct UDP Stream (Raw Shreds), VPS, bare metal servers, SWQoS, the Pyth-compatible Price API, and Jet Analytics & Indexed RPC can all be combined on the same platform. Operating the allnodes-jito environment built with SLV on the ERPC platform lets you make the most of both the performance of the optimized client and ERPC's design-level speed, in the same environment.

ERPC Official Site: https://erpc.global/en

Supporting a Broader Range of Solana Validators and Projects

As the range of clients SLV supports expands, and with the collaboration with Allnodes added, SLV can now support an even broader range of Solana validators and Solana projects than before.

Whichever client you have chosen, and whatever configuration you operate, as SLV continues to broaden its support, more operators can benefit from labor-saving operation through AI agents. There is no need to give up the client you have chosen — you can move onto SLV's operational foundation while making full use of the operation you have built up so far.

Beyond the major clients — Agave, Jito, and Firedancer — SLV will continue to broaden its support to high-quality custom clients such as Allnodes', creating an environment where more projects in the Solana ecosystem can focus on essential development.

Get Started Now With SLV AI Tokens

SLV's AI agent runs on SLV AI tokens. To celebrate this release, we are distributing 100,000 tokens for free with a €5 authorization. This is enough volume to experience building and operating the allnodes-jito client through conversations with the AI agent.

ERPC SLV AI Plans: https://erpc.global/en/price/

Connections via ChatGPT and Claude API tokens are also supported, so you can run SLV AI with your own API keys.

Your Feedback Shapes SLV

SLV evolves every day through your feedback. allnodes-jito support, too, was born from the voices shared in the Validators DAO official Discord and the cooperation of Allnodes. Please try it out and share your thoughts and requests with us in the Validators DAO official Discord.

Thank you, as always. We appreciate your continued support of SLV and ERPC.

Contact

For inquiries about SLV and ERPC, please open a support ticket in the Validators DAO official Discord.

Validators DAO Official Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR

SLV Now Supports the Allnodes Solana Validator Client — Keep Using allnodes-jito While Streamlining Deployment, Operation, and Migration With AI Agents