Solana Summit Serbia 2026: Validators and RPC on Bare Metal

Solana Summit Serbia, organised by Superteam Balkan, brought the regional Solana ecosystem to the Sava Centar in Belgrade on 26 and 27 August 2026, and velia.net was there.

Two days on validator uptime, RPC fleet design and where the machine physically sits. When a Solana node shares its host, the neighbour's busy hour becomes your slow slot.

Networking and Innovation

A conference does what a call cannot: it puts the team with the problem and the people with the hardware at the same table. These were the conversations we went to Belgrade to have.

• Validator and RPC hardware sized for sustained load, not for a benchmark.
• What one physical machine with no other customer on it changes for consistency.
• Running nodes across Frankfurt, Strasbourg, New York, Miami, St. Louis and Singapore under one operator.
• Monthly terms and zero setup fee for teams that scale RPC fleets up and down.

Key Points of our Attendance

Our focus at Solana Summit Serbia stayed on four themes:

• The worst minute matters more than the average one.
• No hypervisor between the workload and the metal.
• No shared tenancy, so nobody else's workload sits next to yours.
• A named city on the contract, not a region in a console.

Looking ahead from Solana Summit Serbia

See where we go next on our events page. If you are there, let us grab a coffee and talk shop. You can find more updates on our LinkedIn profile.