2026-02-08

Weekly open source: chiefstaker — time-weighted Solana staking

Week of February 2–8. 49 commits total — the quietest real working week in a while.

chiefstaker, seeded

chiefstaker — a new Solana program, created on the 8th. It lets anyone create a pool to stake Token 2022 tokens and receive time-weighted SOL rewards. Staking weight grows over time along an exponential curve — weight = stake_amount × (1 − e^(−age / tau)) — so the longer a position sits, the more of the reward it earns, with tau configurable per pool. Pool creation is permissionless; creators pick their own parameters.

Only 6 commits this week, but the program structure is there; the push comes next.

cterm

37 commits on cterm — the steady-state rate you'd expect from a three-week-old project that's been taking 70–120 commits per week. Rounding off edges more than building new subsystems.

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