ERPC Deploys 5th Gen EPYC and DDR5 6400MHz on VPS in Chicago, Home to the World’s Largest Solana Stake-Concentrated Data Center. Strengthening Ultra-Fast Detection and Execution at a Tier-1 HFT Infrastructure Hub

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands), together with Validators DAO, which operates ERPC, announces the deployment of the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and DDR5 6400MHz memory across its VPS servers in the Chicago region. This region hosts a single data center that has recently become the largest concentration point of Solana stake in the world.

With this upgrade, the VPS execution environment in the Chicago region is now fully aligned with ERPC’s Solana RPC (HTTP / WebSocket) and Geyser gRPC infrastructure, which already operates on the same CPU generation. Application execution, data retrieval, and streaming workloads can now be completed entirely within the same generation of compute resources and the same internal network.

What 5th Gen EPYC Means for Real-World VPS Workloads

Single-core CPU performance is always a critical factor in real Solana workloads. The 5th Gen EPYC delivers strong per-core performance as a latest-generation processor, while being purpose-built for data-center environments where concurrency, virtualization, and sustained high-load operation are the norm.

In VPS environments, performance is not determined by clock speed alone. When multiple processes and threads execute concurrently — with network, disk, and memory accessed in parallel — cache hierarchy, memory bandwidth, headroom under concurrent load, and stable behavior under virtualization dominate real performance outcomes.

The 5th Gen EPYC meets these conditions at a high level as a current-generation platform, enabling consistent performance for VPS workloads such as Solana RPC services, indexers, bots, backend systems, and monitoring pipelines.

In addition, the introduction of DDR5 6400MHz memory significantly reduces memory access latency in workloads involving frequent reads and writes, maintaining stability even under compounded load. This is not about peak benchmarks, but about preserving performance under real operating conditions.

Completing Execution, Retrieval, and Streaming Within a Single Network

In the Chicago region, ERPC provides VPS, RPC, and Geyser gRPC services within the same region and the same internal network. This allows application instances running on VPS to connect to RPC and gRPC endpoints without traversing public internet paths or inter-regional routes.

The value of this architecture goes beyond average latency reduction. Under real Solana operating conditions — including reconnections, burst traffic, and fluctuating subscription counts — this design minimizes variance caused by route changes or external congestion.

As a result, applications achieve higher follow-through accuracy and reproducibility, forming an execution environment that is not only fast, but structurally resilient.

Why Chicago Became a Core Hub for High-Frequency Trading Infrastructure

Chicago has developed as a central hub for futures and derivatives markets since the 19th century. The concentration of agricultural, interest-rate, and index futures markets created an environment where price discovery was centralized and execution speed itself became a competitive advantage.

As electronic trading became dominant, competition intensified. Proximity to exchange matching engines and the speed at which market data could be received became decisive factors, driving sustained investment in colocation facilities, dedicated circuits, and low-latency network infrastructure around exchanges.

Through this process, Chicago evolved beyond a financial city into a city structurally optimized for ultra-low-latency computation and communication.

The Structural Meaning of the Chicago–New York Lowest-Latency Race

With the rise of electronic trading, price propagation speed between Chicago’s futures markets and New York’s equity markets became a measurable and competitive metric. Differences of milliseconds — and later microseconds — directly affected trading outcomes.

To reduce latency beyond what conventional fiber networks allowed, microwave communication networks were deployed, enabling physically shorter and more direct paths. Towers were constructed along straight-line routes, and massive investments were made solely to shave microseconds off transmission time.

This Chicago–New York lowest-latency race stands as a defining example of a world where latency itself carries economic value, and it cemented Chicago’s role as a structural core of ultra-low-latency infrastructure. As a result, financial-grade data centers, carrier interconnect points, and high-speed network infrastructure accumulated in and around Chicago.

Chicago’s Geographic and Structural Advantage as a Tier-1 City

In high-frequency trading and low-latency networking contexts, cities are often discussed in terms of tiers. Chicago, Dallas, and Ashburn are regarded as Tier-1 cities due to their central positions in the United States, enabling balanced propagation to both the East and West Coasts.

By contrast, cities such as New York or Los Angeles, while massive markets, sit closer to geographic edges and can be disadvantaged when uniform nationwide propagation is required.

This property — reaching everywhere quickly without bias — directly translates into an infrastructure advantage for distributed networks like Solana, where propagation and follow-through speed materially affect outcomes.

The Difference Between City-Level and Single-Data-Center Aggregation

When validator distribution on Solana is viewed at the city level, European hubs such as Frankfurt and Amsterdam have historically ranked at the top. In these cities, validators are spread across many data centers, producing strong aggregate density at the metropolitan level.

However, when measured at the granularity of individual data centers, the picture changes. Because validators in Frankfurt and Amsterdam are distributed across multiple facilities, no single data center has historically dominated global stake concentration.

The Emergence of the World’s Largest Stake-Concentrated Data Center in Chicago

Very recently, major Solana projects simultaneously migrated their validator deployments to a specific single data center in Chicago. This coordinated shift resulted in the creation of the world’s largest Solana stake concentration at the level of a single data center.

This was not the result of gradual organic growth, but a structural change driven by deliberate consolidation by leading projects. As validators converged into one facility, that data center’s role shifted from being merely “one of many” to becoming a central point for propagation and detection.

In Solana’s architecture, higher stake concentration correlates with faster aggregation of blocks, shreds, and state updates. The fact that the world’s largest stake now resides in a single data center means that this location has become the most favorable point for fastest data detection.

Direct Connectivity to the World’s Largest Stake Hub

In response to this shift, ERPC is proceeding with Private Network Interconnect (PNI) connectivity to this stake-concentrated Chicago data center.

PNI enables direct, stable, and shortest-path connectivity without reliance on public internet routing. By directly linking ERPC’s RPC, Geyser gRPC, and VPS execution infrastructure to the world’s fastest detection point, the overall system achieves materially higher follow-through accuracy and consistency.

Immediate Readiness Based on Frankfurt and Amsterdam Experience

ERPC has already completed PNI integrations with major data centers in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. In those regions, data-center-level connectivity optimization has proven effective in maintaining high stability and follow-through for RPC and streaming workloads.

Because the same architectural principles and operational experience apply, ERPC can respond rapidly in Chicago as well. This is not a geographic expansion for its own sake, but a deliberate response to changes in stake distribution and network structure.

What Comes Next

ERPC plans to launch validator operations in the Chicago region and is also preparing to introduce ERPC-originated Chicago-based Shredstream services.

By designing detection, retrieval, execution, and distribution as a unified system centered on the world’s largest stake hub, ERPC will continue to strengthen the stability and follow-through of Solana infrastructure globally, anchored around Tier-1 strategic locations.

Pricing and Contract Timing

New pricing for ERPC’s Solana infrastructure services will take effect starting February 2026.

January 2026 serves as the final period for initiating contracts under the current open pricing model. Contracts started during this period — as well as existing contracts — will retain their current pricing for as long as they remain active.

For confirmation of current open pricing, free trials, contract initiation, and infrastructure consultation, please contact us via the Validators DAO official Discord.

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