Queue looked harmless. Four txs staged. Nothing dramatic.
Fogo ( @Fogo Official ) SVM pipeline ingesting clean. I checked the read/write sets twice. Three times. Graph stayed the same.
Fogo's Firedancer validator client didn't flinch. Sealevel scheduler had them lined up. No shared accounts. No compute unit spikes. No caps hit.
Blamed the RPC anyway. Reflex.
Queue just… sat. Staged.
My eyes felt dry enough to squeak when I blinked. Small detail. But it's always the small details that show up when you're waiting and you've got nothing else to blame.
4:12am. SOL-PERP. Liquidation price at 42.30.
Fogo's PoH tick rolled in the corner. I don't see 40ms. I notice it when the log cadence skips. Slot counter increments while my work stays staged. I refreshed. Again. PoH kept ticking.
Gulf Stream pre-forwarded into the next leader's buffer. Turbine propagated what cleared. My staged txs sat waiting. What's staged runs if it clears before rotation. Leader schedule rotated while mine was still sitting there.
My jaw did that tighten thing. Again.
Sealevel didn't stall. Just didn't clear. In time. Slot 18472973 closed with my four still queued. They didn't error. Just missed.
I watched one land after the Slot N boundary by a single tick. Same payload. Wrong slot. Slid forward like that was normal. I hated that. Hated that I could predict it by the second log line repeating. Like my brain's learning the miss.
Tower BFT stacked votes on what cleared. Vote lockout depth ticked up. My lockout weight? Behind. I stared at the queue. Didn't change ordering. Of course not.
I nudged execution order once. Small reshuffle. Thought maybe the leader rotation margin—no. Sometimes I think if I reshuffled earlier—no. PoH doesn't care when you think.
Fogo SVM runtime built for latency discipline, epoch handoff in 200 slots. Zone C. 1.3s finality means the cleared txs are already settling. Mine are still staged.
It cleared clean in Slot 18472975.
Queue's thin again. Three txs. Leader rotation close.
I should sleep.