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I survived Solana's outages. I lost $8.2k to 3.2% Tokyo→NY slippage last Tuesday. When I checked mainnet week 5 data, I understood why: Tokyo zone now grabs 38% of volume versus 22% globally, and zone endpoints show 40% higher transfers than public RPCs.

The mechanism is straightforward. Top five validators control 62% stake. They partition into zones isolated execution shards with dedicated sets. Arbitrageurs pay a "zone tax" crossing regions. HFT desks rotate pairs every 90k blocks. DeFi builders hit 500ms composability walls. At $50k/month colocation, retail validators cannot compete.

I say to this: zone endpoints holding $0.148 tell a clean story. Whales deploy where execution consistency beats raw TPS. But when 65% of volume fragments across zones, we lose atomic composability.

My take: HFTs extract edge now. Builders wait for mainnet fixes. Retail stays trapped between zones until synchronization matures.