Raiku: Equip Solana with a "Deterministic Engine" so that transactions never fail again.

Original Title: Raiku: A New Infrastructure on Solana to Prevent Trading Failures

Original author: kkmoat

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Reprint: Daisy, Mars Finance

Brief description

According to the official documentation, Raiku is an enterprise-grade certainty for the Solana infrastructure, enabling businesses to build and operate on-chain with unprecedented speed, higher reliability, and greater efficiency.

At present, in the world of cryptocurrency, speed and stability are often like a choice between a fish and a bear's paw — either pursue speed or sacrifice stability.

Solana is known for its ultra-high throughput and low transaction fees, but as the ecosystem continues to thrive, the network may still experience issues such as transaction congestion, failures, or execution delays during peak times. This is undoubtedly a hindrance for applications that require high certainty and low latency, such as DeFi, NFTs, and quantitative trading.

The emergence of Raiku is precisely to address this pain point.

1. What is Raiku?

<1.1> What is Raiku?

Raiku is a high-performance infrastructure layer built on the Solana network, focusing on providing “Enterprise-Grade Certainty” for transactions.

In simple terms, it allows transactions to be “timely on-chain and executed stably,” no longer slowed down by network congestion or performance fluctuations, ensuring that your transactions on Solana “no longer fail” and can operate in a more controllable manner.

If Solana is a highway, then Raiku is the intelligent traffic control layer that gives this highway lane reservation and precise scheduling systems.

<1.2> Raiku Basic Information:

Raiku is a coordination layer that enhances Solana's core by enabling seamless collaboration between applications, operators, and L1. This will improve the overall network's performance, higher reliability, and scalable throughput.

By decoupling the block construction process, Raiku empowers block builders to focus on specific areas and provide differentiated features, thereby creating new validator revenue opportunities and delivering a richer application experience. At the same time, the transparent transaction ordering mechanism enhances fairness and coordinates the incentive mechanisms across the entire network.

Raiku has secured approximately $13.5 million in funding led by Pantera Capital and is collaborating with several validators (such as Figment and Kiln) to advance the development of its testnet. The mainnet is expected to launch in 2026.

This high level of attention and strong financing background has also made Raiku one of the most anticipated infrastructure innovations in the Solana ecosystem.

2. How does Raiku solve transaction uncertainty and which Dapps is it suitable for?

<2.1> How does Raiku solve transaction uncertainty?

In the traditional Solana network, when market trading volume surges (for example, during popular NFT minting or DeFi liquidation waves), even transactions with slightly higher fees may fail due to congestion.

And Raiku's solution is:

<2.1.1> Advance Locking of Execution Rights: Applications can pre-book block space before sending transactions to ensure that the transactions are guaranteed to be executed.

<2.1.2> Deterministic Execution: Each transaction is executed in a predetermined order, avoiding random loss issues caused by network congestion.

<2.1.3>Better developer experience: Developers no longer need to write complex retry logic for failed transactions, simplifying application architecture.

<2.1.4> High Performance and Scalability: Raiku's architecture is designed to be natively compatible with Solana, without affecting performance, and can serve more high-frequency scenarios.

<2.2> Which Dapps are more suitable for Raiku?

Raiku's deterministic trading mechanism is particularly suitable for the following types of Web3 applications:

· High-frequency trading and quantitative strategies: Trading requires millisecond-level response and certain execution time.

· DeFi liquidation and arbitrage system: Avoid missed opportunities caused by network latency.

· NFT minting platform: Prevents user transaction failures or lags caused by congestion.

· GameFi / Real-time Applications: Need to ensure that player operations take effect immediately in interactive scenarios.

In short, any project with a strong demand for “transaction stability” can benefit from Raiku's infrastructure.

3. Raiku's core philosophy: deterministic execution + reserved block space

<3.1> What is the core philosophy of Raiku?

Raiku's core concept is to enable applications to ensure successful on-chain execution within a future time window by pre-booking block space. This model transforms transactions from “hit or miss” to “guaranteed,” significantly enhancing the overall user experience.

Raiku's innovation lies in transforming “block space” from a random, competitive resource into a service that can be pre-booked. For example, the following two mechanisms:

<3.1.1> Ahead-of-Time (AoT) mechanism: Developers or institutions can lock block space in advance, allowing transactions to be executed at a specified time.

<3.1.2> Just-in-Time (JiT) mechanism: Insert key transactions at the moment of block generation to achieve millisecond-level execution control.

For more specific mechanisms and technical documentation, you can visit the official Docs:

4. How to participate in Raiku?

<4.1> Validator Program

Visit: participate/validators, perform email verification, and finally apply to join Raiku's validator program.

<4.2> Developer

The developer documentation is currently being written and can be accessed by visiting: participate/builders for email verification to participate in the early development.

<4.3> Community Members

Join the community and be active, participate in community building.

Discord Community:

Telegram Community:

Raiku X:

5. Conclusion

Raiku's mission is to ensure that transactions no longer fail. It not only addresses the long-standing transaction congestion issues on the Solana network but also redefines how developers interact with the blockchain.

For Web3 teams looking to build stable and high-performance applications, Raiku is the key puzzle piece to the future.

For individuals, Raiku is still in its early stages, and you can participate in its testnet validation program, developer plans, etc. Additionally, there are various roles such as OG and Chads available in Raiku's Discord.

Just like its official declaration states:

“Raiku makes Solana inevitable.”

Raiku makes the future of Solana unstoppable.