In order to create a decentralized, permissionless network that matches the performance of a single node, the Solana team developed 8 key technologies:

• Proof of History (POH) - a clock before consensus;

• Tower BFT - a PoH-optimized version of PBFT;

• Turbine - a block propagation protocol;

• Gulf Stream - Mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol;

• Sealevel - Parallel smart contracts run-time;

• Pipelining - a Transaction Processing Unit for validation optimization

• Cloudbreak - Horizontally-Scaled Accounts Database; and

• Archivers - Distributed ledger storage

Now we know this was a lot, but all of this and more is covered in the resources provided below. Enjoy your journey down the rabbithole!

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Here's an article for a complete deep dive

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