Triton One’s Values: Open Source, Open Opportunity, Open Community
We believe the future of blockchain infrastructure has to be open. That means open code, open access, and open collaboration. Blockchains are built on the promise of permissionless systems, and we see it as our mission to make sure the infrastructure underneath stays true to that spirit.
Open source: shared work, shared wins
We’ve built Triton on this core principle: open source is how the ecosystem grows stronger. That’s why we’ve put a huge amount of effort into developing and maintaining open source tooling and frameworks.
The project Yellowstone – including ecosystem staples like Dragon’s Mouth gRPC, Vixen, Jet, and Shield – gives anyone the building blocks to run their own services and experiment at scale. And Old Faithful Historical Archive makes Solana’s entire history accessible, from genesis. No paywalls, no gatekeeping – just the full ledger, available for everyone to download and use. We’ve also financially supported projects like Alpamayo, a high-performance storage of the latest landed transactions that lets anyone query short Solana history at breakneck speeds, and Richat, a streaming framework that builds on our Yellowstone ecosystem and underpins even our competitors’ low-latency streaming services.
Our commitments to projects like these have included financial contributions, as well as infrastructure, engineering resources, and open collaboration.
These aren’t just tools, they’re heroes in their own right. Every researcher who digs through Old Faithful, every dev who builds with Dragon’s Mouth, Richat, or Alpamayo carries the torch forward. When we build with open source, it’s not just us building – it’s all of us, together.
Open opportunity: infrastructure without gatekeepers
We run the most reliable RPCs & Validators in the game. But we don’t believe in hoarding that power. We believe in sharing it. That’s why everything we do has two sides:
- Managed services for folks who want performance out of the box
- Self-hosted open source for those who want to tinker, fork, or run things their way
For example, over the last two years, our team has delivered major open-source enhancements to Metaplex DAS, making it faster, more stable, and easier to operate. We re-architected ingestion around Yellowstone gRPC, eliminating the dependency on the plerkle geyser plugin and lowering infrastructure costs by enabling DAS to run from a shared geyser gRPC stream.
We replaced the fragile block-based bubblegum backfill process with a transaction-cataloguing system and continuous tree monitor, allowing full database rebuilds and real-time proof validation. We built on Helius’s contributions of token key and token extension parsers to complete the productization of fungible token support in DAS, ensuring schema and query performance as the system expanded beyond single-owner NFTs.
Finally, we reworked all database queries for the API, cutting response times across the board — with getAsset now consistently returning in ~50ms at P90. Collectively, these changes strengthened DAS’s reliability and broadened its utility for developers and operators across the Solana ecosystem.
We use Triton RPCs every day at Metaplex. They’re fast, reliable, and built by one of the most competent teams I’ve worked with in Solana or across tech.
They’ve also been one of the primary contributors to the DAS API and deserve real credit for helping standardize access to asset data across the ecosystem. A lot of what’s possible with compression today wouldn’t exist without their work as well.
They’re our go-to recommendation for project teams looking for serious infrastructure. Triton understands what real builders need and delivers consistently.
Stephen Hess, Founder @ Metaplex
Fundamentally, we believe that you should be able to choose the path that fits you. Whether you’re a trading firm, DAO, or a student hacking on your first Solana project, we want you to have the same access to the core infrastructure of the network.
Community first: a rising tide floats all ships
Tools are only as good as the people who use them. We’re constantly blown away by the builders in this ecosystem: folks like you who push the limits of what’s possible.
Our job is to support you: with docs, with code, with infrastructure, and with the belief that the best ideas don’t come from behind closed doors – they come from the community.
We see the teams we support as the true heroes of our story. They’re the ones out there taking risks, facing down dragons, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on chain. Projects like Flash Trade, Turbin3, La Familia, Soltools, and Decal all started their journeys on infrastructure we provided for free, so they could focus on the fight instead of the cost. We’re not here to steal the spotlight. We’re here to hand you a sword and keep the fire burning at camp. When those teams grow strong enough to stand on their own, we know we’ve done our job.
The heroes who build on our open-source code often become part of our own story, and we love when community builders turn into teammates. Wilfred Almeida created LightDAS, a lightweight spin on the Metaplex DAS API that we contributed to. His work was so sharp that we knew we had to bring him in. Now he’s here, helping us shape this very blog post (in addition to continuing to do awesome work).
When we met Rafael Ribas, he was developing Velos, a lightweight client designed to make the RPC stack more accessible. Now he’s working on Jet – our TVU client that recently got a shoutout from Anza – and contributing directly to Agave on the tpu-next-client. We love watching him level up project after project.
And then there’s Miles Smith, who gave us so much thoughtful feedback while tinkering with Old Faithful that we couldn’t imagine him not being on the team. Sometimes the line between community and team just disappears, and that’s how we like it.
Just like the heroes we cheer for in the wider community, sometimes the dragons our teammates are chasing lead them down new paths. We don’t see that as losing talent. It’s the ecosystem gaining new champions, and we’ll always be here to back them.
When one of us wins, we all win.
Why this matters
We talk about “open” a lot. Here’s what that means for you:
- Transparency breeds trust. When projects are open source, you don’t have to take our word for it. You can read the code, run it yourself, and know exactly how it works. That trust is the bedrock of decentralization.
- Freedom fuels innovation. Every time someone backfills with Old Faithful, leverages Yellowstone, sends transactions via Jet, or builds with Alpamayo, the ecosystem gets stronger. Open tools give builders the freedom to experiment. That’s how breakthroughs happen.
- No gatekeepers, no insiders. Open opportunity means anyone can compete and create. You don’t need permission. You don’t need connections. If you’re committed to learning and have the drive, the playing field is yours.
- No vendor lock-in. With Triton One, you’re never trapped. You can use our managed services today, then take our open source code and run it yourself tomorrow. You can fork it, adapt it, or walk away entirely. That freedom keeps us accountable and you in control.
- Community is the multiplier. One person can build something great. A community can build something unstoppable. By keeping openness as our core value, we make sure the whole ecosystem thrives.
The bottom line
We’re proud of the code we’ve written and even more proud of the people who use it. Our role is to keep the source open, shine a light on the heroes, and to make sure the path ahead stays free for everyone who wants to walk it.