Governance (SIMD) · recorded real run

Governance: is SIMD-0296 grant-ready?

A grants DAO pays a bounty only for proposals that meet a written rubric. The jury reads the real SIMD-0296 text from GitHub and rules against the rubric. This is a judgment call, so dissent is expected and shown.

Governance. A grants review asks whether a real Solana proposal (SIMD-0296, larger transactions) meets a review rubric. The rubric and the DAO are invented; the proposal text is real. The jury split, and the dispute escalated: that is the system refusing to pretend there is consensus.

The contract, in English

The Validator Tooling Grants DAO escrows 2,000 PLAY for a proposal-quality bounty on SIMD-0296 ("Larger Transaction Size").
The proposal is grant-ready if it (1) explains the problem and motivation, (2) gives a detailed design concrete enough for a validator client team to implement, (3) analyzes backwards compatibility and impact on existing transactions and validators, and (4) has a security considerations section that addresses the change.
If all four are met, pay the authors' team 1,500 PLAY.
If at least two but not all four are met, mark it "revise" and pay the authors a 300 PLAY review stipend.
If fewer than two are met, reject it and pay nothing.
Anything not paid returns to the DAO. Judge from the proposal text as published on GitHub. Decide by 2026-11-30.

Compiled by anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 in 1 attempt(s), then audited against the English by a second model family (openai/gpt-5-mini). Compile cost $0.0061. Recorded Nov 3, 2026, 7:14 AM PT.

Auditor's verdict

Round 1: faithful to the English

The evidence source references the GitHub proposal but does not include a specific URL; the spec should explicitly include the GitHub URL(s) to ensure the deterministic escrow judges the correct published text.

The auditor still raised points, shown unedited above. In a real deployment a human party signs off on the spec before funds are escrowed. The compiler is not trusted to be right.

Compiled spec: the only thing the escrow reads

Validator Tooling Grants DAO - SIMD-0296 Proposal Quality Bounty

contract id 2RCrpWjHNnfpcg…Jk52 = sha256(spec)

Parties	Validator Tooling Grants DAO (funder), Authors' Team (recipient)
Escrow	2,000 PLAY from Validator Tooling Grants DAO
Hard caps	max total 2,000
Deadline	2026-11-30T23:59:59Z · default reject
Evidence	The proposal text as published on GitHub for SIMD-0296

Outcomes and payouts

grant_ready	Authors' Team: 1,500 · Validator Tooling Grants DAO: 500
revise	Authors' Team: 300 · Validator Tooling Grants DAO: 1,700
reject	Validator Tooling Grants DAO: 2,000

AI judgment clause proposal_quality

How many of the four required criteria does the SIMD-0296 proposal meet?

Evaluate the GitHub-published proposal against these four criteria: (1) explains the problem and motivation for SIMD-0296, (2) provides a detailed design concrete enough for a validator client team to implement, (3) analyzes backwards compatibility and impact on existing transactions and validators, and (4) includes a security considerations section addressing the change. Award 'grant_ready' if all four are met, 'revise' if at least two but not all four are met, and 'reject' if fewer than two are met.

allowed: grant_ready | revise | reject

Spec JSON

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 "version": 1,
 "title": "Validator Tooling Grants DAO - SIMD-0296 Proposal Quality Bounty",
 "summary": "The DAO escrows 2,000 PLAY for a proposal on SIMD-0296 (Larger Transaction Size). Payment depends on whether the proposal meets four quality criteria: problem explanation, detailed design, backwards compatibility analysis, and security considerations.",
 "parties": [
  {
   "id": "dao",
   "label": "Validator Tooling Grants DAO",
   "role": "funder"
  },
  {
   "id": "authors_team",
   "label": "Authors' Team",
   "role": "recipient"
  }
 ],
 "escrow": {
  "asset": "PLAY",
  "amount": 2000,
  "funder": "dao"
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 "deadline": "2026-11-30T23:59:59Z",
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   "description": "The proposal text as published on GitHub for SIMD-0296",
   "kind": "url"
  }
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 "outcomes": [
  {
   "id": "grant_ready",
   "description": "Proposal meets all four criteria; grant-ready",
   "payouts": [
    {
     "to": "authors_team",
     "amount": 1500
    },
    {
     "to": "dao",
     "amount": 500
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "revise",
   "description": "Proposal meets at least two but not all four criteria; marked for revision",
   "payouts": [
    {
     "to": "authors_team",
     "amount": 300
    },
    {
     "to": "dao",
     "amount": 1700
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "reject",
   "description": "Proposal meets fewer than two criteria; rejected",
   "payouts": [
    {
     "to": "dao",
     "amount": 2000
    }
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   "allowedOutcomes": [
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    "revise",
    "reject"
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   "guidance": "Evaluate the GitHub-published proposal against these four criteria: (1) explains the problem and motivation for SIMD-0296, (2) provides a detailed design concrete enough for a validator client team to implement, (3) analyzes backwards compatibility and impact on existing transactions and validators, and (4) includes a security considerations section addressing the change. Award 'grant_ready' if all four are met, 'revise' if at least two but not all four are met, and 'reject' if fewer than two are met."
  }
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 "hardLimits": {
  "maxTotalPayout": 2000
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 "defaultOutcome": "reject"
}

Real SIMD-0296 text. Real evidence: the proposal markdown as fetched from the solana-improvement-documents repo. The rubric and the DAO are illustrative.

dispute verdict: escalatedsecond jury did not reach quorum; escalate to the contract's fallback (human panel or default outcome at deadline)

Jury A: six model families

initial roundreal model callsNov 3, 2026, 7:13 AM PT · $0.0056

1 · Evidence snapshots, hashed before any model sees them

Snapshot	Provenance	sha256	Bytes
SIMD-0296 Larger Transaction Size (GitHub, main)	fetched Nov 3, 2026, 7:03 AM PT	a2dbfca171…0384	6673

Read “SIMD-0296 Larger Transaction Size (GitHub, main)”

---
simd: '0296'
title: Larger Transaction Size
authors:
- jacobcreech
- apfitzge
category: Standard
type: Core
status: Review
created: 2025-05-28
feature: (fill in with feature key and github tracking issues once accepted)
---

## Summary

Historically, messages transmitted over the network must not exceed the IPv6 MTU
size to ensure a fast and reliable network delivery. Solana has used a
conservative MTU size of 1280 bytes, which after accounting for some of the
overhead, leaves a maximum transaction size of 1232 bytes for data in the
payload.

With QUIC, we can now use a larger transaction size than the original 1280
bytes. This proposal presents a new transaction size of 4096 bytes.

## Motivation

The current transaction size limit of 1232 bytes is too small for many
developer use cases. While there have been some attempts to artificially
increase the size capacity with address lookup tables, the current cap still is
artificially limiting the number of signatures and size of other data.

Use cases that are currently limited by the transaction size include:

- ZK proofs such as what is used within [Confidential
Balances](https://www.solana-program.com/docs/confidential-balances/zkps)
- Untruncated Winternitz one-time signatures
- Nested Multisig used by corporations under Squads
- Onchain cryptography signature schemes without precompiles such as BLS

and many more. A larger transaction size would also help remove the need for
address lookup tables, which have been a source of complexity on the validator
client as well as a frictional developer experience for many developers.

A number of developers have also resorted to using Jito bundles to artificially
increase the size of their transactions. This is a current workaround that
developers are using, but it does not have the same guarantees as a transaction
does on the protocol level, namely that bundles are not guaranteed to be atomic
like singular transactions.

For these reasons, increasing the current transaction size limit would enable
developers to create new applications and use cases that were previously
unfeasible.

## New Terminology

Not at this time.

## Detailed Design

Increasing the transaction size limit above the current MTU max size is
possible with the use of QUIC. QUIC's RFC 9000 specification does not have
an explicit maximum stream size, allowing for larger transactions to be
sent. The larger transaction size would only be supported by the v1 transaction
format as described in SIMD-0385. Clients will need to support accepting the
larger transaction sizes on their network ports and not reject the larger size
during replay.

## Alternatives Considered

Alternative designs considered:

- Having a transaction loading feature that would allow developers to load
the transaction parts in a buffer and then be able to execute them at the
end.
This method is no longer considered as it requires a much higher level of
latency on the application level and a decent amount of complexity within
the validator
- Bundles at the protocol level. This would not solve all problems that are
solved by larger transaction sizes. Bundles would still limit the ability for
developers to use cryptographic signature schemes that have large proof sizes.

## Impact

Developers would have to update with applications to use the new transaction
format designed in SIMD-0385 to take advantage of the larger transaction size.
Those developers that had previously been using address lookup tables would be
required to update the new transactions with the full address list instead of
the address lookup table and its indices.

In consideration of what size the new transaction size limit should increase
to, [Jito's bundle
sizes](https://jitolabs.grafana.net/dashboard/snapshot/ISnwjbxw02UBLrj1xy4n4dFkAPyZ46ll?orgId=0&from=2025-05-30T18:45:00.000Z&to=2025-05-30T21:45:00.000Z&timezone=utc&var-cluster=mainnet&var-region=$__all&viewPanel=panel-40&inspect=panel-40&inspectTab=data)
that were used to increase the overall transaction size should be considered.
The following is the rough distribution of the transaction sizes:

- 2048 bytes or lower - 50% of bundles
- 6144 bytes or lower = 65% of all bundles
- 9216 bytes or lower = 100% of all bundles

In consideration of the above, the use cases mentioned within the motivation
section, and the current page size for managing memory within a validator, a
new transaction size limit of 4096 bytes is proposed. This new limit should
cover a majority of use cases mentioned within the motivation section, as well
as enable most of the developers using Jito bundles for larger transactions to
migrate to the new transaction format. Similarly, since the new limit proposed
can accommodate the max accounts used in ALTs directly in the transaction,
developers are able to migrate from `v0` transactions to `v1` transactions.

A number of changes are required to be made to the validator to support the new
transaction size limit. Consensus would need to be updated to support the
larger transaction size, as larger transactions included in a block would be
marked as invalid by the cluster today. The scheduler would also need to be
modified to support the larger transaction sizes. While this proposal does not
introduce a new fee structure around bytes in a transaction, the scheduler
should prioritize larger transactions differently, requiring developers to pay
a higher priority fee to land their transaction.

Testing for this new transaction size limit should be done extensively to
ensure that performance on the cluster is not adversely affected. This testing
should include the different use cases mentioned within the motivation section,
as well as the different sizes of transactions that are currently being used by
developers on the network.

## Security Considerations

Larger transaction sizes could results in a number of bandwidth issues on the
cluster than need to be tested thoroughly to ensure that performance is not
adversely affected.

## Drawbacks

There is an argument to be made that an increase in the transaction size limit
above the max MTU packet size would incur some network overhead due to
fragmentation retransmits. For a validator, this could mean maintaining
in-memory buffers for larger transactions compared to just receiving and
processing a single UDP packet. These issues will need to be addressed in the
scheduler and how priority fees for larger transactions are handled.

## Backwards Compatibility

As all of these changes are implemented with the v1 transaction format, the
increase on the transaction size limit does not affect or break `v0` or `legacy`
transactions.

2 · Commit, then reveal

Every juror first publishes a signed commitment, sha256(juror, answerHash, salt). Only after all commitments are in (commit set fbc5aaaa…7f87) are answers revealed and checked against them. Nobody can copy or change an answer after seeing the others. NA and invalid replies are dropped and not charged.

Juror	Identity	Commitment	Status	Outcome	Conf.	Injection flag
openai/gpt-5-mini OpenAI · served openai/gpt-5-mini	unproven provider attestation	4100ae9d…b407	counted	revise	0.90	no	why
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 Anthropic · served anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5	unproven provider attestation	287f08f3…ddcd	counted	grant_ready	0.92	no	why
google/gemini-2.5-flash Google · served google/gemini-2.5-flash	unproven provider attestation	1ab4f822…f4b3	counted	revise	0.90	no	why
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 Alibaba Qwen · served qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507	open weights, hosted: unproven	e59b7298…3057	counted	revise	0.95	no	why
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash DeepSeek · served deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash	open weights, hosted: unproven	8e9dfe5f…29cc	invalid	-	-	no	why
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick Meta Llama · served meta-llama/llama-4-maverick	FlashProve-supported family: proof not generated	881a4985…ca42	counted	grant_ready	1.00	no	why

3 · Tally

no quorum 0 of 5 counted · jury 6 · NA 0 · invalid 1

Quorum needs ≥ 2/3 of counted votes and at least 3 counted. Not reached: the contract waits, then falls back to its default outcome at the deadline.

revise: 3 · grant_ready: 2

Dissent: gpt-5-mini → revise, claude-haiku-4.5 → grant_ready, gemini-2.5-flash → revise, qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 → revise, llama-4-maverick → grant_ready

4 · Deterministic escrow

The escrow is code. It reads only the spec and the winning outcome, and it never reads a model's text.

✓clause exists in spec · proposal_quality
✗jury reached 2/3 quorum · no quorum: nothing moves; default "reject" applies only at the deadline

Payee	Requested	Paid
No transfer. No quorum.

status no-quorum · total 0 PLAY (play money)

5 · Signed judgment record

Record hash HTUKxnmPTVXQEFMU…iqUC. 0 jurors in the winning bloc signed it with ed25519, and the harness co-signed (34ad4a…7f34). The demo keys come from a public seed, so they prove the mechanism, not anyone's identity.

Compact record for inscription on Solana (230 bytes)

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You are one independent judge in a neutral oracle committee. Other judges are different AI models; you cannot see their answers.

Contract: Validator Tooling Grants DAO - SIMD-0296 Proposal Quality Bounty
The DAO escrows 2,000 PLAY for a proposal on SIMD-0296 (Larger Transaction Size). Payment depends on whether the proposal meets four quality criteria: problem explanation, detailed design, backwards compatibility analysis, and security considerations.

Question (clause proposal_quality): How many of the four required criteria does the SIMD-0296 proposal meet?

Contract guidance: Evaluate the GitHub-published proposal against these four criteria: (1) explains the problem and motivation for SIMD-0296, (2) provides a detailed design concrete enough for a validator client team to implement, (3) analyzes backwards compatibility and impact on existing transactions and validators, and (4) includes a security considerations section addressing the change. Award 'grant_ready' if all four are met, 'revise' if at least two but not all four are met, and 'reject' if fewer than two are met.

Allowed outcomes:
- "grant_ready": Proposal meets all four criteria; grant-ready
- "revise": Proposal meets at least two but not all four criteria; marked for revision
- "reject": Proposal meets fewer than two criteria; rejected
- "NA": abstain, if the evidence does not let you decide.

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<<<EVIDENCE id="simd" sha256="a2dbfca1715d778b" source="https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/main/proposals/0296-larger-transactions.md">>>
---
simd: '0296'
title: Larger Transaction Size
authors:
- jacobcreech
- apfitzge
category: Standard
type: Core
status: Review
created: 2025-05-28
feature: (fill in with feature key and github tracking issues once accepted)
---

## Summary

With QUIC, we can now use a larger transaction size than the original 1280
bytes. This proposal presents a new transaction size of 4096 bytes.

## Motivation

Use cases that are currently limited by the transaction size include:

For these reasons, increasing the current transaction size limit would enable
developers to create new applications and use cases that were previously
unfeasible.

## New Terminology

Not at this time.

## Detailed Design

## Alternatives Considered

Alternative designs considered:

## Impact

- 2048 bytes or lower - 50% of bundles
- 6144 bytes or lower = 65% of all bundles
- 9216 bytes or lower = 100% of all bundles

## Security Considerations

Larger transaction sizes could results in a number of bandwidth issues on the
cluster than need to be tested thoroughly to ensure that performance is not
adversely affected.

## Drawbacks

## Backwards Compatibility

As all of these changes are implemented with the v1 transaction format, the
increase on the transaction size limit does not affect or break `v0` or `legacy`
transactions.

<<<END EVIDENCE simd>>>

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✓operator commit signatures · 6/6
✓every reveal opens its commitment · 6/6
✓published reasoning matches committed hashes · 5/5
✓tally recomputes · no quorum 60%
✓escrow settlement recomputes · no-quorum, 0 PLAY
✓quorum signatures over record hash · 0 valid of 5 counted
✓harness signature

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