Scale or Die

The Solana Foundation's engineering-only summit, in London on 14 November and running straight into Breakpoint the next day. Application-only, 09:30 to 18:30, with the exact address shared on registration.

It is explicitly not a general crypto event - no marketing decks, no sales pitches. The programme covers validator performance, consensus, transaction landing, RPC, Firedancer, post-quantum readiness, agentic infrastructure and high-performance onchain applications, with hands-on workshops. A DevCave space runs all day for debugging and direct access to the teams shipping the code. Free, but applications are screened: it is aimed at engineers, validators, protocol developers, infrastructure teams and researchers.

Why go: this is the technical half of Breakpoint week, filtered down to people who actually run Solana infrastructure. Best for protocol and infra engineers - if you are going for business development, Breakpoint is your event and this is not.