SLV Releases Pre-Built Solana Client Software Mirror “SLV Artifacts” — Enabling Immediate Use Without Self-Building

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO have announced the release of “SLV Artifacts,” a pre-built Solana client software mirror within the open-source automation platform “SLV” for Solana validator and RPC operations.

With this release, operators can now use Solana client software immediately without performing a self-build, dramatically reducing the computer resources, human resources, and time previously required for build environment setup.

Since Solana’s official pre-built binaries are no longer provided, each operator has been required to build the Rust source code manually.
This process demands proper hardware resources, time, and precise build steps.
The key challenge lies in “building the exact same software with the correct resources and correct procedures.” Performing this individually across all operators is inefficient and prone to inconsistencies.

SLV presents an open-source solution to these challenges.
As a project that maintains transparency and publishes its source code, it provides pre-built mirror software to significantly reduce the infrastructure and setup costs required by Solana validators and RPC operators.

Users of SLV can directly reference this mirror software (SLV Artifacts) and reduce setup time to less than half of what was previously required.
Even developers who do not use SLV can freely access and download the binaries using any standard command such as wget via the public URLs.

SLV Artifacts hosts automatically built Solana, Jito, and Agave client software on Cloudflare R2 storage, delivered through Cloudflare’s global proxy network that provides cached distribution across multiple regions.
This enables stable and fast downloads from anywhere in the world and simplifies updates across distributed operating environments.

Whenever a new build is released, notifications are automatically posted in the Validators DAO official Discord channel “#slv-update.”
Each notification includes details of the update and direct download URLs for the artifacts, allowing users to obtain the latest client software immediately.

SLV is designed as an open-source platform that allows Solana validator and RPC operations to be performed more simply and reproducibly.
All configurations and update procedures are openly published, enabling operators worldwide to utilize the same methods and artifacts in a consistent environment.

The release of SLV Artifacts represents a practical solution to the challenges introduced in Solana’s self-build era.
It helps reduce informational disparities between operators while promoting both transparency and infrastructure quality across the Solana ecosystem.