Ed25519
Cryptography
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A fast, widely used signature scheme based on the Edwards curve Curve25519. Solana commonly uses Ed25519 signatures for accounts and transactions.
Appears in 2 whitepaper sections
$SOL
Solana
System Architecture
... │ │ │ │ (Execute)│ │ (Ledger) │
│ Network │ │ ed25519 verify │ │ Sealevel │ │ PoH + │
│ packets │ │ on CUDA cores ...
Performance
...rallelization. A single NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti GPU can verify approximately 900,000 Ed25519 signatures per second. Higher-end GPUs and future hardware generations will inc...