ERPC Sells Out Frankfurt SLV Metal (Ryzen 9 Lineup) — Scaling Up Procurement of Solana-Specialized Servers, Waitlist Now Open

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO, the operators of ERPC, announce that the SLV Metal servers with AMD Ryzen 9 configurations in the Frankfurt region have sold out.

Procurement has already been scaled up, but since deliveries will be made in order, those considering adoption are invited to create a support ticket on the Validators DAO official Discord and join the waitlist.

Validators DAO Official Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR ERPC Official Website: https://erpc.global

The Sold-Out Lineup

The lineup that sold out is the SLV Metal Ryzen 9 configuration, optimized for Solana applications and Solana testnet validator workloads. Offered as dedicated bare metal servers that share the ERPC platform's private network, these servers leverage the highest-clocked consumer Ryzen CPUs on the market to maximize single-thread performance and responsiveness. They have consistently been a favorite for their cost efficiency.

SLV Metal APP+ (€298/mo) — AMD Ryzen 7950X (5.7GHz, 16 Cores) / 128GB ECC DDR5 / 1TB NVMe SSD × 2 / 10Gbps × 2 / 100TB Traffic
SLV Metal APP++ (€398/mo) — AMD Ryzen 9950X (5.7GHz, 16 Cores) / 192GB ECC DDR5 / 1TB NVMe SSD × 2 / 10Gbps × 2 / 100TB Traffic

Both configurations come standard with full-throttle tuning, unlimited ERPC platform internal traffic, and zero-distance communication with the ERPC platform.

Why SLV Metal Is in Such High Demand

Bare Metal That Runs at Maximum Boost

The data center industry has structural incentives to save on power and network bandwidth to improve profitability. CPU power-saving features, bandwidth caps, overcommitment through resource sharing — these are rarely documented in specification sheets, yet they create substantial differences in real-world processing speed even when the numbers on paper look identical.

ERPC SLV Metal is delivered with a full-throttle configuration that extracts the maximum from the hardware: disabled CPU C-states, CPU governor pinned to performance mode, optimized kernel parameters, and a tuned network stack. An environment where the Ryzen 9950X can sustain its 5.7GHz turbo clock at all times directly raises single-thread performance for Solana applications and Solana testnet validators.

Same Platform as ERPC, Zero-Distance Connection to Solana

SLV Metal is directly connected to the ERPC platform's private network as a dedicated bare metal server. Solana RPC, Solana Geyser gRPC, Solana Shredstream (Epic Shreds), High-Performance VPS, ERPC Global Storage — all communication with these platform services stays on internal routes and never traverses the public internet.

Internal platform traffic is unlimited, and snapshot downloads also complete quickly over internal routes, structurally reducing the time spent on recovery, version upgrades, and configuration changes.

Deploy Apps as Close to Solana as Possible

The largest factor determining communication speed on Solana is not CPU or memory performance — it is network distance. No matter how high-end a server may be, if the path to a Solana validator crosses multiple hops over the public internet, that performance advantage will be buried in network latency.

ERPC places its infrastructure inside premium data centers where Solana validators cluster densely, so applications deployed on SLV Metal run from the physically closest possible location to the Solana network. Frankfurt is the most validator-dense region in Europe, and this geographic advantage is directly reflected in the real-world performance of SLV Metal.

A Solana-Specialized Data Center

ERPC's infrastructure is not designed as generic server hosting — it is designed specifically for Solana. Hardware selection, network path optimization, OS-level tuning, IRQ affinity adjustment — every layer is optimized for the requirements of Solana.

In the general-purpose server market, stability, profitability, and standardization take priority, so configurations that put speed first are rarely offered as a natural option. To achieve the fastest possible Solana performance, network distance, path quality, hardware selection, and system tuning all need to be designed specifically around Solana's requirements. SLV Metal is built on this design philosophy.

Runs SLV Natively

SLV Metal is provided as an environment where the open-source AI Agent Kit "SLV" runs natively. You can immediately begin managing Solana validators and Solana RPC nodes, as well as developing Solana applications, through natural-language dialogue with AI agents.

The optimization techniques and tuning parameters accumulated through ERPC's production operations and R&D are consolidated into the SLV skill set for AI agents. Running SLV on SLV Metal is equivalent to applying ERPC's operational know-how directly to your own environment.

SLV Official Website: https://slv.dev SLV GitHub: https://github.com/validatorsDAO/slv

Epic Shreds Max Demand Also Drove the Sellout

Behind the SLV Metal sellout is another factor: a sharp rise in demand for the Epic Shreds Max plan. Epic Shreds Max is the top-tier configuration that delivers the highest-performance Epic Shreds on Metal Ryzen hardware, and since the SLV Metal Ryzen 9 inventory also serves as the foundation for Epic Shreds Max, demand for both products overlapped and led to this sellout.

Please note that Epic Shreds Max is currently waitlist-only for both purchases and test plans. Customers who have already applied for a test plan will be contacted in order — we appreciate your patience. Procurement is being scaled up to expand available capacity.

Why Epic Shreds Is in Such High Demand

Epic Shreds is a premium version of Solana Shredstream delivered with minimal hops from the Epics DAO validator. The speed of Shreds is directly tied to the performance of the source validator. The shorter the vote latency and the lower the skip rate, the faster and more accurately a validator can follow the latest block progression and process Shreds for delivery.

In March 2026, the Epics DAO validator — the source of ERPC's Epic Shreds — reached world rank 3 overall (score 99.93) in the Shinobi Performance Pool among all Solana validators. This is rank 3 among the entire validator set, including super-minority-class large validators.

Following this result, recognition of Epic Shreds' delivery quality has spread rapidly, and applications are concentrating especially on the top-performance Epic Shreds Max configuration. The speed of Shreds is directly tied to the performance of the source validator — world rank 3 is the clearest possible indicator backing the quality of this product.

In head-to-head measurements under identical conditions, Epic Shreds has recorded a 95.82% win rate against conventional Solana Shredstream, with a P99 advantage of approximately 234ms. In addition, the DoubleZero dedicated fiber network has been integrated across all regions of the infrastructure, suppressing latency and jitter throughout the delivery path.

ERPC Shreds: https://erpc.global/shreds/

Scaled-Up Procurement and the Waitlist

Procurement of the Frankfurt Ryzen 9 lineup has already been scaled up, but since each unit goes through sourcing of the latest-generation hardware, initial tuning, and Solana-specific configuration validation before being delivered, provisioning will proceed in order.

Those considering adoption are invited to create a support ticket on the Validators DAO official Discord and join the waitlist. We will get in touch in the order tickets are received.

Validators DAO Official Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR

Five Consecutive Years of WBSO Approval — AS200261 Solana-Specialized Data Center

ELSOUL LABO has been approved under the Dutch government's WBSO R&D support program for five consecutive years since 2022. We continue research and development focused on ultra-low-latency Solana RPC infrastructure and on the automation of validator deployment and operational orchestration, and the results of this work are directly reflected in platform performance improvements.

As the culmination of this R&D, we are preparing to open a Solana-specialized data center operated under our own ASN (AS200261), assigned by RIPE NCC. The facility is built on a unified hardware configuration featuring the latest AMD EPYC 5th generation, AMD Threadripper PRO 5th generation (9975WX and similar), and 5th generation NVMe, combined with optimized network path design enabled by our own ASN — top-quality infrastructure that goes beyond existing premium data centers. The opening is scheduled for this month and will become the foundation for further performance gains across the platform, including SLV Metal. The initial allotment is already fully reserved, and subsequent allotments will be offered in waitlist order.

Contact

For inquiries regarding SLV Metal restock availability or questions about regions and configurations, please create a support ticket on the Validators DAO official Discord.