Switchboard's new 'Surge' oracle network has launched on the Solana mainnet, aiming to significantly enhance the speed of price feeds. Surge claims to offer data delivery with a latency under 100ms, improving performance by about eight times and costing approximately one-hundredth of existing oracle solutions. For optimal performance, colocating Surge nodes on the backend can reduce latency to just 8-25ms, competing with speeds of centralized exchanges. The architecture replaces traditional polling methods with a direct WebSocket stream from data sources to applications, minimizing delays by eliminating the consensus step inherent in conventional oracles. Targeting high-frequency use cases in decentralized finance, particularly latency-sensitive applications, Surge is built on Switchboard's open-source SAIL framework, ensuring security through trusted execution environment (TEE) hardware. As the Solana oracle market becomes increasingly competitive, Surge's introduction could shift the landscape, especially if adopted by applications that rely on rapid data feeds.

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