SIMD-0449
Direct Account Pointers
Programs read account inputs through direct pointers instead of copies — faster account access.
Direct Account Pointers is not queued on-chain yet. Official status: Pending mainnet activation on Anza's official schedule. It is already active on testnet.
Pending mainnet activation on Anza's official schedule ↗
Network readiness95.0% of stake · threshold 95%
Mainnet activations begin two full epochs after 95% of stake adopts the release.
- mainnet
- not scheduled
- testnet
- active since epoch 981 · ≈ 6 weeks ago
- devnet
- active since epoch 1099 · ≈ 5 weeks ago
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How we know
Solana ships protocol changes behind on-chain switches called feature gates. This page reads the switch itself about every minute — once an activation is requested, it completes at the next epoch boundary, which is where the countdown comes from. No announcements, no invented dates.