Solana, a state-of-the-art blockchain and smart contract platform, shared screen viewing by a single viewer on X, has what has been achieved an amazing milestone.
For the past seven months, the platform has maintained an extraordinary uptime of 100%, eliminating the criticism that has plagued the network in the years since its launch.
Solana Has Been Online For 7 Straight Months
Fittingly, with this milestone, Solana is now on the verge of achieving the longest streak of unbroken seasons in a row. Overall, this highlights the progress the platform has made to ensure stability and reliability. Theoretically, Solana, like Ethereum and other public ledgers, should maintain a high uptime of 99.9% due to their architecture.
Solana is a group of distributors distributed across the world. Regardless of the partial disruption of the world, for example, considering the withdrawal of a number of validators, the network will continue to work and will be powered by the remaining nodes. Although good, this has not been the case, especially in recent blockchain models that prioritize high performance and low fees.
Since its launch, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and many other blockchains have been trusted and offline. On the other hand, Solana has been struggling, especially when there is a spike in on-chain transactions, which puts pressure on online nodes.
Although there is progress, there have been some disturbing hiatuses in the past, especially in 2023. Whenever Solana stopped working, many analysts questioned the stability of the platform and whether the network was a true blockchain.
Earlier this year, in February 2024, Solana failed, and its facilities stopped processing transactions. The outage was stamped on a software flag but was quickly patched.
Firedancer will improve reliability
In order to solve these problems and restore confidence, the team has been seriously improving reliability. For this reason, joint efforts and resources are working to improve the structure of Solana, ensuring that the platform is always online, without the need for on-chain.
Jump Crypto has been actively building, from scratch, Firedancer, an authentication client that presents a modular design. Once implemented in 2025, it will improve the efficiency of transaction processing and significantly reduce the risk of network failure.
Other expected additions to Firedancer include introducing parallel transaction processing that will improve performance while shaving latency.
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