Network outages have been Solana’s ‘curse,’ says co-founder
The high-speed smart contract platform has suffered full or partial outages at least seven separate times over the last twelve months. Network outages continue to be the Solana network’s biggest challenge, according to its co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.Launched in 2020, the Solana network has suffered a number of network outages, which have come from a number of different congestion and spam events, according to Yakovenko. In a Sept. 2 interview with Real Vision co-founder Raoul Pal, Yakovenko said the network outages had been Solana’s “curse,” but said the outages have resulted because of....
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In 2022 the blockchain has suffered from ten partial or full outages along with slow block times and Solana’s co-founder said it’s “not the experience that we want to deliver.” Solana (SOL) co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko says the past year has been mired by the network's reliability issues and outages, but recent updates will help the blockchain resolve its reliability issues. During the Breakpoint 2022 annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal on Nov. 5, Yakovenko discussed the past and future of the blockchain, noting the network has faced difficulties over the past year:“We've had a lot of....
Solana network faltered anew, as the crypto space’s “Ethereum Killer” goes offline courtesy of faulty mechanics in its system. Just this September, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko admitted during an interview that the outages which continue to plague Solana were the network’s curse. Yakovenko, however, was quick to defend, saying that the downtimes the system experienced could […]
Solana’s outages could be interpreted as mere hiccups in a new blockchain, but some suggest there’s cause for concern. Solana is a highly scalable decentralized blockchain developed with a unique method of ordering transactions that significantly improves its transaction throughput, to the point that it has consistently been processing over 2,500 transactions per second. It claims to be able to process 50,000 transactions per second.The power of Solana’s cheap transactions is felt when it’s time to pay transaction fees, with users being able to move funds on the network for a fraction of a....
From comparing the project to Apple and Ethereum to bringing up network outages, the community reacted to the new Web3 phone by Solana. The Solana (SOL) team has brought mobile phones to Web3 after revealing Saga, Solana’s Android mobile device that will go out with the project’s latest stack for Web3 developers, the Solana Mobile Stack. The community welcomed the new development with various reactions from comparing the project to Apple and Ethereum (ETH) to bringing up concerns over Solana’s network outages. Vinny Lingham praised the move and called it Web3’s very own “iPhone moment” and....
Unstoppable Finance argued that Solana’s validator count and Nakamoto coefficient are higher than other blockchains, making it more decentralized. Solana-based decentralized finance (DeFi) firm Unstoppable Finance has argued that Solana is more decentralized than people make it out to be. However, there’s another side that believes that the blockchain platform is actually more centralized.In a blog post, the DeFi firm lays out its arguments, citing the blockchain network’s active validator count, Nakamoto coefficient and support for validator hardware, which is often argued to be....