Solana co-founder: The Firedancer client will be a long-term solution to the Solana network outages

According to ChainCatcher news and a report by Decrypt, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko explained the recent network outage issues in a latest interview. He stated that one of the reasons for this outage was a misconfigured validator that confused the Solana network, making it unable to determine which fork was correct, ultimately leading to the network halt.

Anatoly Yakovenko believes that the second Solana client, Firedancer, announced in August will be a "long-term solution," as it will have its own independent software development team. Jump Crypto hopes that Firedancer will significantly scale Solana, enabling it to handle more transactions in a more efficient manner over the next one to two years.

Anatoly Yakovenko emphasized that the Solana network outage does not put any users' funds or program states at risk, as Solana has 2,000 different validators and about 3,400 different network replicas. Therefore, in the event of a severe failure, there are plenty of backups to choose from. Anatoly Yakovenko claimed that as long as one of these replicas survives, the entire network can be effectively restored.

It is reported that since its launch in 2020, the Solana blockchain has experienced five major outages, three of which occurred in 2022, each caused by errors in the Solana code or network. (Decrypt)