{"id":507458,"date":"2022-11-07T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/solanas-co-founder-addresses-the-blockchains-reliability-at-breakpoint\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:35:13","slug":"solanas-co-founder-addresses-the-blockchains-reliability-at-breakpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/solanas-co-founder-addresses-the-blockchains-reliability-at-breakpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"# Solana\u2019s co-founder addresses the blockchain\u2019s reliability at Breakpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e745439b55\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e745439b55\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/solanas-co-founder-addresses-the-blockchains-reliability-at-breakpoint\/#%E2%80%9D_Solanas_co-founder_addresses_the_blockchains_reliability_at_Breakpoint_%E2%80%9C\" >&#8221; Solana\u2019s co-founder addresses the blockchain\u2019s reliability at Breakpoint &#8220;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9D_Solanas_co-founder_addresses_the_blockchains_reliability_at_Breakpoint_%E2%80%9C\"><\/span>&#8221; Solana\u2019s co-founder addresses the blockchain\u2019s reliability at Breakpoint &#8220;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMTEvODYwNzY0MDMtZjIzZS00ZmU3LWE5ZjYtOGVlNjk0ODYzYTZhLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-4b69a2fe>Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko says the past year has been mired by the network\u2019s reliability issues and outages, but recent updates will help the blockchain resolve its reliability issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> During the Breakpoint 2022 annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal on Nov. 5,\u00a0 Yakovenko\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5NDs3Il2J3Q\">discussed<\/a> the past and future of the blockchain, noting the network has faced difficulties over the past year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve had a lot of challenges over the last year, I would say this whole last year has been all about reliability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Solana has suffered ten partial or full outages,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/status.solana.com\/uptime?page=2\">according<\/a> to its own status reporting, the most notable of which occurred between Jan. 6-12, 2022, with the network plagued with issues causing partial outages and degraded performance for between 8 and 18 hours. The most recent was what it called a \u201cmajor outage,\u201d lasting nearly six and a half hours on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Between late May and early June, Solana <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/status.solana.com\/incidents\/f68wm876ph9m\">suffered<\/a> from a clock drift, where the blockchain\u2019s time was different from real-world time due to longer than average slot times (also referred to as block times), the time interval during which a validator can send a block to Solana.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, Solana\u2019s ideal slot time is 400 milliseconds, but Yakovenko said that \u201cthings got really really bad in June, block times went up to over a second, which is really slow for Solana,\u201d adding in some cases \u201cconfirmation times so we&#8217;re taking 15 to 20 seconds:\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat\u2019s not the experience that we want to deliver and that\u2019s a pretty bad Web2 experience when you\u2019re competing with Google with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> with all these other <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yakovenko said after a recent update and the validator count doubling in the past year puts Solana on the path to resolving the network performance issues and added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[We\u2019re] in a constant fight between performance, security, throughput, and decentralization, all of these problems [&#8230;] whenever you improve one you may actually hurt some of the other ones but I think we&#8217;ve done an amazing job in solving a bunch of those.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cObviously we still have challenges with outages and bugs,\u201d he said, but its August partnership with Web3 development firm Jump Crypto to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jumpcrypto.com\/jump-crypto-sets-out-to-build-new-validator-client-for-the-solana-blockchain-to-increase-the-throughput-and-reliability-of-the-network\/\">build<\/a> Solana\u2019s scaling solution called Firedancer \u2014 dubbed the long-term fix to the network outage problem \u2014 could hold the key.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Solana unveils Google partnership, smartphones, Web3 store at Breakpoint<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a second implementation and a second client built by a different team with a fully separate code base, the probability of the same kind of bug existing in both is virtually zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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