Solana records 1 outage in the first half of 2023, 100% availability in Q2

The Solana network is seeing steady improvements in performance and reliability as outages become less frequent.

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The Solana Layer 1 blockchain network has shown improved reliability and availability so far this year with only one outage in 2023, according to a report by the Solana Foundation.

On July 20, the Solana Foundation released its latest performance report indicating that it had improved the network during the first half of 2023, as measured by availability and the ratio of non-voting transactions to voting.

In previous years, Solana has been plagued with reliability and availability issues. Co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko called them a "curse", but said the network's low-cost transactions were the cause of the outages.

The latest report indicates that Solana has experienced 100% uptime since February 25, marking an entire quarter without disruption. In the February outage alone, the network was taken offline for almost 19 hours.

Solana achieved 100% uptime in Q2 2023. Source: Solana

The report adds that there have been improvements in the report between votes and non-votes transactions. Voting transactions occur when a validator votes to confirm one or more proposed blocks of information and non-voting transactions are triggered by user behavior on the blockchain.

"Over time, we would expect to see the ratio of voting transactions to non-voting transactions decrease, as the overall percentage of voting transactions is expected to decline as the network becomes more efficient."

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