Solana Co-Founder Addresses Blockchain Reliability at Breakpoint
In 2022, the blockchain suffered ten partial or full outages along with slow block times. Solana's co-founder said "that's not the experience we want to deliver."
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Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko says the past year has been bogged down by reliability issues and network outages, but recent updates will help the blockchain address its reliability issues.
At the annual Breakpoint 2022 conference in Lisbon, Portugal on November 5, Yakovenko discussed the past and future of blockchain, noting that the network has struggled over the past year:
"We had a lot of challenges over the last year, I would say the whole last year was all about reliability."
Solana suffered ten partial or full outages, according to its own status reports, the most notable of which occurred between January 6 and 12, 2022, with the network plagued with issues causing partial outages and performance degradation between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. The most recent was what he called a "major outage," which lasted nearly six and a half hours on October 1.
Between late May and early June, Solana suffered from clock drift, where the blockchain time was different from the actual time due to longer than average slot times (also known as block time), the time interval during which a validator can send a block to Solana.
Usually the ideal timeslot for Solana is 400ms, but Yakovenko said that "Things got really bad in June, block times went to over a second, which is very slow for Solana", adding in some cases "confirmation delays so we take 15 to 20 seconds:”
"That's not the experience we want to deliver and it's a really bad Web2 experience when you're competing with Google with Facebook with all those others...
In 2022, the blockchain suffered ten partial or full outages along with slow block times. Solana's co-founder said "that's not the experience we want to deliver."
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Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko says the past year has been bogged down by reliability issues and network outages, but recent updates will help the blockchain address its reliability issues.
At the annual Breakpoint 2022 conference in Lisbon, Portugal on November 5, Yakovenko discussed the past and future of blockchain, noting that the network has struggled over the past year:
"We had a lot of challenges over the last year, I would say the whole last year was all about reliability."
Solana suffered ten partial or full outages, according to its own status reports, the most notable of which occurred between January 6 and 12, 2022, with the network plagued with issues causing partial outages and performance degradation between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. The most recent was what he called a "major outage," which lasted nearly six and a half hours on October 1.
Between late May and early June, Solana suffered from clock drift, where the blockchain time was different from the actual time due to longer than average slot times (also known as block time), the time interval during which a validator can send a block to Solana.
Usually the ideal timeslot for Solana is 400ms, but Yakovenko said that "Things got really bad in June, block times went to over a second, which is very slow for Solana", adding in some cases "confirmation delays so we take 15 to 20 seconds:”
"That's not the experience we want to deliver and it's a really bad Web2 experience when you're competing with Google with Facebook with all those others...
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