{"id":18188,"date":"2023-02-28T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/solana-upgrade-will-slash-future-outages-expert-says\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:08:11","slug":"solana-upgrade-will-slash-future-outages-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/solana-upgrade-will-slash-future-outages-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana upgrade will slash future outages, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Bitcoin, Ethereum &amp; Crypto News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-article-image  -mt-24  mb-8  lg:-mt-32  rounded  overflow-hidden\">\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677602052568-f522e66c-b6c4-4e5d-a414-6e9191e05b09-smartcrop-750x375.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677602052568-f522e66c-b6c4-4e5d-a414-6e9191e05b09-smartcrop-363x181.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677602052568-f522e66c-b6c4-4e5d-a414-6e9191e05b09-smartcrop-750x375.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 750px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagecache\/1970\/01\/1677602052568-f522e66c-b6c4-4e5d-a414-6e9191e05b09-smartcrop-363x181.jpg\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n<\/picture>                    <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Solana blockchain went offline for 20 hours last weekend.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Marinade Finance\u2019s Brandon Tucker says upcoming updates will significantly reduce futures outages.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">But technical and human errors remain a concern for crypto and users need to have this outlook \u201chard-wired into any risk profile.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Solana Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolanaStatus\/status\/1630049333558276097\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> in an update on 27 February 2023 that the root cause of the 20-hour long network outage on 25 February was not yet clear.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, Solana Labs co-founder &amp; CEO Anatoly Yakovenko did talk about what had not caused the latest outage. The Solana Labs exec <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aeyakovenko\/status\/1630281066253811715\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed<\/a> claims that the downtime was due to the clogging of the network as result of extremely high volume of on-chain votes and validator messages.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why are votes transactions?  Every thread that I&#8217;ve seen that talks about this comes form pure ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Classic BFT consensus requires quadratic messaging overhead.<\/p>\n<p>The more nodes you have in the same quorum, the part of the network that agrees on the state, the more messages\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8lOhICb8mn\">https:\/\/t.co\/8lOhICb8mn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 toly \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@aeyakovenko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aeyakovenko\/status\/1630281066253811715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Solana updates to significantly reduce futures outages<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After going offline for 20 hours, the Solana blockchain successfully restarted after two attempts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While Solana\u2019s many outages remain a blot on the blockchain, Brandon Tucker, the growth lead at liquid staking protocol Marinade Finance, says an upgrade to the system will significantly improve the SOL blockchain and \u201cslash\u201d future network freezes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tucker shared his views in a comment sent to <em>CoinJournal<\/em>, noting:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201c<em>Chain restarts are never welcome, but it\u2019s not a major setback. Indeed, despite the furor, it\u2019s a similar outage to the five others we\u2019ve seen over the last 12-18 months. Ultimately, it\u2019s good to see the validator community rally together on their own accord to initiate the updates and restart the chain in real time<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tucker opines that Solana\u2019s push for throughput and decentralization is something no other chain is attempting, and that getting it right isn\u2019t always straight. In his view, these goals are particularly difficult to achieve when the network is \u201calready being used by more people than just about any other chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Technical and human error are likely to happen, the Marinade developer acknowledged \u2013 especially after <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/is-solana-dead-top-projects-flee-the-blockchain\/\">recent events<\/a> around both Solana and the broader crypto ecosystem. Tucker believes this is something that investors should have \u201c<em>hard-wired into any risk profile<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As for what happens next, he thinks the Solana team will be more diligent as they handle updates to the network.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201c<em>While the exact cause of the performance degradation is unknown at this time, the latest 1.14 update appears to be the issue. As a result, Solana should and will likely do even more due diligence during testing before rolling out these updates<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Solana is also preparing for a new consensus implementation, expected to remove any would-be single point of failure. That upgrade is by Jump\u2019s Firedancer validator client. Not only is it set to bolster network resilience, but according to Tucker, also greatly cut chances of future outages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Share this article<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Categories<\/h6>\n<hr class=\"mb-6\"\/>\n<h6 class=\"text-3xl  mb-4  text-green-300\">Tags<\/h6>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/marinade-finances-brandon-tucker-says-key-updates-will-cut-future-solana-outages\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Bitcoin, Ethereum &amp; Crypto News ) Solana blockchain went offline for 20 hours last weekend. Marinade Finance\u2019s Brandon Tucker says upcoming updates will significantly reduce futures outages. But technical and human errors remain a concern for crypto and users need to have this outlook \u201chard-wired into any risk profile.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}