The Solana Foundation attributes the recent network congestion problems to a high number of requests for block space along with delays in applying necessary patch updates for its networking infrastructure.
During an exclusive interview with CryptoMoon at Paris Blockchain Week, Austin Federa, the strategy lead at Solana Foundation, discussed their initiatives to tackle recent problems causing transaction congestion for users on the network.
“Federa described how the objective of the Solana initiative is to create a global network that is both rapid and inclusive, allowing unlimited participation without the need for authorization or central control. This ambition is challenging, but there’s a dedicated team of engineers collaborating from various contributor groups to construct the Solana network. At times, they encounter obstacles in achieving this goal.”
The strategy head of the Foundation shares that Solana’s consensus mechanism functions as intended. However, it has become clear that the network falls short of user expectations in terms of experience.
“Federa noted that the network processes approximately 700 transactions per second at present, an impressive figure despite its current degraded state. However, significant improvements are required on the Solana core protocol.”
Network developers are working on solutions to address bottlenecks in the implementation of a particular component in their networking stack.
According to Federa, there was a discrepancy between the plan for making improvements on the Solana network and the anticipated demand.
“The charitable view of this is a failure of success. There’s massive demand for the Solana block space and there’s a huge demand for the network. It’s processing more transactions than Ethereum’s layer-1 and layer-2s combined.”
Federa admitted that a more pessimistic perspective could view the current situation as evidence of insufficient preparation for network enhancements. Furthermore, he suggested that developers within the ecosystem might have foreseen such demand surges given the history of usage patterns.
Previously announced, Solana developers were working on resolving an “underlying issue” that led to a significant increase in transaction failures on the Solana network. Federica, a representative, mentioned that the team had been putting in long hours as they finalized patches and conducted thorough testing before deploying them to the mainnet.
“It has been an ecosystem effort to identify the problem, potential solutions, and short-term and long-term improvements to the network.”
Some protocols should have a beta label
Over the last two years, Solana’s network has faced criticism due to occasional outages, resulting in brief interruptions. Nevertheless, it is essential to note that other protocols, including Ethereum’s layer-2 projects such as Base, Arbitrum, and Starknet, have also encountered similar issues recently.
Federa pointed out that new blockchain networks are currently going through a growth spurt, using Amazon Web Services’ early stages as an analogy. However, he cautioned that this industry is under intense examination, and the high expectations towards it are justified.
“I think it’s appropriate to be upset about downtimes and outages. The goal is 100% uptime, and that should be the goal for the whole industry. If that comes at the expense of no scale, that’s not necessarily the best trade-off.”
Federal noted that interruptions and failures in some secondary networking methods are evidence of the ongoing progress and expansion in this sector. One explanation for why Solana continues to function under a beta designation is this very development process.
“Federa stated that the beta label on our network is truthful. However, it’s important to note that our current network is not yet the developers’ ultimate vision for the future. There could be other networks similarly deserving of a ‘beta’ tag.”
On April 15, Solana made available v1.17.31 for validators on the mainnet to use generally. This new version includes improvements aimed at easing the current network congestion.
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2024-04-15 11:26