Public chain Solana has recently experienced severe congestion and frequent transaction failures. Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana ecosystem development platform Helius Labs, stated today that the current issue with Solana is not a protocol design flaw, but rather a bug in a specific implementation. The fix for this bug is expected to be released on the 15th.
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Helius Labs: Bug fix on 4/15
Reason for the surge in Solana transaction failures
Firedancer expected to solve the problem
In the midst of the meme coin frenzy and the surge in mining projects like Ore, Solana’s network has been facing serious congestion issues. The percentage of failed non-voting transactions on the Solana network soared to over 75% on the 4th, reaching a record high, and has since slightly decreased to 65%.
The percentage of failed non-voting transactions on the Solana network has spiked. Source: Dune Analytics
With the unresolved congestion issue, Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius Labs, a blockchain infrastructure company that specializes in providing backend support for the Solana network, stated today that Solana developers plan to fix the error that has caused the surge in Solana transaction failures on the 15th. He emphasized that the current issues Solana is facing are not design flaws but rather implementation bugs.
Mert Mumtaz explained that the current problem causing the spike in Solana transaction failures is related to the way Solana developers implemented “QUIC,” a data transfer protocol developed by Google that allows all nodes to join the network’s current state.
In Mert Mumtaz’s view, this problem should not be seen as a systemic design flaw. He used the analogy of car design, pointing out that all cars have four wheels and an engine, but “there are many ways to implement car design,” such as BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, F1, and Tesla. If a particular BMW model has poor steering performance, people wouldn’t say that all cars have flaws, but rather that a specific model has a problem that needs to be fixed. Mert Mumtaz stated that similar to this analogy, Solana’s QUIC implementation has specific flaws and errors.
Mert Mumtaz also shared the comments of Solana researcher Richard Patel, who believes that after the implementation of the Firedancer upgrade, Solana will not have the same issues.
The Solana Foundation announced in October last year that Firedancer, the second node validator developed by Jump Crypto, was officially launched on the testnet. The mainnet is expected to be released in the first half of this year. Firedancer aims to reduce the single point risk caused by a single client and improve the diversity of node clients and the stability of the Solana blockchain. It is expected to increase Solana’s throughput by 10-100 times.
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