Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs, shares insights into the recent Solana blockchain outage that interrupted five hours of service. He discusses the technical bugs that led to the disruption and raises concerns about quality control. Despite these challenges, Lucas expresses optimism regarding Solana's advancements and ongoing projects like the Firedancer client aimed at enhancing system resilience. He also highlights the potential of the new Solana phone, which seeks to revolutionize app store dynamics and cryptocurrency asset management.
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Cause of Solana Outage
A bug in Solana's validator client's translator code caused the network outage.
This translator caches program translations to improve runtime speed.
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Solana Bug Type
The Solana outage was a software bug unrelated to network load or other known issues.
Improved quality control and testing are necessary for the Solana network's stability.
On Tuesday, Solana suffered a network outage, just shy of a year since its last shutdown. The blockchain had to quickly get a new version out and notify its validators to upgrade to it and restart their systems before blocks could be produced again, resulting in downtime of roughly five hours. This was previously something that had happened regularly to the blockchain, but seemed to have been largely addressed over the past year.
Lucas, the CEO of Jito Labs, which builds infrastructure for Solana and staged a highly successful airdrop last year that helped rejuvenate the blockchain, joined Unchained to discuss what caused the outage, whether it’s something that builders on Solana should be concerned about for the future, recent improvements Solana has made to its technology, whether the implementation of Firedancer would have prevented this incident, and the promise of the Solana phone.
Show highlights:
What caused the Solana blockchain’s outage this week
Whether Solana needs to have better quality control
Whether the halt of the network affects the builders in the space
What recent developments in the infrastructure surrounding Solana give Lucas confidence in the network
Whether the Firedancer client that’s now in development would have prevented this week’s outage
The promise of the Solana phone
Whether the network going down presents a setback for the Solana community in terms of recognition and momentum
Whether financial companies will consider using Solana if these issues keep occurring
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