Why One Solana Builder Is Still Optimistic About the Network - Ep. 606
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.\n\nOn 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.\nLucas, 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\u2019s 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.\xa0\nShow highlights:\n\nWhat caused the Solana blockchain\u2019s outage this week\n\nWhether Solana needs to have better quality control\xa0\n\nWhether the halt of the network affects the builders in the space\n\nWhat recent developments in the infrastructure surrounding Solana give Lucas confidence in the network\n\nWhether the Firedancer client that\u2019s now in development would have prevented this week\u2019s outage\n\nThe promise of the Solana phone\n\nWhether the network going down presents a setback for the Solana community in terms of recognition and momentum\n\nWhether financial companies will consider using Solana if these issues keep occurring\n\nThank you to our sponsors!\n\nPopcorn Network\n\niTrustCapital\n\nPolkadot\n\nGuest\n\nLucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs\nLinks\n\nRecent coverage of Unchained on Solana:\n\nJupiter Founder Meow to Critics of JUP Airdrop: \u2018Give Me a Break\u2019\n\nThree Crypto Pioneers on Crypto\u2019s Monolithic vs. Modular Debate\n\nAnatoly Yakovenko on Solana\u2019s Astounding Recovery and Its Future Plans\n\nOutage\n\nUnchained: Solana Back Online Again After Suffering 5-Hour Outage\n\n\nMatthew Sigel\u2019s explanation for why the outage happened\n\nMert\u2019s tweet on how Solana prioritizes security over liveness\n\nCoinDesk: Can We All Stop Pretending That Solana Is in Beta?\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices