Key Highlights
- 14, 2025 at 12:38 pm UTC Share Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate.
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- After three years of development, Firedancer went live on Solana mainnet in December 2024, having already produced 50,000 blocks across 100 days of testing on a handful of validators. The milestone, announced Dec.
- 12 by Solana's official account, marks more than a performance upgrade.
- It represents the network's first real attempt to eliminate the architectural bottleneck that has underpinned its most damaging outages: near-total reliance on a single validator client. Solana has spent years marketing sub-second finality and four-figure transaction-per-second throughput, but speed means little when 70% to 90% of the network's consensus power runs the same software. A critical bug in that dominant client can halt the entire chain, regardless of how fast it theoretically runs.
