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The feeling in the air was one of the expectations of a reset as the Solana community descended on Pier 36 in New York for the Accelerate Conference.
Solana’s proposals on technology and investment outlook, which seemed like a consensus just six months ago, are now stripping the style.
For one, there is the calming effect of Firedancer. The client of Jump Development was once spoken in semi-religious terms by Solana fans. With the launch of the software, Solana has to make 1 million transactions per second.
The implementation of a partial firing player called a Frankendancer is live, but so far they have struggled to get adoption. Currently, only 5% of Solana’s shares are run on clients. Firedancer is launching an equity representative program similar to what the Solana Foundation offers to Agave, probably in the hopes of growing a slice of Pie.
Jump’s R&D head Kevin Bauers spoke to accelerate the kickoff, but was hidden by a talk from another client developer. On Monday, Anza’s research head announced Alpenglow, which announced a major overhaul of Solana’s consensus protocol.
In short, some of the Solana Validator community paraphrases Taylor Swift and discovers that the client they dreamed of has been here the whole time.
I came across Max Resnick, Anza’s lead economist at Accelerate. He said the developer shop must prune and iron with the code from the original Solana client. It’s difficult to land Transactions on the network before testing frontier ideas like Alpenglow.
It also clearly showed that for many at Solana-Land, ETF approval was proven. Major tailwinds For assets. It doesn’t seem to necessarily be the case anymore as companies like microstrategy make the main sols Financial purchases.
Some investors made a lot of money by betting non-consensus on SOL after the collapse of FTX. Today, the Solana Network looks more consensus than before, so traditional wisdom within the ecosystem is heading towards your mind.
