The State of Solana at Breakpoint 2024
Dig into the latest updates from the Solana ecosystem as of Breakpoint 2024.
Reports
Energy Impact Report: September 2024
A look at the impact of the Solana ecosystem on the environment, and how the Solana Foundation and ecosystem teams are working to mitigate it.
Network Performance Report: March 2024
A March 2024 review of the Solana's network performance and upgrades being made to strengthen the network.
02-06-24 Solana Mainnet Beta Outage Report
On 2024-02-06 at 09:53 UTC Solana Mainnet Beta block finalization halted.
The 2023 State of the Solana Developer Ecosystem
A look into the health of the Solana developer ecosystem.
Solana network carbon neutral with onchain credits
The Solana Foundation announces the purchase of carbon offsets through ecoToken and Sunrise Stake.
Validator Health Report: October 2023
A data-driven analysis of the health of the Solana validator network.
Network Performance Report: July 2023
A July 2023 review of the Solana's network performance and upgrades being made to strengthen the network.
Solana’s Energy Use Report: November 2021
The average Solana transaction takes less energy than many other common household activities.
Snapshot: State of the Network
A snapshot of the performance of the Solana network as of Nov. 17, 2022.
Measuring Developer and User Activity on Solana: December 2022
How do we keep track of how many people are building on Solana? The Developer Relations Team shares their methodology.
Announcing real time emissions measurement on the Solana blockchain
Trycarbonara enables users to see emissions data down to the validator level.
02-25-23 Solana Mainnet Beta Outage Report
On February 25th 2023 at approximately 05:46:16 UTC, the Solana Mainnet Beta cluster began to experience long block finalization times.
Solana Foundation Validator Health Report: March 2023
A data-driven analysis of the health of the Solana validator network
Network Performance Report: October 2022
A review of the Solana network's performance, and upgrades being made to strengthen the network.
09-30-22 Solana Mainnet Beta Outage Report
At approximately 22:41 UTC on Friday, Sep. 30, the Solana Mainnet Beta cluster halted when the network was unable to recover from a fork caused by a bug in the consensus algorithm implementation. Block production resumed at approximately 6:57 UTC on Saturday after a coordinated restart, and network operators continued to restore client services over the next several hours. What caused the outage? * Due to a validator operator’s malfunctioning hot-spare node, which the operator had deployed
Solana’s Energy Use Report: September 2022
Overall network emissions increased while emissions per validator decreased, reflecting new measurements of e-waste, improved methodology, and validator network growth.
Validator Health Report: August 2022
A data-driven analysis of the health of the Solana validator network
06-01-22 Solana Mainnet Beta Outage Report
At approximately 16:30 UTC on Wednesday, June 1, Solana’s Mainnet Beta cluster ceased producing blocks as result of stalled consensus, caused by a bug in the durable nonce transactions feature. Over the next four and a half hours, validator operators worked to identify the point of furthest progress and collectively instituted a restart of the network, which resulted in durable nonce transactions being temporarily disabled. Block production resumed at 21:00 UTC the same day, and network operat
Solana’s Energy Use Report: March 2022
Average emissions per validator shrank, while Solana’s overall carbon footprint grew because of network growth.