- Introducing Frankendancer and Firedancer Validators
- Frankendancer is Now Live on Solana Mainnet
- Multiple Validators For Decentralization
After much anticipation, the Firedancer validator has gone live on testnet. This was announced by Jump Trading chief scientist Kevin Bowers during the Solana Breakpoint conference.
Introducing Frankendancer and Firedancer Validators
Firedancer is an independent validator client or software validators can run to build the blockchain. It is being developed by Jump Trading, as opposed to the original Solana Labs validator client, now called Agave. Currently, there are two clients: Frankendancer and Firedancer. The first one is a slightly more performant version of the Agave client, while the other is a wholly new client.
Frankendancer is Now Live on Solana Mainnet
While Firedancer has gone live on the testnet, Frankendancer is already live on the mainnet. According to Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, once Firedancer goes to mainnet, removing the 'beta' qualifier from Solana’s 'mainnet-beta' status will be considered.
Multiple Validators For Decentralization
Solana seeks to have fully independent validators. One will be from the Anza team, and another from Jump. This will provide Solana with redundancy and improved performance. Bowers mentioned that the effort to build a second validator is akin to consumer science equivalent of civil engineering.
The launch of the new Firedancer validator on testnet is a significant step towards enhancing the Solana ecosystem and its decentralization.
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