On February 6, 2024, there was a Solana blockchain outage that lasted 5 hours. Transactions completely stopped during this time. The outage was fixed with an update to the Solana Labs validator code to version 1.17.20.

There were a few things we noticed that were astray, some things that have been obviously going on for years, but things that Nikita thinks shouldn't be happening in 2024.

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The Coindesk article mentioned:

You can check the Solana validator numbers here at solanabeach.io. At the time of recording there were over 1600 active validators and a superminority of 21.

The Two Solana validator clients:

• Solana Labs Validator client
• The Solana-Jito Labs validator client that is basically a copy-paste of the Solana Labs Validator. If you'd like us to cover the MEV component of this, please let us know!

The two teams that are working on new Solana validator clients (this is good news if you're a Solana fan):

• Agave by Anza scheduled for release late 2024
• Firedancer by Jump Crypto (in development as of time of writing)

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