Jump Crypto’s Firedancer hits Solana mainnet as the network aims to unlock 1 million TPS

Firedancer, a new client implementation for Solana developed by Jump Crypto, has officially gone live on the mainnet after three years of development. This launch is significant because it introduces client diversity, reducing the risk of network outages that could occur if a bug affected the historically dominant clients (Agave and Jito-Agave, which together accounted for over 95% of validators). Firedancer is a complete rewrite of the original client, written in C, utilizing a modular, tile-based architecture to run validator tasks in parallel. This design aims to optimize throughput limits using modern hardware, pushing Solana toward its goal of achieving 1 million transactions per second (TPS). Kevin Bowers of Jump Trading Group previously demonstrated Firedancer's capability to handle over 1 million TPS on commodity hardware. The adoption path may be indicated by the success of the hybrid "Frankendancer" client, which mixes Agave and Firedancer aspects and is already running on over 26% of validators.

(Source：The Block)