Solana CEO refutes allegations of on-chain voting causing network outages

Anatoly Yakovenko, the CEO of Solana Labs, has rejected claims that the Solana network’s recent outages were caused by a large volume of validator messages and on-chain voting clogging up its consensus layer.

Why are votes transactions? Every thread that I've seen that talks about this comes form pure ignorance.

Classic BFT consensus requires quadratic messaging overhead.

The more nodes you have in the same quorum, the part of the network that agrees on the state, the more messages… https://t.co/fNe0Bji7rx
— toly 🇺🇸 (@aeyakovenko) February 27, 2023

While the Solana Foundation has yet to identify the root cause of the 20-hour network outage, Yakovenko took to Twitter to dismiss the theory that the decision to include on-chain votes as transactions was a “massive design flaw.”

1/Yesterday #Solana had another 20 hour outage 🤯

Just one of about a dozen times the ⛓️ has gone down. But why? 🤔

All part of a massive design flaw that I will try to break down in this 🧵

So let’s get into it… pic.twitter.com/KmeUPnnlZJ
— DBCrypto⚡️ (@DBCrypt0) February 26, 2023

He stated that the single giant quorum contributed to an exceptional level of security, high throughput, and low fees.

While not disputing that the majority of Solana transactions comprise validator messages and on-chain votes, Yakovenko disputed the notion that they have caused system slowdowns.

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