
Solana Blockchain Build Crypto Apps that Scale
Description
Solana is a fast, secure, and censorship resistant blockchain providing the open infrastructure required for global adoption.
It’s a Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
There are many ways to contribute to the Solana ecosystem. Build an app, organize an event, or create educational resources to help others learn.
This is a Testnet release. It is not recommended for Mainnet Beta.
Features
Solana can process 50k transactions per second. The best projects in DeFi, Web3, and blockchain gaming choose to build on Solana for the long-term.
Solana leverages Proof of History and several other breakthrough innovations to allow the network to scale at the rate of Moore’s Law.
Never worry about rising fees as your user base grows. Solana is designed to keep fees low for applications with billions of users.
Solana’s single global state ensures composability between projects. Never deal with multiple shards or layer 2 systems.
System requirements
OS version | Windows, Linux, macOS |
CPU | N.D. |
RAM | N.D. |
Disk space | 40 MB |
Update
•Switch command-line-interface to use single-gossip rather than fully finalized
•RPC reliability improvements
•Low validator identity balance alert now settable with –minimum-validator-identity-balance
•Added
getSnapshotSlot
RPC method which provides a convenient method to determine the highest snapshot that a node has available to it•Added
getHealth
RPC method which mimics the/health
REST endpoint, but also provides information about how far behind the validator is•Default command-line to single gossip confirmation for better responsiveness
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Get Signatures Tases
RPC method now includesconfirmationStatus
field•Improved load/store/execute timing messages in validator logs
•Add support for cross-program invocations to program-test
•Improve various RPC’s timeout issues including BigTable backend