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Solana Firedancer Goes Live on Testnet: Raoul Pal Predicts Bright Future
- Firedancer is a validator client for Solana, to enhance its network efficiency and resiliency alongside the existing Rust-based client.
- Raoul Pal says Firedancer is making him bullish on Solana’s potential trajectory compared to ETH and Bitcoin.
- He emphasised its potential to achieve high transaction speeds and handle diverse applications, from high-frequency trading to social media.
What is Firedancer?
Jump Crypto, in collaboration with the Solana Foundation, is creating Firedancer, a new open-source C++ validator client for Solana (SOL). It’s designed to work alongside Solana Labs’ existing Rust-based client, aiming to bolster the network’s efficiency and reduce single-client validator stake dominance.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko said, “The network can maintain its status as the best place to build in Web3, while scaling to billions of users. I’m excited for Jump’s engineers to bring a new perspective to the network and help improve network resiliency and efficiency.”
Use Cases to Explode
In a recent interview with the Wolf of All Streets, crypto enthusiast Scott Melker, investing legend Raoul Pal stated he was very bullish on Solana given the Firedancer story. Pal admits he didn’t know much about Firedancer until recently but this changed when he heard Anatoly Yakovenko, the founder and CEO of Solana Labs speak about it.
He stated,
“And then Anatoly comes out and he’s speaking and he starts talking about Firedancer and oh, yeah, you know, it’s… we think it can do 600,000 to 1.2 million TPS. And I’m like, what?”
Raoul Pal Pal thought at first this is a new layer-2 until he realised that Firedancer is actually a separate Solana validator which increases the security of the entire chain.
He added,
“So I went back home. I was looking at the charts, which I have been for a long time, with Solana versus ETH and Solana versus Bitcoin. And like this looks like a f****ng rocket ship.”
Raoul Pal High-Frequency Trading a Game Changer?
Pal believes that the development of Firedancer for Solana is a significant advancement, especially since it’s being crafted by experts familiar with high-frequency trading. He said he is impressed by the potential speeds, suggesting Solana could dwarf transaction speeds on platforms like Twitter in terms of transactions per second (TPS).
Pal views this capability as a game-changer, enabling Solana to handle a myriad of applications from high-frequency trading to social media. This broad potential for use cases makes Pal very bullish on Solana and its future prospects.
Firedancer is slated to go live on Mainnet around the second half of 2024.
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Aaron Feuerstein
Aaron Feuerstein is a freelance writer based in Melbourne. His focus is on decentralised finance and the regulatory space surrounding blockchain. He holds a Master's in Accounting. When he is not studying the latest legal case, he enjoys his time as a modest but eager hobby cook.
