After 3 years of development, Firedancer is now live on Solana Mainnet. For 100 days, it has been running on a handful of validators, successfully producing 50,000 blocks.

Solana has activated Firedancer, a new high-performance validator client built by Jump Crypto, on its mainnet after roughly three years of development and staged testing. According to Solana’s announcement, the client has been quietly running on a small set of validators for around 100 days and has successfully produced about 50,000 blocks on mainnet under controlled conditions.

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