• Solana Labs founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko has denied claims that Solana’s network outages were caused by its on-chain voting system.
• Twitter user DBCryptoX suggested that the high volume of validator messages and on-chain votes was clogging the network.
• In response, Yankovenko called the theory as coming from “pure ignorance.”
Solana Network Outage
Solana Labs founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko has denied claims that Solana’s network outages were being caused by a high volume of validator messages and its on-chain voting system clogging its consensus layer.
Root Cause Unknown
The Solana Foundation confirmed in a Feb. 27 post that the “root cause” of the recent 20-hour network outage is still not clear.
Twitter Speculation
Twitter user DBCryptoX posted a thread claiming that the high volume of validator messages and on-chain votes were clogging the network days after Solana’s 20 hour outage.
Yankovenko Denial
In response, Yankovenko called this theory as coming from “pure ignorance”.
Conclusion
The root cause behind Solana’s 20-hour network outage remains unclear, though Yakovenko denies any connection between it and their on-chain voting system.