Solana, a blockchain that specializes in smart contracts, has overworked its system because of a spike in user activity and popularity. It has been argued by such users that it has always been the case and therefore it is their choice to continue using the service.
The founders are promising customers that their developers have already started to address the problem.
Andre Cronje, one of the founders of Fantom, argued in a post on X stating that the Solana’s congestion is actually a positive sign which doesn’t suggest bad things but is just an inevitable challenge to be overcome.
“Seeing a lot of ‘I told you so’s’ against Solana, because *checks notes* Solana currently has so much demand for blockspace that they need to optimize some bottlenecks (which also, by the way, is just an engineering hurdle and not a fault of consensus or any critical component).”He stated.
Last week, Solana experienced a phase where more than 70% of its non-vote transactions encountered failures, leading the network’s co-founder, Raj Gokal, to reassure users that developers were actively addressing the issue.
Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, hinted at the difficulty of high transaction volumes and mentioned that a few days of no trading activities were needed to avoid system failures in the future.
With all the traffic the project faces, the SOL price has improved since the low of $168.07, now $178.01.