"We view this project as the consumer science equivalent of civil engineering," Bowers said of the effort to build the second validator client. He compared the potential impact of Firedancer as akin to expanding a country road into an interstate highway.
Some of the computing power underpinning Solana is running "Frankendancer" software that combines predominant validator tech with new contributions from Jump.
The plan to have two fully independent validators would give Solana a redundancy boost, and potentially a performance edge, too.
Bowers shed little light on when Firedancer would come online, but it is running on testnet, indicating it has achieved minimum viability and is getting close.
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