According to a previous report by Zombit, the Solana network has experienced significant delays and a large number of discarded transactions in recent weeks due to the frenzy of meme coin trading, robot trading, and the emergence of the new project Ore.
In Solana’s system, transaction processing works similarly to how IP endpoints and servers function on the internet. Transactions are directly sent to block producers (validators) without waiting in any temporary storage model or mempool before being added to the chain.
However, the excessive amount of spam transactions has overwhelmed the system, resulting in many transactions being lost and unable to be confirmed. Matt Sorg, the technical and product lead at Solana Foundation, admitted that this process in the Solana system has issues, causing users’ transactions to be unreliable and the fee and weight-based transaction system to not work effectively.
To address these problems, the development team is working on formulating effective solutions. Austin Federa, the strategy lead at Solana Foundation, stated that the current network congestion could affect the network infrastructure, thereby impacting users’ interaction with the blockchain. In response to this issue, Anza, the developer of Solana’s Agave validator client, will soon release a series of QUIC solution fixes. These updates aim to improve the client’s performance in handling a large number of requests.
On the other hand, the 1.18 version update planned for April is also a significant step forward. This update will introduce optimization measures to make transaction scheduling clearer, simplify the processing flow, and reduce system bottlenecks.
Furthermore, the introduction of prioritized fees is also under consideration. Currently, many applications running on Solana do not use prioritized fees, leading to transaction delays or no processing at all. Solana Labs mentioned in a blog post in March that integrating dynamic prioritized fees into decentralized applications will help improve user experience.
