cardano-node VS solana

I feel like Solarpunk and Cardano are weirdly intertwined. Out of all the crypto ecosystems, I feel Cardano is the most likely to facilitate a solarpunk future. It's through my involvement in the Cardano ecosystem, I learnt about Solarpunk

According to Adonis Network's news, In his latest tweet, the founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, mentioned the recent developments of the Cardano network and described it as very exciting. appear “It's exciting to see things moving so quickly in the Cardano ecosystem. Sidechains including Cosmos djed launching soon, Hydra and Mithril are on schedule, Lace is almost out of beta, and thousands of DApps are coming online.

Here's the conversation of the bug. Quite interesting. https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/issues/4826

Anybody that wants to follow the details of the conversation around the investigation can do so here

You can follow the conversation here

Here is the link https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/issues/4826

The git issue has a lot of data reported by the operators. I think they have a selection of logging and monitoring tools available to them.

Solana

With the introduction of new and advanced blockchain platforms in the Web 3.0 scene, the narrative around Ethereum has slowly shifted towards its younger “Ethereum Alternatives”. Solana, Avalanche, and MultiversX (former Elrond) are some of the crypto blockchains that are given this terminology, as they share similar features but are comparatively cheaper and better than Ethereum.

Some topics that may be discussed in the next call include @ShinobiSystems Timely Vote Credits proposal (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/master/docs/src/proposals/timely-vote-credits.md), @elusivprivacy new built-in cryptographic operations to accelerate ZK verification (for privacy tech), and feature activation coordination standards.

2) Improved throughput. There are a few different algorithms that have been developed by Jito Labs and Solana Labs to improve the amount of parallelism happening during block packing (when a leader validator builds a block from transactions) and replay (when other validators replay blocks to make sure they're good). Solana validators have super good hardware but we don't even use that many of the cpu threads for actually executing transactions, and the current block space limits (48 million compute units) were conceived for the use of 4 cpu threads (our validator server has 48 cpu threads). The older block packing algorithm was also really bad at handling situations where a certain transaction type was spammed heavily (nft mints for example) and degraded parallelism. Anyway, it seems that these newer replay algorithms are over 2x better than the current implementations -- you can find more about them in the depths of github or discord. Some seem close to production-ready and I think we will see faster confirmation times and increasing of the block compute limits. ABIv2 is another architectural change that will substantially improve throughput as well (afaik) but I know less on this subject. I'm not sure when this will be ready but I've heard that the earlier half of the year is the target https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/issues/27384. There are other upcoming changes to look forward to, but it's probably best to summarize in another post.

Lastly, Algorand IS fast: 6k TPS with 3.7s blocks, soon 10k TPS with 2.5s, and in a not-too-distant future 46k TPS, all of which with instant finality. Algorand IS cheap, and actually exactly as cheap as Solana now ($0.00025/txn: https://solana.com/ & https://metrics.algorand.org/#/protocol/), but with the added benefit that all transactions (whether they're NFTs, non-native assets, or using smart-contracts) are handled the same by the protocol, so same speed and same fees as regular payments. Lastly, Algorand IS clean: it's so clean in fact that it's almost carbon-neutral on a regular basis, but really it's carbon negative because fees are automatically used to offset the remaining carbon emissions with ClimateTrade (see this report, even though it doesn’t take into account recent upgrades in scalability and not comparing smart-contract transactions, so Algorand would be first on top in reality: https://arxiv-export1.library.cornell.edu/pdf/2109.03667).

A handful of blockchains have emerged in recent years to provide alternative platforms to Ethereum. These blockchains are commonly referred to as “Ethereum Killers”. They include Solana, Cardano, and Avalanche.

Solana has been making news quite often lately. The Solana Foundation has recently announced the launch of its flagship Android phone, Solana Mobile and opening physical stores for crypto enthusiasts. Even more recently, the Helium network proposed moving operations to the Solana blockchain. Helium (HNT) is a decentralized, blockchain powered network that operates as an alternative wireless internet service. HNT has a fully diluted market cap of $800M. You can read the full proposal here.