Solana April 15 Targeted TX Fix – ‘Not a Design Flaw’

Solana's developers are targeting April 15th to fix an “implementation bug” that recently caused a spike in transaction failure rates on Solana.

“Solana's current issue is not a design flaw, but an implementation error,” emphasized Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helios Labs, a blockchain infrastructure firm that provides back-end support exclusively for the Solana network.

“It is important to make this distinction because implementation errors are often simple [while] Design errors are generally more serious and more fundamental,” Mumtaz explained to his 108,000 X followers on April 8.

Data shows that more than 75% of voiceless Solana transactions failed on April 4 amid the recent memecoin mania on the network, but that figure has since fallen to 64.8%.

Mumtaz said the issue concerns the way Solana developers have implemented QUIC – a Google-developed data transfer protocol that involves all nodes in the current state of the network.

But this implementation issue should not be seen as a general design flaw, Mumtaz said, using car design as an example to explain the situation.

All cars have four wheels and one engine, but “there are many applications of the design of the car,” he explained, such as BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, F1 and Tesla.

If a BMW model has poor steering, we don't say “all cars are defective” – ​​rather, we say that a particular model is defective and needs to be repaired.

Similarly, Mumtaz explained that Solana's QUIC implementation in its current state has certain flaws and errors.

“However, this does not mean that ‘Solana' has a design flaw – it means that it has chosen a very difficult implementation for this part of the design.”

In other words, Solana needs to change the wheel rather than create an entirely new model or network in blockchain terms.

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Mumtaz shared the opinion of Solana researcher Richard Patel, who believes that the Firedancer implementation will not face the same problems.

The fix will take place on April 15, if no further problems occur during testing, Mumtaz pointed out.

Cointelegraph reached out to Mumtaz to find out exactly what the April 15 fix entails, but did not get an immediate response.

Solana's network failures fueled public concern that while Solana's native token (SOL) has a market cap of $79.9 billion, an additional $4.6 billion worth is locked up in the network.

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