The Firedancer has already deployed its full version in the Solana main net, which is a massive milestone to the network.
The validator client is built to increase the speed of transactions and faster decentralized applications, after months of testing and other applications have not been adopted much.
Kevin Bowens, of Jump Cargo, proclaimed the live launch at the Solana Breakpoint conference in Abu Dhabi. Firedancer already has momentum running on more than 20% of the validators and is likely to transform the ecosystem of Solana validators.
BREAKING: After 3 years of development, Firedancer is now live on Solana Mainnet, and has been running on a handful of validators for 100 days, successfully producing 50,000 blocks pic.twitter.com/Y0WxxEj2WL
— Solana (@solana) December 12, 2025
Firedancer increases the performance of Solana
The new Firedancer client will boost the transaction capability of Solana with the capacity of one million transactions per second under test environments. This growth makes Firedancer the most ambitious competing client in the network.
Validators were once based on the Agave client and other Frankendancer, Jito, Mithril, Sig, and Tinydancer. Firedancer has now become a member of this group, and it presents a very efficient solution, which may affect decentralization of the network. The Alpenglow upgrade is yet to be received and can even enhance consensus among validators.
Increasing power of the validators
Firedancer launched in its full version, expanding to the validators that ran the incomplete Frankendancer version. | Source: Blockworks
Firedancer has established itself as the most powerful alternative client on Solana. Although the current Agave client is still used on most nodes, most have now switched to the full Firedancer client instead of Frankendancer. Solana has 841 validators at present, compared to a high of over 1,300 (including small-scale operators and large platforms such as Jito).
This implementation indicates an increasing trust in Firedancer by validators, especially those whose interests are high. Its existence will most likely become central to the development of a validator landscape of the network within the next few months.
Staking the possibilities is deferring
In 2026, competition with staked SOL may occur with the launch of Firedancer. Competitors already have compelling passive income products to sell, and SOL staking will become even more significant to institutions and in-store treasuries.
The use of Firedancer by high conviction believers implies that it may turn into a powerful narrative in the Solana ecosystem. This notwithstanding, the primary net launch has not made significant gains on the price of SOL, which is currently trading at $137.61 after the recent market shocks.
The new client preconditions the future increase in participation in the validators and competition in staking. The Solana network is actively developed as engineers and validators are adding Firedancer and looking forward to future upgrades.
The post Firedancer Upgrade Goes Live on Solana Main Net first appeared on Coinfea.
