The Solana Foundation announced that the independent validator client Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto since 2022, has gone live on the Solana mainnet, creating a parallel implementation alongside the client ecosystem that previously accounted for over 95% of validator shares, primarily occupied by Agave and Agave-Jito, aiming to reduce the software risks associated with single-client centralization. This client adopts a modular parallel architecture, with the goal of enhancing hardware utilization and supporting higher throughput. Kevin Bowers, the chief scientist at Jump Trading Group, demonstrated in 2024 that it can handle over 1 million transactions per second in a general hardware environment. (The Block)