Solana Foundation has officially deployed Firedancer on mainnet, marking a major milestone in improving the network’s resilience and client diversity. Developed by Jump Crypto over three years, Firedancer introduces a new client written in C, reducing centralization risks and lowering the chance that a single software bug could disrupt the entire network.

Built with a modular, parallelized architecture, Firedancer is designed to fully leverage modern hardware and push Solana closer to its long-term goal of processing 1 million transactions per second. The client has already been running in production on a small set of validators for more than 100 days, while a hybrid version, Frankendancer, has rapidly gained traction, now used by over 26% of validators.

Beyond Firedancer, Solana developers are working on further upgrades, including proposals to remove block limits and the upcoming Alpenglow protocol upgrade, which aims to cut block finality times to around 150 milliseconds.