Solana Firedancer Goes Live on Mainnet; Tower BFT Officially Deprecated
Full Firedancer client is now live and active on Solana mainnet with ~13% of stake already running it, marking a major milestone for the network's client diversity and performance.
What we know
Solana co-founder @toly reacted with excitement to confirmation that 'full firedancer is alive and active on mainnet post-ag with ~13% stake already running it.' He also eulogized the deprecated Tower BFT as 'TBTF' (too big to fail) and joked it was 'so good that no user noticed the difference' — implying the transition was seamless. A joke circulated that Tower was 'secured by the number 4' referencing a security-through-obscurity gag. Separately, toly RT'd the news that 'they put a whole blockchain on timeout.'
Sources
“😻😻😻 [reacting to: full firedancer is alive and active on mainnet post ag with ~13% stake already running it]”
View post →“Tower wasn't BFT but it was TBTF”
View post →“Tower was so good that no user noticed the difference 😝😝😝”
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