The Solana Foundation has announced several recommendations that developers should follow to cope with the high usage the network is currently experiencing. The foundation recommended the implementation of priority fees and a series of optimizations to avoid losing trades. An improved transaction scheduler is also expected to be included in the next update.
Solana Foundation makes recommendations for optimized block use
The Solana Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the adoption of the Solana ecosystem, has made some recommendations to ensure the “high performance” of the Solana network, which has seen high usage in recent weeks , to keep. While Solana hasn’t stopped due to this congestion, app developers can implement several tools and techniques to maintain this “sustained high performance,” including implementing priority compensation.
Due to the properties of the blockchain, many Solana apps still have not implemented priority fees, prompting validators to schedule one transaction over the other. These fees are paid in micro-lamports, fractions of SOL, and must be added to the standard fee of each transaction.
The foundation states that implementing rate prioritization will “help address user experience issues,” avoiding or minimizing the occurrence of abandoned or delayed transactions.
Other measures can also help optimize block usage, such as reducing the amount of resources used by apps to increase the chances of transactions reaching the network. The foundation also stated that prioritizing transactions going through a staked validator to provide additional sybil resistance would also help the network function properly.
Nevertheless, a new and improved transaction scheduler, expected to be released experimentally in mid-April, could be the best way to solve the current network congestion. According to Rex St. John, responsible for developer relations at Anza, this implementation corrects the current scheduler’s problem in dealing with conflicting transactions, which slows down its performance.
St. John stated:
It’s a bit like hungry, hungry hippos… It creates a bit of confusion and it takes time to settle down.
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