Cutting corners, or “kissing a couple of frogs in your design,” according to Yakovenko, is the only way to ship on time. Such statements imply that security, reliability, and robustness are not top priorities for Yakovenko.
Solana co-founders lady’s and gentleman. Describing why Cardano isn’t completely broken like Solana. His secret “you’ve got to swallow” @IOHK_Charles @cardano_whale @Darth___ADA @TheADAApe pic.twitter.com/xgnVVBH2eQ
— Darth Boomer 🦇🔊 🔄 (@spudiot1) June 2, 2022
It’s unclear when the video was shot. The tweet, however, was sent shortly after another Solana Network outage.
The Solana Network suffered another outage
On June 1, Solana’s Twitter confirmed that a “bug in the durable nonce transactions feature” had halted the entire network.
“Earlier today a bug in the durable nonce transactions feature led to nondeterminism when nodes generated different results for the same block, which prevented the network from advancing.“
By the evening of June 1, the network had been restored following a “restart of the Mainnet Beta.” Two hours later, a second update requested validators to upgrade software versions.
Last month, bots exploited a flaw in Candy Machine NFT minting protocol, causing a flood of traffic. Network congestion, which reached 4 million inbound transactions per second, disrupted consensus and crashed nodes.
Solana’s uptime tracker shows 12 instances of downtime this year, three of which were major outages.
As expected, social media was flooded with negative feedback. The frequent network outages were a recurring theme in the comments, casting doubt on the project’s viability.
What did Yakovenko have to say?
Yakovenko stated in the video that he is familiar with Cardano and has previously done Haskell programming.
However, as he examined their approach to building blockchain technology, Yakovenko described it as “esoteric,” meaning highly specialised and appealing to/understood by a small niche. He went on to say that Cardano’s unwavering focus on correctness is the reason it will never ship.
“The approach they’re taking is so extremely like, esoteric, with such a huge stick up their *ss about correctness. This is why they’re never going to ship.”
To Yakovenko, getting things done is paramount, even if it means kissing frogs along the way.
“As an engineer that has to ship code, and get paid for it, it’s just that stuff doesn’t work. You gotta like, swallow, you know, kiss a couple of frogs in your design and ship stuff and just get it done…”
To date, the Cardano chain has had 100% network uptime.
