Solana Founder Reveals SOL Surpasses Ethereum In This Major Metric
Solana founder, Anatoly Yakovenko has declared that SOL has surpassed Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency in a critical metric – the economic barrier for honest nodes to participate in consensus.
Solana Outpaces Ethereum By 10X In This Metric
According to Yakovenko, the economic barrier for honest nodes to participate in consensus in Solana is 10 times higher than Ethereum’s at the moment. Typically, blockchains like Ethereum and Solana rely on a distributed network of computers, also known as nodes, to validate and record transactions. This entire process is called a consensus and ensures that all nodes in the network work together to maintain the blockchain’s performance and security.
The Solana founder also disclosed that SOL’s expensive nodes are primarily due to the investments Ethereum has made in Boneh-Lynn-Sacham (BLS) aggregation for consensus messages.
The Boneh-Lynn-Sacham is a cryptographic signature scheme leveraged by Ethereum which enables users to verify the level of authenticity of a signer. Notably, the BLS scheme can hold messages independently verified by node validators.
He disclosed that as hardware improves, the lower bound fee to send validator messages to the entire cluster will eventual decrease. As a result, the cost per vote will also decline and Solana’s economic barrier for node participation may drop.
The Solana founder disclosed that establishing voting subcommittees would lower vote fees and potentially reduce the vote load by rotating boxes in and out of the committee.
ETH and SOL Witness Slight Pullback
The price of Ethereum and Solana has been witnessing minor declines, underscoring the waning demand for these cryptocurrencies in the crypto market. As of writing, Solana has recorded a substantial weekly decrease of 12.91%, pushing its price down to $150.5.
