PANews reported on May 11 that Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana ecosystem development platform Helius, said on the X platform that only four of the top 20 staking validators have upgraded to the latest patch of the Solana network, version v1.17.3 (which helps solve congestion issues).

In addition, trent.sol, a core developer of Anza, the development team responsible for handling Solana’s network congestion, said that the adoption rate of Solana Mainnet Beta v1.17.33 reached 32.4%.