Solana network ‘nowhere near where we expect it to be’ — Solana Foundation exec

Austin Federa, head of strategy at the Solana Foundation, addresses concerns around the latest network outages in an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph.

The goal of the Solana project is to build the world’s fastest network that is open, permissionless and decentralized — but that goal is still far away, admitted Austin Federa, head of strategy at the Solana Foundation. 

“From a user experience perspective, the network is nowhere near where we sort of hope and expect it to be,” Federa told Cointelegraph during an interview on the sidelines of Paris Blockchain Week. 

According to Federa, the congestion that has plagued Solana is a byproduct of its success, which has been driving an unexpectedly high amount of activity to the network.

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