The Solana side has started receiving bad feedback from the community after operations stopped for almost 20 hours due to the network upgrade. The team behind the blockchain stated that the glitch was fixed on the second attempt.
Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO of Solana Labs, however, stated that the platform plans to improve network upgrades.
Prior to the 1.14 release, core engineers focused on resolving issues affecting Solana's speed and usability. These include illegal gas metering, lack of flow control for transactions, and lack of fee markets, among other technical issues. Therefore, improving the user experience is an afterthought.
However, in a recent post on their website, Yakovenko said the goal of core engineers now is to work with verifiers to improve the software release release process by bringing in additional external developers and auditors to test and find exploits and continue to support external core engineers.
As part of the plan, a new team was also formed to double down on building additional hooks and instrumentation into validator code to help detect underlying protocol-crossing exploits.
Improving the restart process is another area that the core engineering team will work on. Meanwhile, Yakovenko went on to say Solana Labs has been working with a third-party core engineering team to focus on stability.
With the calamitous outage, Solana's total NFT sales were recorded at 84.8 million, down 57% over the past 30 days. Other data also revealed that transactions also decreased by almost 30% in the same period, but the number of buyers and sellers recorded an increase.
