Solana Foundation Rebuts Centralization Claims Amid Patch Controversy

• Some doubted the decentralization of the network due to the covert distribution of the patch.
• Albert addressed that a security hole necessitated the deployment of a patch.

At a Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2024 panel, Dan Albert, executive director of the Solana Foundation, pushed back against accusations that the Solana network is not decentralized, arguing that the capacity to coordinate a patch does not indicate that the network is centralized.

The specifics of a serious vulnerability that might have stopped the network were revealed by Solana validator Laine on August 9th. Behind the scenes, the fix was managed by the validators. Who claimed that an attacker might use the vulnerability’s disclosure to take the network down via reverse engineering. Some doubted the decentralization of the network due to the covert distribution of the patch. And the cooperation that went into it.

Coordination Over a Bug Fix

Moreover, at the KBW 2024, Albert addressed a query by saying that a security hole necessitated the deployment of a patch. Also, the executive from Solana Foundation verified that the bug has the ability to trigger a liveness problem on the Solana mainnet.

Albert countered that the ability to coordinate a bug fix does not indicate a centralized network. Albert conceded that some businesses run more than one node.

Nevertheless, the patch coordination was made possible by the Solana Foundation’s capacity to communicate with the node operators. Whom he characterized as community and ecosystem actors. He went on to say that there were other times when they had talked with them.

In the end, these validators pick which software to execute, according to the executive director. They have never requested that anybody use closed-source binaries, and Albert said that the patch was open-source. Albert stressed again that centralization is not the same as being able to freely connect with them.

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