A new public control test broke out around Solana, which is still labeling its main “beta” more than five years after the launch. The last flash point took place on X, where the director general of Helius Labs, Mert Mumtaz, fought with a pseudonym Balarchrex critic on the meaning of the beta label, the opacity of the foundation portfolios and the real extent of the diversity of customers on the network of soil validator.
Why is Solana still in beta version?
The exchange started when Balarchrex accused Mumtaz and the co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, of having avoided three controversial subjects: “Solana being still in beta, the wallets of the Solana Foundation not being public (and) Solana having a single customer.” He rejected Firedancer – The validator client under development by Jump Crypto – like a little more than vaporware. Mumtaz, who directs an eminent Solana infrastructure company, replied that the beta label “is arbitrary and devoid of meaning”, arguing that the chain “already makes more scale and income than all the chains combined in” beta “.
The pressure quickly moved to transparency. Balarchrex demanded chain accounting of the Solana Foundation assets, warning that “no institution will never take soil seriously as an investment when they do not know how much soil flows on them”. Mumtaz aut that market behavior suggests the opposite: “So why buy it and explain it? Curious.” He added that observers can “easily understand a range of the amount of foundation”, but stopped providing wallet addresses or precise balances.
The diversity of customers has become the third rail of the conversation. Mumtaz has listed three customers already broadcast on Mainnet – “Agave, Jito -Agave, Frankendancer” – and noted that Firedancer “is already in the course of testing and will be live Q3 / Q4”. In his opinion, the presence of several independent teams contributes to the quality of the code: “Jito / Anza regularly discovers new bugs before going to production; Having 2 independent teams working on the same basic code and repairing it now is a random problem? ”
Balarchrex rejected agave and jito-agave as “just forks of the original Solana code” and supported statistics on the adoption of the validator. Mumtaz has pointed out criticisms of dashboards accessible to the public such as Solanabeach and the validators.
The beta label, however, refused to fade from the discussion. Balarchrex has resurfaced a recent screenshot of status which still includes the “beta” in the construction name Mainnet and asked why the term resurfaces “each time Solana falls”. Mumtaz replied that Balarchrex had “hallucinated this entirely”, saying that the chain has dropped once in 2 years (and this was due to a devops problem) and that it already said that the name should be deleted several times. “”
While the temperatures fleated, the debate turned into personal beards. Balarchrex summed up its position: “Solana is still in beta version … Validator customers are the same original code with minor modifications … You still have not approached my points.” Mumtaz rejected criticism as “seizing the straws”, reiterating that the nomenclature has no impact on the preparation of the production of the network and suggesting that anyone who was worried about the tokens supply should “sell your soil if you are worried, I will buy it with pleasure”.
At the time of the press, Sol exchanged $ 148.
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