Scenes From a Firedancer Validator
summary
Full Firedancer validator written purely in C is live on testnet and running as a non‑voting mainnet node, having built tens of thousands of blocks and voted on over 10 million blocks while reaching about 1% stake and several days of continuous uptime; validators.app (Block Logic) charts show root/vote distances and skip rates comparable to Agave peers. Demonstrations include a ~36,000‑tx block (~90k effective TPS), token blocks ~19k TPS, a Nano token block ~54k TPS, a 12‑node cluster (80 cores, 512 GB RAM each, Jump Global network) hitting 1 million TPS of basic tx, 1.2 billion compute units/s, 3.5 Gbit/s block space, and 500k tx/s of Nano token executions; RPC remains pre‑alpha.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Fire Dancer validator progress
- 2:54Validator performance metrics
- 6:43RPC service demo
- 7:25Large block performance
- 12:16Cluster setup
- 15:25High-performance demo intro
- 17:10Demo one million transactions per second
- 20:231B compute units demo
- 21:26Demo three point five gigabits block space
- 22:30500M SVM transactions demo
- 23:52Concluding remarks and future outlook
- 24:55Fire Dancer on mainnet
