Solana's Roadmap for Mass Adoption: Mobile, Reliability, and Scalability
Solana has big plans for mass adoption, and co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko laid out the roadmap at the recent Breakpoint 2022 conference in Lisbon. According to Yakovenko, the main obstacles to adoption are a lack of mobile compatibility, reliability issues, and scalability challenges. Here's what Solana is doing to tackle these issues.
Mobile
Currently, most cryptocurrencies are tied to desktop usage, but many people primarily use their mobile devices to access the internet. The problem is that the business models for web3 aren't compatible with app store business models, which often don't allow for true digital ownership. To make mobile more crypto-friendly, Solana is developing the Mobile Stack and the Solana dApp Store, which will be available on the Android-compatible Saga phone. The developer devices (DVT-1) have already shipped, and the Solana dApp Store will accept its first applications in January, with Saga phones for the general public shipping in early 2023.
Reliability
Solana ran into a series of bugs in early 2022 that caused the network to halt, so the engineering team has been focused on improving reliability ever since. Network upgrades, including QUIC and stake-weighted QoS, are already being rolled out, and local fee markets will allow users to pay a little extra to have their transactions processed first. Community projects like Jito and Mango are also working to improve reliability. In the future, Solana plans to implement one-click upgrades and use the power of staking to make the network more resilient.
Scalability
Solana's current capacity is around 65,000 transactions per second, but the team aims to increase that to millions. To do this, they plan to implement the following:
- An upgrade to the consensus protocol to allow for transaction batching and parallelism
- The ability to execute transactions off-chain and then anchor them on-chain
- A new sharding approach that allows for parallel processing and faster consensus
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