Solana Foundation’s Dan Albert highlighted the network’s distributed block-producing nodes, arguing that coordinating a patch does not mean centralization.
Solana Foundation’s executive director, Dan Albert, argued at a Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2024 roundtable that the ability to coordinate a patch does not mean that the Solana network is centralized, pushing back against recent claims that the network is not decentralized.
On Aug. 9, Solana validator Laine shared the details of a critical vulnerability that they believe could’ve halted the network. The validators coordinated the patch behind the scenes, claiming that an attacker could reverse engineer the vulnerability and take the network down if it leaked.
Because the patch was distributed quietly and coordination happened behind the scenes, some questioned the network’s decentralization.
