Solana Validators, Engineers Grapple With Blockchain Slowdown on Public Call

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Solana Validators, Engineers Grapple With Blockchain Slowdown on Public Call
Solana’s superfast blockchain slowed to a relative crawl Thursday morning due to a mysterious congestion event that spurred debates about centralization, communication and transparency at the ecosystem’s critical stakeholder, Solana Labs.Those tensions were on display midday after validators, peeved by slowdowns to Solana’s claimed Nasdaq-like speed, joined an impromptu roundtable. The problem was simple: a network that usually processes over 2,000 transactions per second was stumbling along at speeds below 500. (Ethereum processes around 15 per second.)The issues had been mostly resolved by Thursday evening, but not before around 35 community members attended a public video chat, including a CoinDesk…