{"id":12908,"date":"2022-01-18T01:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebluemanakin.com\/blog\/what-is-the-solana-consensus-protocol\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T23:17:19","slug":"what-is-the-solana-consensus-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebluemanakin.com\/en\/blog\/what-is-the-solana-consensus-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Solana consensus protocol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only&nbsp;<strong>Solana AKA \u00abthe&nbsp;ethereum killers<\/strong>\u00bb, but most of the new Blockchain, are based on the PoS consensus platform . Which is basically a replacement for PoW miners in order to validate the next block.<\/p><p>Contrary to what conventional&nbsp;blockchain mining&nbsp;does,&nbsp;<strong>Solana not only uses the Pos protocol, but adds a second consensus process called PoH&nbsp;<\/strong>(Proof of history), which acts as a seal and adds a cryptographically verifiable date, which speeds up the verification process, and leaves validating nodes out.<\/p><p>This is how&nbsp;Solana reaches an operating speed of 400 milliseconds.<\/p><p>One of the milestones of&nbsp;<strong>Solana<\/strong>, over Bitcoin and Ethereum and that is due to the consensus protocols that it integrates, is scalability.<\/p><p>While the structure of Ethereum from its conception was designed prioritizing decentralization and security,&nbsp;<strong>Solana<\/strong>&nbsp;is designed to integrate these three characteristics in an agile way.<\/p><p>The&nbsp;ethereum and bitcoin consensus process, have as a characteristic and main disadvantage compared to solana that they are visibly slower and tend to saturation.<\/p><p>Although&nbsp;Ethereum&nbsp;has on several occasions integrated soft forking fixes in order to resolve saturation issues, the average transaction cost of between 3 and 6 dollars (reaching 70 dlls in 2021) is reason enough for his death to be an announced chronicle.<\/p><p>Of course,&nbsp;Ethereum tends to evolve from PoW to PoS protocol, eventually promising speeds of up to 100,000 TPS. But this integration will last at least a year to be true and we do not know if by that time what the real state of ETH will be, for which things undoubtedly look difficult.<\/p><p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;<strong>Solana currently has more than 400 decentralized projects<\/strong>&nbsp;that can boast a good level of success. The eclipse over ethereum seems to be imminent,&nbsp;<strong>Solana&nbsp;<\/strong>only has to prove that it is an efficient and sufficiently secure payment network.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only Solana AKA \u00abthe ethereum killers\u00bb, but most of the new Blockchain, are based on the PoS consensus platform . 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