Solana is a fast, secure, and censorship resistant blockchain providing the open infrastructure required for global adoption.

Solana

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1 Introduction

2 Outline

3 Network Design

4.1 Description

4.2 Timestamp for Events

4.3 Verification

4.4 Horizontal Scaling

4.5 Consistency

4.6 Overhead

4.7.1 Reversal

4.7.2 Speed

4.7.3 Long Range Attacks

4.7 Attacks

4 Proof of History

5.1 Description

5.2 Terminology

5.3 Bonding

5.4 Voting

5.5 Unbonding

5.6 Elections

5.7.1 Forked Proof of History generator

5.7.2 Runtime Exceptions

5.7.3 Network Timeouts

5.7 Election Triggers

5.8 Slashing

5.9 Secondary Elections

5.10 Availability

5.11 Recovery

5.12 Finality

5.13.1 Tragedy of Commons

5.13.2 Collusion with the PoH generator

5.13.3 Censorship

5.13.4 Long Range Attacks

5.13.5 ASIC Attacks

5.13 Attacks

5 Proof of Stake Consensus

6.1 Description

6.2 Algorithm

6.3 Verification

6.4 Key Rotation

6.5 Hash Selection

6.6 Proof Validation

6.7.1 Spam

6.7.2 Partial Erasure

6.7.3 Collusion with PoH generator

6.7.4 Denial of Service

6.7.5 Tragedy of Commons

6.7 Attacks

6 Streaming Proof of Replication

7.1.1 Leader, Proof of History generator

7.1.2 State

7.1.3 Verifier, State Replication

7.1.4 Validators

7.1 Components

7.2 Network Limits

7.3 Computational Limits

7.4 Memory Limits

7.5 High Performance Smart Contracts

7 System Architecture

Solana: A new architecture for a high performance blockchain

Solana: A new architecture for a high performance blockchain v0.8.13

Solana Whitepaper