Jump Crypto's Frankendancer client begins running on Solana mainnet

Solana/Solana mainnet & Firedancer

At Breakpoint 2024, Jump Crypto's chief science officer Kevin Bowers announced Frankendancer was live on Solana mainnet. It is a hybrid validator pairing Jump's new networking and block-production code with the existing Agave runtime and consensus, a step toward the fully independent Firedancer client (on testnet).

• Frankendancer combines Jump's new networking and block production with Agave runtime and consensus.
• Interim step toward Firedancer, Jump's fully new validator client; Firedancer running on testnet.
• Two independent validators (Anza, Jump) provide redundancy and potential performance edge for Solana.
• Validators perform critical transaction ingestion and block construction; Frankendancer contribution improves mainnet reliability.