Firedancer

Built from the ground up for performance.

A new validator client for Solana

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Fast, Secure and Independent.

Firedancer is a new Solana validator client written entirely in C, designed from the ground up to be highly performant.

Part Agave | Part Firedancer

An intermediate milestone that enables testing and deployment before Firedancer is fully implemented.

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How it works, from Neodyme’s Security Audit  Read the full Security Audit.

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Release Notes

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Media Mentions & News

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Validated: Firedancer w/ Kevin Bowers

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November 6, 2025

Firedancer | Technical Walkthrough

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November 6, 2025

Solana Spotlight: Firedancer v0 Architecture

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November 6, 2025

IBRL (Increase Bandwidth, Reduce Latency)

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November 6, 2025

Dropped Transactions & Empty Blocks

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November 6, 2025