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Firedancer
This may be our most ambitious project yet. Our goal is to drastically increase Solana’s networking throughput, efficiency, and resiliency over the next 12 months, with a significantly greater result within 24 months.
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The (Very Real) implications
What are the challenges? More importantly, what are the possibilities? Scale changes everything. Listen to some of the sharpest minds in the business as they discuss what might lie ahead.
Progress
How are we doing so far?
Follow us on Twitter and GitHub, and check back below for regular video updates on our wins and challenges as we strengthen the Solana network.

An Introduction to Jump and Firedancer in 5 Easy Pieces
Breakpoint 2022: Hold Me Closer, Firedancer: Kevin Bowers on Jump’s New Validator Client
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Firedancer Demo: Reading Packets with AF_XDP and QUIC
The Firedancer team shares a milestone completion of Solana’s second validator client about how Firedancer has the potential to improve the network’s performance.

Transaction Ingest Demo & Code Interview
Milestone Update 1.2: Learn about our first testnet milestone "Transaction Ingest" and what it all means.
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How We're Optimizing Firedancer with Branch-Free C Programming
In this tutorial, Josh Siegel lays out why coding in branch-free C supports optimal computing.

A Deeper Dive into Firedancer
Breakpoint 2022: Deep Dive Into Performance Optimization With Kevin Bowers From Jump
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