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2018

On February 13th of 2018, Greg began prototyping the first open source implementation of Anatoly's whitepaper.

In June of 2018, the team scaled up the technology to run on cloud-based networks and on July 19th, published a 50-node, permissioned, public testnet consistently supporting bursts of 250,000 transactions per second.

The resulting project was published to GitHub under the name Silk in 2018.

2021

On the 14th of September 2021, Solana crashed following an upsurge of transactions that caused the blockchain to fork.

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Founded
2017
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Anatoly Yakovenko,Greg Fitzgerald,Eric Williams,Rajiv Gokal,Alan Yu,Stephen Akridge,Zed Zed
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