With a passion for conducting revolutionary research on mission-driven solutions, Matthew Sorg, Product and Tech Leader at Solana Foundation, has been working, along with his team, to build scalable products to improve value for users.
Sorg, through his 12 years of experience, has made his mark across industries such as machine learning, infrastructure, data storage, battery improvements, and scalable decentralized state machines (Solana), focusing on providing life-changing solutions.
Coin Edition interviews Matthew Sorg to understand Solana’s future and the amazing comeback it made.
When you were still new to the team, earlier in 2022, SOL ran into a series of bugs that caused the network to halt. How did ushering in the comeback of Solana feel at that time?
There is a lot of mania and misconceptions about what happened. The “series” was 3 total halts in 2022, amounting to 19 hours total. There wasn’t an entity that turned off the chain as some imply, the halts were caused by the validators not being able to reach a consensus. In order to start the chain again, the 80%+ of stake weight had to enter gossip and vote on the next block. No one entity “…
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