{"id":1859,"date":"2023-04-21T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solanacrypto.news\/2023\/04\/21\/solana-now-measures-network-carbon-emissions-data-in-real-time\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:48:54","slug":"solana-now-measures-network-carbon-emissions-data-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solanacrypto.news\/2023\/04\/21\/solana-now-measures-network-carbon-emissions-data-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Now Measures Network Carbon Emissions Data in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Solana<\/span><\/a> is now measuring data pertaining to its carbon emissions in real time, the Solana Foundation announced today. It\u2019s a claimed first-of-its-kind move for “a major smart contract<\/a> blockchain network.” Smart contracts hold the code that powers decentralized apps<\/a> (dapps) and NFT<\/a> projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beginning today, Solana will regularly update a dedicated <\/span>dashboard<\/span><\/a> with statistics monitoring key environmental metrics for the network: its energy consumption, carbon footprint, and network power intensity, among other data. It pulls real-time data from software installed on Solana validator nodes, but the dashboard is only updated every two weeks. <\/span><\/p>\n

The emissions tracker, developed in collaboration with carbon data platform <\/span>Trycarbonara<\/span><\/a>, gathers statistics from on-chain data, as well as data collected directly from a representative sample of Solana validators.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That more granular data, which tracks when individual validators are online and offline, and the geographic context in which they use energy, offers a much more precise measurement of Solana\u2019s energy consumption than previously relied-upon estimates. <\/span><\/p>\n

Environmental impact has long been a hot-button issue for blockchain networks, which can suck up huge amounts of energy to generate <\/span>new cryptocurrency<\/span><\/a> and facilitate on-chain transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though perhaps less visibly detrimental, pollution generated by software and computers\u2014a sector in which crypto-related outputs play a major role\u2014accounts for almost twice that produced by the entire aviation industry, according to <\/span>recent<\/span><\/a> studies<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Members of the Solana Foundation, the organization that oversees the wellbeing of the decentralized Solana network, hope that by taking the lead in disclosing their own network\u2019s impact on the climate, they can encourage other networks to do the same\u2014and change how crypto users think about their relationship to the environment in the process. <\/span><\/p>\n