• The Solana Foundation has taken a significant step towards sustainability by announcing its real-time emissions tracking for the Solana blockchain.
• This new tracker will measure RPC nodes and instrumenting the underlying hardware, as well as provide granularity at the server level and incorporate geolocation of validator and RPC nodes.
• This framework will also include embodied emissions of hardware infrastructure, total carbon emission, energy consumption overview and Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
The Solana Foundation’s Emissions Tracking
The Solana Foundation has taken a major step towards building a more sustainable blockchain network by introducing real-time emissions tracking for the Solana blockchain. The foundation collaborated with Trycarbonara, a carbon data platform, to build an emissions tracker that directly embeds software on Solana nodes.
How Does the New Tracker Work?
Solana is one of the first major smart-contract blockchains to have its emissions measured in real-time, setting a new standard for sustainable blockchain technology. The measurements taken by this tracker are dynamic and change based on individual validators’ throughput when they’re online or offline as well as changes in the validator network over time. Additionally, it measures RPC nodes and instruments underlying hardware while providing granularity at the server level which incorporates geolocation of validator and RPC nodes.
Embodied Emissions
The new framework also includes measuring embodied emissions of hardware infrastructure, which accounts for manufacturing processes including transportation and end-of-life management of these components. Furthermore, it provides total carbon emission overviews along with energy consumption overviews using Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) to describe overall efficiency of data centers.
Setting A New Standard For Blockchains
This newly implemented system sets a higher standard for sustainability among other blockchains running on smart contracts by providing detailed snapshots on each network’s climate impact with comparison charts that help put them into perspective. This makes it easier to understand environmental impacts caused by changes or optimizations made to energy consumption while taking into account renewable energy mixes from different sources of electricity.
Conclusion
The Solana Foundation’s innovative approach to sustainability presents an exciting opportunity for other blockchains to take similar steps in reducing their environmental impact while continuing to offer revolutionary technology solutions across multiple industries globally