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# About this Book
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This book defines the architecture of Solana, a blockchain built from the
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ground up for scale. The goal of the architecture is to demonstrate there
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exists a set of software algorithms that in combination, removes software as a
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performance bottleneck, allowing transaction throughput to scale proportionally
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with network bandwidth. The architecture goes on to satisfy all three desirable
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properties of a proper blockchain: that it not only be scalable, but that it is
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also secure and decentralized.
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This book describes the Solana open source project, a blockchain built from the
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ground up for scale. The book covers why to use it, how to use it, how it
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works, and why it will continue to work long after the company Solana closes
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its doors. The goal of the Solana architecture is to demonstrate there exists a
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set of software algorithms that when used in combination to implement a
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blockchain, removes software as a performance bottleneck, allowing transaction
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throughput to scale proportionally with network bandwidth. The architecture
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goes on to satisfy all three desirable properties of a proper blockchain: that
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it not only be scalable, but that it is also secure and decentralized.
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The architecture describes a theoretical upper bound of 710 thousand
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transactions per second (tps) on a standard gigabit network and 28.4 million
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recent release, v0.10 Pillbox, the team published a permissioned testnet
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running 150 nodes on a gigabit network and demonstrated soak tests processing
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an *average* of 200 thousand transactions per second with bursts over 500
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thousand. The project was also extended to support on-chain programs written
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in the C programming language and run concurrently in a safe execution
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environment called BPF. Next step: going permissionless.
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thousand. The project was also extended to support on-chain programs written in
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the C programming language and run concurrently in a safe execution environment
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called BPF. Next step: going permissionless.
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# What is a Solana Cluster?
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# What are Sols?
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A sol is the name of Solana's native token, which can be passed to nodes in a
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solana cluster in exchange for running an on-chain program or validating its
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Solana cluster in exchange for running an on-chain program or validating its
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output. The Solana protocol defines that only 1 billion sols will ever exist,
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but that the system may perform micropayments of fractional sols and that a sol
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may be split as many as 34 times. The fractional sol is called a lamport in
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honor of Solana's biggest technical influence, [Leslie
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may be split as many as 34 times. The fractional sol is called a *lamport*. It
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is named in honor of Solana's biggest technical influence, [Leslie
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Lamport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport). A lamport has a value
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of approximately 0.0000000000582 sol (2^-34).
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