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Two months after the rumors started Dripping Overseas, development shop Solana Anza — which spun off from Solana Labs earlier this year — has put forward a pair of proposals to consider implementing the pieces into the network.

Solana has never enabled sharding, which is a common method of keeping validators honest in proof-of-stake blockchains. By broadcasting the cut live, Solana would have a way to punish validators who slow down the network — but it would also introduce a risk vector for SOL stakeholders.

Solana validators run programs and propose and vote on blocks containing Solana transactions. Every 400 ms period, a validator becomes the leader proposing a block for all other validators to vote on and verify. If the block looks good, it will be confirmed. If there are issues, an opening can be skipped and revisited later so Solana can get to work quickly. Currently, there is no way to punish leaders who make mistakes in proposing blocs, or ratifiers who vote late or incorrectly, which slows down Solana's consensus.

Currently, the proposed slicing software will only cut validators for so-called duplicate blocks, where the same block is created twice. Anza has not yet decided what the economics of the cut will look like at the micro level, but the SIMD author recommended burning the cut lot or functionally destroying it. Ashwin Sekar of Anza also proposed a parabolic curve where if 5% of the auditor's stake commits a violation, 1% of his stake will be burned, while if 33% of the stake commits a violation, 100% will be cut. The slope curve for Ethereum is linear, Sikar He explained In the auditor discussion call.

Sekar also said that the reduction proposal is still in its early stages, and such an update would be rolled out in late summer 2025 at the earliest.

Anza's proposal appears to have met with early general approval from the Solana artistic community.

“I can think of several scenarios in Solana where truncation would be critical,” said time researcher Ben Coverstone at

We don't know what a cut might look like on Solana, but on Ethereum, cut incidents tend to be very rare. Less than 0.04% of active Ethereum validators have been downgraded, according to Ethereum Consensys research shop. Simply put, most validators tend to do what they are supposed to do almost all the time in blockchain settings with sharding enabled.

However, triggering a write-down would add a risk factor for Solana investors, who would see their rewards suddenly reduced if their stake was suddenly burned by a mandated auditor. This danger extends to restoring protocols as well, as some have warned about Risks of “successive cutting”. For Ethereum restore the EigenLayer outfit.

“(I hope) that (you) are dealing with auditors that you actually trust,” Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helios, Solana’s largest auditor, said. He said On X.

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