CanonSolana
Solana: paper, then practice.
The Solana paper is a clock, a leader schedule, and a pipeline. Throughput in the paper is not a promise about a later outage or a later client.
Anatoly Yakovenko. 2018. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.
- The paper. Yakovenko's design note for a ledger that encodes the passage of time as a verifiable hash chain, called Proof of History, so that validators spend less effort agreeing on order.
- Consensus.
- Solana profile.
- Stake and work.
- Liquidity is not quality.
What this chain does not claim
It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: solana.com white paper.