{"id":53703,"date":"2021-11-29T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T10:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53703"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:32:08","slug":"solana-foundation-announces-carbon-neutral-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/solana-foundation-announces-carbon-neutral-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Foundation announces carbon-neutral network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana Foundation, the nonprofit behind the project\u2019s development, plans by the end of 2021 to roll out a program that will help make the validator network carbon-neutral.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really proud we were able to pull this report on Solana&#8217;s energy usage together in time for Thanksgiving <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rmQzFpUGdj\">https:\/\/t.co\/rmQzFpUGdj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austin Federa | \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Austin_Federa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Austin_Federa\/status\/1463647805344468992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In May, the organization signed a contract with energy and climate consultant Robert Murphy. The consultant&#8217;s task is to determine the environmental impact of on-chain transactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cTransactions are the fundamental components of Solana: purchases of <span data-descr=\"non-fungible tokens\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NFT<\/span>, making trades or other actions you can perform with the network \u2014 these are all transactions,\u201d the November energy-use report says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the document, one transaction on the Solana network requires 0.00051 kWh or 1836 J of energy. This is comparable to the energy cost of two Google searches.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the corresponding figure for Bitcoin is 6,995,592,000 J, Ethereum 692,820,000 J.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the Solana network uses around 3,186,000 kWh per year, equivalent to the electricity consumption of 986 US households. The blockchain has 1,196 validators, confirming around 20 million transactions in that period.<\/p>\n<p>The Solana Foundation said it intends to continue reducing the environmental impact of the Solana ecosystem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBy the end of 2021 the foundation plans to implement a program that will help make the network carbon-neutral and offset its environmental impact,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in October, Solana Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-foundation-launches-server-rental-program-for-validators\">opened<\/a> to validators the option to run nodes on rented server equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit Solana Foundation, behind the project\u2019s development, plans by the end of 2021 to implement a program that will help make the validator network carbon-neutral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1259,1159],"class_list":["post-53703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ecology","tag-solana-sol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53705,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53703\/revisions\/53705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}