Firedancer
Last changed 2026-10-10 · Score recalculated — Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 63 → 81. Problems weighed by who is responsible: concerns that are not fraud −3.2, problems around the subject, caused by others −3.1; legitimacy credit long-running +8, audits +4; fact-check adjustments (−13) now shown as page reliability, not in the score. Version history →
Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| Concerns that are not fraud | -3.2 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -3.1 |
| Long-running | +8 |
| Audited | +4 |
| Sum | 71 |
Score: 81/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →Summary
Firedancer is an independent, high-performance Solana validator client developed by Jump Crypto (Jump Trading Group), written from scratch in C primarily by a team led by Chief Science Officer Dr. Kevin Bowers and founding engineer Ritchie Patel. Released under the Apache 2.0 open-source license, it aims to increase Solana's throughput toward one million transactions per second while improving network resilience through client diversity. As of May 2026, the client is live on Solana mainnet with roughly 20% of validators running it, though full rollout remains cautious pending completion of comprehensive third-party security audits. The project carries a notable backer-risk signal: Jump Crypto's parent subsidiary Tai Mo Shan settled SEC charges for $123 million in December 2024 over TerraUSD manipulation, and a separate CFTC investigation was reported in 2024 with no publicly disclosed outcome as of this writing.
Connected Entities
6 entities · 60 linked investigations- Jump Trading→mentioned with→Firedancer(70%)
- Jump Trading→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
- Jump Trading→mentioned with→Wormhole(70%)
- Jump Trading→mentioned with→Solana(80%)
- Firedancer→mentioned with→Jump Trading(80%)
- Firedancer→mentioned with→Wormhole Bridge(80%)
- Jump Trading→mentioned with→Wormhole Bridge(80%)
- Wormhole→mentioned with→Wormhole Bridge(80%)
- Wormhole→mentioned with→Jump Trading(80%)
- Wormhole Bridge→mentioned with→Jump Trading(80%)
- + 10 more
Timeline(11 events)
2022
Jump Crypto publicly announces Firedancer, a ground-up rewrite of the Solana validator client in C.
Jump Crypto / various crypto news coverage2 February 2022
Wormhole bridge (associated with Jump Crypto) exploited for approximately $325 million; Jump Crypto covers the loss from its own balance sheet.
Blockworks10 July 2024
Firedancer produces its first testnet block, demonstrating end-to-end consensus capability on Solana testnet.
Various crypto news / Immunefi audit competition announcement10 July 2024
Immunefi public audit competition for Firedancer v0.1 begins, with a $1 million bug bounty pool; competition runs through August 21, 2024.
Unchained / Immunefi24 June 2024
Bloomberg reports CFTC is investigating Jump Crypto's trading activities; Jump Crypto president Kanav Kariya steps down.
Bloomberg / Yahoo FinanceSeptember 2024
Frankendancer (hybrid Firedancer/Agave client) launches on Solana mainnet with early adopters.
The Block20 December 2024
SEC announces $123 million settlement with Tai Mo Shan Limited (Jump Crypto subsidiary) for negligently misleading investors about TerraUSD stability in 2021.
SEC.gov press releaseDecember 2024
Full Firedancer client begins producing blocks on Solana mainnet after approximately 100 days of pre-launch testing generating 50,000+ blocks.
Unchained / CryptoSlateFebruary 2025
Neodyme AG conducts security audit of Firedancer v0.4; finds one high-severity DoS issue in QUIC stack (no RCE vulnerabilities); all issues addressed.
Neodyme AG audit reportOctober 2025
Approximately 207 of 992 Solana validators (roughly 21% of stake) running Firedancer or Frankendancer, per adoption tracker data.
BlockEden / Wenfiredancer.com16 May 2026
CoinDesk reports Firedancer is live on mainnet with tens of millions of transactions processed; founding engineer Ritchie Patel confirms cautious, audit-gated rollout strategy.
CoinDeskDecision Log
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- slot 424166690 · hash 9j3CP2SBsMiUp3YW2HB5HLVXp7E7mEC5uq6zseXszgCJ
- slot 424166687 · hash HPuSeNra6UdzznQDp3Kbi7cYGmfUGLMhXikCaqgEnP8f
- slot 423649713 · hash ARP8eJzKss5MuhkAt2HG934BY9RtnuXkgjrFfNZuhWGB
- slot 423649710 · hash 86GYn6HRkJDrCUULb7hhae7txuc8qZXQqGiitkdZq8NJ
- slot 423509483 · hash 5BTKndGLAyYUjuj34JYCBc51ycA4rjvmemjfGK2vriwd
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (6 decisions). 18 of 20 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/1/2026, 3:22:22 AM
last updated: 10/10/2026, 6:51:04 PM
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