“After activation, each transaction wants a latest blockhash,” it says. The proposal doesn’t point out Drift, however as an alternative builds its case on years of bugs, together with a 2022 incident during which “a failed transaction was processed via each the blockhash and nonce paths, halting mainnet for about 4.5 hours.”
The draft additionally places the primary date on a plan the Solana Basis introduced in October.
“The characteristic won’t be activated on mainnet-beta earlier than 2027-05-05,” it says, giving customers “at the least six months emigrate, counted from this proposal’s publication on 2026-11-05.” The Basis’s personal deprecation web page nonetheless says “No date set” and begins the six-month clock solely as soon as a alternative is prepared, which might push the cutoff later.
What modifications
A small group would really feel a lot of the change. Sturdy nonce transactions made up about 3% of Solana’s site visitors in a single June measuring interval however paid 30% of all precedence charges, the ideas customers add to get processed first.
Simply 555 accounts despatched 97.5% of them, in response to information from researcher Max Resnick.
Resnick’s publish doesn’t say who runs these accounts, and it describes the characteristic being “coopted for sturdy nonce spam.” The proposal names custodians as a separate affected group.
