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Permissionless network protocol with the parallel smart contract processing functionality.
| Consensus | Proof of stake with proof of history |
| Public / Private / Permissioned | Public |
| Smart contracts | Yes |
| Smart contract language(s) supported | Rust, C, C++ |
| Transaction privacy | No |
| Transaction visibility | All participants have access to all entries ever recorded. |
| Transaction ordering | All validating participants use the proof of history mechanism—a sequence of hashed events—to agree on the order of transactions. |
Solana is secured by validators who stake SOL to validate blocks.
Solana produces blocks at 0.4 second intervals.
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