The Solana blockchain neighborhood has expressed issues about Coinbase, citing the community's lengthy transaction delays.
On social media platform X, screenshots shared by a number of Solana customers revealed that transactions on the blockchain took as much as 45 minutes to course of. This delay was considerably longer than networks like Base, Algorand, Arbitrum and Avalanche.
In response, Coinbase help attributed the delay to pockets upkeep or blockchain points, suggesting that Solana's infrastructure was the basis trigger.
This rationalization sparked frustration within the crypto neighborhood, with some members accusing Coinbase of downplaying Solana's capabilities in favor of its Base community.
Solana is the third largest blockchain community behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, whereas Base is an Ethereum layer 2 community based by an American crypto buying and selling platform.
The Solana neighborhood is responding
Outstanding figures within the Solana ecosystem had been fast to answer the claims.
Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius Labs, a Solana-focused RPC supplier, defined that Coinbase's inner indexing techniques — not Solana's infrastructure — had been behind the delay.
Austin Federa, chief technique officer at Solana, echoed that sentiment. He rejected Coinbase's rationalization, stressing that the delay stems from inner technical points on the US change. He stated:
“Clear communication is extraordinarily vital and that is lacking the mark… the issue has nothing to do with the Solana community, rpcs or something like that. It's a boring previous inner systemic drawback on the change facet.”
As well as, a neighborhood be aware was instantly added to Coinbase's help assertion highlighting that the change had been going through unexplained Solana delays for months.
The be aware additionally in contrast blockchain efficiency metrics, exhibiting Solan's time to ultimate (TTF) at 12 seconds – considerably sooner than Base and Arbitrum at 16 minutes.
Coinbase is fixing the issue
On its standing web page, Coinbase acknowledged the platform's delays in processing Solana transactions, however defined that the problems had been resolved as of November 28.
Equally, Andrew Allen, a protocol specialist at Coinbase, confirmed that the difficulty has been resolved. He said:
“To summarize, Coinbase indexer points affecting Solana sending and receiving had been resolved ~5:00 AM this morning. The person interface didn’t replace routinely. However each the underlying challenge and the UI repair have now been utilized.”
Regardless of the decision, some neighborhood members remained vital of the change, accusing it of being hostile to the community. Nevertheless, Milk Street creator Kyle Reidhead urged the crypto neighborhood to understand Coinbase's broader contribution to the business fairly than dwell on the difficulty.
