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Solana developers will soon have a chance to earn as much as $1 million by finding bugs in the upcoming “Firedancer” independent validator client starting Wednesday, July 10. 
The bug bounty program — the first of its kind for Firedancer — is being offered by Jump Crypto and will be powered by the bug bounty platform Immunefi. It will run for 42 days, from July 10 to Aug. 21. 
Participants can tap into a $1 million rewards pool with the maximum payout for a single bounty at $1 million, paid in USD Coin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/usdc-price-index">USDC</a>).
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Firedancer is a new validator client that is expected to improve Solana’s network performance. As an independent client validator, Firedancer could play a crucial role in processing transactions and building blocks in <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-is-solana-and-how-does-it-work">Solana’s $60 billion network</a>.
Firedancer has been <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-devs-target-mid-april-to-fix-failed-transaction-dilemma">touted as a superior solution</a> to “QUIC” — a Google-developed data transfer protocol with a history of failing to process transactions when Solana experiences surges in network activity.
The development of Firedancer v.0.1 was led by pseudonymous engineer Cantelope Peel of blockchain infrastructure firm Jump Crypto, the same person who <a href="https://x.com/CantelopePeel/status/1808632557757481447" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">announced</a> the bounty program on July 3.
Peel said the team is still working on — and actively testing — its first versions of the Solana consensus and fork choice algorithms. 
“We are also working on live voting and various other little bits around that,” Peel added. 
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Firedancer is implemented in the C and C++ software languages, which aim to accommodate high trading volumes.
Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko previously said Firedancer can <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-plans-to-improve-its-blockchain-here-s-how">increase the speed</a> of the Solana network.
<h3 data-ct-non-breakable="true" id="details-of-the-bounty-program">Details of the bounty program</h3>
Those wishing to participate <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/uwu-lend-offers-5-million-bounty-catch-hacker">in the bounty</a> will need to fill out <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/telegram-wallet-stricter-kyc-new-provider">Know Your Client details</a><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/telegram-wallet-stricter-kyc-new-provider"></a> as part of the registration process.
Bugs found on Firedancer v0.1 will be investigated and responded to within 24 hours on weekdays, Immunefi noted.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/spot-solana-etf-might-9x-the-price-of-sol-gsr-markets">Spot Solana ETF might 9x the price of SOL — GSR Markets</a>
Immunefi said it will publish an event-specific leaderboard and bug reports shortly after the bounty program ends.
Firedancer first went live on a Solana testnet in November 2023. Firedancer’s GitHub account <a href="https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/issues?page=6&amp;q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">suggests</a> Peel and Jump Crypto have been working on <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-a-blockchain-validator">the Solana validator client</a> since Jan. 30, 2023.
Peel <a href="https://x.com/CantelopePeel/status/1770687090281287948" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">proposed</a> implementing a similar version of Firedancer on Ethereum in March, but no substantial developments have resulted.
Magazine: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-illustrates-dark-side-monolithic-blockchains">Solana illustrates the dark side of monolithic blockchains</a>

$1M bug bounty for Solana Firedancer client goes live this week

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